Speaking From the Heart [Hardcover]

Joan Grant (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 19, 2007

Speaking from the Heart presents the teachings of a woman of compassion, humor and extraordinary psychic gifts, who helped many people enjoy happier lives by helping them integrate their own previous life experiences and introducing them to her vigorous brand of ethics. By turns poetic, inspirational, down-to-earth, funny and wise, Joan Grant was never conventional and was always ready to help others. From records of early experiments with psychometry in the British Museum, to transcriptions of 'high level recordings' received during the Second World War, Grant's writings are the fruits of experience gathered over many lifetimes.

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"A wise, moving and quite amazing book about a truly extraordinary woman. Gurdjieff gave us Meetings with Remarkable Men; in Speaking from the Heart, we have a Meeting with a Remarkable Woman." -- Andre Gregory, writer and actor, "My Dinner with Andre"

"Joan Grant's directness, originality and generosity of spirit shine through every word she utters, from the acute observations of a precocious child to the brilliant exposés of her mature years. Joan Grant's integrity and fearlessness never abandon her. For her, the veil between the worlds simply does not exist. She is able to talk with clear certainty about other realities, past lives, the supra-physical and death." -- Catherine Shainberg, Ph.D., author of Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming

About the Author

The astonishing Joan Grant became aware as a child of her uncanny gift of "far memory"--an ability to recall in detail previous incarnations, both male and female, in other centuries and other lands. Her seven historical novels have been highly praised for their extraordinary vividness and richly diverting detail, and are in fact the author's memories of her earlier lives.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Overlook Hardcover (April 19, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585678988
• ISBN-13: 978-1585678983
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,233,329 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars For the enthusiast, September 24, 2008

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Charles (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Speaking From the Heart (Hardcover)

This collection of unpublished notes and journal entries from Joan Grant is essential for anyone that has read Joan's Far Memory novels. However, I recommend her autobiography "Far Memory" and her essay collection "Many Lifetimes" first before reading this book.

While this books provides some further background to Joan's life, experiences, and thoughts, some of the thoughts and essays have an unfinished feel to them.

One thing that really threw me for a loop was when Joan announced that she no longer believed that there was such a place as Atlantis. That would contradict specific parts of "Winged Pharaoh" and "Life as Carola." It was hard to know what to make of it. It wasn't until I read "Initiation" by Elisabeth Haich that I was again convinced in the reality of Atlantis (Haich's book has a wealth of info on Atlantis).

As a matter of fact, Joan mentions that she was working on a Far Memory novel that she thought was set in Atlantis, but became convinced took place in South America. I wonder if we will ever get a look at that novel.

At any rate, much thanks to the authors for putting together a further collection from this wondrous woman.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Speaking from the Heart, November 5, 2009

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Elise McCune (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Speaking From the Heart (Hardcover)

'Speaking from the Heart' a selection of unpublished writings by Joan Grant and edited by Nicola Bennett, Jane Lahr and Sophia Rosoff is a book that is a success on every level; spiritual, practical and clarity of writing. I first discovered the writings of Joan Grant nearly thirty years ago when I read her autobiography titled 'Far Memory' and her 'Far Memory' novels based on her ability to recall earlier lives. The strength of Joan's spirit shines through 'Speaking from the Heart' and includes descriptions of her Edwardian childhood, the discovery of her unique gifts in recalling past lives, psychometry and her personal ethics for living. The book gives the reader a clear, richly evocative description of past life regression work, the supra physical and death and contains the wisdom of many lifetimes. Joan Grant was a woman of great compassion, humour, and unique psychic ability, a woman I did not meet in this lifetime and certainly hope to meet in my next lifetime. I highly recommend 'Speaking from the Heart' and I'm sure that when you finish reading you will want to discover more about this remarkable woman and the gifts she has left us in all of her other books. Elise McCune-Writer

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5.0 out of 5 stars Speaking From the Heart, May 13, 2009

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This review is from: Speaking From the Heart (Hardcover)

For me to have and read this book is a natural. I enjoyed her "far memory" books decades ago and I did write to her in 1976 and got a reply from her husband Denys Kelsey. It's really amazing but I can't say I agree with all of her opinions all the time. She would be, and somehow is, a wonderful friend and so I probably knew her before ~ in another life.