Introduction
1. Pamela Rae Heath and Jon Klimo, Handbook to the Afterlife (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2010), 47.
2. W. Stainton Moses, Spirit Teachings (London: Spiritualist Alliance, 1883). Spirit Teachings is also available at www
.meilach.com/spiritual/books/st/spteach.htm.
3. J. F. Crehan, “Immortality,” Man, Myth & Magic (London: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 1970), 4:1413.
4. Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, rev. ed. (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1961), 249.
5. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (Summary of Theology)(1264–1274). Many translations are available on the Internet, including www.op.org/summa. Question 75 relates purely to the soul.
6. Edward B. Tylor, Primitive Culture, Volume 1 (London: John Murray, 1871), 429.
7. Carl Jung quoted in Erwin Schrödinger’s What Is Life? With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 119. What Is Life? was originally published in 1944.
Chapter One
1. There are many books that recount instances of people remembering their previous incarnations. These include Reincarnation: Amazing True Cases from Around the World by Roy Sternman (London: Piatkus Books, 1997) and Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation by Dr. Ian Stevenson, 2nd ed. (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1974).
2. Stevenson, Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation, 101.
3. Ibid., 91–105.
4. Fred Ayer, Jr., Before the Colors Fade: Portrait of a Soldier, George S. Patton (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1964).
5. This poem can be found in many place on the Internet, including www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1163967.aspx.
6. Stevenson, Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation, 259–69.
7. Edgar Cayce quoted in Benjamin Walker’s Masks of the Soul (Wellingborough: Aquarian Press, 1981), 50–51.
8. Edgar Cayce, Edgar Cayce on Atlantis (New York: Paperback Library, 1968), 150.
9. Charles C. Emerson, “Notes from the Journal of a Scholar,” The Dial, July 1840. Reprinted in The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion, vol. 1 (Boston, MA: James Munroe and Company, 1841), 14.
10. Richard Webster, Practical Guide to Past-Life Memories: Twelve Proven Methods (Saint Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2001). This book contains a number of different methods to retrieve past-life memories.
11. Noel Langley, Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation (New York: Castle Books, 1967), 75.
Chapter Two
1. William Faulkner, speech in Les Prix Nobel en 1950 (Stockholm, Sweden: P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1951), 71.
2. Wayne W. Dyer, Wisdom of the Ages: 60 Days to Enlightenment (New York: HarperCollins, 1998), 146.
3. Maurice B. Forman, ed., The Letters of John Keats (London: Oxford University Press, 1931), 335–36.
4. Ralph Waldo Emerson quoted in Reincarnation: An East-West Anthology, compiled and edited by Joseph Head and S. L. Cranston (New York: Julian Press, 1961), 237–38.
5. Jeffrey Burton Russell, A History of Heaven (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), 15.
6. St. Teresa of Ávila quoted in Interior Castle, translated from Spanish and edited by E. Allison Peers (London: Sheed & Ward, 1974), I,i,4.
7. Ralph McInerny, “The Existence of the Soul,” Great Thinkers on Great Questions, edited by Roy Abraham Varghese (Oxford, UK: Oneworld Publications, 1998), 51–52.
8. Joseph Head and S. L. Cranston, eds., Reincarnation in World Thought (New York: Julian Press, 1967), 92.
9. Kevin Trainor, ed., Buddhism: The Illustrated Guide, rev. ed. (London: Duncan Baird Publishers, 2004), 70.
10. Homer Smith, Man and His Gods (Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1952), 24.
11. Gerald Massey, The Seven Souls of Man and Their Culmination in Christ (privately printed, 1900). Available at http://www.africawithin.com/massey/gml1_seven.htm.
Also in H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 2 (1888), 632.
12. Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (New York: Viking Penguin, 2006), 97–98.
13. Alvin Plantinga, “The Existence of the Soul,” Great Thinkers on Great Questions, edited by Roy Abraham Varghese (Oxford, UK: Oneworld Publications, 1998), 45–46.
Chapter Three
1. Ursula Roberts, The Mystery of the Human Aura (London: The Spiritualist Association of Great Britain, 1950), 1.
2. Cassandra Eason, Encyclopedia of Magic & Ancient Wisdom (London: Judy Piatkus Ltd., 2000), 11.
3. These three Bible passages appear to relate to auras:
“And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him” (Exodus 34:30).
At the Transfiguration of Christ, Matthew wrote that Jesus’s “face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light” (Matthew 17:2).
When Saul was traveling on the road to Damascus “suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven” (Acts 9:3).
4. Barbara G. Walker, The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets (San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1983), 253.
5. Alice A. Bailey, A Treatise on the Seven Rays (New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1936), 42.
Chapter Five
1. Elisabeth Goldsmith, Ancient Pagan Symbols (Berwick, ME: Ibis Press, 2003), 206. First published in 1929.
2. W. Wynn Westcott, Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues (1890; reprint, London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1974), 73.
3. Rudolph Brasch, The Supernatural and You! (Stanmore: Cassell Australia, 1976), 53.
4. Adrian Room, ed., Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1870; reprint, London: Cassell & Co, 1999), 1066.
The seven joys of the Virgin Mary are the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Nativity, the Epiphany, the Finding in the Temple, the Resurrection, and the Ascension. The seven sorrows of the Virgin Mary are Simeon’s prophecy, the flight into Egypt, the loss of the Holy Child, meeting Jesus Christ on the road to Calvary, the crucifixion, taking Jesus down from the cross, and the entombment. The seven spiritual works of mercy are to tend the sick, feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, befriend the stranger, minister to prisoners, and bury the dead (Matthew 25:35–45). The seven words from the cross are: (1) “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34); (2) “Today shalt thou be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:43); (3) “Woman, behold thy son! … Behold thy mother!” (John 19:26–27); (4) “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46); (5) “I thirst” (John 19:28); (6) “It is finished” (John 19:30); (7) “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit” (Luke 23:46).
5. Sepher Yetzirah quoted in John Michael Greer’s The New Encyclopedia of the Occult (Saint Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2003), 431.
6. W. Wynn Westcott, trans., Sepher Yetzirah (1887), chapter 4, page 3. Many versions are available. It can also be found at www.sacred-texts.com/jud/yetzirah.htm.
7. Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism (Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2007), 186.
8. Ute Possekel, Evidence of Greek Philosophical Concepts in the Writings of Ephrem the Syrian (Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Publishers, 1999), 191.
9. Adrian Room, ed., Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1870; reprint, London: Cassell & Co, 1999), 1068.
10. Ecclesiasticus, also known as The Wisdom of Ben Sira and Sirach, is available in many editions. It can also be found at www.sacred-texts.com/bib/poly/sir.htm.
11. Ernest Busenbark, Symbols, Sex, and the Stars in Popular Beliefs (New York: The Truth Seeker Co., 1949), 243.
Chapter Seven
1. Cyndi Dale, The Complete Book of Chakra Healing: Activate the Transformative Power of Your Energy Centers, rev. ed. (Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2009), 233.
Chapter Eight
1. St. Thomas Aquinas quoted in James V. Schall’s Roman Catholic Political Philosophy (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004), 186.
Chapter Nine
1. Robert Browning quoted in F. E. Halliday’s Robert Browning: His Life and Work (London: Jupiter Books, 1975), 74.
2. Victor Basch, translated by Catherine Alison Phillips, Schumann: A Life of Suffering (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931), 230. This book can be found at http://www.archive.org/stream/schumannalifeofs027254mbp/schumannalifeofs027254mbp_djvu.txt.
Chapter Ten
1. Carl Jung quoted in Erwin Schrödinger’s What Is Life? With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 119. What Is Life? was originally published in 1944.
2. Will Johnson, Rumi: Gazing at the Beloved (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2003).
3. Dr. Bruce Arroll quoted in Geraldine Johns’s “Fighting ‘Toxic Uncertainty,’” New Zealand Listener, 230, no. 3722 (September 10, 2011): 24–26.
4. Melissa B. Wanzer quoted in “Laughter is the Best Medicine,” ScienceDaily, January 26, 2008. Also available at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080124200913.htm.
Conclusion
1. Jeffrey Long, MD, with Paul Perry, Evidence of the Afterlife (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 5.
2. Pamela Rae Heath and Jon Klimo, Handbook to the Afterlife (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2010), 56.
3. George Gallup, with William Proctor, Adventures in Immortality (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982), 32.
4. Caresse Crosby, The Passionate Years (New York: The Dial Press, 1953), 18–19.
5. Michael Sabom, MD, Light and Death (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1998). See also www.near-death.com
/experiences/evidence01.html.
6. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 36, (1927): 517–24. The story of the Chaffin will can be found in many books, including George Nugent Merle Tyrrell’s Science and Psychical Phenomena (Perspectives in Psychical Research) (Secaucus, NJ: University Books, 1961), 28–30.