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Every culture that has ever existed believed the same thing.
The soul does not begin at birth. It has been here before, in other bodies, other times, other lives. And something is done at the crossing between one life and the next to make sure the new life begins without the memory of what came before.
The Greeks called it the River Lethe. The Chinese stationed an old woman at a bridge whose only task was to administer a soup of forgetting to every passing soul. The Hindus wove the erasure into the fabric of existence itself. The Jewish tradition gave it the face of an angel. Across every ocean and every century, without contact with one another, human beings arrived at the same extraordinary conclusion.
We have lived before. And we were made to forget it.
Kiss of Forgetting traces this belief from its oldest roots across the ancient world through the traditions of Greece, China, India, Tibet, and beyond. It examines the children who remembered previous lives in enough verifiable detail to be studied by university researchers. It explores the birthmarks that correspond to fatal wounds from previous deaths, and it listens to the people who crossed the threshold of clinical death and returned with accounts that conventional science struggles to explain.
It asks what the forgetting actually takes, and what survives it despite everything.
More importantly, it asks why every tradition that thought seriously about the soul concluded that arriving in a new life without our memories is not a punishment.
It is the only way to truly begin again.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Every culture that has ever existed believed the same thing.The soul does not begin at birth. It has been here before, in other bodies, other times, other lives. And something is done at the crossing between one life and the next to make sure the new life begins without the memory of what came before.The Greeks called it the River Lethe. The Chinese stationed an old woman at a bridge whose only task was to administer a soup of forgetting to every passing soul. The Hindus wove the erasure into the fabric of existence itself. The Jewish tradition gave it the face of an angel. Across every ocean and every century, without contact with one another, human beings arrived at the same extraordinary conclusion.We have lived before. And we were made to forget it.Kiss of Forgetting traces this belief from its oldest roots across the ancient world through the traditions of Greece, China, India, Tibet, and beyond. It examines the children who remembered previous lives in enough verifiable detail to be studied by university researchers. It explores the birthmarks that correspond to fatal wounds from previous deaths, and it listens to the people who crossed the threshold of clinical death and returned with accounts that conventional science struggles to explain.It asks what the forgetting actually takes, and what survives it despite everything.More importantly, it asks why every tradition that thought seriously about the soul concluded that arriving in a new life without our memories is not a punishment.It is the only way to truly begin again. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798197666376
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Every culture that has ever existed believed the same thing.The soul does not begin at birth. It has been here before, in other bodies, other times, other lives. And something is done at the crossing between one life and the next to make sure the new life begins without the memory of what came before.The Greeks called it the River Lethe. The Chinese stationed an old woman at a bridge whose only task was to administer a soup of forgetting to every passing soul. The Hindus wove the erasure into the fabric of existence itself. The Jewish tradition gave it the face of an angel. Across every ocean and every century, without contact with one another, human beings arrived at the same extraordinary conclusion.We have lived before. And we were made to forget it.Kiss of Forgetting traces this belief from its oldest roots across the ancient world through the traditions of Greece, China, India, Tibet, and beyond. It examines the children who remembered previous lives in enough verifiable detail to be studied by university researchers. It explores the birthmarks that correspond to fatal wounds from previous deaths, and it listens to the people who crossed the threshold of clinical death and returned with accounts that conventional science struggles to explain.It asks what the forgetting actually takes, and what survives it despite everything.More importantly, it asks why every tradition that thought seriously about the soul concluded that arriving in a new life without our memories is not a punishment.It is the only way to truly begin again. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798197666376
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Every culture that has ever existed believed the same thing.The soul does not begin at birth. It has been here before, in other bodies, other times, other lives. And something is done at the crossing between one life and the next to make sure the new life begins without the memory of what came before.The Greeks called it the River Lethe. The Chinese stationed an old woman at a bridge whose only task was to administer a soup of forgetting to every passing soul. The Hindus wove the erasure into the fabric of existence itself. The Jewish tradition gave it the face of an angel. Across every ocean and every century, without contact with one another, human beings arrived at the same extraordinary conclusion.We have lived before. And we were made to forget it.Kiss of Forgetting traces this belief from its oldest roots across the ancient world through the traditions of Greece, China, India, Tibet, and beyond. It examines the children who remembered previous lives in enough verifiable detail to be studied by university researchers. It explores the birthmarks that correspond to fatal wounds from previous deaths, and it listens to the people who crossed the threshold of clinical death and returned with accounts that conventional science struggles to explain.It asks what the forgetting actually takes, and what survives it despite everything.More importantly, it asks why every tradition that thought seriously about the soul concluded that arriving in a new life without our memories is not a punishment.It is the only way to truly begin again. Seller Inventory # 9798197666376