Peter Raymond Calvert
Genre:
- Mind Body Spirit
Skills:
- Academic Writing
- Illustration
- Public Speaking
- Research
- Technical Writing
Branch:
Otago/Southland
Location:
Alexandra
Publications:

Glimpses of their heaven: NDEs in New Zealand
An introduction to the Near Death Experience scientific and related
literature, with NDE accounts from 10 residents of the Waikato
region of New Zealand.

Some logical consequences of the statistical validation of reincarnation
This paper addresses the extent to which the evidence for reincarnation meets accepted or proposed criteria of validity. Some factors responsible for enhancing the climate of acceptance of reincarnation in the general population are outlined, as is the extent to which it is supportable by a recent philosophical argument. Assuming the case for reincarnation proven, some consequences are discussed.

Agape and the hierarchy of love: A primer in intrinsic spirituality
In 1579, a Mexican Catholic monk published Rhetorica Christiana, in which he sketched a visual metaphor for the accumulated spiritual beliefs commonplace in Western society at that stage. It had some disadvantages. An update has now been delivered fresh from spirit, in both language and visual metaphor more suited to these times.
Zenith Publishing NZ. 2008.

The Matapaua Conversations: Channelled thoughts on the universe, reality, evolution, spirituality and the purpose for being human
The Matapaua Conversations presents responses to the big questions received during a series of retreats to Matapaua Bay, and used a rare opportunity to ask those existing in the disembodied spiritual realm one hundred questions regarding how they view human existence from 'up there'.
Attar Books. 2013.

The Kosmic Web: A new model of the Kosmos channelled for the 21st century
Origins have always fascinated human beings. Many wonder at their personal origins, who their forebears were, how they came to be the person they are. Of course, underneath it, usually unperceived, is a drive by the individual's own spiritual self to make itself known to the personality it has chosen to co-associate with this time around. Because anyone's ultimate origin is not familial, tribal, social, or genetic. It is spiritual.
Attar Books. 2015.

Learning who you are: An introduction to experimental spirituality
This book offers the spiritually inquisitive and adventurous a unique, contemporary perspective on what it is to be human, and what may be achieved while living on this often perplexing planet.
Attar Books. 2019.

People of the earth: Ecology, survival and nurturing spirits
This book offers a unique account of communications with spiritual identities normally invisible to us: deceased people lost between worlds, nature spirits who nurture the Earth's ecosystems, and non-human beings who drop in to see what is going on. It challenges our assumptions regarding life and death, and asks us to reconsider who else may be sharing the universe with us.
Attar Books. 2019.

On Acquiring Wisdom: A reincarnational perspective
What differentiates this material from traditional teachings is that
its conceptual frame is non-religious, preferring to link spiritual processes
to current scientific and cultural knowledge and language. It explores the
spiritual aspects of our existence in ways that sync with how we see the
world in the twenty-first century. (Exerpted from the Preface)
Attar Books 2024

Guided Healing:The art of transferring love between realms
This book introduces the practice of guided healing, a process by which
healers make themselves available to guidance and healing energy emanating
from the spiritual realm, with the intention of helping their fellow beings.
Attar Books 2009

Southern Nights and the Light of Awareness
The denial that human beings are spiritual beings who possess spiritual awareness is only of concern among those who, being curious, either experience or seek to experience an indication of what spirituality entails. Individuals for whom such sensations, perceptions and inner knowing occur naturally, and especially when these topics are commonly discussed within their family, generally have no difficulty acknowledging the existence of perceptual inputs other than the traditional six sense-doors. However, after encountering those who vehemently disbelieve, deny, ridicule or misunderstand their capacities, they may retreat and begin to doubt the validity of their own experiences. Others, growing up in an opinionated climate that repudiates belief in such faculties, assuming they don't exist, may enthusiastically join in the mocking, declaring all spiritual capacities imaginary and therefore false. Yet others may have the good fortune of growing up in a family that denies the spiritual, yet be sensitive themselves, so in their own self-interest they feel compelled to investigate their inner capacities. We offer support to this last group.
Attar Books 2025

Home Grown: NZ spiritulity for the coming millennium
40 years of meditational writing has produced a large corpus, a lot of it describing the human destination at death. And return, for another go at living. The bounty is information. Its organising mostly occurs between bodies, when one is absent from the planet.
Plenty of post-death encounters in the text describe the small percentage of humans who need help. Most of us just pop off, happy to go home!
Contextualising this 21st century experience by ancient Hindu and Chinese publications stretches the field of view across time and culture, and anchors it securely in the ground of all Being, albeit in a updated model set of existence.
Publication is expected in 2026.
