I have studied reincarnation for several decades and used a variety of tools to attain past life information, so the subject of this book is not new to me. However, I think this book would offer something both to the novice on the subject of reincarnation as well as the veteran on the subject.
For the novice it provides adequate background, great experiences to draw the subject into your own life, practical advice to find information about your own past lives (as well as astral projection and contacting the spirit world), and great summaries at the end of each section.
For the veteran on the subject of reincarnation it offers another tool to past life regression that works wonderfully. I was able to use this method extremely well and even adopted part of Dr. Slate's `Past Life Corridor' into my own practices. After all these years of exploring reincarnation myself, it never came to my mind to explore life-between-life existence. What did I do between lives? Now I can explore this as well. I loved his sharing of personal experiences that brought everything he talked about to life and gave me a new perspective in viewing reincarnation. He related reincarnation to both the spirit realm and astral projection, which are two other areas he touches upon in his book.
The only two things I could find fault with in the book was that the beginning ran a bit slow and was somewhat redundant for me and I wanted more information about his technical reports. The fact that the book ran a bit slow at the beginning, I attribute mostly to the fact of being into the soup for so long. Many of these philosophies in the mind-body-spirit section had already been explored. The other thought that I noted as I read Dr. Slate's comments on his experiments was that I wanted more information about them. Dr. Slate does list in the back of the book his technical reports and the dates the experiments were performed; however I wanted to know how to access them. For instance, I was curious about how many people were involved in his experiments, the exact percentage that reacted this or that way, where they lived, what careers they had, how old they were, etc. It is obvious Dr. Slate has worked with a large variety of ages and occupations from the personal stories he relates, so the details of the experiments became something you wanted even more information about. It was just that inquiring minds want to know.
In conclusion, I must say there were sufficient points of interest even in the first section that I continued to read the book. In fact I finished this book in one day, especially drawn in by the detailed practical explanation of how to do past life regression on my own. I couldn't put the book down when it came to the personal life stories of Dr. Slate's family life and his experiences with friends, students, and colleagues. As for the technical reports, I know this book was not intended as a technical report itself, but to introduce the reader to some personal conclusions that he came to through his many decades of experience and research in the field of psychology and parapsychology.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in reincarnation - novice or veteran - will get something practical to work with, will gather information they hadn't thought about before, and will have some great stories to share with others for inspiration.
