Celebrity Past Lives
Film and TV stars, pop idols, athletes, politicians – their former lives show why they are the way they are today
Jeanette Kumara is a gifted clairvoyant and deep trance medium who can derive detailed information from the spirit world, especially past life readings. All she needs is a photograph and some help from her spirit guides.
When she began the book, Jeanette had never heard of many of these celebrities, or else knew very little about them; nor did she have internet access during the writing, and she did not write stories to fit known facts.
She correctly identified deafness as Marlee Matlin’s disability, Holly Hunter’s fascination with the big cats of Africa, and Beyonce Knowles’ love of furs. Was Clint Eastwood a bounty hunter in his past life? And was Steve Irwin really eaten by a crocodile? Past lives are often stranger than fiction.
For example, Jeanette had never heard of the cross-dressing Wodaabe tribe in Africa until she did her reading on cyclist Lance Armstrong.
Most people are fascinated about their own past lives. In 1992, some of Jeanette’s celebrity past life readings were published in Woman’s Day and The Australasian Post. In the following months she was inundated with photos and requests for private readings.
Celebrity Past Lives contains more than 100 past life readings of the famous and infamous, each with its own atmospheric image to set the scene.
It’s available by post in Australia for $19.95 plus $7.50 postage.
Spirits of Tasmania
This illustrated collection of stories comes from Jeanette Kumara’s automatic writing. Not consciously aware of what she writes until later, she has many different styles — some stories are in the first person, directly from a spirit, and others in the third person from one of her guides. Some are quite funny; others are sad and depressing, and style and language change to reflect the different sources.
In July, 1991, Jeanette was badly injured in a road smash and spent over a week in the Royal Hobart Hospital. She soon made contact with the famous Grey Nurse whose story is included in this book.
Soon after leaving hospital, Jeanette rescued Winston, the ghost who was causing a great deal of trouble at Willow Court, the old mental hospital at New Norfolk. The rescue attracted a lot of publicity with newspaper articles and an appearance on national television.
Some of the ghosts she has channelled were completely unknown while others, including Fred at Hobart’s Theatre Royal, were well documented.
At Parliament House, Jeanette identified the ghost of former Premier Albert Ogilvie; at Government House, she solved the long-running mystery of the ghost who walked the corridors saying over and over ‘It’s a quarter past eleven’; and at Port Arthur she explained strange happenings in the commandant’s cottage.
Jeanette has had close encounters with most of the ghosts in this book, but quite a few stories were written from a distance with the help of photographs.
With absolutely no help from reference books or the internet (Jeanette has never done a Google search) she comes up with names and dates that can be corroborated.
Spirits of Tasmania gathers 70 stories in 148 pages, all with images setting the atmosphere.
It’s available by post within Australia for $19.90 plus $7.50 postage.