The Book of Why
Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls (Llewellyn Publications, 1994 and 2000), both by Michael Newton.
Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
He discusses in detail the opinion that ‘souls . . . “know” only what they knew at the moment of death’.
Stephani L. Stephens • C. G. Jung and the Dead: Visions, Active Imagination and the Unconscious Terrain
It may seem that these two basic insights, the psychological and the spiritual, are two sides of a single coin. Yet, in my experience, we do not automatically have one when we have the other. No insight is so total, no experience so thoroughly once-and-for-all, that there are not residues of our old fantasies and organizing principles left behind.
... See moreBarry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
The phrase suggests that what we were given to be at birth, the role predestined for us, may yet be improvised in a different direction. Nor is religion the only stimulus to this kind of rebirth. Counselling and psychoanalysis can have the same effect, as they encourage us to explore our own history and identify the facts and forces that formed us.