The HORRIBLE Truth About Reincarnation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781724752833)

Thomas J. Mason is a retired Information Technology Manager who lives in the High Desert north of Los Angeles with his wife of forty-four years and their dog, Tara. He discovered, after falling in love with the beautiful redhead who was to become his wife, that in addition to her incredibly cute redheaded twins, she had six other children. But by then it was too late. He was hooked. She continues to be the best thing that ever happened to him. These days, he puts his great-grandchildren to sleep by singing Irish and Scottish traditional songs while accompanying himself on his Irish flat drum, called a bodhran. Tom started life as a farm boy; became an army brat when his father rejoined the post-WWII Army; attended Sunday School and church growing up; enjoyed the Cub Scout pack at his church, but did not feel comfortable joining the Scouts outside his church; was active in sports in high school; played The Ghost of Christmas Past in the school production of A Christmas Carol and played The Genie in an amateur production of Aladdin; excelled academically and was active in school politics, culminating in his election as School President. The small-town success of his life fell apart when he went to "the big city" to go to university. There was too much spiritual confusion and chaos. And girls, left-wing politics, girls, drugs, and... he dropped out of school. His analysis was that there was something fundamentally wrong with the basic philosophy of our culture that would allow us to kill each other en masse and destroy the planet on which we lived. Tom Spent 43 years, from 1967 until 2010, studying religions, from Buddhism to Zoroastrianism. Finally, in 2010, after nearly losing his body to prostate cancer, the Near Death Experience he describes in The HORRIBLE Truth About Reincarnation put his head on straight.