Bibliography (Books – Non-fiction)
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Journal Articles Articles and Miscellaneous Resources- Alegretti, Wagner, Retrocognitions: An Investigation into Memories of Past Lives and the Period Between Lives. ISBN 0-9702131-6-6, 2004.
- Algeo, John. Reincarnation Explored. Quest Books, 1987.Free ebook download.
- Almeder, Robert (1992). Death and Personal Survival: The Evidence for Life After Death. Rowman and Littlefield.
- Archiati, Pietro, Reincarnation in Modern Life: Toward a new Christian Awareness. ISBN 0-904693-88-0.
- Atkinson, William Walker, Reincarnation and the Law of Karma: A Study of the Old-new World-doctrine of Rebirth and Spiritual Cause and Effect, Kessinger Publishing, 1997. ISBN 0-7661-0079-0.
- Bache, Christopher (2000). Dark Night, Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of Mind. State University of New York Press.
- Bache, Christopher M., Lifecycles, Reincarnation and the Web of Life, 1991, ISBN 1-55778-645-3.
- Berg, Karen. To Be Continued: Reincarnation and the Purpose of Our Lives. Kabbalah Publishing, 2012.
- Besant, Annie W., Reincarnation, Published by Theosophical Pub. Society, 1892.
- Besant, Annie. Reincarnation. Theosophical Book Concern, 1898.
- Besant, Annie. The Necessity for Reincarnation.Theosophical Publishing, 1920.
- Bowman, Carol, Children’s Past Lives, 1998, ISBN 0-553-57485-X.
- Bowman, Carol, Return from Heaven, 2003, ISBN 0-06-103044-9.
- Brian Ogren (2009). Renaissance and Rebirth: Reincarnationin Early Modern Italian Kabbalah. Brill. (Preview of Chapter 1 available in http://books.google.com.ph/books
- Carter, Mary, W. H. McGary, etc. Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation. Grand Central Publishing, 1989.
- Cayce, Edgar. Reincarnation and Karma. A.R.E. Press, 2006.
- Cerminara, Gina, Many Mansions: The Edgar Cayce Story on Reincarnation, 1990, ISBN 0-451-03307-8.
- Cerminara, Gina. Many Mansions: The Edgar Cayce Story on Reincarnation. Signet, 1988.
- Childs, Gilbert and Sylvia, Your Reincarnating Child: Welcoming a soul to the world. ISBN 1-85584-126-6.
- Cooper, Irving S. Reincarnation: A Hope of the World.Theosophical Publishing, 1979. Free pdf download.
- Cranston, Sylvia and Carey Williams, Reincarnation: A New Horizon in Science, Religion, and Society. Pasadena: Theosophical University Press,
- Curt John Ducasse (1961). A Critical Examination of the Belief in a Life After Death. Springfield, Ill.,Thomas.
- Dharmendra Kumar Singhdeo (2008). Punarjanmavimarśaḥ: Anātmavādināmaekātmavādināñca = Rebirth, a Critical Study. Vīṇāpāṇiprakāśanam.
- Donald Eaton Carr (1968). The Eternal Return. Garden City, N.Y.,Doubleday.
- Doniger O’Flaherty, Wendy (1980). Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03923-8.
- Doore, Gary, What Survives?, 1990, ISBN 0-87477-583-3.
- Douglas M. Stokes (2014). Reimagining the Soul: Afterlife in the Age of Matter. McFarland.
- Ducasse, C. J., A Critical Examination of the Belief in a Life after Death. Charles C. Thomas 1961
- Edwards, Paul (1992). “Introduction” and “The Dependence of Consciousness on the Brain,” in Paul Edwards (ed.).Immortality. Prometheus Books.
- Edwards, Paul, Reincarnation: A Critical Examination. New York: Prometheus Books, 1996.
- Fisher, Joe (with preface by the Dalai Lama). The Case for Reincarnation. Bantam, 1985.
- Gananath Obeyesekere (1996). Amerindian Rebirth and Buddhist Karma: An Anthropologist’s Reflections on Comparative Religious Ethics. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Gananath Obeyesekere (2002). Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth.University of California Press.
- Gianluca Di Muzio (2013). Reincarnation and Infinite Punishment in Hell. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 74 (2):167-180.
- Goswami, Amit. Physics of the Soul: The Quantum Book of Living, Dying, Reincarnation and Immortality. Hampton Roads Publishing, 2001.
- Gould, Kenneth N. Time and Time Again: My Family and Reincarnation. Healings of Atlantis Ltd., 2010.
- Guirdham, Arthur. The Cathars and Reincarnation. C. W. Daniel, 2004.
- Hall, Manly P. Reincarnation: The Cycle of Necessity.Philosophical Research Society, 1993.
- Head, J. and S. Cranston, Reincarnation: An East West Anthology. New York: Aeon Publishing, 2000.
- Head, Joseph and Cranston, S.L., editors, Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery, New York: Julian Press, 1977.
- Hodson, Geoffrey. Reincarnation: Fact or Fallacy?Theosophical Publishing House, 1967.
- Howe, Quincy. Reincarnation for the Christian. Quest Books, 1987.
- Innocent C. Onyewuenyi (1996). African Belief in Reincarnation: A Philosophical Reappraisal. Snaap Press.
- Jefferson, Warren (2008). Reincarnation beliefs of North American Indians : soul journeys, metamorphoses, and near-death experiences. Native Voices. ISBN 1-57067-212-1.
- Jefferson, Warren. 2009. “Reincarnation Beliefs of North American Indians: Soul Journeys, Metamorphoses, and Near-Death Experiences.” Summertown, TN: Native Voices.ISBN 978-1-57067-212-5.
- Jefferson, Warren. Reincarnation Beliefs of North American Indians. Native Voices, 2008.
- Jess Stearn (1965). Yoga, Youth, and Reincarnation. Garden City, N.Y.,Doubleday.
- Jinarajadasa, C. How We Remember Our Past Lives.Kessinger Publishing, 1995.
- Jinarajadasa, C. The History of Reincarnation. Theosophical Publishing House, 1921.
- Joseph Head & S. L. Cranston (eds.) (1977/1994).Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery: An East-West Dialogue on Death and Rebirth From the Worlds of Religion, Science, Psychology, Philosophy, Art, and Literature, and From Great Thinkers of the Past and Present. Theosophical University Press.
- Jugal Kishore Mukherjee (2004). Mysteries of Death, Fate, Karma, and Rebirth: In the Light of the Teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
- Kaehr, Shelley. Lifestream: Journey into Past and Future Lives. Out of This World Publishing, 2013.
- Kelly, Erin Williams (ed.), Science, the Self, and Life after Death: Selected Writings of Ian Stevenson, New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
- Klemp, H. (2003). Past lives, dreams, and soul travel. Minneapolis, MN: Eckankar. ISBN 1-57043-182-5.
- Leadbeater, Charles W. Reincarnation. Kessinger Publishing, 2005.
- Leila Leah Bronner (2011). Journey to Heaven: Exploring Jewish Views of the Afterlife. Lambda Publishers.
- Leininger, Bruce and Andrea. Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot. Grand Central, 2010.
- Leland, Kurt. The Unanswered Question: Death, Near-Death, and the Afterlife. Hampton Roads Publishing (2002). ISBN 978-1-57174-299-5.
- Long, Herbert Strainge. Study of the doctrine of metempsychosis in Greece from Pythagoras to Plato.Princeton, N.J., 1948
- Luchte, James, Pythagoras and the Doctrine of Transmigration: Wandering Souls, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1441131027.
- Luchte, James, Wandering Souls: The Doctrine of Transmigration in Pythagorean Philosophy, http://luchte.wordpress.com/wandering-souls-the-doctrine-of-transmigration-in-pythagorean-philosophy/
- M. M. Agrawal (1978). Individuality and Reincarnation.Sunrise International.
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- MacGregor, Geddes. Reincarnation in Christianity. Quest Books, 1990.
- Martin, Barbara Y. and Moraitis, Dimitri. Karma and Reincarnation: Unlocking Your 800 Lives to Enlightenment.Tarcher, 2010.
- McClelland, Norman. Encyclopedia of Reincarnation and Karma. McFarland, 2010.
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- Newton, Michael, Life Between Lives: Hypnotherapy for Spiritual Regression, 2004, ISBN 0-7387-0465-2.
- Newton, Michael. Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives. Llewellyn Publications, 1994.
- Onyewuenyi, Innocent C. (1996). African Belief inReincarnation: A Philosophical Reappraisal. Snaap Press.
- Palamidessi Tommaso, The Memory of Past Lives and Its Technique, ed. Archeosofica, 1977.
- Pavle Jevtić (1927). Karma and Reincarnation in Hindu Religion and Philosophy. London, Luzac.
- Philip Kapleau (1971/1974). The Wheel of Death: A Collection of Writings From Zen Buddhist and Other Sources on Death–Rebirth–Dying. Harper & Row.
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- Prophet, Elizabeth Clare, Erin L. Prophet, Reincarnation: The Missing Link in Christianity, 1997, ISBN 0-922729-27-1.
- Pryse, James M. Reincarnation in the New Testament.Theosophical Publishing House, 1904.
- Puryear, Herbert. Why Jesus Taught Reincarnation. New Paradigm, 1993.
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- Roberts, Jane. Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul, (1972). ISBN 1-878424-07-6.
- Rogers, L. W. Reincarnation and Other Lectures. Kessinger Publishing, 1942.
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- Saraydarian, Torkom. Karma and Reincarnation. TSG Publishing, 1999.
- Satwant Pasricha, Can the Mind Survive Beyond Death? In Pursuit of Scientific Evidence (2 Vol.), New Delhi: Harman Publishing House, 2008. ISBN 81-86622-93-4.
- Satwant Pasricha, Claims of Reincarnation: An Empirical Study of Cases in India, New Delhi: Harman Publishing House, 1990. ISBN 81-85151-27-X.
- Schwartz, Robert. Your Soul’s Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born.North Atlantic Books, 2010.
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- Semkiw, Walter. Born Again: Reincarnation Cases Involving Evidence of Past Lives with Xenoglossy Cases Researched by Ian Stevenson, M.D. Pluto Project, 2011.
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![Shanti Devi was born in Delhi, India.[1] As a little girl in the 1930s, she began to claim to remember details of a past life. According to these accounts, when she was about four years old, she told her parents that her real home was in Mathura where her husband lived, about 145 km from her home in Delhi. She also shared three unique features about her husband – he was fair, wore glasses, and had a big wart on his left cheek. She also stated her husband's shop was located right in front of the Dwarkadhish temple in Mathura.[2] Discouraged by her parents, she ran away from home at age six, trying to reach Mathura. Back home, she stated in school that she was married and had died ten days after having given birth to a child. Interviewed by her teacher and headmaster, she used words from the Mathura dialect and divulged the name of her merchant husband, "Kedar Nath". The headmaster located a merchant by that name in Mathura who had lost his wife, Lugdi Devi, nine years earlier, ten days after having given birth to a son. Kedar Nath traveled to Delhi, pretending to be his own brother, but Shanti Devi immediately recognized him and Lugdi Devi's son. As she knew several details of Kedar Nath's life with his wife, he was soon convinced that Shanti Devi was indeed the reincarnation of Lugdi Devi.[3] The case was brought to the attention of Mahatma Gandhi who set up a commission to investigate. The commission traveled with Shanti Devi to Mathura, arriving on 15 November 1935. There she recognized several family members, including the grandfather of Lugdi Devi. She found out that Kedar Nath had neglected to keep a number of promises he had made to Lugdi Devi on her deathbed. She then traveled home with her parents. The commission's report, published in 1936, concluded that Shanti Devi was indeed the reincarnation of Lugdi Devi.[3] Two further reports were written at the time. The report by Bal Chand Nahata was published as a Hindi booklet by the name Punarjanma Ki Paryalochana. In this, he stated that "Whatever material that has come before us, does not warrant us to conclude that Shanti Devi has former life recollections or that this case proves reincarnation".[4] This argument was disputed by Indra Sen, a devotee of Sri Aurobindo, in an article later.[5] A further report, based on interviews conducted in 1936, was published in 1952.[6] Shanti Devi did not marry. She told her story again at the end of the 1950s, and once more in 1986 when she was interviewed by Ian Stevenson and K.S. Rawat. In this interview she also related her near death experiences when Lugdi Devi died.[1] K.S. Rawat continued his investigations in 1987, and the last interview took place only four days before her death on 27 December 1987.[7] A Swedish author who had visited her twice published a book about the case in 1994; the English translation appeared in 1998.[8]](http://reincarnation.theosophical.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/shantidevi3.jpg "Shanti Devi")
