Article in Fate magazine by Steiger on hypnotist and professional past life regressor Dick Sutphen, who aims to help people recover their past life memories. Steiger opens with the cheeky claim recycled from his volume Psychic Travel (written as Christopher Dane) that real life convict and prison reform crusader Edward H. Morrell was astrally projecting during the tortures he endured while incarcerated - of course, Steiger is taking the fictionalized aspects that Jack London added for his novel The Star Rover and pretending London got them straight from Morrell, who he interviewed as part of the background research on prisons for his story!
All this by Steiger is to claim that Sutphen may be a reincarnation of Morrell!
Steiger and his then-wife Francie were living the New Age crystal cowboy life down in Arizona at this time, and he describes attending a seminar by Sutphen and his wife Trenna in Scottsdale. Learning their past lives can, according to Sutphen, help people deal with problems in their current lives such as impotence and alcoholism. People also report Atlantean and extraterrestrial heritage through their regressions, which must have been of interest to Steiger per his Starseed theories, though he's careful to point out that Sutphen personally doesn't ascribe to any one interpretation.
Courtesy Fate magazine, Volume 32 - Number 4, April 1979.
