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When Ivy recounts the details of her past life as roaring-twenties party girl Grace Doze, hypnotherapy and real life dovetail into a dramatic twist of fate. See newspaper articles, maps, and birth and death records that prove the actual existence of Grace Doze.
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When Ivy, a 26-year-old pharmacist, sought the help of Dr. Bruce Goldberg to put a stop to her inexplicable attraction to John, her physically and psychologically abusive boyfriend, it was revealed, under hypnosis, that John had been her lover--and murderer--in 20 of her 46 past lives. Subject of a CBS Movie of the Week.
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In The Search for Grace, he presents a fascinating case study involving a patient whom Goldberg eventually regressed to a total of 46 past lifetimes. In an amazing example of karmic reoccurring connections, it was discovered that she (a female in her present life) had been murdered in 20 of these past lives by the same man with whom she ...
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A perennial feature in many a high school syllabus, Shirley Jackson’s best-known short storyclinically details an unusual ritual that takes place in a small town. There’s not exactly a lot of plot to spoil in The Lottery — but within a few short pages, Jackson manages to represent the mob mentality that can drive reasonable people to commit heinous...
Told in the second person point of view, this story from Moore’s debut anthology Self-Helptakes an honest look at the inner life of a struggling artist. Through the use of an unusual POV, the author manages to turn her reader into a confidante — making it abundantly clear that the ‘you’ the narrator is speaking about is actually herself. This story...
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First published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1981, “Cathedral”is today known as one of Raymond Carver’s finest works. When it opens, we meet a narrator whose wife is expecting a visit from an old friend, a blind man. Dissatisfied and distrusting of people not like him, our narrator struggles to connect until the blind man asks him to describe a cathe...
Innocuously titled, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”is nevertheless Flannery O’Connor’s bleakest — and most famous — work. It begins unassumingly with a Southern family who’s planning to go on a road trip. Yet the journey is rudely interrupted when their car overturns on an abandoned dirt road — and they are met by an enigmatic group of three men, comi...
The famous author of Lolita wrote “Signs and Symbols”in 1948. Its premise is seemingly simple: an elderly couple visits their mentally ill son in the sanatorium in America. Yet their background and trials come into sharp focus as the story develops, until an explosive ending disrupts everyone’s peace of mind. As you might expect, the somber “Symbol...
Not so much a short story as it is flash fiction, “Sticks”is written from the perspective of a young man whose father has an unusual habit: dressing up a crucifix that’s built of out a metal pole in the yard. One of America’s greatest living short story writers, George Saunders explained: "For two years I'd been driving past a house like the one in...
If there’s anyone who you can trust to deliver thought-provoking, terrifying science fiction on the regular, it’s Ray Bradbury. In “The Veldt,”George and Lydia Hadley have bought an automated house that comes with a “nursey,” or a virtual reality room. Worried about the nursery’s effect on the kids, George and Lydia think about turning off the nurs...
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When Ivy recounts the details of her past life as roaring-twenties party girl Grace Doze, hypnotherapy and real life dovetail into a dramatic twist of fate. See newspaper articles, maps, and...
The Search for Grace: The True Story of Murder & Reincarnation. Audible Audiobook. – Unabridged. Bruce Goldberg (Author), Larry Terpening (Narrator), BruceGoldberg (Publisher) 4.3 22 ratings.
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Search for Grace: Directed by Sam Pillsbury. With Lisa Hartman, Ken Wahl, Richard Masur, Suzzanne Douglas. A woman haunted by disturbing flashbacks discovers through hypnotherapy that she and her boyfriend led parallel lives with a doomed couple from 1927.
