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    Old Souls: Compelling Evidence from Children Who Remember Past Lives
    Old Souls: Compelling Evidence from Children Who Remember Past Lives
    Old Souls: Compelling Evidence from Children Who Remember Past Lives
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    Old Souls: Compelling Evidence from Children Who Remember Past Lives

    Written by Tom Shroder

    Narrated by Jonathan Yen

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    All across the globe, small children spontaneously speak of previous lives, beg to be taken "home," pine for mothers and husbands and mistresses from another life, and know things that there seems to be no normal way for them to know. From the moment these children can talk, they speak of people and events from the past-not vague stories of centuries ago, but details of specific, identifiable individuals who may have died just months, weeks, or even hours before the birth of the child in question.

    For thirty-seven years, Dr. Ian Stevenson has traveled the world from Lebanon to suburban Virginia investigating and documenting more than 2000 of these past life memory cases. Now, his essentially unknown work is being brought to the mainstream by Tom Shroder, the first journalist to have the privilege of accompanying Dr. Stevenson in his fieldwork. Shroder follows Stevenson into the lives of children and families touched by this phenomenon, changing from skeptic to believer as he comes face-to-face with concrete evidence he cannot discount in this spellbinding and true story.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 7, 2017
    ISBN9781541470842
    Old Souls: Compelling Evidence from Children Who Remember Past Lives
    Author

    Tom Shroder

    Tom Shroder was an editor and writer at The Washington Post from 1999 to 2009. Under his stewardship, The Washington Post Magazine won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in both 2008 and 2010. He is the author of the nonfiction bestseller Old Souls. He lives in Vienna, Virginia.

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    • 1/5
      The most long winded, boring book. Way too many irrelevant stories. 5 chapters in and I only heard 3 stories of past lives and it was only a few paragraphs.
    • 4/5
      Part book about reincarnation and part travel journal... I had the sense the travel descriptions were needed to create more interest as the reincarnation material alone wasn’t compelling enough. That choice seemed wise, as the travel descriptions were engaging. It was a balanced book with conclusions that were supported by the cases - there is something going on but it proves more that there is a mystery to life than proving anything specific about reincarnation and how reincarnation might work.
    • 5/5
      Brilliant book. I've read a lot on the subject lately and love that this book starts off fairly cynical, just a journalist looking for proof. It's also a window into the late Ian Stevenson and his fascinating work, as well as a bonus travelogue to 90s war torn Lebanon and a westerner's take on India. It's humourous as well as being insightful. Makes me want to read more by Tom Shroder.
    • 4/5
      Old Souls: A doctor spends a lifetime studying reincarnation-*-Tom Schroder was doing a story on a rather unusual subject. His editor has sent hem to interview a doctor that was publishing a new book in the field of reincarnation. While the doctor focused more on using hypnosis to help his patients recall past lives, he mentions another doctor by the name of Ian Stevenson that uses a more hands on approach to studying the phenomenon. He also mentions that the doctor has been studying the field for over forty years. Tom files the information away and writes his story and then moves on.Except something about the subject interests him and draws him back to it on and off for the next several years. He can't really explain why but he wants to know more. One day he gets his chance when Dr. Stevenson is featured in a news story and says that he is planning to make a final research trip to both India and Lebanon to follow up on some interviews that he conducted twenty years before. Tom meets with the doctor and explains that he would like to accompany him on his trip to chronicle it and write a book about the experience. The doctor doesn't give Tom an answer right away but does eventually agree to let him go.Over the next year Tom follows the doctor around as he follows up on old cases and finds a few new ones along the way. Each case has it's merits and also some indications that that the subjects may be making their tale up. Yet Dr. Stevenson keeps on in search of that case that may one day prove that reincarnation is provable. While Tom provides his take on the adventure at the end it is up to the reader to judge for themselves.-*- -*-I came across this book randomly and picked it up because I like to read about the supernatural. This book is definitely different than the usual bump in the night ghost stories I usually read. The author's account is interesting and details the trouble and travails that Dr. Stevens and the group encounters on their journey along with the actual interviews that the doctor conducts. The author is neither for against the idea of reincarnation, which is the approach he keeps throughout the book. He just feels that there might be something there, much like Dr. Stevenson. The account kept me engaged through much of the book as the author describes very well the conditions found in the countries that they are visiting as well as the details of the interviews. Towards the end of the book the account does slow down a little bit, but that is mostly because the trip has to end eventually. In this case both the doctor and the author return to their homes and the author is left to sum up his feeling on the whole matter. If you are interested in the paranormal, the phenomenon of reincarnation or the way different cultures view the idea of reincarnation give this book a read. It is definitely a interesting trip. m.a. c
    • 4/5
      For anyone who has ever listened closely to the amazing things that children say. The author gives you the evidence then allows you to form your own thoughts on the subject of past lives.
    • 4/5
      Its an interesting look at reincarnation. Whats nice about this book is that the author is a skeptic, initially, and at the end, is still a skeptic but open to suggestion - this means that you get the past life tale, but you also get the alternate theory. Also, the people in this story are average. There past lives are average. You will not find anybody claiming to be Cleopatra in this book.The book is straight to the point, does not gloss over the faulty evidence, while at the same time manages to capture Dr. Ian Stevenson and the children he documented who claimed to be reincarnated. I also want to add, this is the first description of India that actually seemed real... Usually, its described either as a place of strange beauty or the worst of the worst, but the India in this book seems like a real place.
    • 4/5
      Hearing the many stories straight from the kids who remember the past lives is great. Reading the feeble attempt at scientific analysis of the stories is not so great (I was going to discuss how the subtitle "The scientific evidence for past lives" is really misleading, until I saw the new edition dropped it! That's appropriate.). This is the sort of book that provides more raw material for you to shape your own spiritual beliefs, rather than one that puts forth its own argument. Worthwhile for that purpose - and very readable.
    • 5/5
      I wasn't that interested in the subject of past lives but this book changed that. Very well written and very interesting.
    • 4/5
      #31, 2004 This book discusses the work of Dr. Ian Stevenson, who studied cases of children who have verifiable memories of past lives - in other words, the children knew enough details about the life and death and family of the "previous personality" that it was possible to verify that such a person really had lived, and died, as remembered by the child. Most of the case studies featured in the book are from Lebanese or Indian children, but there are a few in the U.S., too. I found it to be very interesting, and what I would consider fairly compelling evidence for reincarnation. Of course, I began the book already believing in reincarnation (based partly on my spiritual beliefs, and partly on personal experiences I've had). So I wasn't in a position of needing to be convinced. One thing that I found really interesting is that the author himself was most definitely a skeptic when he began writing the book. (By the end, I think he was convinced, but he never comes straight out and says so). What was interesting to me, in addition to the case studies themselves, is that there was such an emphasis on needing to have "scientific" proof. In this culture, so many people scoff and say anything like this is simply impossible, just because it can't yet be scientifically measured. (That's a tradition in my own family, in fact. I was raised to believe in nothing but Science). Yet, in some parts of the world, reincarnation is considered to be fact, and in my own culture, there are areas where many people are willing to put aside this need for proof (for religious beliefs, for example). My father was one who definitely considered people who believed in the "supernatural" to be foolish for believing something that couldn't be irrefutably proven. But I think back to some of the scientific beliefs people held in the past, things that have long since been replaced by new beliefs, as human knowledge expands, and I think that people like him are being at least as foolish (probably more so) themselves in the opposite direction. (/philosophical musings). Anyhow, it was an interesting book.LJ Discussion