Divine Intervention: The Most Controversial True Story of Spiritual Contact and Enlightenment You Will Ever Read

by Hazel Courteney

Book Overview

Divine Interventionis the remarkable story of one woman's near-death experience and the incredible events that followed. On April 7, 1998, Hazel Courteney's life was transformed beyond recognition.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904991157
• ISBN13: 9781904991151
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Cico
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A Remarkable Story

I have not met Hazel Courteney, the author of this remarkable book, though I was on a conference call with her about one week before Easter 1998, when the events described in the book first began. I also know and trust a number of the people who appear in the book. So what is it all about? Hazel was a journalist writing on holistic medicine for one of the most prestigious newspapers in the UK, and she had a successful career as media pundit. She then plunged into a very sudden experience which very nearly killed her. It would have been easy to diagnose her as suffering from an episode of mania: she became energetic and grandiose, and then had a physical collapse. But that was not the end of it: she then appeared to become telepathic, affect electrical equipment, heal sick people and to manifest a form of ash. Others might at this point have concluded that there was something satanic going on. There is, though, a third option, and that is that Hazel was undergoing a profound spiritual awakening or Kundalini experience. The most difficult part of the account is that she claims that she could clearly hear spirits from the higher realms and that she found herself receiving direct communication from Diana, Princess of Wales, who had died just over seven months earlier. As the narrative unfolds, there are more and more indications that Hazel was indeed undergoing a genuine spiritual crisis: I've seen quite a number of such people, and there are a number of tell tale signs. But it is just as clear that she still has her memories, beliefs and attitudes. This kind of spiritual crisis will often end up blowing away previous beliefs and attitudes, but it needs guidance and surrender for a spiritual crisis to re-fashion someone. Hazel seems to have stopped short of that last step. So while she tells us of her experiences, they are seen through the lens of her previous life. I came away from the book intrigued, but still questioning the role of Princess Diana in all this. It is difficult for people living outside Great Britain during those months after her death to imagine the psychic trauma that the British went through, and some people picked up on it in a big way. But the book also serves as a reminder not to jump to diagnostic conclusions. Many of the people that I have seen undergoing spiritual awakenings had sought or been committed to psychiatric care and others had been referred from priests and clergy. This is an interesting book for anyone who is curious about the death process and a first hand account of a spiritual awakening and for them this book is warmly recommended.