With us today is Liza O'Connor. Liza,
tell us how an eighty-year-old woman ended up in the body of a seventeen-year-old
teen?
Since Cass, the 80 year old woman in question, has no idea
how that happened, the matter is never addressed in Saving Casey. But I am willing to share my theory, based upon my
personal experiences and beliefs.
So
here is how it happened according to Liza:
Old Cass is dying of cancer and short cuts her death by overdosing
on painkillers. Like 20 percent of Americans, she believes in reincarnation and
expects to come back as a baby with no memories of her prior life.
However, when she wakes up with her memories and thoughts
of her prior self, she first thinks she botched her suicide. When she realizes
she’s in a teenage body, she is completely baffled. She goes back and forth as
to whether God is rewarding or punishing her.
Here’s how that happened according to Liza:
Both she and Casey died at the approximate same time.
Both their souls properly separated from their bodies in
search of a new host. I suspect God sent Casey’s soul into a new baby of some
nice middle-class family where she is slotted to have a loving and happy life.
For Cass, he has a tougher task in mind. He sends her soul
into the body of Casey, which is being artificially kept alive by the hospital,
because her father is not yet ready to give up on her reviving.
Why
should I believe that is possible?
Well, lots of people have experienced out-of-body
occurrences. I myself have left my body—once.
However, it’s one of those unbelievable realities that
until you personally experience it, you probably aren’t going to believe it.
I was sixteen at the time and I’ve no idea why my soul
decided to go on a walkabout. I wasn’t sick and I wasn’t dying. But suddenly I
was out of my body, through the window, and outside. While I had no sense or
need of the body I left behind, I was fully aware of my environment. I existed,
but had no form. When the crows began to screech excitedly, I knew they were
crows, which meant my memories and knowledge had come with me. However, I
became very frightened of those crows, certain they could somehow capture my
soul. A second later, I flew back into my body, and I never tried to leave it
again.
So
let’s say reincarnation occurs accordint to Liza and your soul retains all your
memories when it finds a new host. Why don’t I remember all these past lives
I’ve supposedly have had. And how does Cass retain all her memories?
I have a theory on that. Most of us return as a newborn
baby. A baby or fetus has an underdeveloped brain, thus our memories are either
ditched or put somewhere in that undeveloped grey matter where, for most of us,
it’s irretrievable.
Now the body Cass entered would have been far mostly
developed, so Cass could easily store and retrieve her memories in Casey’s
brain. (The brain doesn’t fully develop until about the 25th year,
but the memory section is pretty good at 17)
Why
can’t Cass tap into Casey’s memories as well?
Because Casey took them with her when she left the body. From
my experience, I am certain they accompany, or is part of the soul.
How
many people believe that souls can leave a body and reincarnation occurs?
According to Wikipedia, 1 out of 10 people have experienced
an out of body experience at least once in their life. A 2005 Gallop poll
showed 20% of Americans believed in reincarnation. The percentage of Europeans
believing in reincarnation is slightly larger.
For me, I have no doubts, thus I treat out of body occurrences
and reincarnation as facts of life.
I would love to know what you think. Leave me a comment. Do
you believe in out of body experiences and/or reincarnation? Have you ever had
a personal experience you’d like to share?
BLURB:
Eighty-year-old Cass wakes up in the body of a troubled
seventeen-year-old girl named Casey, which all believe has survived a suicide
attempt. Cass intends to turn the girl’s life around, only it’s harder than she
expects. All Casey’s troubles have now become Cass’s and someone wants her
dead.
Excerpt:
Upon settling
down on the toilet, Cass noticed the floor to ceiling mirror facing her and
screamed at the sight of the creature within it. Short black hair spouted about
its head, black circles surrounded both eyes and fell like triangular knives
down the cheeks. Black lips, stretched in horror as if in a nightmare. Pulling
up her pants, she moved closer to the mirror.
She was a ghoul,
an honest to God ghoul!
The door crashed
open and her father stared at her, fear and panic clear in his eyes.
She touched her
face. “Please tell me these aren’t permanent.”
His panic
remained a second longer as her words filtered into his brain and then he
pulled her into his arms. “Don’t worry, we will get them removed—if you want
to…”
“If? Oh, I
definitely want them removed,” she said.
How can I turn around my life if I look
like the walking dead from a low-grade monster movie?
Adventure
Bio:
I live in Denville, NJ with my dog, Jess. We hike in
fabulous woods every day, rain or shine, sleet or snow. Having an adventurous
nature, I learned to fly small cessnas in NJ, hang-glide in New Zealand, kayak
in Pennsylvania, ski in New York, scuba dive with great white sharks in
Australia, dig up dinosaur bones in Montana, sky dive in Indiana, and raft a
class four river in Tasmania. I’m an avid gardener, amateur photographer, and
dabbler in watercolors and graphic arts. Yet through my entire life, my first
love has and always will be writing novels. I love to create interesting
characters, set them loose, and scribe what happens.
SAVING
CASEY BUY LINKS
Amazon
Link to Saving Casey: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A7KRSOO
Barnes&Noble
Link to SC:http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/saving-casey-liza-oconnor/1113795362?ean=2940015849295
Liza will
award a $25 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour. Other
random commenters at blog stops will receive: $5 Amazon GCs, tattoos like
Casey’s, or offer to place tattoos like Casey’s on a jpg picture supplied by
winner.
The tour dates can be found
here:
Saving Casey will be reduced from $5.99 to $2.99 for the duration of
the tour (March 5th-April 11th) at Amazon, B&N, DP/Bono, ARe, Coffee
Time Romance, BookStrand and Smashwords.
