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A Soul Remembers Hiroshima

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This book differs from the other Cannon books I've read, as it doesn't mention extra-terrestrials! Therefore, the beginning of the book where the subject, a young girl called Katie, is regressed to common, banal lives seemed somewhat tame to me. But things soon changed.

Katie was sure that she had lived a previous life in Japan during the second World War and experienced the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima. Cannon accessed the life in question and got the man, Nogorigatu, to describe his life, wedding, family and Japanese life and customs in general. She wanted to gradually approach the fateful day, August 6, 1945, since Katie had been extremely apprehensive about having to face and live through this memory.

Nogorigatu proved to be a sensible, peace-loving man who made and decorated pots and sold them at the market. Eventually, the war begins and N starts to feel its effects on the town. The troops mistreat the people and steal their food. The population is on the brink of starvation. People, including N's daughters, are forced to work in factories. His sons are sent off to war, his wife dies.

We get to know and care for this gentle Japanese man. The book becomes deeply moving. When the bomb is dropped, we experience this shocking event through N's consciousness as though we were there. A great flash, and rolling winds like fire. Screams. A giant cloud.Suddenly all the buildings simply vanish. The city disappears in a moment. There is nowhere to run for safety or shelter. People's skins and hair are burnt off. They become black like Negroes. Their lungs are burnt.

This was a totally shocking experience, also for the reader. N takes about a week to die.

Afterwards, Cannon conducts research to confirm what she has learnt through the regression. There had been no need to drop this horrific bomb - the Japanese government was in fact attempting to initiate surrender, since the people were dying of starvation and the country was falling apart. It had apparently been a sort of experiment on the part of the American government.

No flyers were dropped warning the people to get out of town on the day in question, though some had been dropped on other towns to be bombed in the normal way. Truman who was President at the time thought it was acceptable to refrain from issuing any warning by way of revenge subsequent to the "sneak" attack on Pearl Harbour. (But it should be noted that it was the political leaders that made the decision to bomb Pearl Harbour, and it was thousands of ordinary men, women and children that got the atomic bomb thrown on top of them.)

Like Cannon, I had never really thought about the suffering of the Japanese subsequent on the dropping of these atomic bombs. Now I have thought about this.

The book is important precisely because it makes us realize what a gruesome decison it was to drop these bombs. How could we carry out these inhumane deeds?

Everyone should read this book.

The persistent memory of a horrible death that reached across time and space and caused a young American woman to seek past-life therapy, revealed the dramatic story of a Japanese man who was killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. There have been many stories of pain, death and destruction told by survivors of the Hiroshima bombing. But this is the eyewitness account of one of the people who did not survive!

This case reveals startling information about the Japanese side of the war. Research into the bombing also revealed terrible truths that the American public was not aware of at the time of this dramatic ending to World War II.

What a unique way of studying history. Delores Cannon gives us history from the eyes of those who lived it. Through her fascinating work with past live hypnosis, Cannon is able to regress people into their past lives to tell a sometimes different tale of history then what we have in written in our books. A Soul Remembers Hiroshima is one of those books giving details into what seemed like a black and white issues instill we see it from a man who died in the doomed city of Hiroshima. Tragic doesn't begin to describe what it was like for the ordinary people living in Hiroshima in the 1945. Planes flew over the city twice a day adding tension to the already difficult circumstances. The soul remembering Hiroshima lived in dread until the day finally came when the bombs were dropped.

From the book itself, the witness recalls the event from ground zero:

"There was . . . there was a great flash. And the the winds . . . they were like fire. The people, they fell down, they . . . and they just lay there, and . . . and (the voice is full of utter disbelief). The screams! . . . A blinding, white light. And . . . and then a great . . . boom. And . . . and . . . a giant cloud. It went straight up, and . . . and. . . it went out. And then the winds rolled. They were like fire! People are dying everywhere! WHY?!

With that kind of description, how can anyone doubt that this soul was really at Hiroshima? Cannon's work is both fascinating and important. I've read all of her books and never been disappointed.
When I Dream

It was great to read about the other side of the war and what life was like before it was bombed. I've read several of Dolores Cannon's books and have never been let down. All of them have so much to give you and expand your mind.

I have enjoyed all the books that Dolores Cannon has written. I would recommend her books to anyone who is searching for the truth.

Very interesting book. Very touching. Feels...right. I like the way Cannon presents her stories, through the voices only of the participants.

A moving book.A libel against war,plenty of empathy,readabel even to those who disbelief in the numerous facts amassed by the Author.Worth reading.

Intriguing story for those who are interested about past life regressions. Very interesting take on pre-war life in Japan and the dark road taken by the military/government as the war progressed. Since reading this book, I've tried finding more info on pre-war Japan but it's been difficult.