Table Of ContentForeword by Ellen Burstyn
Before During
Birth, Life,
Death
After
Personal Accounts and Wisdom from:
The Lama
Dalai
Elisabeth Kiibler-Ross
Louise HayCi Jean Houston
L. •
Ram
Dass Stephen Levine
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Joan Borysenko Raymond Moody
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Sri Daya Mata • Sant Rajinder Singh
many
Gerald Jampolsky...and others
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death, the soul leaves the physical world.
Experiencing
the Soul
Before Birth, During Life, After Death
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Infinite Self, by Stuart Wilde
Life! Reflections on Your Journey, by Louise L. Hay
Practical Spirituality, by John Randolph Price
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To the beauty embodied in the existence
Of spiritually perfected human beings, both
Past and present, who dwell among us as scientists
Of the soul, whose grace consummates our souls
Final homecoming, and whose mystery lies far
Beyond this beholder’s eye to fathom.
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CONTENTS
Foreword by Ellen Burstyn, Academy Award®-winning actress. xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments
xxi
—
General Introduction: The Nature of the Soul
From Believing to Knowing xxiii
PART LIVING WITH SOUL
1:
Introduction
1
Chapter
1
My
Experiences of Soul in Life and Death by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross,
M.D., pioneering thanatologist, psychiatrist, and author of dozens of
books on death, and life after death 3
Chapter 2
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Cultivating Your SouFs Unique Path Daring to Be “Spiritually
Incorrect” by Joseph Sharp, writer, lecturer, long-term AIDS
survivor, and author of Living Our Dying and Sacred Individuality. 17
Chapter 3
—
Attitudinal Healing The Essence of Our Being Is Love by
Gerald Jampolsky, M.D., and Diane Cirincione, Ph.D., founding
directors of the Center for Attitudinal Healing, transformational
speakers, and co-authors of Change Your Mind, Change Your Life
and several other books 27
Chapter 4
—
From Psyche to Soul The Healing Power ofArchetypes, by
Marion Woodman, Jungian analyst, transformational speaker,
and author of The Pregnant Virgin, Dancing in the Flames, and
several other books. 35
, 11
PART THE SOUL BEFORE BIRTH
II:
Introduction 4
Chapter 5
Meeting the Souls of Our Children Before Birth by
,
Sarah Hinze and Brent Hinze, Ph.D., researchers in
prebirth experiences, and the parents of nine children and nine
adopted children. Sarah is the author of Coming from the Light 43
Chapter 6
The Emerging Field ofPrebirth Experiences by Harold Widdison,
Ph.D., professor of sociology, prebirth and near-death researcher,
and co-author of The Eternal Journey 5
PART THE SOUL AFTER DEATH
III:
Introduction 59
Chapter 7
The Varieties ofAfter-Death Communications by Bill Guggenheim,
,
after-death communications researcher, lecturer, and co-author of
Hello from Heaven 61
Chapter 8
Visitations of Our 15-Year-Old Son After His Suicide by
y
Anne Puryear, Gestalt therapist, minister, and author of
—
Stephen Lives My Son, Stephen, His Life, Suicide, and Afterlife 73
Chapter 9
We Are Citizens ofa Multidimensional Universe by Jean Houston,
,
Ph.D., philosopher, psychologist, and the author of several books,
including A Passion for the Possible 77
