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By the time I sat down to write, in late 2005, I had had 18 years’ sporadic experience of getting stories of “past lives.” Over the years I had discovered (invented?) a cast of characters that included:
Joseph the Egyptian, a member of a priesthood with responsibility for their people’s spiritual and mental health, long before the time of Christ..
Clio, a young diviner in fire, a Roman in about the time of Christ.
Bertram, a Norman English clergyman of the 1200s.
Senji-san, a Japanese monk of the 1500s.
Robert McLean, a Scot of the 1600s.
John Cotten, a Virginian smallholder of the mid-18th century.
Joseph Smallwood, a Vermont man who became a Civil War soldier.
David Poynter, a Welsh journalist and psychic investigator who bridged the 19th and 20th centuries.
Katrina, a Polish-Jewish girl who died at age 8 in a concentration camp in 1942.