Book Review: To Fly Without Wings by Keith Scott-Mumby

Adventures at the Outer Limits of Consciousness by Keith Scott-Mumby

A spiritual journey through assumptions and possibilities

Keith Scott-Mumby is a medical doctor in Manchester, England, with an interest in shamanism and the occult. He longs to spend the night on a Cuillin peak on Scotland’s Isle of Skye. One day he finds himself in Glenbrittle and sets out unprepared to ascend the west ridge of Sgurr Dearg. That night on the cold mountaintop, shivering uncontrollably, he passes into a “dreamy state” and sees a vision of a gargantuan creature with a human form and ram-like head. Thus begins his initiation into alternate dimensions.

Later, during another climb, he encounters one of the Old People, a faerie, and Keith asks the faerie to teach him how to fly. This book chronicles the discussions that follow between the faerie and Keith and between Keith and his friend Charles from the Physics Department.

To fly, Keith must confront and dismantle many beliefs that weigh down humanity. Topics discussed include gravity, electromagnetism, time, space, energy, the Higgs boson, Einstein’s theory of general relativity, the Biefield-Brown effect, solitons, tachyons, out-of-body experience, shamanism, mind affecting matter, consciousness, sin, guilt, atonement, memory, and levitation. Included are brief forays into the history of Scotland and simple exercises to help readers stretch beyond their preconceptions.

To Fly Without Wings is a provocative book that improves with each reading and forces us to examine our assumptions about reality and our place in space and time.

Disclosure: I received a review copy of this book from the publisher.