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One Soul, Many Lives: First Hand Stories of Reincarnation and the Striking Evidence of Past Lives

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If you're just getting into reading about reincarnation, this book is probably a good place to start. Many sources are mentioned and compiled in one volume of very interesting stories.

However, if you've already done some reading on the subject, you'll probably find that many of the stories are familiar. People who've been into reincarnation for a while would probably do better to read the books that these stories are taken from.

The book is also riddled with typos, so I'm not going to give it any more than 3 stars. In the era of spell-checking software, there's no reason for any book to spell "was" as "wass".

After just reading several book on Reincarnation this week I felt a bit cheated by this book. It is well written and as the other review says it is a good book for someone who is just starting out reading about this subject. I had just read Ian Steven's book and his cases are in this book, just not as detailed. Jenny Cockell's Yesterday's Children is also here as well as Brian Weiss, and about 20 other authors as well. I was expecting a "Fresh" book with new stores, new research not a book about other books. It is like picking up a herbal book and seeing the same book repeated over and over as I have been the unfortunate victim of by authors who cannot do their own research for. The author repeats that he is the publisher of a reaincarnation magazine (I cannot find) so his stories are all from sources not his own. Get it from a library or buy it used.

This is really an excellent reincarnation book. It covers many aspects of the topic, and has lots of stories. Many of the stories you have heard before, if you've read quite a few reincarnation book; but it's nice to have them all together in this book. It also does not take a "rigid" view of the topic--i.e. you come back to learn lessons about love & life, to pay back karma, etc.--it basically proposes that you just come back, and there appears to be many reasons for doing so. In other words, Stemman doesn't propose he has reincarnation all figured out, much as Brian Weiss and other past life writers seem to do.

There's also a fabulous quote in the book by English journalist Hannen Swaffer concerning the idea cruel people in one lifetime must reap what they sow in another..."we must always have cruelty in order that torturers may themselves suffer in turn. Why, then, strive for human betterment? Why seek to end war? Why work for the ideal social order?"

Why, indeed?

once i started reading this book i could not put it down. I LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!

I was really looking for an account of the past life memories of children (ala Ian Stevenson), but the book also covers the more fantastical accounts of people who "remember" past lives through hypnosis or dreams. To me these regressions, especially the group hypnosis ones, are much less convincing, and they take away from the more serious accounts in the book.

I immediately received a confirmation email with very clear and specific instructions. The book arrived before time and was in mint condition. Great service and a very reliable person!!

An amazon marketplace seller accidentally sent this used book to me, so I perused it out of curiosity before sending it back. What struck me was how un-striking the "striking evidence" was. Furthermore, there has been a lot of scientific research recently that flies in this face of this "evidence". Several different stimuli (high-G-force and electromagnetic stimulus of the brain) can readily produce near-death symptoms ("floating" or "tunnels of light"). Additionally, people like Penn & Teller, James Randi, etc., have shown how easy it is to convince yourself and others that past lives are real. Therefore I would expect a modern book on this topic to address these aspects, in order to be "striking". This book's "striking evidence" is basically just 20th-century hear-say.