Dr Anthony J Emmett was a reconstructive plastic surgeon who worked for many years repairing children with congenital deformities in Queensland, New Zealand, England and Brisbane. He also reconstructed adults and became interested in the way the subconscious level of thinking guides our choices in life. He saw the self-image held in the unconscious levels of mind influencing his patients. He produced lectures, surgical journal articles and books on the surgery of repair, aspects of reconstruction after removal of skin cancers. He had written on skin cancers with medical books and general-public books, and was on the Editorial Board of The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery. He had been made Clinical Professor of Surgery in Brisbane in the years there teaching medical students.
After retiring from surgical practice he moved to Bowral NSW and worked for five years retraining as an artist and sculptor, signing his works as Tony Emmett. He worked at sculptures of the human spirit and paintings in abstract form. Having been a photographer since 1949 he portrayed that which was beyond the camera lens. Sculptures in ceramic, resin, plaster, steel and glass were created and shown at various exhibitions at the Bowral District Art Society gallery. He has a sculpture store of works in all materials, and paintings in acrylics and watercolour.
For two years then he also did sessions of meditation seeking the source of knowledge which would come to him as a child in North Queensland, when his father the town doctor and surgeon in Ayr would give him all the broken household objects to mend. Knowledge from nowhere would come to him when he needed it; sometimes for quite complex objects needing repair. To prove the existence of the plane of spiritual knowing, to himself, he did sessions of deep meditation with a clairvoyant called Beryl in Moss Vale NSW, once weekly for two years. She charged no money for her work, and was a talented medium.
Beryl worked with Sai Baba who acted as provider in the spirit dimension, and would guide, showing details of previous lives which were of relevance to the current life of Dr Emmett. Sai Baba lived in India but was present in Spirit with Beryl in those years: she never went to India but He was with her daily, and so Dr Emmett had known Sai Baba in spirit for four years before going to his Ashram in India. He went there three times over a ten year period, and also went to see John of God in Brazil with his wife: they went twice and studied the remarkable healings there.
The knowledge of the mind activities involved with seeing beyond the conscious level became a great interest and he started writing books to record and educate.
Currently he has written a variety of books, some published in India, some published by Joshua Books in Queensland. He lives and works in his studios in Bowral and is Patron of the Bowral District Art Society. He has given sets of 6 two hour talks at the U3A, the University of the Third Age, on Power of the Mind, which looks at the levels in our conscious and unconscious mind we use to understand the reality of our existence and eternal life.