adherents like Shirley MacLaine say yes to these

questions and recount fascinating tales of their former lives. Books and TV shows play with these ideas, often lending them support

But can we innocently blend together these ideas from East and West? Can Eastern teaching about reincarnation be transplanted into the soil of our Judeo-Christian heritage?

Mark Albrecht examines these issues with care, looking especially at the case for and against spontaneous recall and regression to past lives He offers readers a clear biblical assessment of this New Age doctrine

Mark C. Albrecht is a graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Semi- nary A former editor of Update on New Religious Movements, a quarterly publication from Denmark, he served for four years as codirector of the Spiritual Counterfeits Project in Berkeley, California