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    Many Lives Many Times
    Many Lives Many Times
    Many Lives Many Times
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    Many Lives Many Times

    By Nguyên Phong

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    In Many Lives Many Times, Nguyen Phong uses a dialogue between the astronaut Edgar Mitchell and the Buddhist Master Sheng Yen as a springboard to explore how the concepts of reincarnation and causality might inform us about human history. While these two concepts are not new, as many scientists had done much work in trying to validate them, this book also touches upon the current state of humanity, and many warning signs present in today's society.  More importantly, the author is trying to help us avoid repeating the decline and fall of our society—a story that has been repeated many times in human history.

    This book takes the reader through intriguing stories, from lifetimes in ancient Atlantis and Egypt to the modern United States. This book is fun to read while provides deep exploration of these civilizations via their key cultural beliefs. Most importantly, the book provides not-too-subtle hints about shortcomings of our current society as well as clear guidance for its improvement via our individual and collective actions!

    One of the best assets this book has to offer is a four-letter word: HOPE. As individuals, when we pit ourselves against huge problems such as the pandemic or ever-increasing natural catastrophes, we feel like David fighting Goliath. After all, what can one person do in the face of a category four hurricane? Not much. But what if the following two factors were true?

    1. What comes around goes around (i.e., the good we do for others comes back to us)

    2. We have access to the results of the acts of goodness we performed in past lives

    Through the stories of the narrator, Thomas, who can remember his past lives, the book explores the idea that the consciousness is permanent and lasting, beyond the death of the physical body. In addition, the "seeds of goodness" (or good acts) performed in one life are stored and kept as the consciousness travels from lifetime to lifetime, and "sprout" when the conditions are "ripe". If these two factors are true, they give us access to much more actively positive power to affect the world than if we did not reincarnate complete with the seeds of our past lives. Of course, the same principles are true of negative acts, so we may have to "pay" for our actions that negatively affected others in our past lives.

    This wonderful book takes readers on a journey not just through time, but through different ways of looking at the world – the world as it is today, and the world as it could be if we each became that butterfly in the Amazon, flapping our wings to create a storm of unimaginable positive change.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFirst News
    Release dateMar 13, 2023
    ISBN9798223942016
    Many Lives Many Times
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    Nguyên Phong

    Dịch giả Nguyên Phong tên thật là Vũ Văn Du, sinh năm 1950 tại Hà Nội. Ông rời Việt Nam du học ở Hoa Kỳ từ năm 1968 và tốt nghiệp cao học ở hai ngành Sinh vật học và Điện toán. Ngoài công việc chính là một kỹ sư cao cấp tại Boeing trong hơn 20 năm, ông vẫn tiếp tục nghiên cứu trong vai trò nhà khoa học tại Đại học Carnergie Mellon và Đại học Seattle. Ông còn giảng dạy tại một số trường đại học quốc tế tại Trung Hoa, Hàn Quốc, Nhật Bản, Ấn Độ về lĩnh vực công nghệ phần mềm. Song song với vai trò một nhà khoa học, Nguyên Phong còn là dịch giả nổi tiếng của loạt sách về văn hóa và tâm linh phương Đông, chuyển thể từ nhiều tác phẩm của các học giả phương Tây sau quá trình tìm hiểu và khám phá các giá trị tinh thần từ phương Đông.  Đam mê thiền học, nghiên cứu sâu sắc các vấn đề tâm linh dưới góc nhìn của khoa học, những tác phẩm của ông, phần lớn là phóng tác, giúp người đọc tiếp cận các tác phẩm gốc thuận lợi hơn, lý giải được những vấn đề còn nhiều ẩn số bằng cái nhìn minh triết.

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