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Reincarnation A new horizon in science, religion, and society Compiled by Sylvia Cranston and Carey William - New York, NY Julian Press 1984 - 385 P.

Contents:
I. The Horizon today
The Cry for meaning
Current western belief in many lives
Lecture at Harvard University
II. Scientists investigate reincarnation
The Research of Ian Stevenson, M.D
Cases of reincarnation type from around the world
Did they speak a past-life language?
Hypnotic regression experiments
Near-death and beyond-death encounters
Heredity: problems and puzzles in genetics
Unexplained cases of genius
III. Religious teachers: their modern message
Early instructors of the human race
Judaic teachers and prophets
Jesus and the Christian vision
Krishna and the Bhagavad-Gita
The Life and teachings of Buddha
II. Transformation of life and society
War and its transcendence
My Race, my religion, my country, my status
Our plundered planet and disregard for its creatures
Reincarnation and the population explosion
Healing body and mind
The Liberation of women
and men
The Aching problem of suicide, and a remedy that works
Columbia University lectures on reincarnation
Plight of the elderly
Careers of famous people influenced by reincarnation
Horizons far and horizons near

A summary of historical Eastern and Western attitudes toward reincarnation and of the ideal of famous writers and thinkers accompany detailed accounts of cases of reincarnation and a series of lectures presented at Columbia and Harvard

ISBN: 0517554968

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Reincarnation--addresses, essays, lectures

Dewey Class. No.: 133.9013 Rei 7