Stephen Sakellarios has studied Eastern mysticism since 1973, and has a master's degree in Counseling and Human Systems. He began work on a documentary entitled "In Another Life: Reincarnation in America" in 1997, and completed it over a five-year period. It was broadcast on PBS affiliate KBDI in Denver, Colorado in January of 2003, and was accepted for distribution to universities by Films Media Group. His website, launched to support the documentary project in 1998, continues to provide accurate information on reincarnation. In 2005, he became aware of a past-life in the 19th century as author Mathew Franklin Whittier, and in 2009 he began researching the proposed match with the most rigorous methods possible, given that the project was unfunded. His two e-books describe the research and set forth is results: "Mathew Franklin Whittier in his own words," and a sequel, "Mathew Franklin Whittier in his own world." The second book was written after moving from South Carolina to Maine, where he was in a position to visit the scenes connected with Whittier's life.Stephen works part-time in eldercare, in an attic studio apartment in the historical Woodford's Corner neighborhood of Portland, Maine, where he had lived for over 20 years in the 19th century. http://www.ial.goldthread.com