"What you expect, you attract. What you think about, you become."
- Douglas James Cottrell

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Biography
Douglas James Cottrell (1949 - Present) is a Canadian psychic or trance clairvoyant, healer and author. His deep trance meditation style is often compared to that of Edgar Cayce. In 2003 Douglas dictated a book from the trance state, which was published the following year as Secrets of Life. He has been variously called a mystic, seer, prophet, "The Man With the X-ray Eyes," "Canada's Edgar Cayce," and "The Most Powerful Intuitive of Our Time."
Douglas James Cottrell was born on December 30, 1949 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His parents were working-class, operating a small business delivering kindling wood to people's homes. In 1968 Douglas married Karen, and in June of that year, they had their first child, Cheri-Anne. Although she appeared normal, Cheri-Anne soon began to express behavioural abnormalities, and by the age of two was diagnosed as "severely mentally and physically retarded," prone to a convulsive disorder. Following the medical advice at that time, Douglas and Karen allowed Cheri-Anne to be institutionalized at Plainfield Children's Home in Belleville, Ontario, believing she only had a few months to live.
In 1975, a co-worker at the Toronto Star newspaper, where Douglas worked as a pressman, gave Douglas a book about Edgar Cayce, an American deep trance psychic from the 1930s, known mainly for his so-called health "readings". Douglas was a skeptic, and although he was highly critical of tea-cup readers, palmists, and tarot card readers, he found Cayce's ability to be credible. Fascinated with the information contained in the Cayce material, Douglas began to wonder what information could be revealed about his daughter, were Cayce still alive. At that time Douglas was unaware that others were demonstrating a similar phenomenon as Cayce, but he soon discovered such an individual, and in a most unusual way.
While he was working in his basement, Douglas had a strong urging to leave what he was doing, go upstairs and turn on the television. The program in progress was "World of the Unexplained" with Allen Spraggett, a paranormal researcher. Spraggett's guest was Ross Peterson, a medical intuitive from the United States who demonstrated Cayce-like clairvoyant abilities in trance. Douglas eventually contacted Peterson and he and Karen had their first of several consultations with him in Toronto. Even though Cheri-Anne was hundreds of kilometers away in Belleville, Peterson was able to discuss her conditions as if reading her medical chart. Cottrell was impressed with both the level of accuracy and amount of detail that Peterson provided. This inspired him to explore deep trance meditation in himself.
After taking courses in meditation from Peterson, Douglas began conducting experiments in intuition and remote viewing, aided by his family doctor and his chiropractor. In time, these experiments began involving more and more subjects, who returned with their friends and relatives. With verification provided by the medical doctor and chiropractor, Douglas's confidence and trust in this ability grew, and he was able to relax further and deeper.
In 1978 Douglas quit his full-time job at the Toronto Star to devote his time to giving deep trance meditation consultations to the public. By the late 1970s, he was giving four hour-long sessions per day, seven days a week. Karen acted as "conductor" for the sessions, guiding Douglas into and out of the hour-long meditation, and recording the session on tape (replaced in 2005 with a digital recorder). Since 1975 Douglas has given an estimated 24,000 such consultations (or "readings"). In 1998, the process began to catalog these sessions to preserve the information. He and Karen live in London, Ontario. They have four children: Cheri-Anne, Douglas, Louise, and Jason.
Cheri-Anne died January 27, 2006 at the age of 38.

Themes in Douglas' Work
- God as an infinite, collective yet individual consciousness of love.
- Karma as the reason behind life's circumstances.
- The three levels of mind: rational, subconscious, and contemplative (or conscious, subsonscious, and super-subconscious).
- Reincarnation as the process of spiritual advancement.
- The power of thought (e.g. the Law of Attraction and Manifestation)
- Prayer as little more than thoughts held constantly in the mind.
- The development of spiritual abilities.
- Meditation as the path to awareness and enlightenment.
- The connection of mind and body.
- Using dreams as a tool for self-knowledge.
- Human history is much older than currently believed (e.g. the prehistoric continents of Atlantis and Lemuria).
- Original sin was the separation of souls from God to the physical plane.

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