Experiencing the Soul before birth, during life, after death PDF
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Foreword 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 • Joan Borysenko Raymond Moody • Sri Daya Mata • Sant Rajinder Singh many Gerald Jampolsky...and others Edited by Eliot Jay Rosen Digitized by the Internet Archive 2017 with funding from in Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/experiencingsoulOOelio Foundation Choose Reed We World Brian A Credit: For 1998 Photo © This photo ofa ten-day-old infant with his 84-year-old grandfather symbolizes the polarity of birth and death. At the time of birth, the soul enters the physical world. At the tune of death, the soul leaves the physical world. Experiencing the Soul Before Birth, During Life, After Death EDITED BY ROSEN ELIOT JAY HAY HOUSE Hay House, Inc. CA Carlsbad, , Copyright © 1998 by FOR A WORLD WE CHOOSE FOUNDATION and Eliot Jay Rosen Published and distributed in the United States by: Hay House, Inc., P.O. Box 5100, Carlsbad, CA 92018-5 100 • (800) 654-5126 • (800) 650-51 15 (fax) Editorial: Jill Kramer Design: Jenny Richards All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording; no—r may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise be copied for public or private use other than for “fair use" as brief quotations embodied in articles and reviews without prior written permission of the publisher. The contributors to this book do not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any tech- nique as a form of treatment for physical or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the contributors is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, neither the publisher, editor, nor contributors assumes responsibility for your actions. Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint from the following copyrighted material: Inner and Outer Peace Through Meditation by Rajinder Singh. Copyright © SK Publications 1996. Used by permission of Element Books, Inc. Dancing in the Flames, by Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson. Copyright © 1996. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications Inc., Boston; and Random House of Canada Limited. Sacred Mirrors: The VisionaryArt ofAlex Grey, by Alex Grey with Ken Wilber and Carlo McCormick, published by Inner Traditions International, Rochester, VT 05767. Copyright © 1990 Alex Grey. Self-Realization magazine, Summer 1997. Copyright © 1997 Self-Realization Fellowship, Los Angeles, California, USA. © Facing Death and Finding Hope, by Christine Longaker. Copyright 1997 by Christine Longaker and Rigpa Fellowship. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.; in the British Commonwealth (excluding Canada), Random House UK Limited, London, England. — Excerpt from the poem, “The Cry of the Soul,” from Fove At Every Step My Concept ofPoetry, by Darshan Singh. Copyright © 1989 by SK Publications, Bowling Green, Virginia. Excerpts from the Noetic Sciences Review (Winter, 1994), published by the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Sausalito, California. “Life in Hell “ cartoon, 6/13/97, Acme Features Syndicate. Copyright © 1997 by Matt Groening. © Sacred Individuality a forthcoming book by Joseph Sharp. Copyright by Joseph Sharp 1997. , KITV-4, Hawaii Argyle Television Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii, for excerpts from a public broadcast of Betty J. Eadie. Photo Credits: Melinda H. White for “We Are the Angels: We Are the Mortal People”; the National Hospice Organization for permission to reprint the photo entitled “Disco Harry’s Last Dance,” by Philip C. NASA Leeuwen; for the photo of astronaut Edgar Mitchell; Nancy Jo Gilchrist for the photo of Eliot Jay Rosen; Brian Lambert for the photo of the Dalai Lama with Eliot Jay Rosen; Anne Kramer for the photo of Max and Martin; George Saavedra and IMAGIC for their donation ofphoto-enhancement services. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Experiencing the soul : before birth, during life, after death / edited by Eliot Jay Rosen, cm. p. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-56170-461-X (pbk.) 1. Spiritual life. 2. Soul. I. Rosen, Eliot Jay. BL624.E96 1998 129—dc21 97-51709 CIP ISBN 1-56170-461-X 01 00 99 98 4 3 2 1 First Printing, April 1998 Printed in the United States of America , Other Hay House Titles of Related Interest As Someone Dies by Elizabeth A. Johnson Between Heaven & Earth, by Laura A. Huxley The Earth Adventure, by Ron Scolastico, Ph.D. The Experience of God, by Jonathan Robinson “I Come As a Brother,” by Bartholomew Infinite Self, by Stuart Wilde Life! Reflections on Your Journey, by Louise L. Hay Practical Spirituality, by John Randolph Price Wake-Up Calls, by Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D., and Diane V. Cirincione The Ways of the Mystic, by Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. All of the above titles can be ordered by calling Hay House at: 654-5126 (800) Please visit the Hay House Website at: www.hayhouse.com 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. , , 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 — 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
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