The world needs spirituality right now

When you meet a neuroscientist, you expect a certain kind of conversation. Complicated terms, difficult theories, and a residual feeling of confusion at the end of it. Not so with Dr Tara Swart.

- By SALLY SAUNDERS

She’s hugely popular, and for years she’s been a leading voice working to show how to combine the scientific with the spiritual, helping us tap into our intuition and bring lasting transformation in our lives. Yet she’s just taken the biggest risk of her career by sharing the fact that her dead husband speaks to her from behind the grave. And it’s causing quite a stir.

‘I think it’s really struck a chord with people, we’ve received thousands of emails and I've personally received thousands of DMs, and I’m not exaggerating when I say thousands, from people with similar stories. And I just think it was such a taboo subject.

‘I hate to say this about myself, but when someone with authority and credibility, who’s been known and trusted as a scientist for decades now, comes out and says this, it has just given people so much permission to say the same thing.’

Her story begins back in 2016. ‘In my previous book, The Source, I basically shared that I manifested my husband. I did a vision board that had a big engagement ring on it. Prior to that, I manifested lots of work opportunities and travel but I was, I think, afraid of love.

‘And I literally had a conversation with myself where I was like, “If this manifestation stuff is what you claim it is, you should be able to do it for love.” I went from putting a tiny heart on the board to putting a proper big engagement ring.

‘And then in early February of 2016, I met Robin on a flight from Johannesburg to London. And after three months, we started dating. Six months after that, we got engaged, and a year later we got married. We were older, we really cherished each other.