Description
Book SynopsisFor 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.
Trade ReviewClaire Douglas
Rocky Mountain News Fascinating...This is science....This book explodes the worldview we know and demands that we enlarge our perspective.
Patti Thorn
Rocky Mountain News A book worth reading, if only for the many unsettling questions it will raise.
Chicago Tribune Whether or not you believe, but especially if you're a born skeptic, you'll be in good company sharing the travels of author Tom Shroder....
Old Souls is quietly mind-boggling.
Table of ContentsContentsPart 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 WarChapter 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 PovertyChapter 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 DoorChapter 16: A Land Called Dixie
Chapter 17: The Edge of Science
Chapter 18: Chrysalis
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
