Reincarnation: a new horizon in science, religion and society

Reincarnation: a new horizon in science, religion and society

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.

Sylvia Cranston and Carey Williams

Julian Press: New York

1984

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.

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