Lee Everett - Celebrity Regressions

review by Ro Bennett on show 9th Feb 2012

Lee Everett, the author of Celebrity Regressions was married to Kenny Everett and before that had a long relationship with the late Sixties rock 'n' roll singer Billy Fury. (Cor!) She is now married to John Alkin who used to be an actor in dramas like The Sweeney and Z Cars. John Alkin retired from acting in the 1980‘s to set up a spiritual healing centre with Lee. This has developed into a teaching college affiliated to the Institute of Complementary Medicine which offers accredited qualifications to those seeking to work within the field of healing/counselling and other forms of complementary medicine.

This book was recommended to me and since I could buy it from Amazon for 1p plus postage, I decided to give it a go. The edition I got was published in 1987, so it’s like a blast from the past.

In the book Lee Everett describes how she cures psychological disorders by making her patients go through "therapeutic regression" which she claims is a very successful form of treatment for fears and phobias.

Her method is to bring her patients into a trance which she calls "deep meditation". There they re-visit one of their past lives and discover the reasons for their fears and phobias and other weaknesses they have never understood.

Because of her relationship with Billy Fury and marriage to Kenny Everett, Lee had many well known friends and acquaintances from the show biz world who she regressed. I found the book very interesting because it allegedly discloses past lives of people such as Elton John, Tony Blackburn, Fenella Fielding, Sharon Davies, Wayne Steep and Jimmy Tarbuck. In each case the discovery of his or her previous incarnation is claimed to solve immediate psychological problems.
Elton John for instance was regressed into three past lives. His memories are then used by Lee Everett to explain Elton's character traits: for instance, his involvement in music as a composer and singer, but also his fear of travelling.

There were some clients who she couldn’t successfully regress - one of whom was Spike Milligan - she describes his mind as like a butterfly, dashing here, there and everywhere, impossible to keep concentration. Apparently Spike Milligan had brain damage when he was injured by shrapnel and noise attack in the war. He was terribly apologetic about not being able to bring up a past life, although he really did want to succeed.

The author writes: I still think that his sitting gives a wonderful insight into the terrible suffering Spike and many other ex-soldiers still endure, being manic depressive from a wound like his cannot be treated in the same way as a normal depression would be, and even the specialists can’t really be of much help. My heart went out to him that day... a truly sensitive, loving and caring man, he has mass love from his fans, but still nothing can help him.

Lee Everett comes across as a very genuine, caring and compassionate person. who is totally committed to the well being of others, sincerely wanting to heal and help improve quality of life. I enjoyed the book. It was an interesting, informative and easy to read.