Bob Frank Explores Reincarnation, Mystery, and Metaphysical Intrigue Through Thrilling Fiction

PHOTO: Bob Frank, author and metaphysical explorer, merges his military past with his literary present in visionary, genre-defying fiction.

Where Past Lives And Spy craft Collide In Literary Adventure

Bob Frank blends past life regression, metaphysical suspense, and Cold War intelligence in a thrilling literary journey that challenges perception and reveals hidden layers of reality through fiction.

Bob Frank has walked two very different worlds—first, as a West Point paratrooper stationed on the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, and later, as a cybersecurity strategist in the hidden corridors of high-stakes government technology. But it’s his leap into the unseen realms—of reincarnation, past life regressions, and metaphysical mysteries—that marks his most unexpected journey. In Through the Third Eye, The Eye’s Revelation, and Mirror of the Eye, he invites readers to traverse the boundaries of time, identity, and belief.

Drawing from first-hand experience with hypnosis and the healing arts, Frank crafts stories that blur the lines between memory and myth. His work doesn’t demand belief in the paranormal; rather, it opens a door and simply asks us to walk through. That invitation—to question, to wonder—is at the heart of his writing. He balances spiritual themes with fast-paced suspense, shaping a narrative landscape where mystery and meaning entwine.

The thrill of his novels lies not only in their dramatic arcs or secret-filled plots but in their insistence that truth, like consciousness, may be layered and elusive. Whether it’s the echo of ancient lives or the residue of government experiments, Bob Frank’s fiction dares to explore the liminal—the threshold between what we know and what we’re still beginning to understand.

In a literary world often preoccupied with surface, his work digs deep. It’s a rare thing to find stories that entertain and challenge in equal measure—rarer still when they offer a mirror not just to the reader, but to something beyond.

What sparked your interest in past life regression (PLR) and treasure hunting, and how did it evolve into the practice you’ve described in your books?

A business colleague who was involved in Kabbalah surprisingly told me that we had lived past lives together (a key aspect of Kabbalah). I had no prior belief in reincarnation,so I was taken aback. I then obsessed on nearly35 non-fictional books abouthypnotic regressions and reincarnation. I was hooked.

Reincarnation was so intriguing I wrote the first novel of the Trilogy based on past life regressions where the reader could virtually time-travelthrough the past looking for hidden treasures.

The obsession led me to almost two years of training in hypnosis and healing arts to moredeeply understand the phenomena.It was amazing to experience as my eyes opened to a new reality.

Could you share any memorable or surprising experiences while conducting past life regressions (PLR) on people?

Almost all regressions are very interesting, whether seeing past lives is real or not. At times I say, it must be real because people cannot just “make this stuff up”.

One woman requested a PLR but also asked to include a regression to arecent event in her current life. She suspected that she had a near death experience (NDE) but wanted to know for sure.

In the PLR session, she described three vibrant lives including one duringthe French colonial era and then a Greek mother living in a village about 1500 years ago. As the mother, when her oldest son was killed fighting in yet another frivolous war, she uncontrollably suffered emotional pain the rest of that life. The tears flowed down her face even though she was clearly “knocked out”.

Then per her request, upon regressing her to a hospital recovery room after a recent surgery in her present life, she demonstrated that she had most certainly experienced an NDE. During her time “out of the body”, she met her late grandfather, grandmother, mother and aunt toresolve many decades-old issues. From my viewpoint as the therapist, I still do not know if she was simply recalling therecent NDE event or if she wasliterally engaged in a dialog at that moment with the souls of her four deceased relatives.

The plethora of regressions I performed over those years gave me phenomenal insight and experience to integrate into the Third Eye Trilogy.

How much of your writing, especially in Through the Third Eye and The Eye’s Revelation, is inspired by real-life events or declassified CIA protocols?

The main character, Clay Barton, was a West Point paratrooper, as was I. He was an intel officer, turned CIA, turned analyst at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Silicon Valley. SRI was engaged in many “black” think tank projects for the US Government. In my career, I also worked at SRI and was exposed to insiders in these programs including the Stargate Remote Viewing project and other cold-war era MK-Ultra psychological warfare programs.

After publishing Through the Third Eye, I was contacted by two readers who swore they were in the decades-old past life regression program at SRI. However, the fictitious program I described in the novels was totallyfabricated. I was sure that these two had engrossed themselves into the novel’s fictionalscenario. After more than six months of dialog and face-to-face meetings with both people, I became convinced that they were in-deedactualsubjects of the US Government MK-Ultra program and had undergone past life regressions.

As Lord Byron poetically wrote: Truth is stranger than fiction.

What do you find most challenging about blending parapsychology, mystery, and suspense in your storytelling?

Suspense, action, emotional and physical challenges are critical to a good story. Mysteriescan get a bit boring if not enhanced with some action and zing. Metaphysical and parapsychology aspects of a story allowan author to tap into mysterious phenomena to create action, suspense and drama to keep the reader engaged to the last chapter.

How do you ensure that the themes of spirituality and natural healing resonate with readers without overwhelming the narrative?

It is a tricky task to keep spirituality and paranormal features from detracting from the story, depending on any reader’s perspective. I try to warn readers up front to just sit back and enjoy the fiction as if it were a Harry Potter story, way beyond reality. I always emphasize that it is not necessary to believe in reincarnation to enjoy these stories; just read the mystery and adventure as it unfolds.

Were there any specific influences, such as the Voynich Manuscript or Tibetan philosophy, that deeply shaped the Third Eye Trilogy concepts?

There are so many hidden secrets of the past that science, archeology, history and religion simply cannot explain. Items like the Voynich Manuscript,which has still not been deciphered,gave me fantastic fodder to build out the mystery and intrigue in the Trilogy.

What advice would you offer to other authors looking to incorporate elements of mystery, spirituality, and suspense in their writing?

I would urge other authors to keep the mysterious interconnections at a high enough level that readers can identify with and easily put the pieces of the puzzle together as the elements unfold through the story. Make your readers think but not so much that they cannot figure out what is happening.

What and how did you become involved in near death experiences(NDE’s) and how does it fit into your writing?

The International Association of Near Death Studies (IANDS) was a 45-year-old non-profit and had a conference near my house in Scottsdale, Arizona. I was intrigued with NDEs so I volunteered to help. After days of listening to and talking with hundreds of people who died and came back to life, I was hooked again. The NDE phenomena is magical. Interesting enough, I viewed PLR’s as the full death experience as opposed to near death. This is because in PLR protocols, subjects are always requested to go through the full experience of death and move to the afterlife.

Ultimately, I was asked to join the IANDS’ Board of Directors and after fouryearsI became the president for two more years.

I wrote Cloud to Cloud with a writing partner and we integrated NDE’s with all types of past life and metaphysical phenomena where the earth’s data cloud became intertwined with the ethereal Akashic cloud. We are wrapping up a follow-on novel, Resurrection, that continues the wild paranormal, metaphysical action.

Have you done any other interesting or intriguing things with your novels?

Yes, after publishing the first two novels of the Trilogy, I discovered that my wife finished 50 Shades of Gray before she even picked up my first novel. So, for the third novel, Mirror of the Eye, I partnered with an erotica writer to integrate fourteen erotic scenes into a special Amatory edition of book three. Sorry, but I am not an erotica writer.

Interesting, we were able to seamlessly integrate the erotica sections using characters in the stream without changing the original manuscript. With the PLR theme, imagine the wide variety of erotica that my partner was able to package for us: ancient Rome, Greece, slave-masters, current active characters and even space-age erotica in a future life progression. This was a lot of fun to brainstorm ideas for the fourteen scenes with my partner and then turn her loose.