Courageous Souls :: About the Book

"The more we know about the meaning of life, the better we understand the important choices we must make. Robert Schwartz has done an excellent job of presenting the possible explanations of what we are doing here and why we are here. I highly recommend this book."

–	Dannion Brinkley, author of Saved by the Light, and The Secrets of the Light

"Courageous Souls is a deeply insightful guide as to why our lives unfold as they do and how to direct them to a deeper place. It's a powerful book and I highly recommend it"

–	Sonia Choquette, author of Trust Your Vibes

"Courageous Souls is one of the most detailed explorations I have seen into understanding why we have chosen certain paths in our lives and how we may use that information to continue our journey as a soul here and now. This book will help thousands of people. A book you HAVE to have in your library!"

–	John Holland, author of Born Knowing, and Power of the Soul

Finalist, USABookNews.com Best Books 2006 Awards,
New Age Nonfiction

Finalist, 2006 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Awards,
Mind/Body/Spirit Category.

Finalist, 2008 National Indie Excellence Awards, New Age Nonfiction

We are pleased to announce that Courageous Souls will be reissued by North Atlantic Books in March 2009 under the new title, Your Soul’s Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born. The new edition will be distributed by Random House. To read about Your Soul's Plan on the Random House web site, please click HERE.

Robert Schwartz is looking for new mediums and channels with whom to collaborate on his next book. If you are a medium or channel and would like to contribute to the next book, please contact Robert by clicking HERE or by using the form on the Contact page of this web site.

We are also looking for people outside the US to assist with the sale of foreign translation rights by contacting publishers in their home countries. These are paid positions; no experience is necessary. Please contact us by clicking Here or through the form on the Contact page of this web site.

To view a seven-minute video clip from one of Robert Schwartz's talks, please click here to go to the Speaking Engagements page of this web site.

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Would you like to understand the deeper meaning of your greatest challenges?

So often, when something "bad" happens, it may appear to be meaningless suffering. But what if your most difficult experiences are actually rich with hidden purpose-purpose that you yourself planned before you were born? Could it be that you chose your life's circumstances, relationships, and events?

Courageous Souls tells the stories of ten individuals who-like you-planned before birth to experience great challenges. Working with four gifted mediums and channels, author Robert Schwartz discovers what they chose-and why. He presents actual pre-birth planning sessions in which souls discuss their hopes for their upcoming lifetimes. In so doing he opens a window to the other side where we, as eternal beings, design both our trials and our potential triumphs.

Through these remarkable stories of pre-birth planning, you can:

Learn why each of us decides to experience such challenges as illness, the death of a loved one, and accidents. Other challenges explored from the perspective of pre-birth planning include being the parent of a handicapped child, deafness, blindness, drug addiction, and alcoholism.
Understand how you as a soul create your life blueprint
Consciously use your challenges to foster spiritual growth
Understand that the people in your life, including your parents and children, are there at your request, motivated by their love for you to play roles that you scripted
Replace anger, guilt, and blame with forgiveness, acceptance, and peace
Deepen your appreciation of and gratitude for life as a soul-expanding, evolutionary process

We are pleased to announce that translations of Courageous Souls are now available in German, Portuguese (in Brazil), Korean, Bulgarian, and Romanian. The German translation, published by Random House Germany, is available in bookstores in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and on Amazon Germany. To order the German edition from Amazon Germany, please click HERE.

Please note that the English edition of Courageous Souls is available on Amazon Canada, Amazon UK, Amazon Germany, Amazon France, and Amazon Japan.

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So that others may share in the healing and inspiring messages of Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth? by Robert Schwartz, we ask that you please call your local libraries and request that they order the book.

In addition, Whispering Winds Press will donate free copies of the book to any prison library in the country that will accept such a donation. If you work at a prison, know someone who works at a prison, or can in any other way help us to make the book available to prison inmates, we would like to hear from you. Please contact us by clicking the Send Email link at the bottom of this page.

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