When We Were Gods: Insights on Atlantis, Past Lives, Angelic Beings of Light and Spiritual Awakening [Paperback]

Imagine that you've just lost a baby . . . but your body still thinks you are pregnant. The weight just piles onto your tiny frame. Doctors are no help. In frustration, you try a hypno-therapist who is good at helping reverse weight gains.

Sounds pretty stressful, huh?

But that's just the beginning. During your hypnosis, you begin having memories of past lives, different beings and an unexpectedly positive future. You tell your husband, and he begins to wonder if you're all there. Fortunately, your daughters listen.

That's the backdrop for Carole Chapman's fascinating personal story of how she went to lose weight and ended up being directed by spiritual beings to write this book.

Ms. Chapman is a good storyteller. In the course of the book, she takes turns poking fun at her own experiences, describing her husband's comments about her fiction book that she thinks is non-fiction, sharing coincidences that she finds with material from other sources, and speculating about what it all means.

I remember reading about those who recalled former lives during hypnosis when I was a youngster in the 1950s. Bridey Murphy is the person I remember best. Whatever was happening with the woman who recalled Bridey Murphy, it was clear that she was experiencing something pretty gripping during hypnosis.

Ms. Chapman's book makes it equally convincing that she is sincere in describing her experiences. It's that sincerity that draws you into the narrative.

Ms. Chapman's past and future worlds are pretty impressive in their span. She meets Jesus, Michael and Gabriel. She remembers herself in three different life forms and sees a fifth that is coming. Her relationship with her husband actually spans living in different life forms. She has lived in and can explain a lot about Atlantis. Ms. Chapman also describes new forms of power used to rematerialize stone to build the pyramids like a transporter on Star Trek, what's missing from Einstein's Unified Field theory, rapid travel through flying snakes and how humans are about to evolve into more spiritual beings more closely related to their origin as light.

Whether or not you find her experiences to be ones that you believe have happened and her visions ones that will happen . . . or you just enjoy the story as a story, I think you'll find this book to be an entertaining read.

I enjoyed the parts where she is most skeptical of herself. It's a hard thing to do while relating one's own experiences, but she carries it off well.

Carole Chapman has an engaging presence that draws us into her story in this book. I don't know that it matters whether or not you believe in reincarnation, in the actual existence of gods we all throught were myths, or even that many of us may once have been what the ancient humans called gods. What I find best about her book is the opportunity to stretch oneself. Find out whether it makes a difference for you if you decided to give thanks before each meal in the way she felt instructed to do by the god Pan. Find out what sort of experience you have greeting the sun each day, whether at sunrise, as Carole does, or at other times during the day. Find out what you experience after a few weeks of walking outside daily, without glasses, during certain hours. Yes, Carole describes doing all of these activities, and some of the beginning results of doing them. But she doesn't tell it all in the book, even in the fun articles included in the back, which expand her story. It isn't until you try them for yourself, then contact her about your experience, that you begin to find out things about yourself that you didn't realize before. If you want to stretch yourself even further, I recommend attending one of her workshops. But start with this book, and see where you find yourself heading. You might be surprised.

Edgar Cayce, America's greatest psychic once stated that "all souls were created in the beginning, and are finding their way back to whence they came." From hundreds of trance channelings, Cayce gave us a glimpse of history that is not written in the history books. He had the ability to tap into the Universal Mind, the Akashic Records and download supernatural information that most people do not have access to. In an anxious search to get help with an abnormal weight problem, author Carole Chapman accidentally tapped into a similar metaphysical field of information while under hypnosis.

Many people have found success in losing weight using hypnotherapy. Carole Chapman did lose the weight but only after finding out under hypnosis the history of her soul and her creation story which in essence was a foundation for the history of the soul on earth. As the story unfolded, Carole was terrified at first because she found out under hypnosis that her origins were not of the earth and she didn't even believe in aliens or Light Beings from Arcturus. She was a serious minded photo-journalist for NASA not a trekky. As her hypnosis sessions continued she could not only see in her mind's eye the various incarnations she experienced, but she could feel them and would often times go through an emotional roller coaster reliving those lives.

In Carole's case, her soul also experienced a lifetime in Atlantis as a scientist in charge of the main crystal at the top of a tower that maintained the balance of energy and generated electromagnetic power for the whole continent. She was shown the specific cause of the destruction of Atlantis. Coming further in time, Carole learned that she lived in Jerusalem and was friends with Jesus and his mother Mary.

Feeling as if she was going crazy and never intending to go public with this information, Carole then got cross examined by the Archangels Gabriel and Michael telling her that they will not let her lose the unwanted pounds unless she writes a book describing everything she learned under hypnosis to help humanity prepare for the coming earth changes. The archangels showed her the not too distant future and described who the "Golden Ones" are. They also told her how we literally can feed our souls with the morning sunlight.

If this wasn't overwhelming enough, Carole then got a personal visit from a famous spirit of nature who spoke on what was necessary to cooperate with the earth so that humanity as well as the world of nature could survive. This spirit spoke with urgency and pleaded that humanity awaken and be aware of the environmental crisis that endangers all life on earth.

For those who understand the purpose of reincarnation, this book is a fascinating account of one woman's supernatural journey and it gives us a glimpse of a new era where there really will be peace.

The author's background, her sincerity and reluctance to go public with her story lend to its believability. Hopefully the peace will come without more cataclysmic events.