Reincarnation: Claiming Your Past, Creating Your Future (Edgar Cayce Guide) [Mass Market Paperback]

Lynn Elwell Sparrow (Author), Charles Thomas Cayce (Foreword)

Book Description

Series: Edgar Cayce Guide | Publication Date: December 15, 1995

American visionary leader and psychic Edgar Cayce opened the eyes of millions of Americans to reincarnation. Now, some of his most astute observations on this fascinating subject are interpreted by Lynn Elwell Sparrow, including:

* The purpose of each lifetime
* How past lives influence your current choices
* Using your past life experiences to meet this life's difficulties constructively
* Past relationships-- soul mates, twin souls and intertwined past lives
* How karma and grace can heal painful memories
* Awakening artistic tendencies from past lives
* How dreams, speech patterns and reactions to fragrances or sounds can all be clues to your past lives

With this book as your guide, you can discover your past lives and develop your ability to make positive choices for life, love and happiness.

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About the Author

Lynn Elwell Sparrow has been lecturing and writing on the subject of reincarnation for more than fifteen years. She chaired the task force that developed the popular Cayce home study course, "How to Discover Your Past Lives," and has conducted seminars on "Remembering Past Lives" in cities all across the United States and Canada. She makes numerous television and radio appearances each year.

First introduced to the Edgar Cayce readings in 1969, Sparrow spent ten years on the staff of the Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.). Her work with A.R.E. included public developemnt and administration.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 201 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; First Edition edition (December 15, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312957548
• ISBN-13: 978-0312957544
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,368,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Inspired me to read more, September 26, 1999

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This review is from: Reincarnation: Claiming Your Past, Creating Your Future (Edgar Cayce Guide) (Mass Market Paperback)

This was the first book on reincarnation I have ever read and it was a great start. Edgar Cayce was the founding father of metaphysics in the West and, therefore, a perfect basis for a beginner. I learned the facts I needed to know and the places I needed to go next in order to explore my interests and beliefs.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ever wonder why rotten stuff happens to good people?, March 4, 1999

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This review is from: Reincarnation: Claiming Your Past, Creating Your Future (Edgar Cayce Guide) (Mass Market Paperback)

There is a reason why two-thirds of our planet's population believes in and embraces reincarnation. Although it's been centuries in coming, Westerners are beginning to accept this "philosophy" as truth, as well.

If you've ever been curious about reincarnation on any level, this book will serve as an excellent introduction to this phenomenon. Elwell Sparrow's clearly-written book is based upon the readings and teachings of world-reknown psychic Edgar Cayce, himself a Christian. However, if you are of a different faith or spiritual belief, do not let that disuade you from reading this book!

After reading this moving, exciting book, many of your questions will be answered. This is a highly informative book, and at its conclusion, you may find that reincarnation (at its most fundamental level) is the fascinating commonality among the world's religions and peoples.

I highly recommend it! It changed my outlook on life forever.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I haven't believed in reincarnation since my previous life, January 5, 2005

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This review is from: Reincarnation: Claiming Your Past, Creating Your Future (Edgar Cayce Guide) (Mass Market Paperback)

This isn't a bad introduction to the subject for those with little previous exposure to it. It's based on the teachings of Edgar Cayce, which might have been a serious problem: Cayce was an extraordinary medical clairvoyant, but a lot of his predictions haven't come true and his historical pronouncements on Atlantis have to be taken on faith. He spoke in a kind of pseudo-Biblical gibberish which I find irritating and which poor Ms. Sparrow must constantly "interpret."

Nevertheless, the ideas discussed by the author generally accord with those of mediums, theosophists, and some psychical researchers. She clearly links reincarnation with the concepts of karma and divine grace, and makes a good case that they must be understood if the principle of reincarnation is to be grasped.

She meets head-on the main objections to the possibility of reincarnation, and although she doesn't disprove them, which could hardly be expected from anyone, she weighs them intelligently. Sparrow avoids extravagant New Age pronouncements, and her tone is straightforward, logical and full of common sense (if it is possible to speak of common sense in connection with reincarnation).

Readers who are already acquainted with the essential ideas about how reincarnation is said to work and would like a more pragmatic approach are directed to the books of Helen Wambach, who has done extraordinary research in subjecting many individuals' hypnotically induced recollections of previous lives to statistical and historical analysis.