COMING OUT OF THE METAPHYSICAL CLOSET

Rhyne recounts her experiences studying and learning to harness supernatural phenomena.

The author, a shamanic practitioner, chronicles her various supernatural experiences and offers guidance to readers who are interested in trying out her techniques for themselves. She breaks up informational sections—such as discussions of the importance of the brain’s myelin sheath or a quick summary of the five currently known brain-wave fundamentals—with personal anecdotes, like the vision she had while on a Caribbean cruise of her past life as a peasant girl in medieval Europe. Rhyne’s attitude toward her perceived supernatural abilities is quite cavalier, as evidenced by her giddy reaction when she believed she sent some annoying drunk women to a parallel universe: “I became quantumly entangled with them and the Akashic field as I commanded my intended outcome to manifest. The wave collapsed when I found the right nodal point and connected, and then the process was complete.” She presents these events as indisputable facts and characterizes them as natural occurrences that she has experienced since she was quite young. The book includes a section of photos that aims to visually prove claims of the supernatural. While the author claims that her book doesn’t require readers to already believe in such things as past lives and the ability to navigate between different dimensions (“I don’t care if you do yoga or not; I don’t care who you do or don’t pray to; and I don’t care if your diet is vegan, paleo, keto, or Oreo”), skeptics will likely find nothing here to hold on to beyond one woman’s journey to move on from a mentally abusive mother. Those who do subscribe to the ideas of soul retrieval and the importance of the Earth’s electrical frequencies will likely find Rhyne an endearing guide. While some sections ramble, the book is written with warmth and plenty of self-conviction.

A memoir likely to appeal to those who are already firmly entrenched believers in the supernatural.