The nature of things: The secret life of inanimate objects

by Lyall Watson

Book Overview

Watson explores the subtle forces of memory fields and suggests that matter has the capacity to absorb emotional "fingerprints," the mental fossils that channel echoes from the past. He demonstrates... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340502851
• ISBN13: 9780340502853
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Another Clue to the Secret of Life

I purchased Watson's book some time ago and I find it ageless. After reading his book, I found I have a new respect for inanimate objects. I have also had unusual experiences that made me realize that there is consciousness in inanimate objects. One I recall is purchasing a new Honda in the late 70's. I was living in So. Calif. at the time - very little rain and I began getting water in the fuel tank. After three times, I began asking why. Then came the realization that I had given my Honda a female name and this car had a male energy. When I renamed him Charlie, I had no more problems. Bettye Johnson, award-winning author, Secrets of the Magdalene Scrolls.

Very enjoyable...but full of questionable facts

This book suggests that just about everything, every object on the planet, has some sort of LIFE in it--life from the Earth itself, or life from the people that have handled it and left a little piece of themselves, their auras, behind. It is some hardcore new age hippie stuff, but I'll tell ya, it's interesting. It really is. Lyall Watson does a decent job at justifying his outlandish claims with numerous stories of wedding rings making their ways back their owners over impossible distances, statues bleeding and crying, and places that feel happy or sad or angry to everyone that enters them. He makes a compelling argument, but his case suffers quite a bit due to the lack of credibility of many of his sources, such as the Enquirer and the Weekly World News and other tabloid stuff, and he never seems to go very far out of his way to confirm or deny anything he reports. The book's notes section is lacking at best, but it does have an index. I really enjoyed this book, though I'd hardly consider it an infallible nonfiction source. I enjoyed the way it made me think differently...about things. I enjoyed the way it's helped me see the world. Also, I was amused that its author was able to suspend skepticism enough to consider that candles might be alive, but never enough to consider that the soul might continue to live beyond death.

Very Interesting

I read this bok a few years ago and recall enjoying it completely. Lyall Watson's books will make you think, Supernature, the book about Evil, the Romeo Error, are all books by Lyall Watson that I have enjoyed so much. I reccomend this book because I bought it once, lent it to someone who never returned it, and fully intend to buy it again. It's that good.