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16 Clues to Your Past Lives: A Guide to Discovering Who You Were

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I loved this book. I am a film producer and have always had such strong feelings about people and places that I feel like I have known before. This book put these feelings into words and laced so many things together for me.

I have been studying new age material since 1986 and it is wonderful for this information to be so readily available now. This is a must read for anyone who wants to know more about their present by exploring their past.

Thanks Barbara Lane for helping me to put the pieces together!

That should be the title of Barbara Lane's book. I can't tell if she is trying to write reincarnation commedy or just a guide for idiots.

She starts off the book by telling us how she went to a bar to ask drunk people who they thought Howard Stern could have been in a past life. (Because, she claimed, drunk people would have fun with it rather than wonder if they believed in reincarnation or not.) She takes herself lightly enough to use this style occasionally. At other times she takes herself really seriously ("proving" who Bill and Hilary and Monica were in Sixteenth Century England.)

As for my second theory that this is the reincarnation guide for idiots, she tells us that if we are obsessed with the Civil War and spend vacations acting out battle scenes, we were probably involved. Well, what can you say to that?? DUH--to use the most basic syllable I can think of.

If you enjoy reading about reincarnation (which I do), read all of Brian Weiss' books, starting with Many Lives, Many Masters. Don't waste your money or insult your intellect here. As for those dying to know who Howard Stern actually was, the answer is a member of a HAREM.

Congratulations to Ms. Lane, on her best book yet! Though her previous two books showed impressive research and documentation, "16 Clues" introduces a more human element with humorous illustrations and fascinating stories. I found her comparison of "Bill and Hillary" to King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon intriguing, with fascinating parallels. It gives new meaning to our complex, and sometimes "illicit" relationships. Yes, truth is stranger than fiction. . .A great read!

Barbara Lane presents a humorous and easy-to-read introduction of how to begin searching for your past lives and common clues thereof. However - that's all it really is. If you're looking for in depth discussion on how to find it then you should probably look elsewhere.

Her main formula is taking a famous person and saying, "Who do you think this person was in a past life?" and then using certain traits of theirs to suggest things in the past. For example, let's say you are fascinated with a certain time period more than others - could be you used to live there in a past life. Of course, some of these things can be discussed on a single page or on a website, so again this book should be considered and expected as just an introduction to the concept of reincarnation and regression.

Overall I'm glad I read it because it introduced me to the concept, but I could just tell from reading that I had a lot more to go.

This particular author is a little hard to figure out... First, she DOES seem to have done extensive research, but then she destroys her credibility by making claims that Bill Clinton may have been Henry VIII, Howard Stern was a harem girl, etc. Her method of determining past lives is by having the reader analyze their interests in THIS lifetime... while I don't doubt for one second that the interests and themes of past lives DO carry on into the next, most of the phenomena she points to could be the product of forgotten childhood experiences.

This book IS entertaining, though. It would be good for someone who is only exploring the concept of past lives for the first time, and its exercises are somewhat fun to do.

this was a really cool book that gave alot of clues, insights and things to think about. it was written in a fun and entertaining way so that you find yourself flying through the book faster then you thought :) i have been a big believer in past lives and reincarnation and have read many books on the subject and i have always liked barbara lane. i had already had pretty good ideas of my own about my past life identities and she just kind of help shed some light on that and make it more solid. yes i do reccomend this book its a great fun way to learn more about yourself.

16 Clues to Your Past Lives is a MOST delightful book and one of the best I have ever read on past lives...For sure, it is one of those keeper books. It is a book that makes a GRAND gift. I loved how author Barbara Lane, took famous people and gave us clues to their past lives..I could not believe the negative comment I just read on this book...as it is number one with me. I just bought her book as a gift for my newspaper reporter friend here in Yukon, Oklahoma, hometown of Garth Brooks. Yea for Aries Barbara Lane...she and her 16 Clues book sit on a throne in my mind and home.