Was Dr Colin a wartime pilot in a past life?

Colin has had a lifelong fascination with planes.

Colin remembers the heat inside the fuselage, warmed by the summer sun, and the smells of highoctane petrol, rubber, metal and leather, as he strapped himself into the pilot’s seat.”

He said: “My colleague, Geoff, then took me a few hours forward in time and I was now flying my ‘Lanc’ over Berlin at an altitude of 18,000 feet while flak shells were bursting all around me.”

He concentrated on keeping his aircraft straight and level while the bomb aimer prepared to drop his ordnance.

Colin said: “I could hear his voice in my headphones. ‘ Steady, steady, steady, Skipper’. And then came the words I was waiting for ‘Bombs gone’.”

Suddenly the plane shook as it was hit by a shell and Colin felt hot blood trickle down his cheek.

Still in his trance he ordered the crew to “bale out” but the aircraft exploded in a huge fireball and “everything went black”.

“I guess that was when I died,” he adds.

Internationally, scepticism surrounds past-life regression. But what does Colin believe? “Was this a genuine past- life regression or a fantasy produced by my subconscious? To be honest, I don’t know. It’s possible I had lived before as a Second World War bomber pilot, but I could never prove it. I just keep an open mind.”

Colin has now retired and is forging a new career as an author, writing books in his study at the Dunblane home he shares with his wife Vivien. His latest book Planes On Film: Ten Favourite Aviation Films is available from Amazon or extremispublishing.com

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