The Book of the Soul: Rational Spirituality for the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)

This book is so far removed from the usual lightweight, new Age tosh and drivel pumped out by well-meaning but useless authors that it's not only not in the same room, it's on a different continent.

Quite simply this is the most comprehensive, objective, well-researched and fascinating book on reincarnation to have been written in the English language. Really, it is that good.

After a fascinating review of all of the best academic evidence for the proof of reincarnation, a lot of which 99% of readers will have never encountered before, the book moves into high gear looking at the most intriguing questions that surround this subject.

However, even when looking at what most books deem 'spiritual matters' and therefore not worth bothering to apply rational and scientific criteria, The Book of the Soul doesn't give up on being totally thorough and totally focussed on looking at the facts and coming up with answers based on them.

The book is often at is best when it compares modern evidence with material thousands of years old to come up with some amazing new insights that I think can justifiably be called very important in our understanding of the nature of universe.

I don't want to spoil anyone's pleasure of reading the book by giving a précis of some of the revelations it produces on reincarnation and karma, but if you have any interest in spirituality or science and have questions about life and death, then you will probably find this the perfect book.

For me, this book reached out to me by the quality of its argument and evidence and yet touched me at a very deep, personal level. Part of that is because the voice of the author comes through and engages you emotionally, but it's much more down to the fact that after reading The Book of the Soul, you cannot help but change your worldview at both a spiritual and mental level.

This book really does deliver the promised rational spirituality and can promise you that if you read it, then it will rock your world.

So what the hell was he doing writing a book on past lives, reincarnation and topics such as karma?

The answer is writing the most daring, thought-provoking but grounded book on the subject to have been written to date. As someone coming to topic of past lives as an arch sceptic before reading this book, it is hard to describe just much it made my head spin and change my opinion on the matter.

By tackling the most spiritual of questions through a lens of objective science, research and a willingness to look at facts instead of dogma, The Book of the Soul allows you as a reader to explore not just some of the most interesting cases of reincarnation, but the mechanics of just what the heck is happening to explain the way the universe seems to run.

The material in this book on the interlife - that bit about reincarnation that had always troubled me as I always wanted to know what happens between lives if we live time and time again - and karma is fresh and will shatter a lot of people's preconceptions.

In two short chapters, this book forced me to ask some of the deepest questions about life, the universe and everything by making me confront some of the most amazing evidence on this subject you will ever find. I'm still turning those questions over in my mind, but just accepting that the answers I found in The Book of the Soul may be right has changed my worldview in the most dramatic fashion.

I have come away from reading this book with a new appreciation for life and its mysteries. The Book of the Soul has let me think about things on a spiritual level without the baggage of religious dogma but with my ability to think and question things critically intact. I have a strong feeling that others reading it will get the same benefit so I urge anyone interested in this field to read this book as soon as possible.