Redfield

My father, still when he was a Roman Catholic and after when he became a Protestant, was always interested in the paranormal, which entailed non-Christian ideas. He read books of Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, Erich von Däniken, Deepak Chopra, and James Redfield.

Both my parents grew up Roman Catholic in the Philippines. In the 1970s there, my father liked reading the paranormal genre, like books by Erich von Däniken and Tuesday Lobsang Rampa. So, he then even liked non-Xtian ideas. My parents, in the 1980s, converted to Protestant Baptists several years after landing in Canada. But my father continued reading the paranormal genre, like books by Deepak Chopra and James Redfield. He believed in meditation and rebirth or reincarnation. He recounted to me his afterlife scenario that his "mind" would migrate to a newborn baby on a faraway "planet," and there he would grow up in a new life. I showed to my parents my elaborate Buddhist temple, and my father was on the verge of reading literature from there. My father passed away in 2013.