Fox has lots of paranormal drama on tap for next year’s mid-season, now that the network added an order to Warner Bros. TV for a reincarnation drama, Past Life. The plot is about a team of detectives who use regression therapy and reincarnation to solve crimes.
The pilot was written by creator David Hudgins (Friday Night Lights, Everwood), and a full writing staff is currently being corralled. The cast includes Kelli Giddish (Di on All My Children), Nicholas Bishop (from the Aussie series Home and Away), Richard Schiff (The West Wing), and Ravi Patel (Easy Money).
I’ve read that novelist MJ Rose consulted on the scripts for the pilot seeing that her latest novels, The Reincarnationist and The Memorist, are about a reincarnation. I contacted MJ a few years back and asked if she’d be interested in reading I Found All the Parts to write a blurb for the jacket. She responded that she was worried about reading it because she was working on the second book in a series (The Memorist) and it involved music and secret societies. She was afraid of unconsciously borrowing something from my journey.
Hollywood can make up stories about information from a past life coming to light to help solve a crime, and novelists can conjure characters that reincarnate in this lifetime which involve music and secret societies, but unfortunately, only about 20% of the US population believes reincarnation is for real. From my perspective, reincarnation isn’t a bunch of fantasy. It’s how our soul evolves and learns to understand our true divine nature.
In my experience of exploring my possible past lives with a famous rock band, fact was certainly way stranger than fiction. Yet it’s VERY REAL! This makes some folks uncomfortable because they’re certain there is nothing in the afterlife but nothingness. Yet those same people will read a novel or watch a TV show about reincarnation for pure entertainment.
We’ll see if Past Life fiction becomes a popular show. In the meantime, I wonder if I can get anyone interested in a real-life past-life epic journey of self-discovery.