When I Was Someone Else: The Incredible True Story of Past Life Connection

A journalist’s profound investigation into the reality behind an intense waking vision and the search for healing after death

• Details the author’s vivid waking vision of a dying German soldier in World War II and how he discovered the soldier was a real person, including his research into German military archives and meeting the man’s surviving family members

• Explores synchronicities, reincarnation, and communication across the veil between life and death

• Reveals how the author helped the dead soldier find forgiveness and healing

While on a spiritual retreat in Peru, journalist Stéphane Allix experienced a vivid waking vision of a soldier dying on a snowy battlefield, followed by scenes from the soldier’s earlier life. He also clearly saw the man’s name, Alexander Herrmann, and felt a disturbing sense of closeness with the soldier.

Obsessed by the power of this extremely real vision, Allix began an intensive investigation that revealed this individual had actually existed: a German soldier who died in World War II during the 1941 Russian campaign. As he began retracing Herrmann’s past, he found that the other images accompanying the battle scene were also of people who had truly existed and were close to the man who died. Diving deep into German military archives, meeting the man’s surviving family members, and following his own intuitive hunches, the author also discovered that the soldier was part of the Waffen S.S., the infamous Totenkopf Brigade, and his investigation broadened to explore what drove Herrmann to become part of such an organization.

While Allix’s initial impression is that this German soldier was a past life, as he progresses in his rigorous investigation and his decoding of the events surrounding it, he realizes that it was actually his own work with the paranormal and his unresolved feelings over the death of his brother and his father that made him particularly sensitive to the veil between life and death, culminating in the soul of this dead soldier coming to him in search of forgiveness and healing. Allix realizes that his mission is not to bring about the rebirth of this person but to heal him--and the victims of his ignominious actions during the war.

Offering a fascinating exploration of visions, synchronicities, reincarnation, and the connections between the spiritual and physical planes, When I Was Someone Else shares a powerful message of healing after death along with the profound epiphany that light needs darkness to be perceived.

Table of Contents:
1 Departure
2 Solitude
3 The Encounter
4 Confirmation
5 An Unexpected Emotion
6 Understanding Horror
7 An Ancient Suffering
8 The Specialist
9 The Military Folder
10 Shock
11 Why?
12 Company Commander
13 Artillery Fire
14 The Photo
15 Pyrenees Visit
16 A Serious Lead
17 Radio Silence
18 The Guardian Angel and the Warrior
19 Bad Arolsen
20 Luise’s Great-Nephew
21 Plauen
22 The Tempest
23 Andréa and André
24 Flashes
25 Dream
26 Hitler Comes to Power
27 Adolescence
28 The Black Order
29 Dachau
30 Death’s Head
31 Mediums
32 A Dramatic Twist
33 Doors Wide Open
34 Einsatzgruppen
35 Guilt
36 Baltic
37 The Little Girl
38 Life’s Traces
39 Saint Petersburg
40 Operation Barbarossa
41 Valdai
42 The Cholmy Offensive
43 Contact
44 The Order to Withdraw
45 The Forest of Souls
46 Hand-to-Hand Combat
47 He Is Here
48 Death
49 The Last Dawn
50 Spirit
51 The Grave
52 Afterward

Epilogue

Thanks

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author

About the Author :
Stéphane Allix is a journalist, former war correspondent, and founder of the Institute for Research on Extraordinary Experiences (INREES). He is the author of The Test: Incredible Proof of the Afterlife and the writer and director of the French television series Extraordinary Investigations (Enquêtes extraordinaires). He lives in France.

Review :
“Reads like a compelling screenplay for a paranormal thriller. Except this is not fiction. It’s Stéphane Allix’s true life experience, which in many ways reveals more about the deep and mysterious nature of reality than what you would find in any book of scientific speculation. An exciting, even hair-raising, story.” “Stéphane Allix has crafted a brilliantly riveting and intensely moving narrative that sheds new light on the nature of our identity and links between human lives. Beginning with an arresting and traumatic dream reliving the death of an SS officer in the Russian campaign, Stéphane telepathically receives the name Alexander Herrmann and is astonished to find that he really existed, discovering a detailed 80-page dossier of his life. His epic inner and outer journey reveals the stunning accuracy of his dream sequence while at the same time vividly re-creating the horrors of the Russian campaign. His deep humanity, moral courage, and penetrating insight shines out from this quite remarkable book with its message of ultimate redemption through the grit of our common suffering and persistent determination. I cannot recommend this book too highly.” “Fascinating book. Stéphane Allix’s emotional research into the life and death of Alexander--although he does not share any of his ideas and beliefs--allowed him to let go of his own past that had always pursued him. This wonderful, spiritual, and even sometimes mind-blowing book may help the open-minded reader to accept the possibility of reincarnation. Highly recommended.” “This riveting book will challenge you to rethink your ideas about who you are and your interconnections with other people. Allix’s dramatic journey offers profound evidence of healing of psychological wounds through acknowledgment of both light and dark.” “A riveting detective story, a thriller, a harrowing journey back into the darkest days of World War II, and, most of all, the author’s relentless quest for self-discovery and to fathom the nature of his identity. An absolutely stunning, unforgettable book. Five stars and more!” “In his extraordinary investigation, Stéphane Allix offers probably the strongest support for a case of reincarnation in an adult person. A remarkable and important book that can change the reader’s view of reality. Must-read!” “When I Was Someone Else is both an exciting detective story and an important spiritual exploration.” “The forensic details of Stéphane Allix’s search for the SS officer he suspects he was in a former life, combined with how this search affected him at every turn, creates a fascinating study of the intermingling of the past and present in our lives. A welcome addition to the growing literature on reincarnation.” "The final outcome of this existential odyssey is healing, even redemption, a recovery of conscience and humanity. Collectively, this process is far from complete, but I can’t recommend this book too highly as an alchemical emergence of forgiveness from guilt, sensitivity from callousness and light from darkness."