Where was your soul before you were born? If your soul is immortal, did it have a "life" prior to birth? Did you choose your life and parents? Is reincarnation real? Elizabeth and Neil Carman, the authors of Cosmic Cradle, address these questions through interviews with adults and children who report pre-birth experiences (PBEs) not based on regression, hypnosis, or drugs. Instead, interviewees recall their pre-birth existence completely sober and awake.

In contrast to near-death experiences (NDEs), which have been well documented to show us what the soul experiences after death, PBEs throw light upon our lives before birth. People with NDEs sense that they "return home" when their spirits cross to the other side. What is the nature of this place we "return" to? PBEs suggest that we come from the same place we return to: we come from the Light and return to the Light. The same eternal "you" progresses through life before life, human life, and life after death.

This new edition of Cosmic Cradle explores your soul's journey into your mother's womb--where your soul comes from, the origin and purpose of your life, and the process by which you entered an earthly body. In pre-birth communications, parents meet a soul seeking to cross over from the heavenly realm to human birth. Persons with pre-birth memories recall existence in a luminous world before birth, in which they preview the upcoming life with a Divine Planner, and recall how they journeyed to their mothers' wombs.

Contents
Foreword by Bernie Siegel, MD
Introduction: Amnesia of Our Spiritual Origins
Part One: Pre-Birth Memory
1. Children as Messengers

2. Memories of the Cosmic Cradle

3. “I Was in Your Tummy Twice”

4. Scanning Soul Plans: Contemporary Pre-Birth Memories
5. Welcome to Planet Earth

6. Shirley Temple and the Blue Bird

7. Our Soul as a Tiny Spaceship

8. I Saw All My Costumes
 
Part Two: Pre-Birth Communications
9. Souls Waiting in the Wings for Birth
10. Soul as a Sphere of Light

11. Cosmic Conception
12. Miscarriages and Stillbirths in the Light of Pre-Birth Plans
13. Conversations with Unborn Children
 
Part Three: Pre-Birth Wisdom down through History
14. Spirit-Children Down Under

15. Lodge of the Great Manitou

16. The Cosmic Designer

17. Travelers from the Light

18. Journey from Forgetting to Remembering

Elizabeth Carman and Neil Carman have spent more than 45 years studying and practicing ways of helping the Earth to be a healthier, happier place. Combined, their efforts have spanned into the realms of social work and environmental protection. In the 1970s, Elizabeth Carman worked with minority families and did social service work in adoption and foster care. She later spent years teaching inner development courses and meditation. Prebirth research began in 1989 when she conducted interviews with mothers who were more in touch with their intuition. In 2002, Elizabeth received an honorary PhD for her research published in Cosmic Cradle: Souls Waiting in the Wings for Birth.

Neil Carman's love of nature led him to obtain advanced degrees including a doctorate in the biological sciences. After a research position opened his eyes to global pollution, he was led to pursue an environmental career. He taught in the biological sciences and also created a new university course on the growing evidence of how meditation techniques unfold our consciousness beyond what is generally recognized.