I bought this book to try and become a more positive person. I didn't have any great belief that it would imbue me with psychic abilities. And nothing dramatic has happened, but I did have one kind of spooky experience.
I read half of the book and enjoyed the meditation exercises Hewitt devised. Thankfully, he doesn't go into standing on one leg on a mountain top in Nepal for five years. He doesn't go into the history of meditation too deeply. They're very 'do-able' exercises.
But I was having a particularly negative, poor-me sort of day. I read over the exercises and thought to myself - "I'm sorry Mister, there's no way I can honestly say I can let go of negativity and bitterness - my life has been too fraught with bad fortune." I tossed the book across the floor and went for a nap. I dreamt that I was in a car driving up a road. All of a sudden, the engine cut out. I was frightened, because I had been trying to make a right turn, which would have placed me in the way of oncoming traffic (travelling in the opposite direction.) If the car had been working I could easily have made the turn. But it cut out and I was panic-stricken. I can't remember how it ended, but I woke up some time later.
With nothing else to do for a while, for some reason I picked up the book. I read the first page (the page that I had been up to earlier) and turned it over. On the second page Hewitt recounts an experience when his car cut out inexplicably - the engine had died, and how he had gotten out of the situation. I couldn't believe it. Co-incidence? Possibly. But the fact is I have never dreamt about being in a car in my life. I've had lots of dreams where I've been running away from assailants and couldn't make my legs work etc. But a car engine cutting out? Never.
Spooky. A hugely entertaining read, written in a conversational style and unpretentious. And the meditation exercises work. Honest.