Councils on the Flipside and Wigs in Court

For fans of Michael Newton and the Newton Institute, they know that the idea of “councils” is often reported in the research. In the work of Dr. Helen Wambach, a decade earlier, her clients referred to them as panels.

I had first encountered a description of them in making the documentary “Flipside.” In my interview with Michael Newton, he talks about them extensively. I wasn’t sure what he meant — or what they could be until I did my own session (as reported in “Flipside”). Jimmy Quast of Easton Hypnosis conducted the session. At some point he walked me in to visit with my council.

Council of Clement

It was different than what others had reported. In Newton’s reporting, often there was this description of going into a sacred place where people got to explore why they were on the planet in the first place. Many described a “face the music” or judgment fear prior to entering — and that was coupled by people appearing on a dais, or wearing robes, or in some fashion feeling apart from them. Older, wiser souls who give advice.

In my case I had the distinct feeling of going onstage — that moment before the curtain comes up, and…