Full Description
For nearly seven decades psychiatrist Dr. Ian Stevenson has been travelling the world, tracking reports of children who claim to have lived before. Spontaneously they will recall vivid details about complete strangers who died before they were born, people they say they once were. And when the memories are checked against the facts of real lives, they match to an astonishing degree. It took journalist Tom Shroder years to persuade Dr. Stevenson to allow him to accompany him on his field research, the first ever to have that privilege. From the hills of Beirut, Lebanon to the slums of northern India, Shroder follows Stevenson as he struggles to understand the mysterious phenomenon of old souls reborn into new bodies. What this sceptical reporter, 'who has stared inward but had never seen a ripple of any life but his own', observes shakes him to the core.
Contents
Contents
Part I: Prologue -- Children Who Remember Previous Lives
Chapter 1: The Question
Chapter 2: You Only Live Once
Chapter 3: The Man Behind the Curtain
Part II: Beirut -- Children of War
Chapter 4: The Book of Daniel
Chapter 5: Speed Kills
Chapter 6: The Love of Her Lives
Chapter 7: The Heretic
Chapter 8: In the Name of the Family
Chapter 9: New Jersey Is a State of Mind
Chapter 10: To Stop a Train
Chapter 11: The Last Easy Answer
Part III: India -- Children of Poverty
Chapter 12: The Milkman
Chapter 13: City of Glass and Glamour
Chapter 14: Marked for Life
Chapter 15: Sumitra Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Part IV: The United States -- Children Next Door
Chapter 16: A Land Called Dixie
Chapter 17: The Edge of Science
Chapter 18: Chrysalis
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
