Book Review: Past Lives - An Investigation into Reincarnation Memories

Author: Peter and Elizabeth Fenwick

Title: Past Lives - An Investigation into Reincarnation Memories 
Genre: Non-fiction
Pages: 352

First Published: July 1st, 2001
Where I Got It: borrowed from library

"For centuries the existence of reincarnation has been a firmly held belief of millions, which crosses races, religions, and cultures. In Past Lives Dr. Peter Fenwick and Elizabeth Fenwick examine this extraordinary phenomenon by attempting to determine whether people are experiencing actual memories, or thoughts and ideas based on imagination. Featuring over one hundred firsthand accounts from those who believe they can recall their previous existences, this insightful exploration of reincarnation may change the way you think - and challenge your views of life itself."

First book of the year! ^.^

I randomly found this while looking for a poem book (which I never found >.>) and since I've been doing some research on this phenomenon of reincarnation I thought this would be a rather good book to read. For this review, I'm going to divide and conquer:

The Good

• The authors did a wonderful job collecting stories and past life memories from over 100 people. 
• I loved how the incorporated theories, beliefs, and facts along with the stories. It wasn't all just stories or all just facts and theories; a nice blend.
• I loved how they were completely unbiased. They played both sides of the field: being believers and being critics. 
• It allows YOU to come up with your own conclusion
• Very thought-provoking
• Nicely organized.

The Bad and the Ugly

• Some of the sections seemed very tedious and rather boring
• Some of the stories seemed out of place

Conclusion

Not much I can complain about. It was a fairly decent book for if you want to learn more about the theory of past lives. I found it entertaining and within an hour or so I read like 200 pages. haha. In the end, I would recommend this to those that want to do some of their own research about reincarnation, because it is very informational and you'll gain a good amount of knowledge. It may also convince you or aid your non-belief in past lives. All-in-all I stamp this with 4 stars. ^.^ Good way to start the year.

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<3CaroleRae

Thursday Book Teaser

A weekly meme created by Carole (me) to share excerpts and book teasers from books. Anyone can join, just make sure not to give away any spoilers.

Happy Thursday everyone. I know its been quite a while since I've done a TBT here on the good ol' blog. I'm not sure why, but I'm pretty sure I was finishing books before the day and/or I had not ambition to actually type this up. The last two months of 2012 I was a bad, bad kid. :( Oh well. It's a new year and I'm back with a vengeance!!!!! MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *clears throat* Sorry about that.....here's the book teaser I have for this week.....

This week I'll share a small little bit from Past Lives: An Investigation into Reincarnation Memories by Peter & Elizabeth Fenwick. It's pretty interesting so far. I've always believed in reincarnation and this gives both sides of the coin to the belief of rebirth; non-believers and believers. I'll just flip to a random pages...this little teaser is talking about and thinking about when people have flashes of their past lives in dreams. 

Page number: 93

Staring at: paragraph 2

"...Such dreams certainly have a reincarnation 'feel' about them, but what makes people who have them believe that they are anything more than ordinary dreams? Is there in fact anything different about them at all? People who have these dreams describe them as being more vivid and real than their ordinary dreams. They lack the bizarre quality of an ordinary dream, and they are often recurrent, so that each time the same scene is played, and each tine the person wakes from it at the same point in the dream. Often these dreams start in childhood and become less frequent as the person grows older, sometimes ceasing altogether." 

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<3CaroleRae