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Memories from beyond: ‘unseen’ effects of trauma

Dr. Natalie Tobert

Abstract
This article proposes that war and trauma have multiple side-effects. They directly damage
not only soldiers, their ‘victims’ and descendants, but also the wider population indirectly as
collateral. People in the general population may energetically ‘pick up’ or spontaneously access
the trauma of entities who don’t know they are dead. This may cause deeply uncomfortable
visionary memories, depression, or result in further acts of terror. The author provides her
personal experiences when memories from beyond influenced her mind and body. She assumed
that these traumatic ‘memories’ were normal, though uncomfortable and she did not pathologise
them. She discusses unusual, anomalous or extreme experiences and assumes these experiences
are a normal part of being human. The author explores the proposition that crisis experiences are
caused both by trauma in our present incarnation and they reach us from dimensions beyond. She
explores how insights may be transferable to healthcare practice.

Who am I? and psychiatry.

In my life I have travelled a lot, held quite a In my 20’s in this Natalie life, I spontaneously
few jobs, worked within many disciplines and remembered life in a Nazi Holocaust experi-
visited quite a few countries. As a cultural mental ‘hospital’, strapped to a gurney. I
anthropologist I did research in Sudan for my experienced events in technicolour detail,
doctorate on material culture, housing and which I remembered for over 10 years in
settlement and later travelled to India to do this life, the horrors of that life. I remember
two projects: to study pilgrimage and sacred being in the gas chambers, over heating, not
space; and as a medical anthropologist to being able to breathe and dying. This was
explore attitudes to mental wellbeing. In 1998 something I wrote for Paradigm Explorer, the
I had a spontaneous visionary experience journal of Scientific and Medical network:
during a university conference, which I
could not control. During that experience in “I was gifted these memories over ten years in
1998 I received insight to retrain in medical my 20s and 30s: I knew who I was, as Natalie,
anthropology and specialise in mental health and I could distinguish who that person there

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