An Excerpt from Flipside — a lifetime as a Lakota Sioux and a glimpse of Home — Medium

This is an excerpt from my book “Flipside: A Tourist’s Guide on How to Navigate the Afterlife.”

It’s been about ten years since I did this initial session. I had begun to make a documentary about the work of Michael Newton and what people say under deep hypnosis. I began the film with a skeptic’s eye as to what I might find. I interviewed Newton for the film (his last filmed interview) and it’s part of the film “Flipside.” The transcript of that conversation is in the book as well.

At some point, Paul Aurand, former head of the Newton Institute (who had arranged the permission for me to film their conference and teaching methodology) suggested that I try a “session” myself. The journalist in me said “I can’t do that, it wouldn’t be objective.” But the artist in me said “Sure, that’s a great idea. I can prove this to be inaccurate, because I don’t believe in previous lifetimes, I don’t believe in an afterlife per se, and I won’t allow myself to be “led” by a hypnotherapist.

The night before the session, I thought “Well, what if you do get somewhere?” I scoffed at that idea, and jotted down a few questions to give the hypnotherapist to ask me “in case I went somewhere.” I thought — “well, what would I ask God if it was possible to ask?”

I even slipped in a ringer of a question — “What’s the meaning of “vanum populatum?” It was a phrase that I had heard in my sleep, woke up and wrote it down…