The Braided River: A Mid-Century Housewife Discovers Her Previous Lives

What if your life is only one strand in a much larger river of experience? When artist and gallery owner Helen Pelton began exploring past-life regression in 1981, she uncovered a tapestry of identities stretching across centuries-lives as men and women, heroes and villains, healers and sufferers. Through nightly self-guided regressions, she documented twenty vivid incarnations, each revealing lessons carried forward and patterns repeating until understood.In The Braided River, Helen's son Tim Pelton brings these extraordinary accounts to light for the first time. Together, they offer a rare, firsthand look at reincarnation as lived rather than theorized-mystery-laden stories, karmic entanglements, and the surprising return of familiar souls in unfamiliar roles. This is a book for anyone who has ever wondered what lies beyond a single lifetime, and how the currents of the past shape who we become.