In The Between: Reincarnation...A Novel

IN THE BETWEEN What if it is true? What if you don’t go to Heaven…or Hell when you die? What if karma does exist? What if you do reincarnate into another life to try to learn about your past mistakes and get to balance out any of your or other’s misdeeds? This is the story of a woman who dies and travels through the Bardo. Meaning she is going from one life to the next. The term Bardo comes from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Its meaning is loosely translated as: The In Between. According to the Tibetan text, Souls travel through the Bardo for 49 days, during which time they are encouraged to accept any one of numerous heavens. But our soul, in the story, is not Buddhist, she is from the West. And being the kind of woman she’s become throughout countless lives—she believes she has lived—she developed her own unique belief system. In her ideas about the Bardo she gets to re-live some of her past lives to help with the evolution of her soul. Our soul agrees to re-live her past lives that took place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Spain, Brussels, France, England, the U.S., and India. During those lives she discovers why she made choices that made her more and more fearful and that also caused karma between several other souls that must be balanced in her future. Unless... But before any of that, right from the start,she is surprised to discover something odd about her soul when she first arrives at the Bardo. She learns about the complexity of the soul and how thinking people develop their ideas about God, the universe, energy, but most importantly why souls on planet earth, at all.