La boîte de Pandore

This fascinating book takes you into a world of subconsciousness and former lives. René Toledano, an ill at ease history teacher, goes to a regression hypnosis show.  The hypnotiser, Opale, is in fact a psychologist.  That night, she picks him out from the audience to be her guinea pig.  

Overwhelmed by this, his first contact with his former lives, René asks Opale to help him go back in time to meet the different masks his soul has worn over the centuries, going back further and further, until the very first time he took on a human form.  As he talks with his successive incarnations, the humble teacher gradually frees himself from his prejudices and his fears, leading those around to him to believe he is mad.  But René does not care, because throughout his fantastic journey through time and space, he discovers that the past and the present can change one another.  Will he able to change the course of history and thus modify the collective memory? 

This is a psychological, historical and philosophical novel that cleverly combines the exploration of former lives, hypnosis and dialogue with the dead.  It takes the reader from Paris to Egypt, and to Atlantide, and speaks of the mysteries of life, such as soul mates who find one another in successive incarnations.