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Life Between Life

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This book is fine for people new to the topic. It details how events in past lives affect what's happening in the current one. Has only a smattering of info about life BETWEEN lives. Also tells of famous cases historically. But if you've already read very much on the subject, read Journey of Souls by Michael Newton (and see the reviews), which addresses much more about about life BETWEEN lives.

review by Catt Foy

"Life Between Life" goes where few other books on reincarnation have gone. There are many good works regarding past-life regression, and most of them hint at or touch upon the time between lives. But Whitton and Fisher have brought that "between-time", known as "bardo", into greater focus.

With thorough research and careful follow-up on their case histories, the authors demonstrate effectively and powerfully how our soul evolution is "decided" prior to entering into another physical lifetime. Just as "Life After Life" brought us multiple descriptions of near-death-experiences and demonstrated their common elements, so "Life Between Life" does for the bardo experiences of their clients, providing us a glimpse into our own potential for greater personal and spiritual understanding.

For those who seek practical, concrete information regarding the phenomena of reincarnation, as well as tips on how to access this knowledge in their personal lives, this is a MUST READ.

As someone who deals in life, death, and quality of life issues on a daily basis... I have always been fascinated by what lies beyond. This book took me deeper than I have been before and led me to think about issues in a different light.

I have always wondered why some people are born into luxury, and others famine- some into health, others in bodies that can't even last through childhood.

In seeing that these circumstances could be the result of our own choice, for a spiritual goal, It helped me to deal with my everyday frustrations about the inequalities we see around us.

This book was fasinating, and thought provoking.

This is the first book that deals extensively with life on the other side between reincarnations. I also admire the authors' writing skills: the stories told in this book are very touching. I am wondering why the authors did not write more on Whitton's valuable research.

This book is deeper than many other books on reincarnation. But the two recent books by Dr. Michael Newton "Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives" and "Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives" are much more comphrensive and unbelievably revealing. Another first-class book is Bryan Jameison's "The Search for Past Lives: exploring reincarnations's mysteries & the amazing healing power of past-life therapy". Even though it does not deal with life between lives, it is really fascinating and a must-read for anyone who is interested in reincarnation.

If you want to get an interesting and informative account of what everyone's always wanted to know, then you should definately read this book. It includes a self regression guide that really works

This book really opens up one's mind about life and its true meaning. It helps one to understand that there really is a purpose to our life on earth!

I got this because I was curious what co-author Joe Fisher had to say after I read that he went on to commit suicide by hurling himself from a cliff, and also to see what may happen after death, if there should happen to be some kind of afterlife. However, I was disappointed as this book consists of 100 pages of pro-reincarnation propaganda followed by 6 "Karmic Case Studies" and a guide to visiting the "Akashic Records". With regard to the "between life" state, all that would appear to happen is boring stuff like some nice music and nice lights followed by an interview with a panel of 3 characters who review your life before telling you to go back for another incarnation with fresh Karmic lessons to learn.

Anyway, this book convinced me that the theory of reincarnation is an absolute joke. For starters, all the "past lives" experienced by those mentioned in this book were lived on Earth. A simple glance into the night sky might hint as to the vast number of stars there are. I would expect, just occasionally, that someone would have had a past-life on a different planet, but no. I've now started to read Joe Fisher's Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts and he mentions a past-life regression there in which an English seamstress who gave birth to 13 children before dying in 1796 was reborn in India where he/she died before the age of one in 1802. Now, according to "Dr" Joel Whitton, "PhD", "MD" before someone's reborn they are given some kind of challenge to balance their Karma. If someone dies before the age of 1, what chance have they got of doing that?! After dying as a baby, this person was later reborn in Czechoslovakia before World War 2 and was executed by the Germans as a teenager after serving in a Nazi labor camp. So, if people like "Dr" Whitton are to be believed, then presumably this unfortunate person didn't balance his/her karma before dying as a baby in India?!

"Dr" Whitton's "past-life regression therapy" techniques sound quite traumatic. For example, during one session mentioned the "doctor" became concerned that his patient's contortions during the process might have caused a heart attack. Other symptoms include feelings of nausea and of being "severely shaken". One subject is mentioned as emerging from the trance state overcome with feelings of guilt for having murdered someone in a "previous life". In one case study, "Dr" Whitton dabbles in the controversial area of recovering "memories" of abuse suffered by someone from earlier in their present lifetime.

To back up their claims for the veracity of "past life regression therapy", the authors state that during "regression" the subject started talking in another language and that because they didn't know that particular language then it can't have been their imagination. Maybe not. The possibility exists then that what people like Whitton are doing is a some kind of voodoo work, in which the subject goes into a trance state and becomes possessed by a "hungry ghost". So perhaps a more appropriate term for the kind of activity in which people like Whitton engage would be spirit channeling or demonology.

I think what I found especially odious about this book was the way that it sent the message that if anything bad happens in a person's life then it's because of "karma" and that people should follow the advice of "Jesus" and "love one another". Brief mention is made of a woman who saw a "past-life" "therapist" after being raped and was told that this had happened because of a "karmic decision" made during her "inter-life state". Still, I suppose this is one way of keeping a population docile. If anyone complains about his of her lot in life then the advice is that it was their karmic destiny to be in this situation and that they should be like "Jesus" and "love one another".