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John Nelson


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John Nelson has been a practicing holistic psychiatrist for thirty-six years and maintains a private practice in Ojai, California. John has traveled the world to research his books, meet interesting people, and expand his knowledge of history, culture, and spiritual practices.

He has authored two landmark non-fiction books in transpersonal psychology, Healing the Split, Integrating Spirit Into Our Understanding of the Mentally Ill, and Sacred Sorrows, Embracing and Transforming Depression.

The Remembering: A Novel of Karma and Global Peril

John Nelson
Outskirts Press (2006)
ISBN 9781598005424
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (12/06)


A gripping spiritual thriller, psychiatrist-author John Nelson’s primary intention in The Remembering is to tell a compelling story, one that entertains as it explores humanity’s most pressing issues, including overpopulation, religious fanaticism, genetic engineering, climate change, and the eternal dance of shadow and light in the human soul.

The novel’s protagonist has experienced six lifetimes, three as a male, three as a female during epochal times of history from humanity’s Paleolithic roots in Africa, through classical Greece, Renaissance Venice, San Francisco’s summer of love, paradisiacal Bali, and finally to an apocalyptic future high in the Tibetan Himalayas. Having neared the end of her final lifetime, Shyloh tells us what she has come to remember of the rise and fall of humanity’s fortunes and her epic quest to master the arts of a gentle warrior.