Comments by Madlyn Fafard
It is great that you are making these inroads, and I am encouraging people of like mind to read the book. This book is an interesting and very plausible beginning on the road to lifting the veil of mystery.
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May Book Review
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Bonnie Setliffe Jacobs
Paul Von Ward attempts to show that reincarnation can and should be studied scientifically and not as an offshoot of New Age spirituality or religion. Right off the bat I have a problem trying to categorize this book. Amazon.com offers these category strings:
1. Religion and Spirituality > New Age > Reincarnation
2. Science > History and Philosophy
Interesting. How many books have you read that are categorized as both Religion and Science?
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Comments on The Soul GenomebyPsychiatrist Adrian Finkelstein, M.D
and Response by
Paul Von Ward
On Mar 22, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Adrian Finkelstein wrote:
Dear Paul,
I happened to have read your book The Soul Genome and I am very impressed by the scientific thrust you introduce to the whole area of research on reincarnation. Once, Michael called me a “scientific shaman.” So kind of him! I think you are even more so, especially when it comes to the facial grid proof, which duplicated so beautifully, with only 1% margin of error, my scientific work, over a span of eight years, in proving that Sherrie Lea Laird is the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe.
However, my main objective was therapeutic in Marilyn Monroe’s case of reincarnation, like in thousands of others, in my healing capacity and mission, covering over three decades. I believe, as I understood you do too, that past-life regression therapy has its rightful place in therapy, by any of the helping professions; it can also prove the truth of reincarnation and its healing and unifying power, when conducted by a very experienced, generally unblocked-by-personal-problems and skilfull professional. That considerably and practically reduces and even eliminates contamination of data.
I highly recommend to everyone to read The Soul Genome. It is a very important landmark in reincarnation research.
Kudos to you Paul, for your great work!
Adrian Finkelstein
Response from Paul Von Ward:
Dear Adrian,
You don't know how much your response means to me, coming from a physician and psychiatrist of your experience.
Yes, I believe, even more than I emphasized in the book, that the very fact that recovery of apparent past-life memories make it possible for the carthartic process to relieve psychological and physical symptoms is validation that we are actually tapping into previous lives that are linked to the specific individual's psyche/soul/psychoplasm.
In my view, if those memories were not an integral part of the energetic, subconscious field of the patient/subject, they could not have that significant and constructive effect. At least that's my take on the dynamics that are involved.
I very much want to work with psychiatrists like yourself and other psychologically-oriented researchers to test the five-factor, psycho-physical model of the "soul legacy" that seems suggested by the evidence. Perhaps we will give each other new tools to work with.
Warmest regards, Paul
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by
Tom Nielsen, EdD
Entering
a growing catalog of scholarly research and reports on reincarnation is
a new and different book by Paul Von Ward, author of Our Solarian Legacy and Gods, Genes and Consciousness. Whereas psychiatrists Ian Stevenson (Children Who Remember Previous Lives) and Jim Tucker (Life Before Life)
have focused on investigating, analyzing and reporting reincarnation
phenomena from several thousand cases involving, primarily, young
children, Von Ward has chosen to focus on developing and exploring a
theoretical model, genomic constructs, and new technology (instruments
and methods) for fathoming the phenomena of reincarnation as evidenced
in a select number of adult lives, past and present.
Von Ward
surveys a variety of unexplained phenomena and developments in frontier
science in order to establish the matrix upon which he grows his ideas
and thinking. He probes such phenomena as prodigies, precocity,
anomalous (unsourced) knowledge, and unbidded images in dreams,
visions, déjà vu, ‘doppelgangers’ (look-alikes), and mimiced life
events. He examines emerging theory and research in such fields as
natural philosophy, physics, biology, genetics, psychiatry, psychology,
biocommunications, and consciousness (e.g., Ervin Laszlo, Rupert
Sheldrake, Savely Savva, Cleve Backster, Carl Jung, Dean Radin, Gary
and Stephan Schwartz). These provide the nutrients for his theory,
hypothesis, and constructs of a soul genome.
Then Von Ward
plunges into the realm of theorizing, hypothesizing, measuring, and
testing an explanatory, Integral Model for reincarnation. The Integral
Model consists of an “apparent reincarnation package.” For the package
Von Ward coins the term psychoplasm—the soul-genome—which is similar to
Stevenson’s hypothesized psychophore construct. Specifically, Von
Ward’s psychoplasm is “a genome-like, energetic and information
biofield that embodies a single being’s knowledge, feelings, and
behavior patterns that transcend space-time.”
Five factors
constitute this soul/psychoplasm which Von Ward labels Physical
Phenotypes, Cognitive Cerebrotypes, Emotional Egotypes, Social
Personatypes, and Creative Performatypes. Each factor is subject to
illustration, illumination, investigation, and assessment by a set of
instruments which Von Ward has developed and applied to profile the
dimensions of and evidence for specific cases of reincarnation. He
examines in some detail the similarities in the lives of pairs of
individuals, offering the evidence found along the factorial dimensions
of the psychoplasm. In some cases the ‘subjects’ are historically
recognized figures; i.e., James and Dolley Madison, Paul Gauguin,
Marilyn Monroe, and John Denver, while the persons with which their
psychoplasms are associated are either not generally known or
anonymous. Photos, biometric data, historical and personal facts and
coincidentals, ratings on the scales developed by Von Ward to quantify
the five factors, and analyses of the findings, are included to
illustrate the evidence and support his hypothesis and Integral Model.
Von
Ward has undertaken an ambitious and challenging project, venturing
into a domain of inquiry fraught with controversial issues and
challenging problems. For this reviewer, he presents with his Integral
Model, methodology, instruments and illustrative cases a profound and
uniquely personal perspective of the soul and reincarnation. By
extending the genome metaphor and applying biological and psychological
constructs within the context of frontier science and thought, he
offers to all of us the opportunity to consider a scientific,
conceptual framework for explicating and appreciating the reported and
experienced phenomena associated with reincarnation and the soul.
(Tom
Nielsen has been a teacher and educational researcher, developer and
administrator in medical and higher education. He is currently working
on a screenplay, Willow Crowe, concerning reincarnation, and has a
website on cosmos, mind, and soul at www.enfolded.info. His email address is tom@enfolded.info.)
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