Douglas James Cottrell in Toronto, Canada, May 2007

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FROM THE DTM SESSIONS: 2012
The ancient Mayan calendar ends in December of 2012, which has led many to ponder the significance of this date. Here is Douglas' perspective, taken verbatim from a DTM session.  

Q: A substantial number of ancient religions and prophecies all agree that something extraordinary will happen to our planet around the period of December 2012. What is likely to happen in that period?

A: It will be a time of rather singleness of mind, or a unity of mind between the peoples of the world at that point in time. There will be an attempt to move away from extreme behaviour, a cessation of hostilities with the intention of what might be harmony, or rather the sisterly love, you see.

This is a time of extremes, and at that point in time, there would be as to the movement or shift of the magma - or the crust upon the same - a slipping around, so to speak. Not simply the change in magnetic direction or poles, but the physical change or shift, if you will; the tipping of the earth upon its axis, you see, which seems to be wobbling even greater with each passing year - comes closer to that of the time given, you see. In all likelihood, the planet would have a major shift. There may be a slowing in its rotation, then a change in its direction upon its axis. The axis itself may change or wobble greatly from its present location. With this shift or change, there will be upheavals in the weather.

We do not find the planet disintegrating or, here, an ice age or any of that, you see, but rather there will be an attempt to bring together the various people of the world. For there indeed would be great cracks in the earth itself. The planet may begin to change into what might be unrecognizable from its present form, you see, during this time. It is a fulcrum time of place, or pivotal point, you see, that may bring a long duration of change, and in some occasions it will be in the twinkle of an eye - major changes or calamities, you see - again, dealing to the crust of the earth itself, stemming from the changes or rotation shifts, and that of the core of the earth itself being altered or changed, you see, in its present position or location.

"HE'S GREAT, BUT HE'S BORN OUT OF HIS TIME"  

A Canadian-based author, who has followed Douglas' career for three decades, relates the following stories about prejudice towards Douglas and his ability.

I first met Douglas in the 1970s when I was in law school struggling with a difficult medical condition. We became friends over the years and I have had the opportunity, on a great many occasions, to see his talent "in action." My conclusion? What Douglas does, seeing in essence with the "eye of the mind," is as far ahead of accepted science today as the jet engine is to the tricycle. Yes, that is a mouthful. But I will stand behind it. In fact, I will go a step further. Douglas' protocol is so off-the-wall, so foreign to everything that our culture holds paramount, that an educated person, faced for the first time with Douglas' hypnotically-induced Deep Trance [Meditation] is as likely to run screaming for the door as he is to sit still and pay heed.

Case in point? In the early 1990s, Omni Magazine (yes, THE Omni Magazine) commissioned a story on Douglas from a respected freelance writer. The story was discussed, outlined, approved, researched, written, re-approved, and finally accepted. The magazine even sent a professional photographer to take a picture of the writer for the "byline box" that usually appears beside major stories. A check was mailed to the writer, which in due course was cashed. Everything was "according to Hoyle," except for one tiny detail. The story was never actually published! No explanation was ever offered. No request was made to have the money returned. And the despondent writer never heard from the magazine again.

Another case in point: during one "test" of Douglas done in a hotel room in Toronto, Ontario in the early 1990s, where - as was done with Edgar Cayce - a medical doctor read the names and addresses of five of his patients, and Douglas, to the doctor's satisfaction, discussed the symptomology of each. Students of Cayce lore will immediately observe that this test duplicated a key test of Cayce at a turning point in his own career.

At the tail end of that session, the MD, a specialist in diabetes research, mentioned to Douglas, still in DTM, that they were testing two protocols for pancreas transplants - one with extraneous fatty tissue still attached, and one without. Which would do better? "The one with the fatty tissue," Douglas replied. Several weeks later, the good doctor was kind enough to contact the writer to confirm that Douglas was correct. Unfortunately, the findings of this test were never published (which was the reason Douglas agreed to participate in the first place); and (no surprise) Douglas was never credited for his involvement in the diabetes research either.

All this is really a shame. The likelihood is that we have nothing to lose, and literally everything to gain by paying very close attention indeed. The handful of physicians who have risked censure from their peers to interface with Douglas have, to a man, emerged with the view that years of clinical trial and error could be shaved from major research projects, were someone like Douglas brought in early enough.

During the study of Douglas' extraordinary accomplishments, a very wise individual (a film producer, by trade) commented to me, "He's great. But he is born out of his time." Sadly, one must agree. One has merely to observe the way capital-S SCIENCE has ignored the Edgar Cayce material, delivered literally a half-century earlier, to grasp the difficulty of integrating this phenomenon into the mainstream. No matter that Cayce/Cottrell see diseases like cancer and MS as explainable, preventable, and curable. No matter that seeing health/disease "at the cellular level" trumps even the best electron microscope. No matter that lives could be saved.

But there's the rub. To me it does matter. And it matters a great deal. Many, faced with Douglas for the first time, find it easier to simply assume a hoax or a prank. Some even go a step further and attempt to expose the hoax on their own - for example, the gentleman who not only chose to attend his reading in person (most don't), but wanted to sit behind the couch where Douglas was reclining. No matter that, to all intents and purposes, Douglas has his eyes closed during the session and is effectively, "asleep." This fellow elected, for the course of the reading, to peer up over the top of the couch out into the room in order to see if anyone in Douglas' "line of sight" (a misnomer, but it will have to do) was feeding him hand signals.

The fellow eventually became a regular client, but that is not the point. The point is that there was, in fact, a hoax being perpetrated, simply not the one expected. The hoax is that our society - our culture - claims, on the one hand, to be actively and aggressively seeking cures to multiple ailments - witness the billion dollar business in medical "research foundations" - but on the other hand, will only accept cures and research methods that meet its standards, fulfill its expectations, and dance to its own very specific tune.

The fact is that, in our present culture (not the culture of our forebears, interestingly enough), the work that Douglas does stirs up feelings of prejudice and bias from the get-go. I had occasion to meet, at a major health fair, a young lady in the business of vending apricot kernels, one of the many hard-to-find and "highly controversial" supplements within the holistic field. As I proceeded with my purchase, I casually mentioned that the item had been recommended in a number of readings by Douglas James Cottrell, "a Deep Trance intuitive."

"Trance!?" repeated the no-longer-as-enthusiastic young woman who was herself selling a food product that many government authorities believe to be highly toxic. "We follow the Bible!" she said, as if that explained just about everything.

"Good for you," I responded glibly, "and if I am not mistaken, a substantial portion of that good work was delivered in an altered state as well!"

We have recently uploaded an unpublished article by this same writer to Douglas' site. This well-researched article, "The Master Mind: A Working Hypothesis for the Deep Trance," examines the phenomenon of Deep Trance Meditation and attempts to come up with a scientific explanation for what Douglas does, and the mechanism at work in DTM, with reference to Edgar Cayce, the Huna religion, the US government's research into Remote Viewing, and to research being done in the fields of medicine and psychology. It is a fascinating and thought-provoking read! This is the article you will want your friends and family to read. To access this exclusive article, CLICK HERE.