Children's Past Lives : How Past Life Memories Affect Your Child

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Summary: I'm undecided about reincarnation, but I loved this book
Review: Bowman is one of the better, more credible, more intelligent and more persuasive writers about reincarnation. The stories she reports are often fascinating and entertaining. Of course it is conceivable she or her sources embellished and made things up, though for me personally, the honest-sounding (to me) quality of her authorial voice and the vividness of the anecdotes she reports makes it rather difficult for me to believe the book is inauthentic. Yet I also find it a mildly difficult to believe in reincarnation itself. So I'm a bit flummoxed. But if I had to bet, I'd say she's telling it straight and that the anecdotes she reports are therefore excellent, if not absolutely conclusive, evidence that reincarnation is indeed a fact in at least some human lives.

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Summary: Excellent Book About Children's Past Life Memories
Review: Carol Bowman begins by relating the experiences she had with her own young son, who was hysterically afraid of loud noises, to introduce the reader to typical experiences that can happen before children are born, but to which they are reacting in this life.

The primary focus of this book is on helping children to overcome their phobias, especially when traditional psychotherapy fails to uncover a cause or solution. The book is aimed both toward parents of children with phobias, and also just toward parents generally.

The only reason I am giving the book four stars, instead of five, is that I was already a believer in reincarnation and was looking for a book relating many, many cases of reincarnation.

While the book does present a reasonable number of cases, these are not the book's primary focus. The primary focus is toward parents who may never before have considered the possiblility of reincarnation. The book spends a great deal of time discussing research by other eminent researchers (an EXCELLENT summary, by the way, for further reading), and giving guidelines toward how to tell the difference between which memories may be from past lives, vs. made-up fanatasies on the part of the child. If you are a parent, and your child has any unexplained exceptional talents, odd behaviors, or phobias, this book is for you. If, like me, you already believe in reincarnation, and you are looking for more actual cases to read about, I suggest you skip this book and go directly to Carol's second book, 'Return From Heaven,' which is even better than this excellent book (and also includes her experiences with her own children).

Carol is perhaps the world's current leading expert on this subject.

Anyone looking for this book on the British Amazon site, and finding limited availability, will find the book READILY available from the American site.

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Summary: This book taught me so much about children's past lives
Review: Carol Bowman's book Children's Past Lives: How Past Life Memories Affect Your Child is truly a gift for any parent that has experienced this with their child. I thoroughly enjoyed Carol's book and it has started me on an incredible quest for more knowledge about this subject! Carol's research is incredibly thorough and very easy to understand and relate to. She will show you how you can relate to your child and help them work through past life issues. I don't know what I would of done without this book! Get the book and take a minute to open your heart (not just your eyes) and open yourself up to the endless possibilities of your child's past lives and how they affect them. A must read book!

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Summary: Waste of Money!
Review: I expected this book to be more informative and a little less boring. Carol Bowman has a reputation for trying to smear the reputations of other New Age authors and discredit their work. I thought this must be due to the fact that her own work is brilliant--I was wrong. Now I realize that all of her boasting was just a clever sales pitch. If you're looking for something that deals with reincarnation in more depth, this is not the book for you.

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Summary: Everything it CLAIMS to be!!!
Review: I have to disagree with "A Reader" from New Jersey. Children's Past Lives is not a book about Past Life Regression Experiences (by means of hypnosis) and neither does it claim to be. Many children remember their past lives spontaneously, without hypnosis or prompting, and this book illustrates the many cases of this "remembrance" in our society, that are so often brushed off and under the carpet as childish ramblings, imagination and stories.

Children are not born with any real perception of time as we experience it in everyday life - we have constructed our lives and routines around this man-made concept for as long as we remember....but to children, things that happened months ago, can feel like just the other day, things that happened to them "before" they arrived here in their "new" family, are also surface memories that they have full access to, and Children's Past Lives does an excellent job of illustrating this point.

These memories CAN and DO happen naturally to all young children, all over the world, regardless of their parent's beliefs. They can happen any time and to any young child (or adult of course), but parents often don't notice, because they are not aware that these possibilities even exist, let alone how to deal with them even if they did.

Children's Past Lives is about one such mothers journey of discovery - through learning about her own childrens "lives" and witnessing the healing that took place and the phobias disappear in her own children, once their memories had been recognised and released - Carol Bowman set out on a mission to make this knowledge and "evidence" more available to the public; to find out as much as she could about the subject for herself, then share every inch and example of this to parents out there with the same questions she once had.

I personally think that this book WAS a ground-breaking book, on an area not widely discovered, researched or even really considered in Western society. I think the cases she brings forward and the ancient texts and research that she includes alongside her cases to explain her thoughts and opinions, shows that she done extensive research and a lot of self discovering, along the way.

This book is worth every star I've given it - and then some :o)

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Summary: Nice look at a controversial topic
Review: I really enjoyed this book. Bowman writes in a lovely, inviting style and covers this controversial topic (reincarnation is not widely or publicly accepted in our western culture)beautifully.

While I do not agree with all of her assumptions, like birth marks being directly related to past life trauma, it is a wonderful book, and should be read by all parents, especially those with small children. It definately makes you think differently about when your child tells you something out of the norm.

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Summary: slow to start but worth your time.
Review: i started out reading sylvia browne books when i was looking for information on reincarnation. i was so absorbed by her that i didnt realize OTHER people wrote about past lives too! this was one of the first books i read that explored someone else's thoughts and research.
it took me a little longer to read as usual. the book starts out kinda slow and i started wondering what i got myself into. when i got to the middle and then the end, i had a completely differet outlook. it was very worth the tedious begining. and as a bonus, i dog-eared all the pages that mentioned other books about reincarnation and it now serves as a reading list. quite a nice one so far, the books its mentioned that ive read have been amazing. :)

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Summary: I Wish I had read this when my children were young
Review: My son Phill is so much like my mother that it can be spooky
at times. My Mother is still alive in poor health with the mind
of a two year old. Could it be that my Two year old son changed
souls with My mon? I dont think so. As a writter of fiction
many thoughts cross my mind every day. To beleave in all of them
is foolish. This book is foolish.

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Summary: very good information
Review: This book approaches a subject that no one else has. It is well written and full of actual cases. There is a good description of what to look for in your own child and how to best help them. It is a real eye opener! You will not look at children the same. The impressive truth is that these children do have knowedge far beyond their experience, and the case Carol Bowman presents is well thought out, and very well researched.

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Summary: The most captivating book I've read in years.
Review: This book was so fascinating I literally could not put it down. I read it in less than 48 hrs. It felt so true to my heart. I feel it is very important that everyone, especially parents and medical professionals, read this book. It can help children (and adults alike) for the better in ways that nothing else can. Instead of looking to pills to cure diseases, we should look deeper inside our souls. I have lent this book to every parent who will accept it to read. Organized religions who accept the way reincarnation has been deleted from their bibles only do a disservice to themselves and their families. True healing comes from remembering our past lives and working forward in this life with knowledge of the past. Children are the most susceptible to not learning this way as they are at the mercy of the adults in their lives. We need to make more adults aware of all of our past lives.