Sybil Leek Bows to Scientists For
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The Bridgeport Post - Bridgeport, Connecticut
September 22, 1974
September 22, 1974
By Joy Stilley
Sybil Leek, astrologer and psychic who has written and lectured extensively on occultism, is happy to see the bright light of scientific research
being focused on the long-shadowed area of reincarnation -- a theory in which she firmly believes.
"I don't think the explanation will come through mysticism: I think it will come through science," says the British-born woman who claims that she
herself has led many previous lives.
"Serious research programs are going on now and science will provide all the answers that we have not been able to find," adds Miss Leek,
author of a new book, "Reincarnation: The Second Chance," which relates case histories she insists cannot be explained in any other way.
A bright multicolored caftan enveloping her ample figure, short reddish hair pulled back by a pink band, the author detailed lome of her previous
incarnations in an interview.
In 2000 B.C. she was a young boy looking after birds and reptiles, declares Miss Leek, who wears an enameled snake ring. In 30 B.C. she was a
student of herbs; in 900 A.D. a barber in Yucatan whose task was to keep priests clean-shaven; in the 15th century the older sister of Pope
Sixtus IV; in 1510 a doctor, and in the early 19th century a witch in Galway.
"We don't always remember our previous lives clearly but we will remember parts that are necessary in our present lives," she says. "When I
wrote a book on herbs and was in difficulties knowledge from that old incarnation seemed to come back to help me. And when I was in Yucatan I
could walk around in the dark among the ruins and never stumble."
New advances in the study of reincarnation are being made through use of modern methods such as tape recorders and video cameras, Miss
Leek points out, adding that her own past lives came out in taped regression sessions with para-psychologist Hans Holzer.
"Even the voice is different. One part was in ancient Egyptian -- if you hand me $10,000 I couldn't translate it. Names, dates and places were
checked out and research established that my recollections were authentic," she says.
Though currently gaining increasing attention, the subject of reincarnation has appeared through the ages in philosophy, history and theology
and has been a constant theme in all races, all nations, all cultures and all religions, she notes.
She attributes its growing popular appeal in the past five years to the fact that "death has replaced sex as a taboo word. People who no longer
have the old faith they had in religion are looking for something that will take away that biting pall that hangs over them.
"There is a message of hope in the theory of reincarnation in that people won't see death as the absolute finish and full stop, nothing more," she
goes on.
She defines this theory as "the indestructibility of the spirit. In short, there is another life through the spirit after death and then a series of lives,
the experiences of which will keep on adding to one another. We come into each life with some -- maybe only a fragment -- of past experiences
with us."
Miss Leek, who has been an astrologer since the age of 8 and had her first book published at 16, did not realize as a child that she had
extraordinary powers. Daughter of a Russian father and Welsh-Irish mother, she says everyone in her family is psychic. "It wasn't until I got into
the world that I realized that not everyone knew in advance what was going to happen."
A widow who now lives in Florida, she says her two grown sons, both professional photographers, also have the family trait of second sight.
"But I have a scientific, rather than a romanticised approach to the unknown. I want to know why," insists Miss Leek, whose closest approach to a
crystal ball in the giant crystal pendant she wares, which once belonged to her grandmother. "I welcome skepticism in researchers as long as
they do their job properly.
"The best way is if we could have more universities or foundations where people could come without embarrassment, or "aha, you think you're
Napoleon,' where we could do regressions under scientific and controlled conditions -- no party games -- and have researchers check out the
results.
"Nobody will ever welcome death with open arms but I'm not going to let it cloud my life. Every action, every moment is meaningful and I'm not
going to waste any of it," declared Miss Leek, emphatically expressing the belief that she will have other incarnations. "While I have no pact to
make my future presence known, my children will know." (APN)
Sybil Leek, astrologer and psychic who has written and lectured extensively on occultism, is happy to see the bright light of scientific research
being focused on the long-shadowed area of reincarnation -- a theory in which she firmly believes.
"I don't think the explanation will come through mysticism: I think it will come through science," says the British-born woman who claims that she
herself has led many previous lives.
"Serious research programs are going on now and science will provide all the answers that we have not been able to find," adds Miss Leek,
author of a new book, "Reincarnation: The Second Chance," which relates case histories she insists cannot be explained in any other way.
A bright multicolored caftan enveloping her ample figure, short reddish hair pulled back by a pink band, the author detailed lome of her previous
incarnations in an interview.
In 2000 B.C. she was a young boy looking after birds and reptiles, declares Miss Leek, who wears an enameled snake ring. In 30 B.C. she was a
student of herbs; in 900 A.D. a barber in Yucatan whose task was to keep priests clean-shaven; in the 15th century the older sister of Pope
Sixtus IV; in 1510 a doctor, and in the early 19th century a witch in Galway.
"We don't always remember our previous lives clearly but we will remember parts that are necessary in our present lives," she says. "When I
wrote a book on herbs and was in difficulties knowledge from that old incarnation seemed to come back to help me. And when I was in Yucatan I
could walk around in the dark among the ruins and never stumble."
New advances in the study of reincarnation are being made through use of modern methods such as tape recorders and video cameras, Miss
Leek points out, adding that her own past lives came out in taped regression sessions with para-psychologist Hans Holzer.
"Even the voice is different. One part was in ancient Egyptian -- if you hand me $10,000 I couldn't translate it. Names, dates and places were
checked out and research established that my recollections were authentic," she says.
Though currently gaining increasing attention, the subject of reincarnation has appeared through the ages in philosophy, history and theology
and has been a constant theme in all races, all nations, all cultures and all religions, she notes.
She attributes its growing popular appeal in the past five years to the fact that "death has replaced sex as a taboo word. People who no longer
have the old faith they had in religion are looking for something that will take away that biting pall that hangs over them.
"There is a message of hope in the theory of reincarnation in that people won't see death as the absolute finish and full stop, nothing more," she
goes on.
She defines this theory as "the indestructibility of the spirit. In short, there is another life through the spirit after death and then a series of lives,
the experiences of which will keep on adding to one another. We come into each life with some -- maybe only a fragment -- of past experiences
with us."
Miss Leek, who has been an astrologer since the age of 8 and had her first book published at 16, did not realize as a child that she had
extraordinary powers. Daughter of a Russian father and Welsh-Irish mother, she says everyone in her family is psychic. "It wasn't until I got into
the world that I realized that not everyone knew in advance what was going to happen."
A widow who now lives in Florida, she says her two grown sons, both professional photographers, also have the family trait of second sight.
"But I have a scientific, rather than a romanticised approach to the unknown. I want to know why," insists Miss Leek, whose closest approach to a
crystal ball in the giant crystal pendant she wares, which once belonged to her grandmother. "I welcome skepticism in researchers as long as
they do their job properly.
"The best way is if we could have more universities or foundations where people could come without embarrassment, or "aha, you think you're
Napoleon,' where we could do regressions under scientific and controlled conditions -- no party games -- and have researchers check out the
results.
"Nobody will ever welcome death with open arms but I'm not going to let it cloud my life. Every action, every moment is meaningful and I'm not
going to waste any of it," declared Miss Leek, emphatically expressing the belief that she will have other incarnations. "While I have no pact to
make my future presence known, my children will know." (APN)
