The Book Stacks

Review by Mr. JM

Scott Russell Hill has written a book about the life of a psychic. In it he describes his early life and growing up in South Australia. He became a radio personality and mixed with the glitz crowd, the flock of personalities who flow through the public arena in their bids to reach out to the wallets… sorry the people of the suburbs and towns.

The book was a choice of fascination for me – I’ve long been moving steadily towards the world of psychic phenomena, drawn inexorably from the realms of science and knowing only those things I can verify objectively by the strange occurrences that happen to me and to others I know.

It was with interest I opened Scott’s book to read how a modern day psychic came about.

The blurb on the back tells us of things he has predicted, a variety of reading subjects, including Predictions, Near Death Experiences, Ghost, UFOs, Clairvoyance and other items, and promises ‘a journey that will mystify and intrigue.’

Unfortunately, for me, the book doesn’t deliver either mystification or intrigue.

Don’t get me wrong here, I enjoyed the read, but for me it was more a walk down a lane than a journey, a brief view from a hilltop than an exploration of the paranormal valleys.

I didn’t get any insights from Scott, no explanations of what the Psychic might be about, no in-depth conversations with Spirit Guides or Shamanic Higher Selves. What I got was like reading the notes someone has written for their autobiography – they know the parts they are going to put in later, but here we have the outline of events, the main characters with a little flesh and some hints as to what became the focus of Scott’s life.

I’d like to be able to recommend the book, but I can’t think of to whom I could honestly say, ‘Read this, it will change your life.’ There is not enough solid meat for someone who is already looking into the psychic world and beginning to find their way, and there’s nowhere near enough solid evidence to begin to convert a doubter or the unknowledgeable over to wondering if, after all, there might be something to be learned in the psychic world.

To be honest, there isn’t even enough detail of Scott’s life to give me a genuine feel for him – too many pivotal times are missed or mentioned in passing, and I didn’t get any sense of what brought him to being a psychic type.

I can’t help feeling Scott tried to do to much – he wanted to write a complete book to show how a psychic came about, but he forgot to find the focus first. It became instead a light read that hints at things never explored or explained.