The 9 Lives of Tyo By Murry Hope
A book review/recommendation
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, who recommended this book to me on my publication. This was very appropriate based on my platform and my WIP, which I’m sharing here as serialized fiction. Thank you Evelyn for sharing this work and for your insights.I identify as a highly sensitive person (HSP), which is someone who experiences a deep sensitivity to emotional, mental and physical stimuli and circumstances. This sensitivity was especially potent when I was a child. I often reflect on younger Kerry, and how profoundly horrified and confused she was at the human race. She couldn’t understand how other people’s hurt and suffering was a form of entertainment, why shooting realistic guns in realistic war scenes was a fun game, how horror and terror was a source of pleasure. This was brought on by something as simple as watching a video of someone tripping and falling and seeing others laugh at them, or as gruesome as seeing a scene of gore and agony be a source of elation. I still don’t understand these things. I still don’t fundamentally understand the human race for so many other things they do, but I have become very good at masking as a normal human in a human suit doing human things.
It’s for this reason that works of fiction like this tend to speak to this softer underbelly of who I am and provide a respite amidst the other media I consume, either with or against my will.
The 9 lives of Tyo is about a soul who decides to incarnate on Earth to learn about the human race and assist them on their evolution. He originates from an advanced civilization of felines based on kindness and compassion, and so naturally Tyo is also confounded by the cruelty he encounters during his journey.
This piece was especially fitting to stumble upon (again, thank you Evelyn) as my story also consists of 9 lifetimes that my characters are reincarnated into, with one lifetime experienced through a feline civilization on a planet called Lyra.
I recommend this book to anyone who:
Wants a break from dense fiction/nonfiction
Is drawn to Dolores Cannon’s work on past life regression
Is experiencing a chapter of their life that involves inner child work
Simply wants a quick read and an eccentric addition to their library
Is weird (I mean this as a compliment)
My only gripe is that this book is too short and the lifetimes need to be more developed. But, I guess I have my book for that… Regardless, I appreciate the simplicity of the story and the depth of the subject matter. I love that Tyo kept his memory of his former life and the kindred spirits he shared his journey with, lighting up as soon as his soul recognized them.
The part that stood out to me the most was an interaction between Tyo as a kitten and his father. Both of them remembered the “Old country” and what a world is supposed to look like, one that is rooted in compassion and kindness. His father instructed him to forget all of this, as the memory was too painful to bear amidst the brutality of Earth:
I relate to this and often wonder what is best. There have been times where I had dreams so astonishingly different than this life, so profoundly healing and safe that to wake up in this life after them made it almost impossible to get through my day, the opposite of a nightmare where real life is the bad dream and my unconscious state was the safe place. I understand where Tyo’s father is coming from, but often think that amnesia is one of the main reasons why humans devolve to war, hatred and violence.
Given the choice, would you prefer to remember everything that came before this life? At a time and place so profoundly different that made Earth appear as hell in comparison? Or would you rather forget that any other way of life was possible in order to survive this one?
I generally enjoy reading science fiction, fantasy, philosophy, and subject matter on consciousness, spirituality, and moral dilemmas. These days I gravitate more towards nonfiction than fiction, but am always looking for something that will scratch that itch longing for wonder and awe regardless of the genre or style it is written in. I welcome any and all book recommendations (especially if you’ve written it). Please submit your books in the comments for us to check out!
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Your post is resonant with last nights meditation. >>>
Perhaps the most generic question of all:
Why do humans cause one another to suffer?
The question is both private and Universal…
- Paul Vonharnish -
(8/27/2024)
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you very much Kerry Jane for not just the mention but the lovely review. You mentioned your only gripe about the book which is that you'd want to know more about each life - you've made me realise which I didn't before that I feel exactly the same. I think for some bizarre reason Murry got it into her head to write a short children's type book, when she should've written a longer adult-oriented book, given the serious theme - which you identified, namely why is it that humans are so awful to each other. They live on such a beautiful planet, after all. This is one of the loveliest things, by the way, that I felt from your first life in Metanoia. I felt it with my heart.
And what you say about being so utterly confused about why humans behave the way they do when it just seems so obvious that they shouldn't - I've come to realise this is the question that's plagued me my whole life. For me - and for you too, I think - the best way for people to live is so obvious that it just creates an unsolvable cognitive dissonance to suddenly realise that humans can't seem to do it. I've tried to comprehend this question for so long.
And when we think of 'the old country' - for me, this also makes me think of the several hundred thousand years in which humans didn't actually do all these nasty things, but lived in their little villages/communities of maybe 150 people and they all looked after each other. But then 'something' happened to change all that, and this 'today' is the nadir. And it truly is horrific. Especially for an old soul.
I think you would like Murry's other books - she does go deeper into this kind of thinking. She did a fair amount of 'channelling' work with Paschats, in which one thing that emerged was the idea that this planet suffered a 'cosmic virus'. This idea kind of makes sense, given how nonsensical it is that people would behave so awfully.
She wrote two other books specifically about Paschats ('channelled' mainly), called 'The Lion People', and 'The Paschats and the Crystal People' (same publisher). The first one also contains a meditation technique for exploring other realms.
I think I will definitely have to do a new section on my site. I need to be more spiritual, for sure.