After reading chapter 2 of Destiny of Souls on how spirits of our loved ones come back to comfort us, I cried for joy.
Susan, Sacramento, CA
I was thrilled that Dr. Newtons teachings were published in another book. It gives us an even greater understanding of what we learned in his first book.
Laura, Denver, CO
Destiny of Souls is going to excite a lot of people like me who wanted more after Journey of Souls.
Jerry, Albany, NY
I never understood my flashback memories about the afterlife until I read your work.
Dave, Atlanta, GA
The quality and comprehension of your writing about spirituality is so profound and yet you are able to convey complex ideas so simply. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your inspiration.
Doris, Riverside, CA
I applaud your courage in being able to confront the mainstream of negative religious thinking in this country.
Marcia, Topeka, KS
Your analysis of the structure of the spirit world as a place of order and love is inspiring.
Tracy, Jasper, IN
Your book brings me a lot of comfort and helps diminish my fear of the great unknown.
Ren, Paris, France
The enlightening messages from your case interviews are priceless.
Holtz, Bonn, Germany
I have often felt a deep loneliness and sense of not belonging to this present life. You have made me see where those feelings come from and who I really am.
Rachel, London, UK
About the Author
Michael Duff Newton holds a doctorate in Counseling Psychology, is a certified Master Hypnotherapist and a member of the American Counseling Association. He has been on the faculty of higher educational institutions as a teacher while active in private practice in Los Angeles. Dr. Newton developed his own age regression techniques in order to effectively take hypnosis subjects beyond their past life memories to a more meaningful soul experience between lives. The author is considered to be a pioneer in uncovering the mysteries about our life in the spirit world, first reported in his best-selling book Journey ofSouls (1994), which has been translated into ten languages. Dr. Newton has an international reputation as a spiritual regressionist, appearing on numerous radio and TV talk shows and as a lecturer at New Age expositions. In 1998, he received the annual award for the Most Unique Contribution in bridging mind, body and spirit from the National Association of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists. He was honored for his years of clinical soul memory research and discoveries into the cosmology of the afterlife. In 200l he was a winner of the annual Independent Publishers Book Award for Destiny of Souls. The author is a historian, amateur astronomer and world traveler. He and his wife, Peggy, now make their home in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of northern California. Visit him on the web at www.newtoninstitute.org.
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Acknowledgments
T his book is dedicated to my father, John H. Newton, for instilling his love of journalistic writing early in my life and to my son, Paul, for his humor and encouragement during the later years.
In gratitude to my wife, Peggy, who assisted me in reviewing hundreds of client cases in the preparation of this book. Special thanks to manuscript readers Norah Newton Mayper, John Fahey, Jacqueline Nash, Gary and Susan Aanes and my editor, Rebecca Zins.
I also wish to express my appreciation to the many people who have connected with me since the 1994 publication of Journey of Souls to say how much knowing about our afterlife has meant to them. Eventually, they persuaded me to take them once again to the other side of time.
Other Books by the Author
Journey of Souls (Llewellyn, 1994)
Life Between Lives (Llewellyn, 2004)
Memories of the Afterlife (Llewellyn, 2009)
Contents
W ho are we? Why are we here? Where are we going?
I endeavored to answer these age-old questions with my first book, Journey of Souls, published in 1994 by Llewellyn. Many people told me the book provided a spiritual awakening of their inner selves because they had never before been able to read in such detail about what life is like in the spirit world. They also said the information validated deep-seated feelings about their soul living on after physical death and the purpose of returning to Earth.
Once the book was in print, and later translated into other languages, I received inquiries from readers around the world asking me if there was going to be a second book. For a long while I resisted these suggestions. All my years of original research had been difficult to collect, organize and finally write as a comprehensive study of our immortal life. I felt I had done enough.
In the introduction to Journey of Souls, I explained my background as a traditional hypnotherapist and how skeptical I had been about the use of hypnosis for metaphysical regression. In 1947, at age fifteen, I placed my first subject in hypnosis, so I was definitely old school and not a New Ager. Thus, when I unintentionally opened the gateway to the spirit world with a client, I was stunned. It seemed to me that most past life regressionists thought our life between lives was just a hazy limbo that only served as a bridge from one past life to the next. It was soon evident I had to find out for myself the steps necessary to reach and unlock a subjects memory of their existence in this mysterious place. After more years of quiet research, I was finally able to construct a working model of spirit world structure and realized how therapeutic this process could be for a client. I also found that it did not matter if a person was an atheist, deeply religious, or believed in any philosophical persuasion in betweenonce they were in the proper superconscious state of hypnosis, all were consistent in their reports. It was for this reason that I became what I have come to call a spiritual regressionist. This is a hypnotherapist specializing in life after death.
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