Teachings from the published works of Britain’s bestselling spiritual author, Stephen O’Brien
Some extraordinary past-life experiences do merit serious consideration, such as the incredibly detailed recollections of the author Joan Grant. Her Far Memory books reveal her previous lives and make riveting reading.
In one of them, Eyes of Horus, Joan recounts her days lived as a man called Ra-ab Hotep, who was the son of a high-ranking Egyptian Official, in a life occurring approximately 3,500 years before the time of Jesus.
In her gripping biography of Ra-ab Hotep, Joan recalls graphic stomach-churning details of how an elderly Royal Embalmer - named Yiahn - prepared a male corpse for mummification.
It’s an amazingly vivid description which has such an incredible ring of authenticity to it that, as you scan the passage, you feel you’re almost present at the ceremony, watching him at work.
Joan writes of how the dead man’s head was treated before embalming: the physician used ‘a narrow strip of flexible
Metal’ which was inserted through the corpse’s nose and then ‘released, so that it held the nostril wide open’.
Then the embalmer grasped another instrument which had ‘a handle the length of his palm; and at one end were two metal hooks curved like a leopard’s claws. He thrust the claw up the nostril and there was a grating sound, like a mouse gnawing’.
She then watched him ‘scraping the brain out through the nose; thick whitish curds flecked with blood and mucus.’ She says he then ‘carefully transferred them to the first of the jars’.
Powerful images, I think you’ll agree, the details of which impressed Egyptologists who were studying possible methods of mummification.
In her fascinating autobiography, Far Memory, Joan Grant writes, ‘During the last twenty years, seven books of mine have been published as historical novels which to me are biographies of previous lives I have known’.
