The Book of Andrew: A Past-Life Memoir

should have been named “Andrew.” Decades later, an important

early teacher of A Course in Miracles has a clairvoyant experience upon meeting Charles. He is startled to see a name emblazoned on Charles’s forehead....

Andrew.

Charles goes to London and a famous psychic tells him, “You

knew Jesus.” He has extraordinary mystical experiences and

dreams, including revelations about biblical distortions and some

disciples in love with each other. Haunted by the idea that he has something

important to accomplish in this life, and wondering

if he may indeed have lived as the Apostle Andrew, he is guided to

see Bruce Gregory for a brief series of hypnotic past-life regressions.

Like a journalist sent back in time, Charles sees not only that he lived

as Andrew, and that he and the Apostle Philip were lovers, but that Jesus

blessed their union and, in effect, joined them in marriage.

Understandably shaken, Charles Lehman utters a powerfully simple

prayer, “If it is to be, let it be.”

Shortly after, he begins to be awakened early each morning, at the

time mystics say the veil between worlds is thinnest, to receive vivid

memories in a flood of images, words, and emotions.

These memories constitute the main text of The Book of Andrew, an

astonishing Past-Life Memoir, Witness of a Gay Apostle.