Denis Diderot is known as the co-founder, primary contributor and chief editor of the first French encyclopedia, known as the Encyclopédie, which was first published in 1751. It was the first written source attempting to present all knowledge as it was known in that era.
A dramatic example of how souls engineer being reunited with loved ones and associates from prior incarnations involves Ian Stevenson’s Twin Study. Stevenson researched 31 sets of twins (62 people) who remembered past lives in childhood that were validated. In 100 percent of these cases, the twins had close personal relationships in past incarnations. To learn more, please go to:
Larry Sanders as the Reincarnation of Jean-Baptiste d’Alembert
In a session with Kevin Ryerson, Ahtun Re, the spirit being channeled through Kevin who has demonstrated the ability to make past life matches with a high degree of accuracy, affirmed that Larry Sanger was Jean-Baptiste d’Alembert in a past incarnation.
In addition to being an intellectual who contributed to the human fund of knowledge, Jean-Baptiste d’Alembert was also a scholar of music theory. Larry Sanger is an accomplished violinist.
Past Life Talent, Behavior and Abilities: d’Alembert was a founding contributor of the French Encyclopédie, much as Sanger helped found Wikipedia. Both were very involved in music.
Relationships Renewed through Reincarnation: Jean-Baptiste d’Alembert | Larry Sanger reunited with his associate and co creator of Encyclopédie, Denis Diderot, in the persona of Jimmy Wales.
Change of Nationality: Jean-Baptiste d’Alembert was French, while Larry Sanger was born in the United States. Understanding that souls can change nationality, religion and ethnic affiliation from one lifetime to another can help create a more peaceful world, as most conflicts and wars are based on differences in these cultural markers of identity.
Preface to James McColl’s Book on His Past Life as George S. Patton, by Walter Semkiw, MD
James McColl contacted me a few years ago and shared that he has memories of being United States World War II General George S. Patton.
As reincarnation research has revealed that people can have very similar facial features from one lifetime to another, I asked James to send images of himself to me. I found that as an adult, James is rotund and has a jolly face, quite opposite to the visage of Patton. On the other hand, in a photo taken when James was a child and one when James was in high school and dressed in his ROTC (military cadet) uniform, he looks very much like a young George Patton.
I also asked James what he did for a living, as people generally pursue similar careers from one lifetime to another. He explained that he is a special education teacher. In this capacity, he instructs individuals with various disabilities. This seemed opposite to the type of work that a reincarnated Patton would do.
The Reincarnation Research of Ian Stevenson, MD at the University of Virginia
A primary mission of mine is to disseminate evidence of reincarnation and in particular, the work of Ian Stevenson, MD, as this research can help create a more peaceful world.
Stevenson was an academic psychiatrist at the University of Virginia who, over a period of 40 years, studied young children who had spontaneous past life memories that could be objectively validated. In the series of 2500 children that Ian Stevenson researched, in approximately 1500 of these cases, past life memories were objectively validated. Stevenson’s cases do show that facial features and behavioral traits can remain consistent from one lifetime to another.
In addition, this research demonstrates that souls can change religion, nationality and ethnic affiliation from one lifetime to another. Most wars and conflicts are based on differences in these cultural markers of identity. Understanding that these factors can change from one incarnation to another will lead to a more peaceful world. A powerful example of change in religion and nationality involves:
Reincarnation Case of Anne Frank | Barbro Karlen
Other change of nationality and religion cases can be reviewed at:
In addition to promoting the work of Ian Stevenson, I have worked with trance medium Kevin Ryerson, who has been featured in several of Shirley MacLaine’s books. Kevin channels a spirit being named Ahtun Re who has demonstrated to me that he has the ability to make past life identifications with a high degree of accuracy. I have worked with Kevin and Ahtun Re since 2001 and our findings are found in my books Born Again and Origin of the Soul and the Purpose of Reincarnation.
After James McColl contacted me with his story, I asked Ahtun Re if James is indeed an incarnation of George Patton. Ahtun Re told me that he is, and he encouraged me to work with James.
The Past Life Karma of General George S. Patton
I then asked Ahtun Re if James McColl’s vocation as a special education teacher is related to the famous scene in the movie, Patton, in which George Patton slaps a soldier in a medical tent who was having some sort of mental or emotional breakdown related to the horrors of war. Patton had no sympathy for this soldier, calling him a coward. Ahtun Re confirmed that James became a special education teacher to atone for the karma incurred by Patton in striking and humiliating the mentally disabled soldier.
Split Incarnation in the Patton Reincarnation Cases of James Mattis and James McColl
Reincarnation research, including the work of Ian Stevenson, MD, demonstrates that souls can animate or inhabit more than one human body at a time. I call this phenomenon “split incarnation,” while Stevenson called these “cases with anomalous dates,” as lifetimes overlapped in time.
Knowing this, I also asked Ahtun Re if there was a split of Patton who was pursuing a military career. Ahtun Re told me that this was true and shared that this split was a prominent officer in the US military, though he did not tell me specifically who this person was.
About three years later, President Donald Trump appointed Marine General James Mattis as US Secretary of Defense. When I first saw Mattis on television, I immediately had the intuition that Mattis is the other incarnation of George S. Patton, which Ahtun Re later affirmed. The physical remembrance between Patton and Mattis is striking. View the:
The Past Life Memories of General George S. Patton and James McColl
One of the most common questions that I am asked is: “Why don’t more people remember past lives?” I, in turn, posed this question to Ahtun Re. His answer was that past life memories can be considered as a type of psychic gift.
George Patton had this aptitude. In his well-known poem, Through a Glass, Darkly, Patton describes multiple past lives as a soldier, warrior and killer. Does this mean that the soul of Patton will continue to reincarnate as a soldier? The answer is not necessarily. Leadership can be used for both destructive and constructive purposes.
James McColl has the same psychic gift of recalling past incarnations and in fact, the scope of his past life recall is amazing. In this lifetime, James has been a positive influence on many. Hopefully, in the future, due to lifetimes like that of James, the soul of Patton will look back and reflect through a glass, brightly.
Excerpts from The Past Lives and Reincarnation of General George S. Patton Jr., by James McColl
My earliest memories extend back to a time before my birth. As a preschooler, I could vividly recall these memories of my existence in the spiritual realm, between earthly incarnations, but over the years, they have gradually faded, and now only fragments remain. However, there is one specific pre-birth memory, which I’m able to recall in great detail. This is the memory of choosing my parents.
I recall travelling in the company of another being to observe several families from whom I was to make my selection. The only time I ever saw my paternal grandfather, James E. McColl, was on this occasion. He died shortly afterwards of a heart attack on December 14, 1968, while a patient in the hospital in Marion, South Carolina. I was not born until August 1969.
As a child, I was able to recall details of my life between lives and the preparations for my return to this world. I remember not being in any hurry to return, but knowing I needed to eventually. I also recalled visions of battlefields, destruction and smoldering ruins, and the accompanying feeling of wishing not to return to such scenes.
However, as a child I did not understand this particular memory or its significance. At some point, I became aware of the need for an individual to return to the physical world to perform a mission, which excited me enough to volunteer to go. As a child, although I tried, I never could recall what the mission was for which I had volunteered.
The Christian Upbringing of James McColl Conflicts with His Past Life Memories
I was born in Laurinburg, North Carolina and raised in a Southern Baptist home, so from an early age I was taught that death resulted in either Heaven or Hell with no mention ever of the possibility of returning to life on Earth. It was not until about my fourth-grade year in school that I was exposed to the concept of reincarnation.
My sister mentioned it at supper one evening as a subject she had studied at school in either her geography or world history class. Over the course of the dinner conversation, it was dismissed as a non-Christian belief held largely by the population of India. Long before this conversation, I was aware that I had lived before, but I believed I had only been sent back into this world to perform a mission. I believed my return was an exception and not the rule.
For this reason, I assumed I should never mention what I remembered of the time before my birth. As a child I would occasionally think about the fact that I had made it to Heaven once before, and sometimes wonder if I possibly ran the risk of being condemned to Hell upon my death for any of my actions in my present lifetime. These thoughts contributed to my strong desire to know what happens to a person, at death.
Although I was born in a Southern Baptist home, it was through a combination of my own pre-birth memories, and my mother’s influence, that I came to have a broader view of spiritual matters. Every morning at breakfast, my mother would read aloud the daily horoscope from the newspaper, and my father would often respond by saying that there was no validity to astrology. I still remember how fascinated I was when about the time I was in second grade my mother read to me an article from the newspaper concerning Dr. Raymond Moody and his pioneering research concerning the near-death experience. It was about this same time she told me an elderly man named Percy Covington (1882-1961), from her hometown of Mt. Gilead, North Carolina had used a Ouija board to receive messages from the spirit world.
Among the metaphysical experiences that I had during childhood, one in particular made a lasting impression, because of the unique way in which it occurred. Although I didn’t understand its significance at the time, as an adult I discovered that what I saw that day was a scene from my past life as Lovick William Rochelle Blair, (1821-1882), which was preserved in a photograph. Upon his death, Blair reincarnated as George S. Patton Jr. (1885-1945). The following is my account of the experience.
A Child’s Vision of Past Life Memories
One summer day in 1972, when I was about three years old, I had been playing outside in the swing; being a warm sunny day, after a while I felt hot and thirsty. I went inside the house and asked my mother for something to drink. She fixed a bottle of Tang, and I carried it into the den, lay down on the cool linoleum floor, and began drinking it.
As I lay there I gazed up at the walls, and ceiling; and as I relaxed, I observed the details of the horseshoe designs on the light fixture, and the patterns in the grain of the knotty pine paneling. In the background I could hear the antique Ansonia shelf clock; which rested on the mantle, tick tock away the minutes. My focus then shifted to the pictures on the walls. First, my eyes rested upon the large picture, which hung above the back of the sofa; a depiction of a Swiss mountain range. Then I shifted my eyes to the picture on the wall to my left, an Otto Kuhler print Big Mountains, Little Engines. I gazed at it awhile, absorbing its colors and details.
A Painting of a Train Comes to Life
All of a sudden; as I was looking at it, the image came to life, the wheels on the engines began to turn round, and the train began moving down the track; smoke puffing out of its smokestack. The space behind the glass of the picture frame began to fill with the smoke; like a thick fog rolling in, eventually concealing my view of the train. Even at such a young age, I knew I was seeing something out of the ordinary, so with intense interest and curiosity, I continued to watch without moving, or blinking an eye. Then; like fog, it gradually lifted, but what was revealed was no longer a scene of a train passing through the mountains.
The image had transformed into a period room furnished in what, years later, I would recognize as the American Empire style. At first, the room was devoid of people. Then a group, dressed in mid-nineteenth century apparel entered the scene. They gathered around a center table, which stood before a large mahogany secretary bookcase. When everyone was in their place, all movement ceased, and the image froze as if it was a photograph.
I wanted someone else to witness this phenomenon besides myself, so I called for my mother to come see it. I had a feeling these people were my ancestors, and hoped she could identify them for me too. She was in the kitchen, and answered that she was in the middle of doing something, and couldn’t stop at that moment.
Thinking my sister might be in her bedroom, I asked my mother: “Where is Trudy?” She answered saying Trudy had gone to play at the home of her friend Phillip Tucker.
Curious, to see what might happen next, and not wanting to miss anything, I continued to lie there with my attention focused on the picture. Within a few minutes, what appeared like fog, or white smoke, began to form and swirl behind the glass of the frame, until I could no longer see the people assembled around the table. As it swirled, colors began to emerge. When the blurry swirl of colors solidified, I was once again looking at a picture of a train passing through the mountains.
Within seconds, my mother walked into the den and asked, “What do you want me to see?” I tried to describe what happened, but with my limited vocabulary, it was difficult. The best I could do was tell her the picture had changed from a train to a picture of some people dressed in the manner of the characters on the television programs Bonanza and Gunsmoke; the only frame of reference to the Victorian era that I was familiar with at the time.
The image, which had been revealed to me, didn’t seem significant at the time. What impressed me was seeing the picture come to life, and transforming from one scene to another. Briefly, I wondered if all pictures could come alive and transform from one scene to another, when nobody was looking, similar to the way the toys in the movie Toy Story are depicted. Finally, I decided that this phenomenon was unique to the Otto Kuhler print. I believed that it was a magic picture. Over the next few years, I would occasionally sit and watch it for a couple of minutes at a time, hoping that I might see it transform itself again, but it never did.
Throughout childhood, I experienced a phenomenon that for the lack of a better term, I thought of as watching television in my mind, but today I know it is called spontaneous past life recall. During that same time in my childhood, I was having dreams in which I now realize I reexperienced events from multiple past lifetimes. By the time I was a college student, I had begun to read books on near death experience and would occasionally discuss what I had read with my father.
A Longing to Find a Past Life Family
It was during one of our conversations that he suggested that I might enjoy reading about Edgar Cayce. This is how I came to have a better understanding of my childhood experiences, and it, along with the book, Across Time and Death, by Jenny Cockell, reawakened in me the desire to discover my identity in a past life. In the summer of 2002, remembering a promise I had made to myself as a child, that as an adult I would someday find my past life family and let them know that I was alive, I set out to discover my past life identity.
By the end of the summer, I had not had any luck and was beginning to think I never would. Finally, in October, I had an unexpected breakthrough and discovered my identity in a past life. Another few years passed by and one day while browsing in a bookstore I happened to come across a book by the title of How to Uncover Your Past Lives. This book inspired me to continue my search for my identity in additional past life incarnations, ultimately resulting in my discovery of my past life as General George S. Patton Jr.
Childhood Past Life Memories of Being George S. Patton
George S. Patton speaking in Los Angeles
As I began to research the life of General Patton, the first thing I happened to recognize was the film clip of the speech he made in Los Angeles on June 9, 1945. I experienced this exact scene in a vision I had in childhood, as I sat at the dining table one evening waiting for my mother to finish preparing the meal and call the rest of the family to the table for dinner. However, as a child, I did not have any idea as to what it was that I was experiencing/remembering/reliving.
From the vision I remember being introduced by a man that I am now able to identify as General Jimmy Doolittle, and then standing, approaching the microphones and looking out at the large crowd as I spoke. Listening to the speech on YouTube, I believe that General Patton’s voice and my own voice are similar; the difference, perhaps, being the accent, due to Patton being a native of California and the fact I have always lived in the Carolinas.
Past Life Memories of a Ship Attack and Being Splattered with Yellow Paint
As a young adult, I had a dream, which I have discovered, was an experience from General Patton’s life. The dream occurred sometime in the mid to late 1990’s. At that time, I was in my twenties. As the dream began, I was in a small boat or landing craft on a rough and choppy sea. The little boat is being tossed about, and I felt like at any moment I could easily be tossed out of the craft and into the sea. A battle is underway and there are numerous little crafts and large ships. The waters seem almost crowded with them.
George Patton on the left, wearing a helmet, with Admiral Hewitt on the USS Augusta
The little boat I’m on pulls up next to a large ship, and despite the conditions, I’m able to make my way up rope netting on to the ship. A short time later, I’m standing on the deck of the ship, along with a few other men. We were standing next to the rail looking towards the coast, watching the battle. I recall having binoculars, through which I would occasionally observe the action.
As we stood there, we were surprised when a large ship that was moored in the harbor fired a shell directly at us. We had thought that the ship was unable to engage in the battle and thus not a threat. We heard it fire and saw the smoke coming from the mouth of one of its large guns. This was the most frightening part of the dream. I still recall thinking that I was about to be killed when the shell reached its target. There was enough time to think I’m going to die, but not enough time to actually move from where I was standing, between the time the shell was fired and the moment it made impact.
The shell hit the side of the ship, directly below the spot where I was standing. When it did, I was splashed with seawater and what appeared to be bright yellow paint. Thinking that it was going to be my last moment alive, I was surprised and relieved to have been only splattered. A young man approached and offered to help me clean and dry the paint and water off my clothes, but I politely declined and laughed off the mess. Then I proceeded back to my cabin to clean myself up. It is at this point the dream ended and I woke up. I still remember feeling rattled the entire day after awakening from this particular dream. I felt as if I had actually had a close brush with death.
Afterwards, I replayed the dream over and over in my mind, trying to determine why I would have had such a dream. It was such a realistic and detailed dream, except for when the shell exploded and rather than being killed, I was splattered with yellow paint, which seemed to me like something that would occur in a Looney Tunes cartoon.
The only possible answer I found was an experience I had in Navy ROTC when a student in the 9th Grade. I had once gone on a field trip to Patriots Point in Charleston, South Carolina, which is a naval and maritime museum that features two actual World War II era ships; the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown and the destroyer USS Laffey. The ship upon which I was standing in my dream when I thought I was about to die reminded me of the USS Laffey.
As I was researching General Patton, I was surprised to discover that this was an actual experience from his life. It occurred on November 8, 1942 as General Patton’s troops were making an amphibious assault on Northern Africa. General Patton was standing on the deck of the USS Augusta when the French ship, Jean Bart, fired upon it, resulting in Patton being splattered with yellow paint. France at that point in time was not part of Western Alliance
Past Life Memories of Slapping Soldiers
General Patton’s career was almost brought to an end by two slapping incidents that occurred in August 1943 during the Sicily campaign. For the rest of his life General Patton was haunted by the dark shadow cast by these two incidents where he had lost control of his temper and slapped and verbally abused two soldiers, who were suffering from battle fatigue. It wasn’t until after I discovered my past life as George S. Patton Jr. that I realized I had actually witnessed one of the slapping incidents in a spontaneous past life recall vision I had during my childhood. I experienced the vision sometime between August 1973 and December 1975.
It occurred one day, while I was playing in the kitchen of my parent’s home when we lived in Garner, North Carolina. Instead, of viewing the scene through Patton’s eyes, I experienced it in the third person, as if I was watching television in my mind. Now as an adult, having since seen the slapping incident in the movie Patton, I can say it was portrayed very well, because it closely matched what I experienced in my vision.
At the time I experienced the vision I had no idea I was witnessing an experience from my past life. As a child, I thought I was seeing something that was actually occurring somewhere around the world at that very moment. I failed to realize that it had occurred thirty years earlier. It did not have in any way a historical feel to it.
My father watched the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite every evening and I thought what I had seen might appear on the news that day. As I remember watching the news as a young child, it seemed to me that Walter Cronkite was always talking about Vietnam and Watergate. The images I had seen in my vision were of soldiers, so they matched up in my mind with the scenes of Vietnam I saw on the news. I remember the vision scared me, because the man had been so angry yelling, slapping the soldier and pulling his pistol on the man and threatening to shoot him.
In hindsight, I guess I was allowed to experience it in the third person, since I was a young child and it had been such an intense and frightening scene. I still remember when the vision ended thinking that the man I had seen was extremely angry, and wondered why I had been shown that particular scene.
Based on the consistency of facial architecture from one incarnation to another, I believe my mother is the reincarnation of Annie Wilson, who was the sister of General Patton’s mother. She was like a second mother to Georgie. Annie Wilson died on November 26, 1931 and my mother; Margret Frances Parsons was born December 27, 1937. Notice in particular how closely the shape of the ear carried over in addition to the other facial features, when Annie Wilson reincarnated as Margaret F. Parsons. Kevin Ryerson has confirmed that my mother is the reincarnation of Annie Wilson.
Past Life Talent as a Rifle Marksman
General Patton was known to be a great marksman. Growing up my mother always cautioned me concerning the danger of guns. As I approached the age of twelve, I wanted an air rifle. By then many of my good friends either had, or were getting one. My parents were slow to allow me to have one, thinking I might shoot my eye out, or the neighbor’s window. Finally, I was allowed to purchase one. I was excited when the day arrived.
My father took me to the local K Mart and I bought a Daisy BB and a pellet air rifle. What amazed me was I discovered that I was a better marksman than my friends who had been shooting longer than I had. It seemed to come natural to me. I remember it crossed my mind at the time that perhaps it was a skill I had developed in a past life, maybe as a pioneer in early America when the country was being settled. This was the first times I gave the idea of reincarnation any serious consideration.
A Past Life Dream of an Exploding Lamp in the Life of George Patton
General Pershing and George Patton inspecting troops in the Punitive Expedition in Mexico
One of the parallels between my present life and my past life as General Patton involves a pressurized gasoline lamp. When I was around five or six years old, I had a dream, which I now know was of my experience as Patton during the Punitive Mexican Expedition of 1916. In the dream, I enter a tent. It is dark, so I light a lamp and it explodes in my face and sets myself as well as the tent on fire. I then quickly exit the burning tent and put out the fire.
In my present life I collect antiques and have been doing so since I was in the eighth grade. As a student in high school and college, I enjoyed going to the Florence Flea Market and looking for antiques. On one such trip, I purchased an antique Coleman Quick-Lite gasoline lamp. Shortly afterwards my father and I learned that it could be sent to the Coleman Company and restored to work. We sent it off and it came back with the pump to pressurize it. My father asked me if I wanted the honor of pumping it up and lighting it. I declined and asked him to do it.
The dream did not enter my conscious mind at the time, but I had a fear of the lamp exploding in my face, which kept me from lighting it. Years later when I began to research my past life, I came across Patton’s description of the lamp exploding in his face. I recognized it as matching detail by detail my dream. However when I purchased the lamp and later could not bring myself to light it, I didn’t connect it with the dream. It wasn’t until I read General Patton’s description of the incident that I finally realized it was interconnected. Patton recorded the following details in a letter to his wife.
I came back from the movies and having some work to do I pumped up my lamp and lit it. It did not burn well so I started pumping again while it lit. There was too much gasoline in it so when I stopped pumping a lot of gasoline flew out of the hole instead of air and caught fire. As it came it hit me in the face and got in my hair. I ran outside and put myself out. Then came back and put out the lamp and tent. Then I reported to General Pershing that I was burned and went to the hospital.
James, as a Child, Asks for a Antique Car Resembling One Patton had used in his Mexican Campaign
I have always liked antique automobiles. When I was around three years old, my Grandmother McColl asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I replied a Beverly Hillbillies’ car, which at such a young age was my best description of an old timey car from the early years of the 20th century.
She understood what I wanted and gave me a battery powered Model T styled toy car. I have come to realize that the antique style toy automobile my grandmother gave me resembles the 1915 Dodge touring car in which Patton, on May 14, 1916, led the first motorized attack in the history of US warfare. The incident concluded with the killing of Julio Cárdenas and two of his guards. It also resulted in Patton receiving widespread media attention and earning the good favor of General Pershing.
The Fatal Automobile Accident of Patton Replicated in the Life of James McColl
General Patton’s fatal car accident of December 9, 1945 appears to possess a number of similarities to my own car accident of November 8, 1988. In both cases, the accidents occurred in an identical manner. A truck approaching from the opposite direction made a sudden and unexpected left turn, bringing it directly into the path of the car in which General Patton was a passenger.
Likewise, my accident was caused by a truck approaching from the opposite direction making a sudden and unexpected left turn, bringing it directly into the path of my car. Just as General Patton’s driver had done, I immediately stepped on the brakes, but still collided with the truck. In both cases, the right front fender of the truck struck the front of the car. The front end of General Patton’s 1938 Cadillac was demolished in his accident. Likewise, the front end of my 1968 Falcon was demolished too.
General Patton was not wearing a seatbelt since they were not a standard automotive safety feature until many years later. Patton was thrown forward, struck his head and broke his neck. I was wearing a lap belt without a shoulder strap and was thrown forward striking my head on the windshield, but the lap belt restrained me enough it prevented me from sustaining a serious injury. The impact broke my skin causing it to bleed where my head made contact with the windshield, just as General Patton bled from the head wound he received in his accident.
The impact of the collision pushed the fenders against both of the Falcon’s front doors, so that I was unable to open either of them. This caused me to have to cross over the front seat and exit the car through one of its back doors, similar to General Patton having to be removed from the Cadillac after his accident through one of its back doors. It is interesting to note that the color of the staff car in which General Patton had his fatal accident was army green and my 1968 Falcon was dark green with a white top. The two large white stars painted on Patton’s car correspond with the white color of the top of my car.
Split Incarnation or Parallel Lives: James McColl and James Mattis derive from the same soul, a phenomenon I term “split incarnation” and which Ian Stevenson, MD called “cases with anomalous dates,” as lifetimes overlapped in time. James Mattis was born in 1950, while James McColl was born in 1969, so an overlap of 19 years exists.
Ian Stevenson’s Documentation of this Past Life Story with Physical Resemblance in Reincarnation Cases
Though Ian Stevenson indicated that he researched this reincarnation case in 1971 and 1973, he provided few details of his findings. Stevenson included this case in his book, Reincarnation and Biology, as an example of how facial features can remain the same from one lifetime to another. Click on the images to enlarge them.
Nawabsingh Reincarnates as Manoj Kumar
Manoj Kumar was born on August 30, 1964 in the village of Bhaderi in Uttar Pradesh, India. When he was 5 years old, he began speaking of a prior lifetime in which his name was Nawabsingh.
Ian Stevenson was able to find information on the person Manoj claimed to have been. Nawabsingh had served in the army of India and after he was discharged, he turned to a life of crime. He was killed in February 1964, in a shootout with police.
Stevenson, in his report of this case, noted that Manoj had made numerous correct details regarding the life of Nawabsingh, though Stevenson did not elaborate. In addition, Stevenson noted that he was convinced that the families of Nawabsingh and Manoj Kumar were not related to one another, nor did the families know each other.
Physical Resemblance: Ian Stevenson was able to obtain photographs of Nawabsingh and Manoj, which do show similar facial features. One must keep in mind that the photo of Nawabsingh was taken in adulthood, while the photograph of Manoj was taken in his teenage years. As we age, skin loses its elasticity, so that as we become older, one’s face becomes more puffy or swollen. I believe this factor accounts for differences in facial appearance in this case, as do differences in the poses in theses images.
Split Incarnation or Parallel Lives: Manoj was born about 7 months after Nawabsingh was killed by police. If the soul is involved in the process of conception, which I believe it is, then the soul Nawabsingh | Manoj was animating two physical bodies at the same time for about 2 months, assuming that Manoj was delivered after a normal 9-month pregnancy.
Ian Stevenson termed these “Cases with Anomalous Dates,” as lifetimes overlapped in time.
In the year 1849, a boy and a girl were born on the same day in neighboring houses in a small rural village in Burma called Oksitgon. Burma is now known as Myanmar. The boy’s name was Maung San Nyein and the girl’s name was Ma Gywin. For simplicity, we will refer to the boy as Nyein and the girl as Gywin.
Nyein and Gywin played together, grew up together and came to love one another. When they became adults, Nyein and Gywin married and worked as farmers.
Nyein and Gywin, knew a couple in the village of Oksitgon named Maung Kan and his wife.
As they entered life together on the same day, the lovers, Nyein and Gywin, man and wife, died on the same day.
Relationships Renewed through Reincarnation: Nyein and Gywin are Reborn as Twin Boys
At the time, Britain was waging a war with Burma in an attempt to reestablish England as a colonial power ruling over Burma. Britain won this war on November 28, 1885.
While still living in Oksitgon, in 1886, Maung Kan’s wife gave birth to twin boys. The couple named their sons Maung Gye and Maung Nge. For simplicity, we will refer to them as Gye and Nge.
Shortly after their twin sons were born, Maung Kan and his wife left Oksitgon and moved to the village of Kabyu in Burma, which is where their twin boys grew up.
When Gye and Nge developed the ability to speak, their parents heard their sons referring to each other as Nyein and Gywin. Gye was referred to by the twins by the male name Nyein, while Nge was referred to by the female name Gywin.
Their parents recalled that these names matched the names of the couple that they had known in Oksitgon.
Gye and Nge Recognize their Past Life Home and Clothing
Considering the possibility that their twin boys were remembering past lives as the couple Nyein and Gywin, they took their sons from Kabyu to Oksitgon to see if their boys would recognize places from these hypothesized past incarnations.
Indeed, Gye and Nge recognized roads in Oksitgon that lead to houses of people that they had known in their past lives as Nyein and Gywin. They recognized their past life home and inside this house, they recognized clothes that they had worn in their previous lives.
Nge Correctly Recalls a Past Life Debt
When the young twins ran into a woman in Oksitgon named Ma Thet, Nge, who recalled being the past life wife, Gywin, spontaneously remembered borrowing money, specifically 2 rupees, from Ma Thet, that was never paid back. Ma Thet confirmed that she did loan 2 rupees to Gywin that was never repaid.
Gye and Nge have Physiques Corresponding to their Past Lives
When the twin boys were 6 years of age, Harold Fielding, who documented this case in his book, The Soul of a People, met them. Fielding noticed that the physique of each twin matched who they were in their past lives. Gye, who remembered being the husband, Nyein, was larger than his twin. In contrast, Nge was smaller, reflecting the build of the wife, Gywin.
Planning Lifetimes and Relationships Renewed through Reincarnation: The married couple, Nyein and Gywin, reincarnated as the twins Gye and Nge. Ian Stevenson, MD of the University of Virginia compiled 31 sets of twins who in childhood, spontaneously remembered their past lives. Stevenson found that in 100 percent of these cases, the twins had significant past life relationships. To learn more, please go to:
Change of Gender: Gywin was female, but reincarnated as Nge, a male.
Physical Resemblance in Reincarnation Cases: Though there was no documentation regarding facial features in these cases, it was noted that the physiques of Nyein and Gywin were reflected in builds of Gye and Nge.
Satwant Pasricha is the head of Department of Clinical Psychology at NIMHANS, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences at Bangalore. She also worked for a time at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in the USA. Pasricha investigates reincarnation and near-death experiences. Pasricha co-authored the 2011 book Making sense of Near-Death experiences, which was Highly Commended in the Psychiatry category at the 2012 British Medical Association Book Awards.
Pasricha has investigated and participated in about 500 cases of reincarnation involving children (referred to as subjects) since 1973 who claim to remember previous lives. She became interested in working in parapsychology because she was not satisfied with the conventional explanations of certain paranormal or unusual behavior.
Pasricha studies not just the characteristics of reincarnation prevalent in India, but also suggests ways they are similar or different from those of people in other countries. She collaborated with Ian Stevenson in reincarnation research beginning in the 1970s.
She joined NIMHANS as a faculty in December 1980 as a lecturer in Clinical Parapsychology; and then was promoted to Assistant professor, Associate professor and Additional Professor of Clinical Psychology. She is also involved in clinical work such as patient care and teaching and research in the areas of her interest at NIMHANS.
MG Wijanama Kithsiri was born on August 28, 1959 in the Sri Lankan village of Wehigala, which at the time was inhabited by about 1000 people. His father was WMG Ariyawansa and his mother was MJ Kusumawathie. The family was Buddhist and Sinhalese, which is the native ethnic group in Sri Lanka that makes up 75 percent of the population. They spoke the Sinhalese language. All people living in Wehigala were Sinhalese Buddhists, with no Muslims or Tamils living in the area. The family was vegetarian.
Nocturnal Episodes of Xenoglossy: Speaking an Unlearned Language
At the age of three Wijanama began sitting up in bed in the middle of the night with his legs crossed and would speak in a language unknown to his parents. On a typical evening, Wijanama would go to sleep along with the rest of the family at 9 PM. In between 10 PM and midnight, he would sit up and begin a recitation of verses in an unknown language. This would last 3 to 15 minutes after which he would lie down and go back to sleep. Sometimes he would get up and try to leave the house, though his family would stop him from departing. His parents noted that Wijanama seemed distressed during these episodes, which continued on a nightly basis to at least until the age of 13, at which time the practice was still continuing to occur.
Past Life Memories of an Incarnation in Kandy
At the age of four Wijanama started talking about a past lifetime in which he stated that he lived in the city of Kandy. Kandy is in the highlands of Sri Lanka about 25 kilometers or 15 miles from Wijanama’s village of Wehigala. He said that he had another father and mother, that they would eat sitting on a mat and that his mother would wear a covering on her head. He also stated that at his past life home, there were plenty of light bulbs, which was an unusual statement as the family’s village of Wehigala had no electricity. In contrast, Kandy was electrified. He also said that water came from a pipe near their kitchen, which could be true for Kandy which had a piped water system, whereas in Wehigala water could only be obtained from wells. Wijanama also said that he had seen moving pictures or movies, which did not exist in his rural village but were available in Kandy.
Ian Stevenson explained that Kandy is a fairly large city with a diverse population which includes Buddhists, Tamil Hindus and Muslims. The Tamil people are another ethnic group in Sri Lanka who speak their own language, Tamil. Tamils at the time made up about 20 percent of the Sri Lankan population. Muslims in Kandy also speak the Tamil language.
Wijanama expressed a strong desire to see his previous parents. Wijanama said that he developed a fever and died while still a schoolboy, though he could not remember his name in this prior incarnation. He said that he attained the third grade in Kandy.
Wijanama claimed that he had seen the Perahara, which is a religious festival that involves elaborate parades and decorated elephants. His village did not have this festival but in Kandy the parade passes along King Street. Wijanama correctly stated that at the Perahara there were huge elephants and a lot of dances.
Wijanama describes a Muslim Past Life
Wijanama made several statements indicating that he was Muslim in his previous life. When Wijanama saw a woman with a hijab or headscarf on her head, which is typically worn by Muslim women, he said, “My mother is like that.” Ian Stevenson noted that Wijanama’s recitation posture of sitting with legs crossed is a position often taken by Muslims during prayers.
He also said that he ate meat in his previous life, though he would not eat pork. This is a common Muslim dietary practice, but contrary to the habits of his biologic family, who were vegetarians. Wijanama expressed disappointment in his current living situation as he related that his past life family was much better off than his contemporary one. Once he became angry, stating, “In my other house there is plenty of sugar and I want to go there.” Wijanama also said there was ample meat.
Another Muslim habit that Wijanama displayed was keeping his head covered with a handkerchief fastened with a knot in the back. In addition, he would wear his sarong, which is a type of robe, much further up on the leg, which Muslims do so that they can wash their feet upon entering a mosque. Further, while his family ate their meals seated at a table, Wijanama would sit on the floor cross-legged and after his meal, he would rub his stomach and belch. Ian Stevenson related these dining behaviors are typical of Muslims in the area.
Wijanama repeatedly would say that he wanted to go back to his better past life house and to worship at the mosque. His past life memories appeared to be vivid and he talked about his prior incarnation in the present tense, as if he was still living that lifetime.
Identifying with his Muslim Past Life, Wijanama is Critical of Buddhist Worship
Wijanama was totally resistant to his family’s Buddhist religious customs and he felt repelled by images at Buddhist temples. He stated, “Where we worship we don’t have all these idols and statues. We have to put mats on the ground. We wash our bodies and sit on our mats and worship. There is a priest shouting at the top of his voice. No women go there.” He also said that there was a well with water at his place of worship. Wijanama made these statements before he had ever seen a mosque.
Wijanama’s description of his place of worship does correspond to a Muslim mosque, in which depictions of religious or other figures are not allowed, where worshipers wash their feet in a pool of water before entering and people sit on mats on the floor. The “priest shouting at the top of his voice” would represent a muezzin, who calls the Muslim community to prayers, oftentimes using an amplified sound system.
Wijanama is Ridiculed and called “The Muslim”
As he lived in a community made up entirely of Sinhalese Buddhists, Wijanama experienced ridicule from schoolmates because of his Muslim behavior. They would tease him and they gave him a nickname, “The Muslim.” Wijanama would respond by running home and asking that he be sent to his past life father. Nonetheless, he would continue to insist that he had been a Muslim in his past life and that he still was a Muslim.
Shopkeeper: A Probable Past Life Vocation
Wijanama routinely played at running a boutique or shop, which he would open as soon as he came home from school. He used red seed pods to represent slices of meat and pieces of paper to represent fabrics. He would pretend to sell vegetables and toys. In dreams, he said he saw his past life father bringing vegetables to the shop in a cart. Wijanama indicated that when he grew up, he would acquire a shop or boutique.
Children with past life memories often duplicate their past life profession in their play. A dramatic example involves the reincarnation case of Ahmet Delibalta | Erkan Kilic, in which Erkan, as a child, would pretend to run a nightclub, which was his past life vocation as Ahmet Delibalta. To learn more, go to:
Sometimes his father would joke that it was a lot of trouble to have a Muslim come into the family. To this, Wijanama angrily replied, “Aren’t we all humans? Don’t say such things about others!”
Wijanama finds his Past Life Mosque in Kandy
When Wijanama was five years old his family took him to Kandy to see the Buddhist Temple of the Tooth, a landmark of the area. From there, Wijanama started to pull his mother down King Street saying that he wanted to go to the place where he worshipped. When they arrived at the King Street Mosque, Wijanama said, “This is where we worshiped.” Wijanama noted that the stairs of the mosque had been changed. This assertion was verified by an official at the mosque.
Near the King Street Mosque Wijanama saw a house and dragged his father to it. They did not knock on the door as Wijanama’s father was afraid of discussing reincarnation in this Muslim community, since reincarnation traditionally is not part of Islamic doctrine. In this area, Wijanama found the faucet of a water pipe and he stated, “We washed and bathed there.”
Xenoglossy: Wijanama’s Recitation is Deciphered
When Ian Stevenson researched this case, a tape recording was made of Wijanama’s nighttime recitation. In this recording, four words were repeated over and over. These words were:
“Allaha,” which is the Arabic word for God
“Umma,” which is the Tamil word for mother
“Vappa,” which is the Tamil word for father
Stevenson noted that Umma and Vappa are part of the vocabulary of the Tamil dialect spoken by Muslims in Kandy. Further, when Stevenson had a Muslim resident of Kandy listen to the tape recording, this individual stated that only a Muslim child could pronounce these words so properly. Stevenson interpreted the recitation as a prayer to God in which Wijanama pleaded to be reunited with this past life parents.
There were other words that Wijanama used which would indicate that he had lived in Kandy in his previous live. For example, when asked if he had enough food, Wijanama replied “podong,” which is a Tamil word for “enough.” This is in contrast to the Sinhalese word for enough, which is “aithie.”
In 1970, when Wijanama was 11 years old, he was still persisting in the behavior of a Muslim boy and he continued to play at operating his shop after school. His nocturnal ritual of sitting up on his bed and pleading to God and referring to his past life mother and father was ongoing.
Statements made by Wiljanama strongly support that he had a past life as a Muslim in Kandy. As noted, he could not recall his past life name, which made locating his past life family challenging. Further, Ian Stevenson noted that Muslims in Kandy were reluctant to help in identifying Wijanama’s past life identity, since reincarnation is not a part of their religion.
Change of Religion and Ethnicity: Wijanama recalled that he was a Muslim boy in his past life, whereas in his contemporary life, he was born into a Sinhalese Buddhist family.
Past Life Talents and Behaviors: Wijanama demonstrated behaviors typical of a Muslim boy. Further, he had an obsession of playing the role of a shopkeeper, which likely represents his past life vocation.
Xenoglossy: In Wijanama’s nightly recitations, he used Arabic and Tamil words, though no Arabs or Tamils lived in his village and no one in his family knew or understood these words. Being able to speak a language that has not been learned by normal means is called xenoglossy. The Arabic and Tamil words that Wijanama used likely were learned during a past lifetime in Kandy, where the languages of Arabic and Tamil are spoken by the Muslim population.
Geographic Memory: Once in Kandy, Mijanama found what appears to be his past life mosque and possibly his past life home.
Source: Stevenson, Ian: Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Sri Lanka, Volume II, pages 326-360
Though the primary mission of ReincarnationResearch.com is to disseminate objective evidence of reincarnation, there is a Case Category on our website entitled “Celebrity Reincarnation Cases” that features the work I have done with trance medium Kevin Ryerson. Kevin is pictured to the right. Kevin channels a spirit being named Ahtun Re who last incarnated on Earth over 3000 years ago.
I have worked with Kevin and Ahtun Re on a monthly basis since 2001. In my assessment, Ahtun Re is a discarnate spirit who is separate from Kevin Ryerson, as Ahtun Re has a different personality, sense of humor and an encyclopedic fund of knowledge. Ahtun Re has demonstrated the ability to make past life matches with a high degree of accuracy.
After gaining trust and confidence in Ahtun Re, I embarked on a series of dialogues with him on the meaning of life, which are contained in my book Origin of the Soul and the Purpose of Reincarnation. As part of these discussions I asked about Jesus. First of all, Ahtun Re did affirm that the Resurrection of Jesus did occur as a historical event.
In addition, Ahtun Re affirmed that Jesus had approximately 30 past lives prior to his incarnation as Jesus Christ. These past incarnations are described in the works of Edgar Cayce and I feature a few of these lifetimes of Jesus in Origin of the Soul and the Purpose of Reincarnation. In his past lives, Jesus focused on spirituality and devotion to God.
One way to understand Jesus is that God endowed his soul with a special talent for merging with God. Our souls are all gifted with certain talents and abilities that we demonstrate throughout our series of lifetimes. This is why artists tend to reincarnate as artists, musicians as musicians and political leaders as politicians. Through his incarnations Jesus developed to the point where he was able to merge with God, declaring that “I and the Father are one.”
I recently asked Ahtun Re about the nature of God. Ahtun Re told me that there is a female and male aspect of God. The female aspect intervenes in human affairs and as an example, Ahtun Re said that this aspect of God helped facilitate the Resurrection. The male aspect of God is the energy that powers the universe, the galaxies and our lives.
Another example of how God may have intervened involves a case researched by Ian Stevenson, MD of the University of Virginia, in which the resurrection or reanimation of a dead child is documented. This reincarnation case of Sobha Ram| Jasbir Jat dramatically demonstrates that the body is indeed a vehicle for the soul. To learn more, please go to:
Gordon Keirle-Smith has written a wonderful, entertaining book for children, entitled Another Egg, Another Life, designed to stimulate past life memories. The method used is subtle and non-directive, allowing imagination to serve as a catalyst to allow past life memories to emerge.
The book involves a penguin who, over time, understands the past lives he has had and discovers of how reincarnation works, including that souls reincarnate in groups. Ian Stevenson, MD of the University of Virginia compiled 1200 cases in which children’s past life memories were objectively validated. In aggregate, these cases provide proof of reincarnation. Stevenson cases do show that souls plan lifetimes to be reunited with loved ones. To learn more about Dr. Stevenson’s work and cases that show how relationships are renewed through reincarnation, please go to the following links:
Evidence of reincarnation can create a more peaceful world, as reincarnation research, including the work of Ian Stevenson, MD, shows that souls can change religion, nationality and ethnic affiliation from one lifetime to another. Most conflicts and wars are based on differences in these cultural markers of identity. In Gordon Keirle-Smith’s book, this phenomenon is illustrated by the protagonist incarnating as different types of penguins. To learn more about such reincarnation cases, go to:
In sum, Another Egg, Another Life, is highly recommended. By gently stimulating past life memories in children, parents can help create a more peaceful and evolved world.
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Ci sò i Pesce, ùn lu fiumi
Pensa lu granni muvimenti culturali e riligione di u mondu com’è i fiumi. Un prufeta, o visionary serve cum’è un fountainhead, chì iniziati una filosufia, una nazione, o di una riligione. As Amis raghjugna u fundatore, u canted Cresce in un bracciu. U fiume, costruisce tandu è dopu à traversu tempu, à traversu parechji seculi. Dédié cuntribuisce à u muvimentu, si opere d’arte, architettura, literatura è musica, è u fiume cresce di più Grand e prufunnu.
Pensa chì simu comu pisci chi scinni da lu munnu, spirituali e nta la metti in issi fiumi. In una vita, noi accustà in u fiume, di Mosè, in un altru Bach, avemu accustà in u fiume di u Cristu, in ancu un altru fiume, di Mohammed, in un altru, u fiume di Buddha, in un altru, u fiume di l ‘induismu, è cusì on. Mentre unu si metti in un particulare, fiume, noi fussimu nantu à identificà cumplitamenti cù chì bracciu cultural. Avemu fattu un cristianu, mussulmanu, Ghjudeu, indù, o buddista. Avemu identificà cù i punti particulari, discinnenza e naziunalità ch’omu ritrovi in. Avemu scurdà chì in altre lifetimes, avemu swum in l ‘altri ruscelli troppu.
Per a pace à maestre nantu à a Terra, ùn ci vole divintà cuscienti di i diversi chjassi chì avemu traversé e li vari identità chì noi dinò. Avemu a arricurdari ca da un scopu spirituali, ùn sò i pesci, ùn lu fiumi. Ci sò persone universale chì ind’è sti ruscelli variu. Andemu campà cù issa cuscenza, affinchì no pò tutti campà in paci.
Kathleen Dowling Singh has written a book, The Grace in Dying, on the process of dying due to a chronic illness, in which the individual has time to face the approach of death. This is in contrast to sudden death, where individuals do not had time to contemplate the process of dying. TheGrace in Dying is philosophical, wordy and somewhat difficult to read. In this article, I distill the concepts in Singh’s book and contribute my knowledge of evidence of reincarnation, which is contained in my book, Born Again. In addition, I share information that I have absorbed from working with a very intelligent spirit being channeled through the trance medium Kevin Ryerson.
Transcendence
Singh asserts that as an individual with a chronic illness nears the moment of death, that individual attains an experience of transcendence, much like the enlightenment that yogis or spiritual masters attain through years of meditative practice. This transcendence represents a merger with God. This experience consists of:
Omnipresence-a sensation of being of present everywhere
A sense of oneness with all creation
Feelings of peace and bliss
The experience of floating above the deathbed with the ability to witness events occurring around the individual’s dying body.
Of great interest, there is a reincarnation case published by Ian Stevenson, MD of the University of Virginia in which this experience of dying, as well as the experience of being reborn, is described in great detail. To review this fascinating death narrative, please go to:
This understanding of the death process can give great comfort to all who are facing the failure of the body’s function. For those who do not understand that one’s consciousness and individuality survives death, the stages of dying can be painful and challenging. Kathleen Singh describes three overarching psychological stages of the death process for those with terminal illness, which are Chaos, Surrender and Transcendence. Let us examine these stages.
Chaos and the Kubler-Ross Stages of Death and Dying
The stage of Chaos begins when the individual is advised that they have a terminal illness and that they will die. Chaos includes the stages of death and dying formulated by Swiss psychiatrist Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, MD, which, as described on Wikipedia, are:
Denial-In this stage, the individual believes that the diagnosis is somehow mistaken and they cling to a false, preferable reality.
Anger-When the individual recognizes that denial cannot continue, they become frustrated, especially at individuals who are close to them. Certain psychological responses of a person undergoing this phase would be: “Why me? It is not fair! How can this happen to me? Who is to blame? Why would this happen?”
Bargaining-The third stage involves the hope that the individual can avoid the cause the grief. Usually, a negotiation for an extended life is made in exchange of a reformed lifestyle. For instance: “I promise to be a better person.”
Depression-“I’m so sad, why bother with anything? I’m going to die soon, so what’s the point? Why go on?” During the fourth stage, the individual despairs at the recognition of their mortality. In this state, the individual may become silent, may refuse visitors and spend much of the time mournful and sullen.
Acceptance-“It’s going to be okay. I can’t fight it. I may as well prepare for it.” In this last stage, the individual embraces their mortality. The dying person becomes calm and assumes a retrospective view on life.
Chaos, per Kathleen Singh, also includes additional stages, which she defines as:
Alienation-The individual facing death feels isolated in that those near them, who are not facing death, have no idea of what the situation of nearing death is like. Alienation is associated with the feeling of loneliness.
Anxiety-Understandably, the dying individual experiences anxiousness regarding their fate.
Despair-The dying person facing the unknown losses hope, which can lead to severe depression.
Letting Go-Prior to this point, the individual is resisting the inevitable outcome of a terminal disease. At this point, the person gives up and accepts that they are going to die. This step is comparable to the Kubler-Ross stage of Acceptance.
Dread of Engulfment-This term is not well-defined in Singh’s book, but my interpretation is that the individual is afraid that their individual identity will cease to exist, that the person’s identity will be absorbed or dissolved in the being of God or nothingness. This fear is perpetrated by the Buddhist tenet of anatta-that there is no unchanging, permanent self, no soul or persisting essence in living beings.
Fortunately, evidence of reincarnation demonstrates that anatta is a false concept, as reincarnation cases, including those published by Ian Stevenson, MD of the University of Virginia, show that individuals are reborn with similar personality traits, passions, talents and even similar facial features. Our immortal souls are the energy structures that preserve our personal identities. To learn more, go to:
Kathleen Singh uses a quotation from Jesus of Nazareth to capture the essence of this stage, which is: “Not my will, but Thy will be done.” This surrender to God leads to the stage of Transcendence, which was described above.
The Spirit Being Ahtun Re and Transcendence as a State of “Lucid Ecstacy”
I have the advantage of having a special understanding of the spiritual world as I have been working with Kevin Ryerson on a monthly basis since 2001. Kevin is a trance medium, which means that he can go into a meditative state to allow spirit beings take over his body so that these spirits can communicate with human beings. In particular, Kevin channels a spirit being named Ahtun Re, who has demonstrated the ability to make past life identifications with a high degree of accuracy. In addition, Ahtun Re has an encyclopedic fund of knowledge. Ahtun Re is the most intelligent and compassionate being I have ever encountered. To learn more about the work I have done with Kevin, go to:
Having access to such a unique spiritual resource, I published a book consisting of my dialogue’s with Ahtun Re regarding “big picture” questions, such as what the nature of the spiritual world is like. It turns out there are many levels or planes of the spirit world, which reflects the statement made by Jesus: “In my Father’s house are many mansions,” This book is entitled:
In Origin of the Soul, I asked Ahtun Re what his state of being is like. He responded that his existence in the spirit world is best described as “Lucid Ecstasy.” This term, I believe, is a beautiful way to describe the stage of Transcendence.
The Process of Death, Transcendence and Rebirth: In Closing
It is my hope that the understanding of the experiences of death, transcendence and rebirth will make leaving the body at the end of a terminal illness less traumatic. Perhaps, this knowledge will even help people view death as an event that calls for quiet celebration, given that death leads to another chapter, another adventure, in the progress of one’s soul.
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