{"product_id":"kiss-of-forgetting-why-we-cant-remember-our-previous-lives-9798197666376","title":"Kiss of Forgetting: Why We Can't Remember Our Previous Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Victoria Van Halen | Heinrich Wilson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Folklore \u0026amp; Mythology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery culture that has ever existed believed the same thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe have lived before. And we were made to forget it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKiss of Forgetting\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt asks what the forgetting actually takes, and what survives it despite everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the only way to truly begin again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891337085079,"sku":"9798197666376","price":914.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197666376.webp?v=1781183314","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/kiss-of-forgetting-why-we-cant-remember-our-previous-lives-9798197666376","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}