A real-life journey into the arcane

Best-selling author Herbie Brennan’s interest in the arcane was sparked as a young boy by a chance discovery in his aunt’s bookcase of several volumes on eastern thought. He set out to read everything he could get about esoteric matters, and his passion continued to grow as he pursued a successful career in the hard-nosed world of newspaper journalism in Northern Ireland and Dublin.

His determination to become an accomplished practitioner of magic led him to conduct a series of fascinating experiments over the years — including in hypnosis (first carried out on a classmate when he was nine), astral projection, spiritualism, past-life regression, testing the power of the I Ching, and numerology. The results, which he reveals in this memoir, were often startling.

His experiments in astral projection led to his first book, Astral Doorways, in 1971, opening the door to his career as an accomplished and much loved writer of more than 100 books.

In this no-holds-barred memoir he reveals in detail what exactly happens when…

You leave your physical body and function like a ghost
You take part in magical ceremonials
You attempt to see the future
You control strange energies
And much, much more.

Sweeney & O'Donovan Publishing