Beyond Reincarnation: Experience Your Past Lives & Lives Between Lives

by Joe H. Slate

Exploring past lives, communicating with the departed, meeting spirit guides. . . . According to Dr. Joe Slate, accessing the spirit realm is not only possible, it's beneficial for our present lives and future spiritual evolution. Past-life knowledge can offer direction and balance, explain fears and compulsions, build self worth, and promote acceptance of others.

This introduction to reincarnation examines the mind/body/spirit connection and the existence of the ageless soul. Also presented here are Dr. Slate's simple, laboratory-tested strategies for exploring the nonphysical world. Readers can learn how to probe past lives and preexistence through self hypnosis, astral travel to new spiritual dimensions, and communication with spirits through table tipping. The author's own fascinating experiences, along with personal accounts of his subjects who have tested his techniques, are also included.

Genres: Metaphysics

216 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2005

Reviews

[SundayAtDusk · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a bit of a mixed bag, but above average in past life regression techniques, and an interesting read for the most part. The author starts off with some personal childhood memories that the reader may find either astounding or totally unbelievable. Years ago, when I first started reading metaphysical books, I tended to believe most everything I read. Now, I tend to believe many things in the books are either made up or imagined by the authors; not to mention, some authors have hidden agendas. But Mr. Slate only offered a few memories, so I didn't really spend any time considering if I thought his memories were real or not.

The author has obviously spent a lot of time researching reincarnation, as well as testing things on his students, so that made for many interesting ideas. He states in the book, for example, a study he did that showed past life and in-between life regressionists tended to discover what they wanted to discover from their clients. If they had a certain mind-set about the time between lives, then they apparently asked leading questions that would lead the client to describe the mind-set of the regressionist. This was a intriguing accusation, one that makes you think of Michael Newton; due to his practice of asking leading questions, as well as how everyone he hypnotizes appears to end up in his "boarding school" afterlife.

Ironically, though, Mr. Slate then went on later in his book to describe a table-tilting session which he seemed to believe was absolutely astounding; when all it was were a group of people asking nothing but leading questions to some unknown entity, who answered "yes", "no" or "probably". Seriously, if there was ever a case of people asking leading questions, that was it. Moreover, that part of the book was a very dull read, in my opinion. As I said, this book is somewhat of a mixed bag. Yet, the regression techniques described in it are more engaging than any other techniques I have ever read--including one eye-shifting technique reminiscent of following a swinging pendulum. Thus, Mr. Slate's book is well worth the time and money. Just take what is helpful and interesting to you, and leave the rest.

[Sunny · Rating 2 out of 5]

Skimmed a lot. Best: author Joe Slate seems a decent person. Like the topic, but skeptical about his conclusions, though they are pretty well laid out.

[Jlk56 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the scientific approach to the paranormal presented in this book.

[Esmeralda]

Este libro a captado totalmente mi atencion. Parece muy interesante.