Instead of ignoring them, which is what everyone else in the medical world was doing, he chose to write about them in a little book entitled Life after Life (1975). The book was a bomb detonating in the American spiritual landscape. It sold millions of copies and was translated into numerous languages as it set off a firestorm of endless enthusiasms, religious debates, and future revelations, which continue to this day. Among this firestorm were a number of theological controversies, including an outcry from fundamentalist Christians who were not at all happy that there was no hell or creedal
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