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''Have You Lived Before This Life'' is a non-fiction book published by L. Ron Hubbard in 1960. It is one of the canonical texts of Scientology. It purports to be a collection of "forty-one actual case histories" of reincarnation and past-life experiences, gleaned from auditing with an e-meter at the Church of Scientology's "Fifth London Advanced Clinical Course" held in 1958.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work = The L. Ron Hubbard Bookstore )〕 Scientology's official website says of the book: "The major portion of the book is devoted to the auditing case histories of individuals, detailing their memories of past lives. These case histories graphically show how a person’s attitudes and actions in present time can be affected by incidents in his or her past lifetimes. They also document the improvements that occurred when such incidents were addressed and run out in auditing." Their promotional text for the book also goes on to note that the book answers important questions such as:
The book has been consistently in print until 1989. It is still sold in Church bookstores but it is not currently offered for sale today by Scientology's Bridge Publications and New Era Publications websites. ==Reception== In her book ''The Scandal of Scientology'', Paulette Cooper examined the often fantastical nature of the past lives described, referred to by Hubbard as "space opera": "Hubbard has devoted a special book called ''Have You Lived Before This Life: A Scientific Survey'' just to past-life case histories of Scientologists. The preface of this book also contains the names and addresses of the people who took part in the experiment so that the cynical could check its facts ... Most of the Scientologists who relived their past lives believed that they had once been plain people, or very often space people, and for plots, their histories read like a type of science-fiction sadomasochism." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Have You Lived Before This Life」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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