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How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do
About It
In People Who Don't Know They're Dead, Gary Leon Hill tells a
family story of how his Uncle Wally and Aunt Ruth, Wally's sister,
came to counsel dead spirits who took up residence in bodies that
didn?t belong to them. And in the telling, Hill elucidates much of
what we know, or think we know, about life, death, consciousness, and
the meaning of the universe. When people die by accident, in violence,
or maybe they're drunk, stoned, or angry, they get freeze-framed. Even
if they die naturally but have no clue what to expect, they might not
notice they're dead. It's frustrating to see and not be seen. It's
frustrating not to know what you're supposed to do next. It's
especially frustrating to be in someone else's body and think it's
your own. That's if you're dead. If you're alive and that spirit has
attached itself to you, well that's a whole other set of frustrations.
Wally Johnston, a behavioral psychologist, first started working with
a medium in the 70s to help spirits move on to the next stage. Some
years after that, Ruth Johnston, an academic psychiatric nurse, who'd
become interested in new consciousness and alternative healing, began
working with Wally to clear spirits who weren't moving on. These
hitchhikers had attached themselves to the auras of living relatives
or strangers in an attempt to hold on to a physical existence they no
longer need. Through her pendulum, Ruth obtains permission from the
higher self of both hitchhiker and host to work with them. Then Wally
speaks with them, gently but firmly, to make sure they know they are
no longer welcome to inhabit the bodies and wreak havoc on the lives
of the living. Hill has woven this fascinating story with the history
and theory of what happens at death, with particular emphasis on the
last 40 years and the work of such groundbreaking thinkers as Elmer
Green, Raymond Moody, William James, Aldous Huxley, Edith Fiore,
Martha Rogers, Mark Macy, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Bruce Lipton, and a
host of others, whose work helps inform our idea of what it is to live
and to die. As it turns out, our best defense against hitchhikers is
to live consciously. And our best chance of doing that is by paying
attention and staying open to possibilities.
About the Author
Gary Leon Hill is an award-winning playwright, whose plays have been produced around the country and collected in several published volumes. He is the recipient of a Pew National Endowment and other prestigious grants. Among his plays are Say Grace and Sound Bite, a play based in part on the story of Ruth and Wally's work among the spirits. All of Hill's work reflects his interest in mind, memory, consciousness, and reality. He has worked as a filmmaker, a journalist, a photographer, a transcriber, and an editor.
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