CHENNAI: John Adams, an American revolutionary, who was the first Vice President and the second President of the United States was in Chennai on Saturday. Well, almost. He was in his present reincarnation as Dr Walter Semkiw who learnt about one of his past lives as the President of the US.
Though he was disbelieving what he heard first from a psychic, when he was working as a medical director of an oil company called Unocal 76, whose slogan happened to be, ‘The Spirit of 1776,’ he felt a booming voice within to study the life of John Adams. His pursuit made Semkiw open up a new area of research on reincarnation. Many of his presentations are made in the book Born Again – Reincarnation Cases Involving International Celebrities, India’s Political Legends and Film Stars.
Semkiw’s mission statement is “To make violence obsolete, To make our oneness known, To help create a civilisation, We return to with joy, on planet earth, our terrestrial home.” He says the knowledge that we come back again to earth after our death and can change our religion, colour, race, nationality and gender can help us realise that it is of no use to fight over our differences.
As we reincarnate, we bring the same energy template or hologram that projects itself into the soul in the foetus and this gives the person the same physical features, the same hobbies and interests among other similarities.
Besides the many cases of reincarnation from the US and other parts of the world, his book Born Again has a separate section on reincarnation cases in India. His confirmations with Ahtun Re a spirit guide and Kevin Ryerson a trance medium reveal that Amitabh Bachchan was Edwin Booth one of the greatest Shakespearean actors. His wife Mary Mc Vickers has reincarnated as Jaya Bachchan.
Lucy Hale, who was engaged to John Wilkes Booth, brother of Edwin, who assassinated President Lincoln has come back as Sonia Gandhi and her father John P Hale, a US Senator has reincarnated as her son Rahul Gandhi. Indira Gandhi was earlier Edwin Stanton, the Secretary of War under Lincoln, during the American Civil War. Former President A P J Abdul Kalam was Tipu Sultan in his previous births, says Dr Semkiw