Nov. 22, 2011 -
PRLog -- In his recently-completed manuscript, "Matthew Franklin Whittier in his own words," filmmaker and author Stephen Sakellarios claims to remember having hand-delivered a prototype of "A Christmas Carol," the beloved Christmas classic, to Charles Dickens while Dickens was on tour in the United States in 1842. Dickens returned to England seriously in debt, and Mr. Sakellarios speculates that Dickens, looking through the pile of unsolicited manuscripts he had been given during his tour, recognized the "Whittier" name and modified it within a six-week period to create a "ghost story of Christmas" (as Dickens originally subtitled it) to get himself out of debt. Despite the seeming absurdity of the claim, the author has carefully researched the history, showing a plausible scenario. In defense of his theory, Mr. Sakellarios says, "The person who wrote 'A Christmas Carol' understood metaphysics deeply, and respected it deeply. It is clear in the history that Dickens neither understood it nor respected it. So if Matthew Franklin Whittier didn't write it, somebody else who had studied real metaphysics did." Mr. Sakellarios also asserts that to his knowledge, no scholars have ever questioned Dickens' authorship of the work, because none of them knew the difference between real metaphysical teachings and imaginary ones, so the glaring discrepancy that Charles Dickens couldn't possibly have conceived the work wasn't obvious to them.
Stephen Sakellarios produced the documentary "In Another Life: Reincarnation in America," which aired on PBS affiliate KBDI in Denver, Colorado in 2003, and which is distributed to universities by Films Media Group.
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