The best past life books that are also great reads

Why am I passionate about this?

I’ve always had an inquisitive mind and was constantly asking questions as a child. I’ve kept this passion and following a mid-life career change from corporate, became a psychologist, psychotherapist, and eventually past life regression therapist. I founded the international Past Life Regression Academy in 2002 to teach others to heal the soul, and the Academy has trained more than 700 past life regression therapists throughout the world. I’ve written extensively in this area and know most of the pioneers, and I hope you enjoy the books on this list as much as I have!


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Exploring the Eternal Soul: Insights from the Life Between Lives

By Andy Tomlinson,

Book cover of Exploring the Eternal Soul: Insights from the Life Between Lives

What is my book about?

I've always been fascinated by what happens after death perhaps because it's something I need to face at some point.

As a regression therapist I was inspired by colleagues who had discovered that in deep hypnosis the most amazing soul memories can be explored after the death in a past life. This was the quest I decided to embark on and to make the book different it had two things. The first was to compare fifteen ordinary people's soul memory experience and the second was asking over 70 questions to evolved beings of light encountered on this journey. This included unusual soul experiences, the nature of time, and the problems facing humanity and what to do.

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The books I picked & why

Book cover of Healing Deep Hurt Within: The Transformational Journey of a Young Patient Undergoing Regression Therapy

Andy Tomlinson Why did I love this book?

I first met Peter when he attended my training in Singapore.

As a surgeon he had become frustrated at the limits of medical solutions and wanted a more holistic approach. Delighted with the results of the past life regression therapy he started a small practice in hospital and gave talks to other hospital staff about his amazing results. One day he was approached by one of the psychiatrists and told to stop as it was his area of expertise. Peter gave him a copy of this book and was never bothered again.

What I like about the book is the description the amazing transformational journey of a young nurse who had depression, insomnia, dissociative amnesia, suicidal thoughts, auditory hallucinations, and flashbacks. It shows when a traditional medical approach does not work how past life regression therapy can help.

By Peter Mack,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Healing Deep Hurt Within as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

It describes the amazing transformational journey of a young female patient in a hospital environment who had depression, insomnia, dissociative amnesia, suicidal thoughts, auditory hallucinations and flashbacks. When the traditional medical approached did not work she underwent regression therapy with one of the surgeons in the hospital. This rapidly brought her out of the depths of despair and helped her to move on in life. It is a story of hope, inspiration and the dedication of a doctor's courage in facing the medical community with his beliefs of the power of regression therapy


Book cover of Shrouded Truth: Biblical Revelations Through Past Life Journeys

Andy Tomlinson Why did I love this book?

What I like about this book is that it is one of the few historical past-life books that weaves together the past-life memories of eight people that corroborate each others accounts. In their current life none knew each other, had no previous knowledge of each other’s accounts beforehand and lived in different parts of the world. 

What unfolds is a tale of family, friends, empowerment, survival, spirituality, connection, sacrifice, and at the core love. It is about what happened before, during, and after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. And that past life accounts differs, sometimes drastically from the fundamental beliefs of Christianity as we know it, they are supported by the latest biblical research.

By Reena Kumarasingham,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Shrouded Truth as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

"A fascinating, surreal elaboration of Christian stories and characters" - Kirkus Reviews

Award Winner of the 2018 Soul-Bridge Body, Mind, Spirit, Book Awards in Christian Spirituality

Award Winner Finalist of the 3rd Annual Body, Mind, Spirit, Book Awards in Reincarnation

Two thousand years ago, the Biblical time, was a time of great change. Jesus and those closest to him were inspiring in their ability to tap into their inner radiant light to navigate a challenging period of chaos.

Over time, their heroic and heart warming stories have been cloaked in shadows...

... Until now.

Through the past life journeys of…


Book cover of Other Lives, Other Selves: A Jungian Psychotherapist Discovers Past Lives

Andy Tomlinson Why did I love this book?

When the book was written very few past books were available so this was the first book on the subject that I read and it took me on a path from being a traditional psychotherapist to being trained by Roger.

He pioneered body therapy for clearing traumatic past lives and through his work I was inspired to become a past life regression therapist, author, and eventually a trainer in this area myself. 

Roger had the gift of communication through his talks and books that has touched so many people over the years. This book is still as relevant and inspirational today as it was when I first read it.

By Roger J. Woolger,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Other Lives, Other Selves as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A firsthand look at the psychology of reincarnation—and the dramatic power of past-life regression to radically transform and heal our lives

In this fascinating and provocative book, Dr. Roger J. Woolger, a graduate of Oxford University and a certified Jungian analyst, reveals an exciting psychotherapeutic technique that produces astoundingly beneficial emotional and physical results—whether you believe in reincarnation as a literal or symbolic phenomenon.

Drawing on both Western science and Eastern spirituality, Dr. Woolger shows how patients have unlocked the secrets of their innermost memories—the often self-destructive cycles that are repeated life after life—to overcome the insecurity, depression, guilt, inhibition,…


Book cover of How I Died and What I Did Next

Andy Tomlinson Why did I love this book?

I’ve been a colleague of both Peter and Toni for many years.

Toni is a clear spiritual channel and Peter asked the questions for this book and published it. What many people may not know is Toni used to be a state attorney and as her channeling developed she did the one thing attorneys should never do and that is to ask questions of a witness without knowing what the answer would be. Yet the intuitive questions she asked resolved cases in a dramatic way.

In this book 25 souls share what happened at their moment of death and shortly afterwards.

This includes someone who died in the twin towers, a Vietnamese diplomat is tortured and shot, a serial killer who suffered the torment of a self-induced hell and two little Italian girls were too frightened to believe they had died and spent time as ghosts. A great read that lets the reality of death speak for itself.

By Peter Watson Jenkins, Toni Ann Winninger,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked How I Died and What I Did Next as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

"Doubts and misgivings about life after death can be set aside with the gift of this special book." (Dr. Austin Ritterspach, Religious Studies, Indiana University) In How I Died (and what I did next), an office worker dies in the North Tower on 9/11. A little girl is drowned in the 2004 Indonesian tsunami. A Canadian man is run over by a bus. A Vietnamese diplomat is tortured and shot. A Chinese woman dies having a back-street abortion, a drunken Brazilian playboy drives his car over a cliff. Twenty-five such stories are told by souls from all over the globe.…


Book cover of The Big Book of the Soul: Rational Spirituality for the Twenty-first Century

Andy Tomlinson Why did I love this book?

This is Ian’s first past life book and in my view his best of many.

Wanting to have his own experience of a past life before writing the book Ian came to me for a past life regression to discover if past lives were real. He regressed into a past life of being tortured by having his fingernails removed that totally convinced him that the experience was real.

The book has a summary of the work of many pioneers in past life regression and their books and also future life regression. Ian presents information in a rational way and has done amazing research to dismiss much of skeptic’s criticism in early past books.

By Ian Lawton,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Big Book of the Soul as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Rational spirituality: surely this is a contradiction in terms? How can spirituality be rational, when it relies on faith and revelation? The simple answer is it does not have to any more...

There is persuasive evidence from near-death and out-of-body experiences that the physical brain is merely the instrument through which our soul consciousness expresses itself in the physical world. There is equally persuasive evidence from children and adults who spontaneously remember past lives, and from past-life and interlife regression, that we are individual souls who reincarnate to experience and grow.

A careful analysis of skeptics' arguments in each of…


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Book cover of The Truth About Unringing Phones

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