Open the Coffin

About the Book

"First in a dream then into my office came a centuries old ghost, tapping on my desk with a fan."

The mother of emperors, kings and queens, herself sole sovereign over half the world for fifty-one years, Juana was Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Castile, Queen of Aragon, Sicily, Sardinia, Naples, Mexico, Peru and "all the lands to the west of Africa." Yet Simon & Schuster's great reference book The Timetables of History does not even mention her death in 1555. Two and a half centuries before the United States was born, Juana the First of Spain attempted to establish a democratic government that would have spanned the Americas from pole to pole. How could such a person simply vanish into a footnote of modern times? Betrayed first by her husband, then her father, then her son, Juana was declared insane. Under iron-clad secrecy she was committed to the horrors of a stone room without light for nearly a decade. The answer seems all too sinister. She was a young widow never trained to rule, sitting on the throne of the greatest empire of the time. She was a woman too passionate, too outspoken, too much trouble. The dark secret for five hundred years was an international conspiracy. She was made to disappear.

Juana's appearance in a Twentieth Century office building was independently perceived by other people at the same time. And what is to be made of her odd Birth Card connections with the author?

About the Author

The International Biographical Center of Cambridge England lists Paul Casey among today?s top scientists in theoretical physics. His patented beam-producing lenses have been called the lost power crystals of Atlantis. On national television for ARCO he proposed an alternative energy process that runs on the rotation of the earth. He developed the famous California Spangled cats, which were announced by Neiman Marcus. His writings include prime time television, film and stage, with his Lassie episodes winning the National Humane Society Award. His photography can be seen on magazine covers and centerfolds, calendars, atlases and posters worldwide. After being Honor Man in the navy, he attended college on a full four-year competitive scholarship. As a child, with only two years of piano lessons he was playing six-year music in recital. To those on the outside world, this is the person known as Paul Casey. But in private there was something else. From the moment he began to talk he startled those around him with prophesies of events to come and recollections of things that happened before he was born. In short, Paul was a psychic. Born December 10th, his birth card is the eight of clubs, a psychic power card.

Kathy Lyon, publisher