Book Review – My Five Autobiographies
My Five Autobiographies: My Soul’s Experiences Lived through Five Recent Lives by Miriam Slozberg is an intricate analysis of one woman’s experience with reincarnation. It starts off with a general overview of the process, then goes into stories about Slozberg’s various lifetimes. As she progresses through the lives, she points out the influences that the previous lives had. In the telling of her current life, she ties all the pieces together, explaining point by point, person by person, how the different elements came together from past lives. It is by far the most detailed illustration of this I have ever read.
Slozberg also addresses her life with brutal honesty. She talks about her feelings of being an outcast and of constant bullying with a raw intensity that I found difficult to read at times. Much of it resonated with some of my own experiences. I give her credit for being willing to talk about her pain and own frailties so publicly in order to help others. And while so much of her story is sad and troubling, ultimately there is a message of hope in it.
One of the most helpful parts of the book is where she addresses why she chose to incarnate as a Jew during the Holocaust. That answers a big question I’ve always had. I understand that she is currently working on a new book that adrdesses astrological influences on the Holocaust. Based on her discussions of Holocaust issues on her blog, Liberate the Tortured Soul, that should be a fascinating read.