Reincarnation: Amazing True Cases from Around the World
About This Book
A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the second part of a quartet appearing at two yearly intervals, richly illustrated by the author. Film rights sold to Disney for USD8 million on the paintings alone. The Abarat: a magical otherworld composed on an archipelago of twenty-five islands -- one for each hour of the day, plus an island out of time. Candy Quackenbush, escaping her dull, dull life from the most boring place in our world, Chickentown, USA, finds that in the Abarat she has another existence entirely, one which links her to marvels and mysteries; and even to murder... In this, the second volume in Clive Barker's extraordinary fantasy for both adults and children, Candy's adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting more strange by the Hour. Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchmen to capture her. Why? she wonders. What would Carrion want with a girl from Minnesota? And why is Candy beginning to feel that the world of the Abarat is familiar to her? Why can she speak words of magic she doesn't even remember learning?There is a mystery here. And Carrion, along with his fiendish grandmother, Mater Motley, suspects that whatever Candy i
What You'll Learn
• Understand Hardo's case investigation methodology: the specific criteria he uses to evaluate spontaneous past-life recall as potentially evidential, the investigations conducted to verify or disconfirm specific claims, and what distinguishes a genuinely strong case from a merely interesting anecdote
• Grasp the phenomenology of spontaneous past-life recall in children: the typical age at which children begin speaking about previous lives, the form their communications typically take, the emotional charge that usually accompanies the memories, and the way these communications typically cease between the ages of five and seven
• Recognise the strongest cases Hardo presents: those in which children provided specific, previously unknown information — names, places, circumstances of death, family relationships — that was subsequently verified by independent investigation and that cannot be explained through normal information transmission
• Learn the therapeutic dimension: how awareness of past-life origins can help resolve phobias, recurring dreams, unexplained physical symptoms, and compulsive relationship patterns that have resisted conventional therapeutic approaches
• Appreciate the cross-cultural dimension: how spontaneous past-life recall occurs across all cultures and religious traditions — including those where reincarnation is not part of the official belief system — and what this universality suggests about the phenomenon's independence from cultural conditioning
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