Life Before Life

This book, first published in 1979, reports 750 cases of hypnotic regression and asks the question – is there life before birth? I read the book in 1982 while writing Survival, along with another by Edith Fiore – Have We Been Here Before? I also showed my Winchester pupils an evidential documentary on the topic. Such studies are easy to dismiss but they do reveal interesting patterns in the responses to such queries as why we choose to live again on earth and specifically in this era, the extent to which we are connected across lives, when the soul enters the foetus (a question presupposing the existence of the soul) and how the soul may not immediately integrate with the body. By choosing specific time periods for the sessions, she was able to build up a more consistent comparative picture. The final chapter reports a representative range of reactions from a talk show and ends with a spiritual mentor observing that the most important lesson we can learn is that 'we are all one.'