Peter is unique in that one of his dream sequences (in which he is a murder victim) takes place around 30 years ago, leading him to attempt to find and revisit the scene, this time in person, to ascertain that what he's been dreaming really happened to him as another person in another time. Concerned on a number of levels including his own mental health, he seeks help and finds a scientist who is trying to document the controversial theory of reincarnation previous attempts have been unsuccessful mostly because the past "lives" that are remembered happened so long ago that it's impossible to authenticate. The devil, though, is in the detail in fact, they're so real he remembers every little thing, none of which changes from dream to dream. and university professor, has had the same handful of dreams on a recurring basis. For one thing, the story is riveting for another, it touches on the reality (or not) of reincarnation, which intrigues me almost as much today as it did when I was a 33-year-old mother of two. Now that I've read it again (in just a few hours), I know. I also remembered that I really liked it, but the story - and why I liked it totally escaped me. I knew I'd read it way back when it was published in 1974, when Scott was about 11 years old and I'd just returned to work after exactly that many years as a stay-at-home mom. Yes, I said - but quite honestly, any familiarity was for the title alone. When we were visiting our son Scott not long ago, he handed me an old hardback copy of The Reincarnation of Peter Proud and asked if I remembered it.
In this classic suspense novel first published in 1973, Max Ehrlich expertly interweaves multiple themes of life after death, romance, tragedy, and altered consciousness into an unforgettable tale. Will a second tragedy occur just as Peter is about to unravel the mystery behind his dreams?
Peter meets and falls in love with Marcia’s daughter, Ann, just as Marcia realizes that he is a reincarnation of Jeff. The woman, Marcia Curtis, is shocked to see in Peter personality traits and characteristics that precisely recall those of her dead husband, Jeff, including his voice. He travels to Springfield, Massachusetts, and comes face to face with the woman from his nightmares.
But he soon discovers a new dimension to his dilemma while watching a television show called “America, Past and Present”-and realizes the show is set in the town in his dreams. These dreams-which he comes to believe may be flashbacks from a previous life-become so disturbing that he seeks answers from a sleep researcher, a clairvoyant, and an expert in psychic phenomena in order to recover his past.
Peter Proud’s ordinary life as a professor in California is threatened by recurrent dreams that all end the same: with his murder in a lake at night by a mysterious woman named Marcia.
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