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Children Who Have Lived Before: Reincarnation Today (2000)

by Trutz Hardo(Favorite Author)

3.47 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1844132986 (ISBN13: 9781844132980)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Random House UK

review 1: This book was interesting and although I did not like his writing style, the book was a fast read. Because it is a collection of short stories, many only 3 pages long, it is easy to take this somewhere and read when you have a spare 5 minutes. Hardo believes that everything about us is influenced by a past life- our fears, our looks, our choices, etc. He is very persistent that everyone should believe in reincarnation and that current medical doctors should take it into account when mysterious illnesses or chronic pains present the,selves.
review 2: This book owes most of its content to the paranormal researcher Dr Ian Stevenson. The uncanny and unexplainable (by conventional science) "coincidences" of children verbally relating to and referencing the circumsta... morences and relationships of their "former incarnations" is described in detail. Incredibly, birthmarks, scars and disabilities appear in the newly born to mirror corresponding physical injuries, wounds and afflictions suffered by their "former personalities." Although Stevenson left the door open for explanations other than reincarnation, Hardo is an unabashed reincarnation propagandist and leaves no doubt where he stands.Most of the cases presented concern individuals from cultures whose religious beliefs embrace reincarnation. Also, most of those who reincarnate do so in proximity to where they lived previously. Another curiosity is that--although other researchers have indicated that souls usually take from several years to several decades to reincarnate--many of these reincarnations occur within weeks or months of death. (One takes place within days, soon after the baby has been born!) It also seems significant that most of the reincarnated had met with violent or gruesome deaths. Another commonality in these cases was poverty and little or no education. I would have liked to have more balanced material by case histories being presented from more Western cultures and subjects who died in more conventional circumstances or who reincarnated cross-culturally.The author Trutz Hardo is an advocate for and practitioner of regression therapy. After all the case material has been given he ends the book with two insightful and challenging sections entitled "The Influence of Reincarnation at a Personal Level" (14 concise items) and "The Influence of Reincarnation on Society as a Whole" (also 14 items). These points are arguably utopian in that they pretty much proclaim the solution to all personal and social problems by the world adopting reincarnationism. That beggars the question: "Why are reincarnationist (mostly Eastern) cultures just as greedy, unjust, dishonest and warlike as non-reincaranationist (mostly Western) ones?" However, the points he offers are well worth considering by reincarnationists or anyone who is supportive of reincarnationist cultures. It would do the world a lot of good if put into action.This is a fascinating "goosebumpy" presentment. People who are strongly resistant to reincarnationism would feel conflicted by the material presented in this book. Some would find outs by attributing the stated "facts" to the subjects being delusional, or subjected to demon possession or thought-transference. But, that won't explain away the physical facts as described and shown photographically. less

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