Customer Reviews
Good book but just lacking that little bit.... - By: , 09 Dec 2004 
As a believerin reincarnation but still quite sceptical, I found this book to be a very interesting read. The author does a good job of documenting the research of Ian Stevenson but it's the research that leaves me with doubts. I was expecting (and hoping for) case studies where the interviewee would be able to come up with verifiable facts without the possibility of intervention & subsequent coercion from their families to change the evidence to suit the facts. Of the few cases where this happened, I wasn't convinced of the results. Given that 90% of the casesin this book were secondary visits to past-life people originally spoken to 17 years previously, I feel that the chance to change the evidence to be too great to make the cases fully believable.
The book itself is well written & entertaining & worth reading, certainly raising questions about the whole aspect of reincarnation.
After reading the two books by Michael Newton (Destiny of Souls & Journey of Souls) I find it difficult to reconcile what he said (that souls usually take many years to prepare for their next incarnation & rarely incarnate back into the social group they have just left) with the plethora of casesin this book where the majority of souls reincarnatein the next village.
I'd recommend the two books mentioned above, the consistency throughout both is outstanding.
Oldsouls - By: , 16 Jul 2004 
One of the most amazing books I have ever read. This is a book you simply can not put down. I think even those who are not open minded can appriciate the in-depth research & beautiful languagein this book. I have read Oldsouls many times & would highly recommend it for those with an interestin this subject.
A brilliant combination of science and scepticism - By: , 07 Dec 2000 Tom Shroder manages to combine his own scepticism of reincarnation with on-the-edge scientific research into the lives of children who claim to have existed before. The reader is not only drawn by the evidence & the wayin which it is matter-of-factly presented but also by the insight into Shroder's own changing viewpoint & the reasons behind those changes as the book progresses. For believers & sceptics alike, this book does not offer any far-out, New Age explanations for reincarnation. It simply details Shroder's involvement, as a well-respected journalist,in the culmination of a man's life work on the subject of reincanation. Taking the reader from Lebanon to India, Shroder's descriptive talents allow the reader to almost smell & touch the places that he visited, to feel his terror on the muddy single tracks which pass as roads & have been the place of many a spirit's passing & to smell the stench of India's open sewers. His insight into a personal "coincidence"in his life will raise a smile on the face of anyone who has read the "Celestine Prophecy". The one thing which seemed to be missing from the book was any kind of difinitive ending. Let's hope a second book isn't too far off!
