Perhaps you don't believe that Semkiw is the reincarnation of John Adams. "We are both very visual." And surely it was telling that Unocal's slogan was "the spirit of '76." It was all so persuasive, thought Semkiw, who is now a doctor at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Group in California, that as a man of science and reason whose work requires him to critically evaluate empirical evidence, he had to accept that he was Adams reincarnated. Adams's description of parishioners in church pews as resembling rows of cabbages was "something I would have said," Semkiw realized. He looked quite a bit like the second president, Semkiw realized. The details accumulated and, after much deliberation, Semkiw went with his scientific side, dismissing the reincarnation idea.īut one day in 1995, when Semkiw was the medical director for Unocal 76, the oil company, he heard a voice in his head intoning, "Study the life of Adams!" Now he found details much more telling than those silly coincidences he had learned a dozen years earlier. He also saw an echo of himself in Adams's dedication to the cause of independence from England. For instance, Adams described his handwriting as "tight-fisted and concise"-"just like mine," Semkiw realized. As he researched Adams's life, Semkiw began finding many tantalizing details.
Once Semkiw got over his skepticism-as a student of the human mind, he was of course familiar with "how people get misled and believe something that might not be true," he recalls-he wasn't going to let superficial dissimilarities dissuade him so easily. But in 1984, a psychic told the then medical resident and psychiatrist-in-training that he is the reincarnation of a major figure of the Revolution, possibly Adams.
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The second president was balding and wore a powdered wig Semkiw has a full head of hair. Adams was a lawyer and rabble-rouser who helped overthrow a government Semkiw is a doctor who has never so much as challenged a parking ticket. It wasn't immediately obvious to Walter Semkiw that he was the reincarnation of John Adams.
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