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The Boy Who Saw True: The Time-honoured Classic of the Paranormal (Paperback)

by Cyril Scott (Introduction)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Rider & Co; New edition edition (4 Aug 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844131505
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844131501
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 147,034 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Boy Who Saw True is based on the diary entries of a young Victorian boy whose extraordinary supernatural talent reveals itself within these pages. By turns naive, insightful, funny and moving, it is an extremely convincing account of a precocious paranormal talent, and all the more persuasive because the young diarist never sets out to win over his readers. Born with incredible clairvoyant powers, the anonymous author could see auras and spirits, yet failed to realise that other people were not similarly gifted. This remarkable book has become a paranormal classic.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A revealing delight, 21 Oct 2001
By M. B. O'Dwyer "Barry O'Dwyer" (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Boy Who Saw True (Paperback)
The Boy Who Saw True claims to be the diary of an anonymous Victorian lad, growing up in a conventional middle class home in the north of England. If the family are conventional, the boy is not - by virtue of his clairvoyance. From birth, he was able to see auras and talk to spirits.

The fascination of the book is two-fold. First, there is the truly amazing ability of the boy to see and hear beyond the material. Secondly, being that all this takes place against a background of high Victoriana, the boy soon finds himself at odds with his mother, who is horrified at her son's apparent perversion. Despite this, he acquires assistance in learning the true nature of things through the intervention of the kindly Mr Patmore, his tutor, and a small band of non-material beings.

By virtue of both themes, the book becomes a revealing delight, not only of clairvoyance, but also of everyday life in a typical family during the latter days of the 19th century. Add to this the boy's splendid malapropisms, which splatter the pages liberally, and you have a work that give pleasure on many levels. It's funny, moving, instructive, and, to those who believe there is more to existence than the physical, reassuring.

The tragedy of the publication lies in its editor's reluctance to supply more details about the boy himself. The diary was published only after the author's death as a grown man, and it would seem the manuscript has been abridged. Names have been changed - fair enough, perhaps - but neither do we learn the boy's age, nor that of his older sister, prompting this reader to ask himself which small boy would not ever refer to his age, even on his birthday.

Despite that, this is an excellent and charming read. The boy himself is a very advanced soul, showing great care and concern for others throughout the diary (indeed, we learn from one of his spiritual visitors that in his previous carnation he was an Indian guru). The picture he paints of his household and friends is touching. And, not least, we are offered passages of real wisdom by the spirits who are instructing the boy.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars "a unique journey into the mind and life of a Victorian boy", 30 Sep 2000
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This review is from: The Boy Who Saw True (Paperback)
This is a delightful story - the diary of a Victorian boy who had the gift of "second sight". He tells his story naively and with refreshing innocence, describing everday life and the people he knew from the perspective of seeing their "lights" or aura. The book gives an eerie insight into life in a middle class Victorian family. The spelling and grammar are only partially corrected and this adds to the feeling of authenticity and adolescent awkwardness.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book, both for its refreshing tale of life in Victorian England and clairvoyance, and for its uniqueness.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars The Boy That Didn't Ring True, 1 Dec 2007
This review is from: The Boy Who Saw True (Paperback)
Well..this book is a highly entertaining read, but purports to be a true account of a victorian child's experience in seeing spirit, receiving clairvoyance etc.

Problems? Yeah.. It reads too damn slickly, too knowingly to convince anyone with a questioning mind, frankly. I have read it many times, it has often been of interest and comfort - when I was a teen - but I'm older now. And I doubt I will read it again... as I've gotten more cynical, I sincerely doubt the sincerity of this book. I believe it to be a means to advance an end - a white lie which is intended to indocrinate the reader with a belief in Spiritualism. Furthermore, the spiritual 'lessons' it expounds are pompous, condescending and and very much of their time.

it should be noted that the life of Mr Cyril Scott, the alleged editor of this book, tallies ridiculously closely with that of the un-named author of the Boy Who Saw True. The same person? You'd be a fool not to think it.
I recently emailed Mr Cyril Scott's son for some elucidation. No answer was forthcoming. Wonder why, eh?

But - that said, it's alot of fun. Enjoy it as an oddity, but please don't be too convinced.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Boy Who Saw True
A truely wonderful insight to the Paranormal life of a boy, living in the late 1800's taking you into his adult years in the early 1900's. A great page turner.
Published 2 days ago by Mrs. P. A. Wilkes

5.0 out of 5 stars The Boy who saw True
Fabulous book, I love it and shown it to so many people to read, my daughter has read it and promised me she will never take this away from her child if she has this gift also... Read more
Published on 30 Jul 2007 by S. Schembri

5.0 out of 5 stars a superb, fresh step into another world
This is a special book. It is a very amusing week by week/day account of a little boy as he grows up in Victorian England in the 1880s. Read more
Published on 9 Dec 2006 by Ms. Vanessa Wagstaff

1.0 out of 5 stars cyril scott as author?
I believe Cyril Scott to be the actual author of this book, the similarities between the interests,life and family of the young boy and Mr Scott are too close to ignore. Read more
Published on 11 Jul 2004 by d_scully

5.0 out of 5 stars Pleasantly surprising
An intruiging,thought-provoking,often hilarious account of a schoolboy trying to come to terms with his psychic ability,('why can't papa see her 'lights? Read more
Published on 9 Oct 2002 by Danny Mullaghan

5.0 out of 5 stars A bible for the spiritualist
This book will open your mind and awaken your senses to what is beyond, it is the diary of a young victorian boy who is clairvoyant and the truths he unviels from the connection... Read more
Published on 13 Sep 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars this book had a profound effect on me
I read this book at 13 and have based much of my spiritual thinking on it - the way this boy talks about his experiences of auras, spirits, fairies and past lives really rings... Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2000

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