One Soul, Many Lives: First Hand Stories of Reincarnation and the Striking Evidence of Past Lives [Paperback]

If you're just getting into reading about reincarnation, this book is probably a good place to start. Many sources are mentioned and compiled in one volume of very interesting stories.

However, if you've already done some reading on the subject, you'll probably find that many of the stories are familiar. People who've been into reincarnation for a while would probably do better to read the books that these stories are taken from.

The book is also riddled with typos, so I'm not going to give it any more than 3 stars. In the era of spell-checking software, there's no reason for any book to spell "was" as "wass".

After just reading several book on Reincarnation this week I felt a bit cheated by this book. It is well written and as the other review says it is a good book for someone who is just starting out reading about this subject. I had just read Ian Steven's book and his cases are in this book, just not as detailed. Jenny Cockell's Yesterday's Children is also here as well as Brian Weiss, and about 20 other authors as well. I was expecting a "Fresh" book with new stores, new research not a book about other books. It is like picking up a herbal book and seeing the same book repeated over and over as I have been the unfortunate victim of by authors who cannot do their own research for. The author repeats that he is the publisher of a reaincarnation magazine (I cannot find) so his stories are all from sources not his own. Get it from a library or buy it used.

This is really an excellent reincarnation book. It covers many aspects of the topic, and has lots of stories. Many of the stories you have heard before, if you've read quite a few reincarnation book; but it's nice to have them all together in this book. It also does not take a "rigid" view of the topic--i.e. you come back to learn lessons about love & life, to pay back karma, etc.--it basically proposes that you just come back, and there appears to be many reasons for doing so. In other words, Stemman doesn't propose he has reincarnation all figured out, much as Brian Weiss and other past life writers seem to do.

There's also a fabulous quote in the book by English journalist Hannen Swaffer concerning the idea cruel people in one lifetime must reap what they sow in another..."we must always have cruelty in order that torturers may themselves suffer in turn. Why, then, strive for human betterment? Why seek to end war? Why work for the ideal social order?"

Why, indeed?