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Study Guides

Cosmic Cradle explores the hidden journey of the soul via stories of parents, children, Native peoples, mystics, East-West saints, ancient philosophers, Tibetan Lamas, and Near-Death Experiencers.

These three study guides give a glimpse of the multi-cultural study of the Soul as researched in Cosmic Cradle. They offer a flavor of the contemporary interviews, 165 Cultures and Religions and the 600 Cross Cultural Parallels included in Cosmic Cradle.

What is the Soul?

Multi-cultural perspectives on the soul from Cosmic Cradle include the following references:

Greek and Roman philosophers (Heraclides Ponticus, Heraclitis, Hipparchus, Boethos, Parmenides, Plotinus), Jewish Kabbalah, The Old Testament, Thakur Anukulchandra, Rabindranath Tagore, Creation Hymn 129th Sukta of 10th Mandala of Rig Veda, Katho Upanishad, Medieval Christian near-death visions and other-worldly journeys (Drythelm, Tundal, Edmund, and Zosimus), Native Americans (Eskimo, Iglulik Eskimo, Iroquois, Skidi Pawnee, Omaha, Mandan, Quinault, Naskapa, Achomawi, Naskapa, Chinooks, Tuscarora, Cusabo, Mexican Cora, Huron, Kwakiutl, Haisla, Quinault, Salish, Athapascans, Shoshoni, Cheyenne, West Greenland, as well as accounts from Malayan Peninsula, Australian Aborigines, Fiji (Nakelo tribe), Japanese Samurai.

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Did we choose our life before taking birth?

Cosmic Cradle helps us understand how our souls decide to take birth. This guide lists 11 Cosmic Cradle accounts with page numbers ranging from contemporary interviews with gifted people to Plato, the Bible, Native Americans and Australian Aborigines.

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How our very own desires trigger birth

Events leading up to our birth are not random, accidental processes. The following examples from Cosmic Cradle (Chapter 21 and 24) illustrate how our very own desires trigger birth.

Plato, Macrobius, Virgil, Gnosticism, Swami Chinmayananda, Native American Canadian Dakota, British Columbian Tlingit, Philo of Alexandria, Zen Buddhism, African Zulu, Paramahamsa Yogananda, Buddhism, and Hinduism.

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