Your Past Lives: A Reincarnation Handbook

by Michael Talbot

A person in touch with his or her past lives has discovered one of life's most profoundly rewarding experiences. Contrary to popular belief, the ability to recall past lives does not require special powers or supernatural gifts. As this invaluable book shows, almost anyone with desire and determination can learn to summon memories from previous incarnations.
This step-by-step guide will teach you how to open this illuminating window from your who you were, when you lived, whom you loved -- and what role it all plays in your present life.
You will learn how to call up past-life recollections in meditative states, normal waking states, and in dreams, and how to recognize past-life dreams you may already be having. With such tools as the Resonance Method, the Christos Technique, self-hypnosis and guided meditations, you will soon enter an extraordinary dimension -- a world of endless, fascinating yesterdays and enlightened new tomorrows.
"An explicit, step-by-step buide for remembering and exploring past lives . . . Will fascinate."
-- The Tampa Tribune

Genres: Nonfiction

177 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 13, 1987

About the author

Michael Talbot was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1953. As a young man, he moved to New York City, where he pursued a career as a freelance writer, publishing articles in Omni, The Village Voice, and others, often exploring the confluence between science and the spiritual.

Talbot published his first novel, The Delicate Dependency: A Novel of the Vampire Life as an Avon paperback original in 1982; though never reprinted, it is regarded a classic of the genre, frequently appearing on lists of the best vampire novels ever written, and secondhand copies have long been expensive and hard to find. His other horror titles, both cult classics, are The Bog (1986) and Night Things (1988).

But despite the popularity of his fiction among horror fans, it was for his nonfiction that Talbot was best known, much of it focusing on new age concepts, mysticism, and the paranormal. Arguably his most famous and most significant is The Holographic Universe (1991), which examines the increasingly accepted theory that the entire universe is a hologram; the book remains in print and highly discussed today.

Michael Talbot died of leukemia in 1992 at age 38.

Reviews

[Seon Ji (Dawn) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good!

Has some techniques to try which I think we all have done before unknowingly.

Great book to keep and refer back to from time to time.

[Yor · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is an excellent reading to learn more about Michael Talbot and his belief system, I used to connect dots about Michael's life and experience, also he presents an excellent writing style, clear, consciences and here you will find what techniques he recommends and how to use to explore your past lives. Read carefully with a discerning and open mind, I would like to suggest without mysticism.

Here are quotes interesting to get in mind about what the author talks about.

"For anyone who has studied the matter with a discerning and open mind there is no doubt that there exist among us talented individuals who can psychically tune in to information that they have no normal sensory means of knowing. There is also little doubt that some of these individuals can tune in to what we've been calling past-life information in this book. As for how wide-ranging is the ability of any given psychic, or how accurate is the past-life information they report, the answers to these questions are as varied as the human personality"

"I would also like to caution that when I say I believe in the reality of reincarnation, that does not mean I am convinced that reincarnation in any way represents some sort of final truth in our understanding of the universe. If there is one thing that we have learned from the history of science, it is that our theories about the way the universe works are never permanent. Newton gave us one picture about the way the universe works, and it was and is a valid picture. However, Einstein gave us another, and quantum physics—the branch of physics which seeks to understand the behavior of subatomic particles—has given us yet another. None of them are wrong, but each has gone a step farther than the one before."

"You may find that sitting in a lotus position helps you meditate, or you may find that you have better results if you sit in an easy chair or lie down on a couch. I personally prefer to lie on a carpeted floor when I meditate, but you should experiment and find the position that suits you best."

"Thus, if you find that the picture of reality you discover in states of past-life awareness is different from the one you have grown accustomed to in your waking state, do not be too disturbed that you cannot hammer the two together. Parts of them may overlap, and other parts may not. Accept only the useful parts of each and don't worry about the rest. Or, in the words of Zen Buddhism, accept without accepting, and believe without believing."

[J. Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved, loved, loved.

[Inara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Title in German:
Seelenpfade. Reinkarnation aus neuer Sicht