Chapter 9
When Robert pushed aside Jess’s collection of Heather Marshall books, one of the books he missed seeing was Morey Bernstein’s The Search for Bridey Murphy. But Jess hadn’t, and now, her gaze fell upon its cracked spine. The book chronicled taped sessions the author made with a woman named Ruth Simmons in 1952. Under hypnosis, the woman revealed several past lives, the most memorable of which was the life of Bridey Murphy, a woman living in nineteenth-century Ireland.
Jess remembered reading the book as a girl, fascinated by the possibility that reincarnation was a real phenomenon. The book seemed to offer proof—a woman with memories of a time and place she had no way of knowing about. She even talked about areas of the county of Cork that were small and obscure. She described a
