PSI Annual Journal 2003

And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,
(No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.) …
This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look'd at the crowded heaven,
And I said to my spirit, When we become the enfolders of those orbs,
And the pleasure and knowledge of everything in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then?
And my spirit said, No we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
You are also asking me questions and I hear you,
I answer that I cannot answer, you must find out for yourself.
--Walt Whitman

Many of you may remember THE SEARCH FOR BRIDEY MURPHY, the best selling book from the 1950's by a hypnotist, Murray Bernstein, who through an experiment in age regression led a patient, Virginia Tighe, back to a time before her birth to a former incarnation in 18th Century Ireland where she lived as Bridey Murphy. It created quite a stir at the time. Charges of fraud, though never substantiated, were made, even though there were witnesses and the experiment was recorded on tape. Back in the 1950's Bernstein's book was a rarity of its kind. Reincarnation was a far out doctrine for any western writer, much less a psychologist, to be writing about or doing experiments therein. Today Bernstein's book would have to compete with a host of other books, fictional and nonfictional, on reincarnation, in the occult, religious and psychological sections of any paperback bookstore. I will cite some of them shortly.

The Experience Behind The Belief

Back in 1966, Dr. Ian Stevenson, professor of psychiatry, University of Virginia, published a study on TWENTY CASES SUGGESTIVE OF REINCARNATION. The majority of cases were from India, Sri Lanka and Burma where the culture and religion support the belief. The question arises, "Does the belief create and foster the experience or did an original experience create the belief?" What about a culture and society in which reincarnation in not an integral part of the religion or belief system? Is there any experiential basis to the belief in reincarnation in a nonsupportive cultural setting? The answer is "Yes, indeed there is."

Dr. Frederick Lenz, teacher and lecturer in Eastern philosophy and meditation a the New School for Social Research, is author of LIFETIMES: TRUE ACCOUNTS OF REINCARNATION. He analyzes 127 cases of spontaneous recollections of past lives from individuals in the U.S., Great Britain and Canada. The experiences of the persons interviewed followed the basic blueprint of the reincarnation process as set down in THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD. Only three were familiar with the book or any like it. 119 of the 127 cases had no belief in reincarnation prior to their past life remembrance.

Dr. Helen Wambach, psychologist and clinical psychiatrist, author of RELIVING PAST LIVES and LIFE BEFORE LIFE, analyzes 1,088 cases of hypnotically induced past-life recollections, all of them American subjects. Dr. Norris Netherton, an American psychotherapist, author of PAST LIVES THERAPY, describes the tracing of personal traumas, both mental and physical, to roots in past lives. Past Lives Therapy is a technique for erasing the debilitating effects of these incidents, so that an individual can learn to live in the present. Dr. Thorwald Dethlefsen, a West German psychotherapist, and author of VOICES FROM OTHER LIVES: REINCARNATION AS A SOURCE OF HEALING, describes a similar process with numerous case examples. Dr. Dethlefsen argues that "becoming acquainted with one's former lives is by no means a flight into the past, but actually a prerequisite to separating the past from the present. This process makes possible what wise men constantly demand but is so difficult to do, namely, to live…completely and consciously in the present. Becoming conscious of one's incarnations," he says, "will lead to this goal."

I have myself now for more than fifteen years been conducting workshops and leading individuals and groups in the exploration of past lives through creative fantasy, exercises and guided regressions. (Please see the basic technique I use in the Appendix of this article). I can only report that the hundreds of cases I have worked with during this period confirms the work and experience of other professionals, some of whose writings I have cited above. Reincarnation is no longer just an Eastern Oriental doctrine and belief. It belongs also to the consciousness of the West. And so I like to say, scratch a Western psyche and lo and behold you find an Oriental soul with an experiential basis for belief in the ancient doctrine of reincarnation. The belief pattern persists in the unconscious even though the culture does not support it and the individual does not consciously believe it. Which means that the experience created the belief before the belief fostered the experience.

Dreams and Fantasy

One possible source of that experience is dreams that suggest past lives. Reincarnation type dreams are not that unusual. Many people have dreams in which they find themselves in another time and era. I've had dreams of being in ancient Egypt, in England as a knight dressed in armour, in 18th Century France, and one where I'm peeling off the pages of a calendar back to the 9th Century A.D. singing a song my father used to sing while playing the uke. "I was born 10,000 years ago, and there's nothing in this world that I don't know. I saw Peter Paul and Moses playing ring around the roses, and I'll lick the guy who says it isn't so".

Quite apart from its metaphysical truth or falsity, reincarnation is a psychic truth of human consciousness. As psychoanalyst, Herbert Fingarette, points out, "in dreams we live other lives both explicitly and implicitly. We openly appear in different times, places, and roles, while remaining recognizably ourself. We implicitly live still more lives. For the other persons in our dreams are our creatures; we live their lives for them." In our dreams, as Freud noted, we are a plurality of persons "separate and yet somehow intimately united" which is what the doctrine of reincarnation says is true of human personality on a metaphysical plane of being, namely, the notion that we have lived a plurality of earthly lives in a succession of human bodies, our future lives and personalities being the result of how we lived our past lives. The law of cause and effect, the law of "karma", is said to be as true on the moral and spiritual level of being as on the physical and material level of being.

Children incarnate many fantasy selves in the course of their psychological unfoldment. I never knew from day to day or hour to hour when my four year old daughter would change her identity during play from Jenny to various playmates to teachers to parents to babies back to Jenny all by herself. Psychoanalyst Fingarette says "the child is daily, hourly ‘reincarnated'; not in the physical sense, but in the psychically, humanly important sense." And the human adult carries on this same psychic reincarnation every time he or she reads a novel, or goes to the movies, or dreams at night, or fantasizes human encounters in the imagination. Such "vicarious living of other lives," notes Fingarette, "is not merely a desirable experience, it is essential. There can be no development into a human being without the incorporation into the total Self of a variety of lives and part-lives. The more these are fully lived, the more rich and deep a Self."
Dreams, fantasies, hypnotic regressions to "past lives", guided tours to inner dimensions through active imagination—all these things touch on "psychic realities" whether or not they are ontological and historical realities. But, the near universality of the belief in reincarnation in virtually all times and places says something about the depths of human nature on a collective scale. From Pythagoras to Plato to Tennyson to Goethe to Napoleon to Emerson to Gen. Patton and Salvadore Dali—all have affirmed the ancient oriental doctrine of reincarnation which is still the belief of millions of contemporary Hindus and Buddhists, and as already noted in increasingly winning adherents in western countries and nations. G.F. Moore, the Harvard philosopher, once said of the doctrine of reincarnation, "A theory which has been embraced by so large a part of mankind, of many races and religions, and has commended itself to some of the most profound thinkers of all time, cannot be lightly dismissed."

Karma and Justice

Reincarnation critic Susy Smith says that "perhaps the reason reincarnation appeals to some persons is because they want some definite scheme of survival but just can't stomach spooks." But the appeal is deeper than that. The appeal is to the deep seated human aspiration for cosmic justice—as you sow, so you shall reap, if not in this life then in the next earthly life. The inequities, the tragedies, the successes and failures of human life are a balancing and working out of the law of karma in human history. The goal is to evolve towards spiritual and moral perfection, to rise above the ignorance, hatred, and greed of human existence through compassion, knowledge and understanding.

Psychoanalyst, Herbert Fingarette, observes that "karma faces one only with deserts proportionate to one's acts, not with eternal damnation for the finite acts of a relatively brief life. The door to reform is never cut off by karma as it is by Christianity" with its doctrine of eternal damnation which visits infinite punishment for finite transgression.

Reincarnation in the Early Church

John Hammon relates the story of a nine-year-old Indian Hindu boy who was writing an essay on his favorite animal, the cat. "The cat has our legs," he wrote, "One in each corner. He also has nine lives, which he does not use in Europe because of Christianity".

Now it should be noted that it hasn't always been that way. Reincarnation was a wide spread and generally accepted belief in New Testament times, as testified by Josepheus, the first Jewish historian, and accepted, or at least tolerated, by both Jew and Christian. Jesus' reference to John the Baptist as Elijah come back to earth and the healing story in the Gospel of John of the man born blind imply a notion of reincarnation on the part of Jesus' disciples as well as the Gospel writers. "Who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Quite evidently if the man was born blind because of some sin he had committed it could only have been in a previous incarnation. The belief was not spelled out because it was already assumed.

In the early church in the first and second centuries the doctrine of reincarnation was supported by St. Jerome and by Origen who advocated in openly as part of his belief in universal salvation. It was not until the 6th century, in 553 A.D., at the Council of Constantinople, called by Emperor Justinian, that Origen's teachings on universalism and reincarnation were declared heresy by a proportional vote of 3 to 2. The declaration in part read: "If anyone assert the fabulous pre-existence of souls, and shall assert the monstrous restoration which follows from it: let him be anathema." At the time Origen has been dead for 300 years. They didn't want him reincarnating and coming back to cause any more trouble with his heretical teachings.

The Transcendentalists

Unitarian Universalists should always take a second look at anything declared heretical by the orthodox because there just might be some truth in it. Our 19th century Unitarian transcendentalist forbears embraced the doctrine of reincarnation and karma as worthy of consideration and acceptance. Emerson was sympathetic towards the doctrine, while Thoreau openly professed belief in it based on his own recollections of former lives. In a letter to Emerson Thoreau stated, "And Hawthorne, too, I remember as one with whom I sauntered in old heroic times along the banks of the Scamander amid the ruins of chariots and heroes." And then later to Harrison Blake: "As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now a New-Englander."

James Freeman Clarke, Unitarian Transcendentalist minister, tried to link the ancient doctrine of reincarnation with the Darwinian theory of evolution. Said Clarke, "Evolution has a satisfactory meaning only when we admit that the soul is developed and educated by passing through many bodies…If we are to believe in evolution, let us have the assistance of the soul itself in this development of new species."

Biological Analogues

From the point of view of physical science the teaching of reincarnation (or "reembodiment" as the term means in Greek) appears dubious and unbelievable. For if consciousness is a mere epiphenomenon of matter, the end by-product of a metabolic biological process, what can possibly be reembodied when the body is all there is? But what if a living body is an organized expression of the soul, of the individual consciousness, rather than the other way around? Reincarnation would seem to support the more ancient view of the primacy of soul over body.

There is a psycho-biological level at which reincarnation has an analogue of factual truth. Our egos literally incarnate or occupy many bodies in the course of one life. Every three to seven years the cells in our bodies are born and die and the body of our infancy and childhood is not the form or pattern of the body of our adulthood.

In biology it is said that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. What this means is that in a close pattern of development, the human fetus appears to recapitulate or repeat the process of biological evolution from the single cell to sub-human forms to the fully human infant. Each of us, it could be said, is a reincarnation of the entire evolutionary process. God likes the evolutionary process so much it is reincarnated billions of times over in the human form. Jung spoke of memory residues and archetypal experiences of the race built into the very structure of our mind and bodies, and accessible to consciousness through the collective unconscious in dreams and fantasies and creative upsurges from within. We are both individual and collective selves within an emerging Self. We are reincarnated daily, as Marcel Proust tried to show in his novels, each sleep, each change is a "death", followed by a "resurrection" in a different ego.

Understanding The Experience Of Reincarnation

What are we to make of so-called reincarnation recollections of past lives whether spontaneously evoked or hypnotically induced? I suggest the following levels of interpretation:

(1) Fantasy and Imagination. This is not a bad trip if this is all it is, which is unlikely. If the experience of reincarnation is anything, it is a rediscovery of the Child Self, a reclaiming of our right and capacity for creative imagination, of weaving together a more unified and universal self out of the community of selves within us all. If adults can relearn this lost art of the psyche they will be better for it and more whole within themselves. But fantasy cannot explain all past life recollections if fantasy be understood as the rearranging in the mind of already known data. Some subjects seem to demonstrate knowledge and information not previously known, and in rare cases the ability to speak and write in foreign languages, sometimes, ancient forms.

(2) Tuning into the Oversoul or Tapping into the Collective Unconscious. Jung spoke of racial memories (possibly genetically stored and transmitted) and of archetypes (patterned images and responses to experiences of life and death). Occultists refer to the Akashic Records (i.e. the memory banks of the Universal Mind where all human experience is stored.) Thus a so-called past life remembrance could be the tuning into or attracting of the memory traces of former human entities (no longer living) that reflect one's own psychological state of mind. Such a hypothesis may simply be trying to explain one unknown with another unknown.

(3) Genetic Inheritance. This hypothesis suggests that events and experiences of one's ancestors are transferred to oneself by genetic code. But most "past lives" do not coincide with a subjects's known ancestry unless we include the fact that we are all everyone's 50th cousin and we all go back to the Primal Parents of the race.

(4) A Spiritual Manifestation, i.e., the temporary trance possession by a spirit entity, a mediumistic phenomena. The spirit entity presumably replays his or her former life on earth through the receptive mind of the subject, a retrocognition of the previous lifetime of someone else experienced as one's own. There is simply no way to prove or disprove this hypothesis. It may just be complicating something that has a simpler explanation.

(5) Actual Recollection of A Former Life. Why should it not be that at least in some cases the experience is what it purports to be, the recollection of a former life of one's evolving ego consciousness. The remembrance of a past life may at times be the simplest explanation for a puzzling human experience. In philosophy this is called applying Occum's Razor which means that the simplest and least complicated explanation is probably the best and closest to the truth.

(6) Some Combination of (1) through (5) or all of the above. The five levels of interpretation of reincarnation recollections are not mutually exclusive and in many cases overlap.

Theological Problems

Reincarnation does have its problems – theological, social and psychological. What do you do with 12 to 14 John the Baptists or 47 Joan of Arcs? A lot of people may try to convince themselves (prior to a regression experience) that they were somebody famous or important in a previous life. Rarely are they in fact. What a let down to find out we may only have cleaned the latrines for Roman soldiers in occupied Palestine. And what about the problem of increasing population? Can all of the millions and billions of souls living now have lived before? Are all new souls really old souls coming back for another round? Aren't there ever any new new souls? These questions lead to notions of a collective "Source Self" of "group souls" and "parallel lives" and extra planetary dimensions of life and consciousness which we do not have space to discuss here. I refer you to the writings of Jane Roberts and Dick Sutphen among others. (See Bibliography)

Lastly, there is the gross abuse of social conditions falsely justified by the doctrine of reincarnation. As Suzy Smith points out, the doctrine accounts for the "indifference with which Hindus regard the afflicted, and the exclusiveness with which they treat their outcasts. The lower caste, the untouchables, must be working off the arrogance and evil of a former incarnation, therefore karma is permitted to fulfill itself without interference." This is an obvious rationalization for the status quo, for the justification of social privilege, greed and self interest. After all, I must be rich and well off because I was such a superswell person in my former incarnation. Who am I to interfere in karma by giving money to charity or helping the downtrodden or diseased. They're getting what they deserve. I'm getting what I deserve. All praise to karma from whom all blessings flow.

This is, of course, a prophetic critique of the idolatrous misuse of a religious doctrine. It is not a judgement upon the truth or falsity of its metaphysical reality. That is a question that no one can answer for someone else. As Walt Whitman said, "You must find out for yourself."

Why Explore Past Lives?

Why explore past lives? To what end religious, psychological or moral? The spiritual function of the doctrine of reincarnation, as noted by psychoanalyst Fingarette, is to provide "a conceptual and action framework within which a person may explore and reorganize the psychomoral community of selves which constitues the person." In my work in the guided regressions and creative fantasy exercises I have found this to be a profoundly therapeutic experience. For many it opens a door within to a spiritual dimension they has never known before. There is a sense of connection to an evolving consciousness antecedent to present physical existence and which links one to a spiritual reality that is both time future and transcendent. The sense of self is extended and expanded to include more than the previously narrow sense of ego attached to a particular body in time and space and only that body. The discovery is that you are more than you thought you were. You are part and parcel of life itself, of God, and the universe.

When such is not only entertained in the mind but intuitively felt and experienced, the impact upon one's consciousness is transformative. One's capacity to love, to forgive and to understand self and others is enlarged and enhanced. Who can measure the value and worth of such an experience?

Final justification, if justification we need, is the ever important quest for truth. If we are to be "disciples of advancing truth" as A. Powell Davies once declared we should be, then we should pursue the truth to be found in this realm of human experience as in any other. Arthur Ford put it this way: "People have a right to know the kind of universe they live in." And if that universe included the reality of rebirth and reincarnation then we have a right to know it, if know it we can. To quote Marcia Moore,

We have a right to know who and what we are and to acquire this information for ourselves. We need no intermediaries, no one to tell us what can or can't be done, to fill our minds with needless fears or play upon our lack of confidence. Rather, we need to be strong and bold and free in our pursuit of broader mental horizons.

May we be led to the source of life and truth within us, that we may claim who we are, choose what we shall be in freedom and in love, and know ourselves to be one with the divine and all with whom we share this world of travail and glory.

We come from the ineffable One,
Source and goal of all that is,
We create a self, separate and unique,
A window in the rosette of the soul
Where divine light shines through
In a rainbow of colors.
At journey's end we discover
What we always knew to be true
But only dimly perceived,
That we are one with the One
Which alone truly is
(R.M.F.)

Appendix

AN AWARENESS TECHNIQUE EXERCISE IN PAST LIFE REGRESSION

Richard M. Fewkes

Close your eyes. Relax. Take a few deep breaths and let yourself relax even more. Follow the inflow and outflow of your breath. With every exhalation of your breath you will feel yourself relaxing more and more.

(Massage the center of the subject's forehead above the eyebrow with the heel of your hand and offer a prayer of protection and guidance such as the following):

We ask the divine spirit and your higher self to bring to awareness within you only that which will be good and helpful to you at this stage in the evolution of your consciousness. You will be able to accept and integrate into your self-understanding any experience that comes to you in this exercise of your mind and imagination.

Let go now of the cares and concerns of the day and the morrow. Let your body relax and be refreshed and renewed. Let your mind embark upon a journey in the evolution of your consciousness.

Let your consciousness flow slowly down your body from head to feet like a flowing river moving gently out to sea returning to its source. See the sunlight dancing on the water as the river flows. That flowing river of light is your own consciousness flowing toward and inward to its higher source of wisdom and love.

You can go anywhere you want in your mind and imagination. You can extend and expand your consciousness to any level or depth that you wish simply by imagining it to be so and it will be so. You are always in charge of your own consciousness.

Focus your awareness on your feet. Imagine that your consciousness is extending out through your feet like a beam of light extending out into the room. Tell me when you have done this. Return your consciousness to normal. Repeat the exercise and extend your consciousness even further than before. Tell me when you have done this. Return your consciousness to normal.

Focus your awareness on your head. (Have the subject repeat the exercise through the head in exactly the same manner as with the feet).

Picture in your mind now a transparent sphere or bubble of light. That sphere is a symbol of your bodily consciousness in its present state. Imagine that your entire body like that transparent sphere of light is beginning to expand and grow larger and larger until it fills the room and touches the floor, the ceiling and the walls. Tell me when you have done this.

Go now in your mind to the place where you live and stand in front of the house or building. Describe it to me. Project yourself up onto the roof and look down where you were previously standing. Describe what you now see.

Let yourself float up into the air as if you had just stepped into the gondola of a hot air balloon and were lifting up higher and higher into the air until you find yourself a half mile above the rooftops. Describe what you see. Is it daytime or nighttime as you see it? (The subject usually answers "daytime".) Make it nighttime, a nice clear night with the stars shining and beautiful full moon. Tell me when you have done this. Describe what you see below.

Make it daytime again and tell me when you have done so. It is you who are making it night and day with the power of your mind and imagination. You are always in charge of your own consciousness.

Make it a nice clear day, a few white clouds in a blue sky, the sunlight shimmering with vitality. Let yourself float higher and higher into the light, higher and higher, until you sense that you are enveloped in a warm protective light, your entire being is pereated within and without by this light. You are one with the light.

The light is a symbol of your higher self, of your connection with your divine source of wisdom and love. It brings to you a deep sense of inner peace and joy and well being. The light is within you and without you and will be with you always. You can become aware of the light anytime you wish simply by closing your eyes, taking a few deep breaths, and letting your consciousness ascend into the light as before. In that state of consciousness you can find the inner strength and guidance you need to find the answers to your life's questions and problems.

We will return to the light at the end of this exercise. You are now ready to move into a dimension of being that will bring to awareness within you scenes from a past life in the evolution of your consciousness.

You will soon feel your consciousness returning towards the earth. As you move in space you will move in time. When you touch down upon the earth you will find yourself in another time and place, in a different body from a previous incarnation. As the scene unfolds, I will guide and direct you to those significant events and persons that connect with your life today in a meaningful way.

I am now going to count slowly from 10 to 1. On every descending number, you'll feel yourself moving closer to the earth, moving in time as you move in space. On the count of 1 you will touch down firmly and gently upon the earth and will begin to experience scenes from a past life in the evolution of your consciousness.

10 ,9…moving closer to the earth…8, 7, 6…closer and closer to the earth, moving in time as you move in space…5, 4, 3…much closer now, you can begin to make out a scene below you…2…almost ready to touch down…1…landing firmly and gently upon the earth.

The guide directs the subject to become aware of his/her body and clothing beginning with the feet and moving up the body. Ask for sex gender, name, age, time period, nation, place and culture. Ask the subject to describe the scene. Direct him/her to the place of residence in that past life. Have him/her go inside and describe the rooms. Have him/her describe a typical meal in the household, the members who share that meal and their relation to the subject.

Direct the subject to two or three more significant events in that past lifetime. Keep asking questions about time, place, persons, action and events. Conclude the exploration of the past life by directing the subject to the day and manner of death. Tell the subject he/she will be able to view this with detachment and without fear. As the subject floats above the body ask him/her for a sense of evaluation and judgement about that lifetime and what lessons it holds for understanding his/her current life. If there is time the subject may explore other lifetimes, the state of being and consciousness between lifetimes, the conditions and purposes leading to his/her current incarnation.

Conclude the exercise by bringing the subject back up into the protective light of his/her higher source. Direct the subject to remember all that he/she wants and needs to remember. Move the consciousness up the body to the head and open the eyes.

A BIBLIOGRAPHY ON REINCARNATION AND CREATIVE FANTASY

1. Doctrine and Theory
Ancient Sources: THE BHAGAVAD-GITA and UPANISHADS
Evans-Wentz, THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD, Oxford University Press, 1960.
Gina Cerminara, MANY MANSIONS, Signet Mystic Books, 1967-1979.
Sylvia Cranston and Carey Williams, REINCARNATION: A NEW HORIZON IN SCIENCE, RELIGION & SOCIETY, Julian Press, 1984.
Herbert Fingarette, THE SELF IN TRANSFORMATION, (Psychoanalysis, Philosophy & The Life of the Spirit) Basic Books, 1963.
Virginia Hanson, Ed., KARMA THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF HARMONY, A Quest Book, 1975.
Joseph Head & S.L. Cranston, REINCARNATION: THE PHOENIX FIRE MYSTERY, Julian Press, Crown Pub., NY. 1977.
Geddes MacGregor, REINCARNATION IN CHRISTIANITY, A Quest Book, 1978.
________________, THE CHRISTENING OF KARMA: THE SECRET OF EVOLUTION, A Quest Book, 1979.
James Perkins, EXPERIENCING REINCARNATION, A Quest Book, 1979.
Jane Roberts, SETH SPEAKS, Bantam, 1974
____________________, THE NATURE OF PERSONAL REALITY, Bantam, 1978.
____________________, ADVENTURES IN CONSCIOUSNESS, Bantam, 1979.
Alan Watts, CLOUD HIDDEN: WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN, A MOUNTAIN JOURNAL, Vintage Books, NY, 1974 (See Chapters on "The Reality of Reincarnation" and "Implication of Karma", pp. 61-83)

II. Creative Fantasy and Imagination
Piero Ferrucci, WHAT WE MAY BE: Techniques for Psychological and Spiritual Growth, J.P. Tarcher, 1982.
Herbert Fingarette, THE SELF IN TRANSFORMATION (Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and The Life of the Spirit), Basic Books, 1963.
Jean Houston, LIFE FORCE: THE PSYCHO HISTORICAL RECOVERY OF THE SELF, Delta, 1980.
_____________________, THE POSSIBLE HUMAN, A COURSE IN ENHANCING YOUR PHYSICAL, MENTAL & CREATIVE ABILITIES, J.P. Tarcher, 1982.
Robert Masters & Jean Houston, MIND GAMES: THE GUIDE TO INNERSPACE, Delta Book, 1980.
John O. Stevens, AWARENESS: Exploring, Experimenting, Experiencing, Bantam, 1979,

III. Therapy, Techniques and Case Examples
J.H. Brennan, REINCARNATION FIVE KEYS TO PAST LIVES, The Aquarian Press, (G.B.), 1981.
Gina Cerminara, MANY MANSIONS, Signet Mystic Books, 1967-1979.
Thorwald Dethlefsen, VOICES FROM OTHER LIVES, Reincarnation As a Source Of Healing, M. Evans & Co., NY, 1977.
Edith Fiore, YOU HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE, A Psychologist Looks At Past Lives, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, NY, 1978. (Now in paperback)
G.M. Glaskin, WINDOWS OF THE MIND, Delacorte Press, NY, 1974.
Bruce Goldberg, PAST LIVES, FUTURE LIVES, Newcastle Publishing Co., 1982.
Frederic Lenz, LIFETIMES: TRUE ACCOUNTS OF REINCARNATION, Fawcett Crest, 1981.
Marcia Moore, HYPERSENTIENCE, Bantam, 1977.
Morris Netherton, PAST LIVES THERAPY, Ace Books, 1979.
Francie and Brad Steiger, DISCOVER YOUR OWN PAST LIVES, A Dell Book, 1981.
____________________, YOU WILL LIVE AGAIN, A Dell Book.
Ian Stevenson, TWENTY CASES SUGGESTIVE OF REINCARNATION, American Society Psy. Res., 1966.
Jess Stearn, THE SEARCH FOR A SOUL: TAYLOR CALDWELL'S PSYCHIC LIVES, Fawcett Crest, 1973.
Dick Sutphen, PAST LIVES, FUTURE LOVES, Pocket Books, 1978.
William Swygard, AWARENESS TECHNIQUES, Book One, 1970.
Helen Wambach, RELIVING PAST LIVES and LIFE BEFORE LIFE, Bantam, 1979.
Glen Williston & Judith Johnstone, SOUL SEARCH: SPIRITUAL GROWTH THROUGH A KNOWLEDGE OF PAST LIFETIMES, Turnstone Press (Great Britain), 1983.
IV. Fiction
Joan Grant, WINGED PHAROAH, A Berkely Medallion Book, 1977 and other "Far Memory" books.
Elizabeth Haich, INITIATION, George allen and Unwin, LTD., London, Now in paperback.
Richard Matheson, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, A Berkeley Book, 1979.
Ruth Nichols, SONG OF THE PEARL, Bantam, 1979.
Jane Roberts, THE EDUCATION OF OVERSOUL SEVEN, Pocketbooks, 1976.
_____________________, THE FURTHER EDUCATION OF OVERSOUL SEVEN, Pocketbooks, 1984.
_____________________, OVERSOUL AND THE MUSEUM OF TIME, Prentice-Hall, A Reward Book, 1984.

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