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Across Time And Death: A Mother's Search For Her Past Life Children

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This is one of the most convincing reincarnation cases I've come across in a long time. Jenny Cockell not only had memories of a past life, she actually found her children -- now all grown up -- from that life. This story was featured on a number of U.S. TV programs when the book first came out, featuring both Jenny and the children from that life. Her still-living children, being devout Roman Catholics, do not believe in reincarnation per se, but went on record as saying that somehow, their mother "speaks through" Jenny, and they verified details of her memories.

I met Jenny Cockell at a conference in Oslo, Norway, in 1994 and found her to be totally sincere and quite credible. I highly recommend this book!

This book was fascinating! I have read many books about reincarnation including My Search for Bridie Murphy, The Search for Grace and others. This book by Jenny Cockell was, by far, the best. She is an excellent writer which makes this book a page turner. I couldn't put it down! The facts are astounding. I don't know how anyone could read this and not go away believing in reincarnation. Nothing this author went through could be determined by mere dreams. There is so much more to grasp than someone intrepreting a dream or simply a spirit guide leading Jenny to find the children of Mary Sutton. Jenny WAS Mary Sutton!

Many of us experience deja vu, that sense of knowing something or having been somewhere before, even though we know intellectually that we shouldn't or couldn't known or have experienced it. Jenny Cockell not only knew about her "other" family, but invested an immense amount of energy to trace and validate her feelings. After having seen the American made-for-TV movie about this story, I had to read the book... and I was not disappointed.. in fact, the story gripped me from beginning to end.

It is rare to find someone with the degree of passion that Cockell relates, even rarer to find someone willing to go to great lengths to fulfill that passion. Mothers, especially, will understand her sense of responsibility to the children she "knew" in what she believes was her past life. The book is honestly written, emotional, and pure. I would hope she writes more of this journey and the present lives of "her children."

I do believe in reincarnation and psychic phenonomen, and this book strengthened my beliefs as well as providing a delightful and insightful reading experience.

I first read about the strange story of Jenny Cockell and her search for her past life children in "People" magazine many years ago and found it fascinating. I did not realize that she had written a book about her experience, until I happened to catch a movie on cable television that was titled, "Yesterday's Children", starring Jane Seymour. As soon as I saw the film, I realized that it was the story of the woman about whom I had read so many years before. When I saw that the film was based upon a book that she had written about her experience, I immediately ordered the book from Amazon.

The book is an intriguing look at the concept of reincarnation. Jenny Cockell's experience would tend to support such a concept. Ever since she was a child, Jenny was haunted by dreams and fragments of a past life, of Mary, a woman who had died twenty one years before Jenny was born, of children who were Mary's but whom Jenny felt were, nonetheless, her own, of a town in Ireland in which she had lived as Mary. So, when Jenny Cockell was a woman in her thirties, she decided to investigate those memories. Always at the forefront of her mind were thoughts of those children of long ago. What she would discover would give even the most hardened nay-sayer food for thought.

This is a well-written, persuasive account of a past life, as well as the story of a mother's love for her children, a love that would reach across time and transcend temporal reality. For those who discount the concept of reincarnation and think that this is all that there is, I would suggest that they read this book and think again.

Writing a review for this book is a daunting task. How can I encompass how much this book has meant to me all these years and how much my friendship with the author, Jenny Cockell, has shaped me? If only I had a nickel for every time I have taken a friend, or even a bookstore employee, to the "metaphysical" section and proudly displayed this book for them, and if only I had a proper place to store the heap of letters I have accumulated from Jenny . . .

This book is fascinating and is about a fascinating topic, perhaps the first of its kind. Written in a very down-to-earth manner, it is also highly readable. Jenny details her memories, which she has had since childhood, of her life as Mary Sutton in Ireland; and then she details her research of Mary Sutton's life and her eventual reunion with Mary's children, Jenny's "past life" children. All of which make this one of the most unique books, and case histories, ever published. You enter a new world by reading this book, a world where love does not die.

Jenny continues to write and do interviews regarding her past life as Mary Sutton, and she has written a sequel to this book entitled "Past Lives, Future Lives" in which she details other past lives and what she believes will be her future lives. A made-for-TV movie has been made based upon "Across Time and Death," and it was aired last year under the title "Yesterday's Children" (which was the original title of this book when published in the UK) with Jane Seymour playing Jenny. A sad note to this story is that Sonny, the oldest of the Sutton children, the one who believed outright that Jenny is the reincarnation of his mother, recently died. Even though I had never met him, he has been a peripheral part of my life for a while now and I was sad to receive this news. (Pictures of Sonny are shown in the middle section of this book, as well as pictures of Jenny with other members of her "past life" family).

This book is indispensable for anyone interested in reincarnation, spirituality, "New Age" philosophy, or just a good and interesting book. I am very thankful for this book, in fact, I don't know where or who I'd be without it.

Jenny Cockell's book on her reunion with her past life children is beautiful and inspiring. It demonstrates that love can not die, and that we are all eternally connected. Mrs. Cockell is an excellant writer. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in spirituality and, more specifically, reincarnation.

This is truly authentic and inspiring stuff. The writing is simple and down to earth. While Jenny has no intention of forcing reincarnation down any one's throat, her painstaking documentation will hopefully make believers out of die hard non-believers. I also hope that this book will help people open their minds to a higher and more universal truth. Truth that some religious institutions have, willfully and deliberately, suppressed for more than 15 centuries.

Jenny Cockell's remarkable story -- of returning to find her family of several children, decades after her death -- is a book I couldn't put down. Read it as fiction (which it is not) and you've got a great story. Read it as fact and start asking yourself questions about life, and death and life-after-life.

The level of detail to Jenny Cockell's past life memories compared to the actual details that she was able to find in real life are convincing as a case of reincarnation. In that sense the book was very satisfying, but also a bit boring because comparing details to details doesn't make for particularly vibrant material. There is a slow meticulous quality to the book.

However, some of the most enjoyable parts of the book are her comments on her emotional state throughout this journey of discovery. She was able to describe emotions in a sophisticated way that I found inspiring.

I am grateful that she shared her story.

I had always wondered if it would be possible, if one had passed on and then had returned to this plane of existence, to reconnect with those left behind and still living. This book documents an actual case of such an occurance. I couldn't put it down and have recommended it to others. I later saw Jenny Cockell on television and read the People magazine article. This book explores a fascinating subject in a spellbinding way!