This case is a natural for research upon reincarnation. The identification of Travolta as the return of Valentino came from Travolta himself. He had memories of having been Valentino. This is a remarkably useful case to illustrate how closely physical characteristics, natural abilities and inclinations may dovetail from life to life. There is an abundance of information and pictures how to show the comparisons.

    This is a case that shows how a seemingly tragic early death is turned into a great advantage. The soul-entity grasps the opportunity to be reborn, picks up the pieces and more effectively demonstrates his talents to the world.

    Surely the years ahead are going to bring to light many more examples like that of John Travolta as the coming generation recognizes and understands reincarnation more fully.

    Perhaps the most heartening aspect of the findings from research upon reincarnation is that great minds and dedicated servants of the race keep reappearing with their former qualities and demonstrating them again and again to the benefit of their fellow man.

    If ever a case of the reappearance of a soul-entity demonstrated the return of phenomenal brilliance and individuality, intensity, dedication to pure science and focus upon achieving the integration of the physical and spiritual natures of man, such is certainly the case with Blaise Pascal and Pierre Teillard de Chardin.

    There is little basis to elaborate on the parallels in these two lives for their trials and achievements are all on the record written in bold print.

    In her wonderfully inspiring book, Heirs to Eternity, Clarice Toyne tells how she learned of this case and what her research turned up to support it.

    In the early sixties when Myers was in the process of acquiring more sensitivity to the psychic world, he had various experiences which he could not fathom. One memory that persisted was that of an encounter in a dream state with George Bernard Shaw. In this experience, which had more intensity than any kind of waking encounter, George Bernard Shaw apologized to him. Shaw indicated that he was humiliated to see in himself the failing of having become egotistical and urgently advised Myers not to make the same mistakes that he indicated he had made.

    It was some years later that Myers learned of his identity as having been Edward Bellamy, a contemporary of Shaw, and of Shaw's interest, and appreciation of some of Bellamy's utopian philosophy.

    It was not Myers intuition that provided the recognition that Shaw was the return of Voltaire. The information came from a superbly well written book published in 1976 in Great Britain by Neville Spearman Limited. This book was entitled, Heirs to Eternity, written by Clarice Toyne. It was the product of a wonderfully sincere and dedicated psychic who became consciously receptive to guidance from a Teacher who spoke to her inwardly. The principal task to be accomplished by her was to provide an accurate understanding of the laws governing the return of individual soul-entities and give examples that could be used to illustrate such. This book by Clarice Toyne accomplishes that task superbly well.

    The example of George Bernard Shaw as the return of Voltaire is an excellent example for this study. The historical records are available in abundance, so that anyone may verify the concepts being set forth here by making in-depth comparisons between the overall characteristics of Voltaire and Shaw.

    It is interesting how often stories about individuals in the arts and the entertainment world, actors, writers, painters, and musicians, come to the surface regarding much about their previous lives. Some express them with strong convictions and demonstrate the talents of those they claim to have been. Such was the case of Mario Lanza. He was adamant in his belief of having been reborn as the return of Enrico Caruso.

    The delightful aspect of this case is that he had an opportunity to play the part of Caruso in a biographical film of Caruso's life. Surely that was a tremendous satisfaction to a man who remembered having been Caruso.

    Myers was alerted to look into this case by a story in Parade Magazine of April 6, 1980, which told of Mario Lanza's claim of memories of having been Caruso.

      Here is one of those heartwarming examples of the reappearance of a very beloved soul who had made a grand place in history for himself. His ability to bring joy and hope and love into the lives of children endeared Hans Christian Andersen to everyone. Beloved of children and highly honored by aristocracy of his native country, he considered himself a most favored and fortunate individual.

     He returned to the world again as Daniel David Kominsky, like Hans Christian Andersen, to a family of limited means and to circumstances that offered no special advantages. But he transformed this by his dedication and talent to lighten spirits and bring joy and humor to the lives of others. His love and understanding of the nature and innocent spirits of children and his sympathy with the underprivileged led him to become one of the founders of UNICEF and he raised millions of dollars for such causes.

     Like his predecessor, he became welcomed into the highest circles wherever he went, but retained the beautiful humility and common touch that endeared him to all.

    This is an amazing example of how Natural Law provides the opportunities for a soul-entity to make progress. In this case we have a supremely gifted soul that is striving to make progress toward its ideal by expressing itself in positions of great responsibility and authority. In his life as Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, he was born in Paris. He was a most exceptional child, exceeded all his companions in physical prowess and in all of his studies. By the age of twenty two, he was named General-in-Chief of the French army and achieved a brilliant victory in a conflict with Spain. Yet an exaggerated predisposition for self-glory and pride impaired the otherwise noble image that Le Grand Conde created for himself.

    Emperor Joseph II of Austria, son of Empress Maria Theresa, excelled in athletics and studies. Already at the age of six, he had demonstrated such a keen interest in military exercises that he was given a regiment of his own.

    "His countenance reflects pride and haughtiness, and so does his behavior. "He has the most exalted conception of his station", was a comment made about the six year old by an associate of Frederick the Great of Prussia. It was said that no system of upbringing could have altered this character. He retained these character traits all of his life. But his mother was told often that in spite of such character flaws, her son was on the side of the angels in his concern for the underdog and his championship of the peasantry. He worked unceasingly for the good of the people and his motto was, "the greatest good for the greatest number." In his last days, one of his experienced old ministers said of him, "The Emperor has shown great and admirable qualities and it is frightful how his despotic obstinacy has reduced the beautiful monarchy to such a state." This was said in the last weeks of his life when Austria was floundering in the disastrous collapse of Joseph's plans both at home and abroad.

    President Charles de Gaulle was imbued with a passionate love of France and glorified the profession of arms. He had sympathy with the socialist movement but did not join the party. He graduated first in his class from St. Cyr Military Academy. As a young lieutenant in WWI, he was fearlessly brave and amid sniper fire at the front lines stood erect and distained to protect himself from the enemy. Some who were close to the young lieutenant were already convinced that he would become president of France.

    A biographer said of him that he was true to his vision in every cause for which he fought, that no breath of scandal, nor hint of private interest ever touched his name, and no man pursued his goals more relentlessly. Yet de Gaulle rejected the opportunity for dictatorship when it was within his grasp. No statesman, it was said, had ever been more indifferent toward his own safety.

    This is a beautiful example of a soul-entity of great stature and talent, superior intellectual attributes, courage and natural leadership abilities, who has subdued those aspects of his character that had been a hindrance in the past.

    All of the above information, as well as the recognition of the previous lives of Charles de Gaulle were derived from the very outstanding book by Clarice Toyne, titled, Heirs to Eternity, published by Neville Spearman Limited of London. 

    This is a good example to illustrate how a soul-entity may return to earth choosing circumstances that will further the development of a particular talent and also provide the opportunity to encounter, then further enhance the heritage he left from his former life. Haydn's music has beautiful melodies and hauntingly lovely passages that one may find echoing through his mind over and over. His music was written in the days of the harpsichord rather than the piano which was not refined until some years later.

    Glen Wilson's musical talent was only one aspect of a very outstandingly talented individual. While he could easily have excelled in other pursuits, it was devotion to the harpsichord that became the driving incentive for him to excel.

    After some time of studying at the Interlocken Arts Academy in Michigan, he was enrolled in the North Carolina School of the Arts in the late sixties, then Julliard School of Music in New York, then he was accepted to be a pupil by one of the world's most outstanding harpsichord teachers in Holland.

    Today Wilson is recognized to be among the foremost harpsichordists in Europe. He makes his home in Holland at the present time. However, Myers, who was in touch in the sixties with several students at the N. C. School of the Arts, had an intuitive experience which suggested that Wilson was the return of Haydn. Many years later, when Wilson was visiting America to perform some concerts, Myers was able to inform him of his identify as the return of Haydn. This immediately drew an enthusiastic response, "You should hear me play Haydn."

    CD's of Wilson's harpsichord renditions of classical music are available from U. S. domestic and European sources.

        Thomas Wentworth, the first Earl of Stafford, was a member of parliament for fourteen years, spent several years in Ireland as the King's Deputy and eventually became Chief Minister to the Crown during the reign of Charles I of England. He was a man of extraordinary character, indomitable will, remarkable energy and unwavering devotion to the Crown at a time when the King's rule was considered to be by "divine" right. Yet he had a vision of the future that inspired him to promote the rights of parliament to express opposition to arbitrary decisions by the monarchy. When sent to Ireland as Lord Deputy to the King, he brought order out of the chaos and corruption he found there and instigated reforms of many kinds.

    He was so confident in his own judgment and convinced of the rightness of his actions to benefit the common people that he was inclined to ignore the exercise of reasoning and to be harsh with his opponents. He created a number of enemies this way. The interpreted his actions to arise from pride and personal ambition rather than to recognize the actually altruistic nature of his decisions.

    King Charles I eventually created conflicts and exercised such poor judgment that he was unable to cope with conditions. He put himself in Wentworth's hands. Wentworth so effectively assumed the challenge that he received the blue ribbon of the garter, the greatest of all English honors. But in the process, he lost friends and made enemies. At an opportune time, the Opposition in parliament precipitated a movement to impeach him for treason on false charges. He was condemned to be executed. The King was required to sign the death warrant. In great distress, he delayed signing until persuaded by Wentworth that the greater harm would come to the throne if he did not. From his imprisonment in the tower, Wentworth wrote in a letter to the King, "Sir, my consent shall more acquit you herein than all the world can do besides; to a willing man there is no injury done, and as by God's grace I forgive all the world, with calmness and meekness of infinite contentment to my dislodging soul; so, Sir, to you I can give the life of this world with all the cheerfulness imaginable."

    This historical account of the execution of a noble character can hardly be reviewed without one being deeply moved and as we have so often found, this soul who distinguished himself so grandly in the past returned in circumstances that presented him the opportunity to achieve even greater distinction. This glimpse into one previous life of Winston Churchill is described in the remarkable book by Clarice Toyne, Heirs to Eternity. At the beginning of her book, she describes how she was led to make a connection with a teacher from another level of consciousness. Over a period of time, her teacher showed her many aspects of the natural laws governing the return of individual soul-entities. Then her teacher would give her identities of consecutive lives of individuals for whom records would be available so that she could verify what she was being taught and share the information with the world.

     It is difficult to imagine that the return of George Washington was living among us as one of America's most outstanding senators and that he was majority leader for fifteen years and our Ambassador Extraordinary to Japan for eleven years but we never recognized him. Many recognized that he stood alone for his remarkable traits of character. One of his colleagues, a Congressman, said of him, "I think Mansfield was the greatest living American."

     George McGovern, his colleague in the Senate for fifteen years said, "At some early stage, he must have resolved that he was going to tell the truth and be a straight shooter, and he never varied." Another person who had campaigned with him said, "If Mike said something, it was true. He was such a person of integrity, he did not need to campaign. He could have been senator until he died."

     Of Mansfield, a former governor of Montana, Marc Raciot, said, "There are so many things that seem so profound yet are so simple. The lasting legacy that we see and feel are the honesty, integrity and respect for every person were the values he lived every day and he never wavered from that. I just think he was the most faithful and unselfish public servant in Montana history by a far measure."

     Paul Lauren, a University of Montana professor who worked on creating the Mansfield Center and was its director for several years got to know Mansfield well.

     "Mike Mansfield was one of those extraordinarily rare individuals of character....honest, a man of integrity, a man of genuine humility at a time when humility is rare, especially among the accomplished, a man who was what he was, a man who was loyal to his state, loyal to his marriage, a man who was genuinely human," said Lauren.

     We have here a case of the reappearance of an individual soul-entity for whom a profoundly detailed comparison of character traits may be made with a previous life. As first president of the United States of America, he was a man of such distinction that voluminous records are available to show the parallels in their make up. Their innate character traits, physical attributes, natural abilities and inclinations, ears, hands, faces, handwriting and astrology charts, upon comparison, will show so many similarities between Washington and Mansfield that the possibility that chance rather than Natural Law governed here will be eliminated by astronomical odds. And so, this great soul called, The Father of Our Country, may now have an unanticipated and profound impact in a most constructive way. He may become a key to the recognition that there is no death. The Biblical prophecy, "There shall be no more death" will become part of the heritage of this generation for posterity.

     Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to wealth, social position and opportunity, Soren Kierkegaard chose a life of singular dedication to religious philosophy and its refinement. His life and works have had such impact that one hundred fifty years later they are considered to be the basis for a definitive philosophical movement; Existentialism.

     However, a study of his life and philosophical writings reveals a very different picture and a different point of view from that identified with current exponents of Existentialism. Kierkegaard focused his life upon integrating his intellect, his faith and a personal life guided by the teachings of Christ. In effect, he illustrated the basic premise of Existentialism; that the life of an individual should accurately reflect his philosophical belief system. In his fervent efforts to revitalize Christianity, he vigorously objected to the position of the formal church which, he said, neither could nor would conform to the demands of its own teachings, preferring to live in domestic comfort and worldly culture while trying to convince itself and the world that such was the true meaning of Christianity. Kierkegaard had at his disposal extraordinary dialectical talent and drew upon a vast source of erudition in defining his religious philosophy.

     Dag Hammarskjöld was delegate to the United Nations for Sweden. He was elected as its first Secretary-General in 1953 and reelected in 1957 for a five year term.

     This is an especially impressive example in many respects because of the great international impact during his lifetime as Hammarskjöld in comparison with the obscurity of Kierkegaard. In his return as Hammarskjöld, we find Kierkegaard's ideal of selfless dedication to service being given magnificent opportunity for expression on a worldwide scale. He was the son of the prime minister of Sweden. He was an outstanding student and took his degree in humanities with emphasis on linguistics, literature and history. He understood and was capable of discoursing on the writings of Herman Hesse, the poetry of Emily Dickinson, the music of Beethoven, the paintings of French Impressionists and participating in sophisticated dialogue on Christian theology. In athletics, he was a competent gymnast and a strong skier. In short, he was a Renaissance man.

     He said of himself, "I inherited a belief that no life was more satisfactory than one of selfless service to your country...or humanity. This service required the sacrifice of all personal interests, but likewise the courage to stand up unflinchingly for your convictions...I inherited a belief that, in the very radical sense of the gospels, all men were equal as children of God and should be met and be treated by us as our masters in God."

     As Secretary-General of the United Nations, it was his dedication to the concept of equality among all peoples of the earth that guided his policy making. His death in 1961 in a plane crash in Africa is considered to have occurred under mysterious circumstances and is believed to be related to his efforts to augment the ideals incorporated in the United Nations charter that would enable it to protect smaller nations from abuse, outlaw unilateral aggression, sale of arms and creation of weapons of mass destruction. Hammarskjöld's efforts to promote such policies and enhance the United Nations peace keeping powers were not popular with certain of the world's most powerful nations.

     The foregoing example of the reappearance of a great humanitarian and dedicated spiritual leader is a beautiful illustration of the operation of Natural Laws governing the return of the individual soul-entity. In neither his appearance as Soren Kierkegaard nor as Dag Hammarskjöld was his personal life free of intense struggle to comprehend the meaning and purpose of existence in a physical body in the earth. But the dedication to selfless service to humanity enabled him to achieve his innate goal of making a lasting contribution toward the betterment of life in the earth for posterity.

     This particular case of identification of an individual of note with a previous incarnation was an intensely gratifying personal experience for Myers because of his great admiration and respect for both Kierkegaard, whom he had studied, and Hammarskjöld, whose contribution toward world peace and order had so expressed the highest ideals of the teachings of Christianity.