The Psychotherapist Who Sees Ghosts
A Memoir

The Psychotherapist Who Sees GhostsFor nearly fifty years, Noel Eastwood lived two lives. By day he was a teacher and clinical hypnotherapist who then became a psychologist (now retired). He was trusted with other people’s most painful memories. By night he crossed into somewhere else: meeting the dead, guiding lost spirits, standing face to face with figures out of myth, and once, in a Mithraic initiation, dying and being reborn.He told almost no one. The two colleagues he did confide in never spoke to him again.The Psychotherapist Who Sees Ghosts is the story he kept silent for half a century. It begins with a boy who was never truly alone, and follows him through tunnels under Sydney, a hitch-hike across Australia, a heart that burst open like a live wire, and nights spent out of his body. There are ghosts who need help, ghosts who just enjoy a scare, and one that tried to smother him.It is also a book about healing. Alongside the ghost stories are the people who came to his therapy room, and the inner-child work that helped them find their way back to themselves. You’ll also find practical notes on Taoist breathing, dreaming and the Christos technique, for readers who want to explore this side of life for themselves.This is not a book asking you to believe. It is the account of what happened to one man, told with humour and honesty by someone who admits he still loses his keys. Were these encounters with another reality, messages from the unconscious, or something else entirely? He doesn’t claim to know, he only knows they happened to him.If you’ve ever had an experience you couldn’t explain, and never dared mention it, this book is for you.