The Rosemary Brown mystery

Born in 1916, Rosemary Brown was an Englishwoman who claimed to be psychic, and claimed that the souls, so to speak, of quite a number of famous musicians who had passed on from this life, appeared to her and gave or dictated to her new compositions. The list of those involved runs the gamut, from Liszt and Beethoven to Rachmaninoff and John Lennon.

She herself had taken piano lessons, and was a modestly accomplished pianist. However, the technical expertise required by many of the compositions she supposedly received was quite beyond her, as likewise was the very competence to compose such pieces. They were quite demanding also of even skills of musical notation (that is, writing down music); the manuscript of one composition runs to fourteen pages.

Musicians, musicologists and psychologists had varying responses to her claims. Quite a few frankly admitted that it might be so. Her detractors, on the other hand, all appear to share one trait: a refusal to admit the possibility of "survival," that is, of life after death.

If her claims are factual, the afterlife is very different from what we commonly suppose.

My own skepticism is twofold. First, if, as she claimed, these personalities' sole motivation was to provide evidence of survival, then there surely is or was no need for so many of them to have provided such a vast amount of material. Second, she claimed to have been visited by a long, long list of luminaries from many different walks of life. It is hard for me to believe that so many geniuses who have gone before us, were all so keen on having our attention.

Surely they have better things to do, over there.

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