Born Again by Hans Holzer

Born Again

Reincarnation’s raw, unfiltered human stories

Written byHans Holzer
Narrated byKevin Pierce
Length8h34m
Release dateJune 11, 2014
LanguageEnglish
★★★☆ 3.9 (718 ratings)

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AuthorHans Holzer
NarratorKevin Pierce
Runtime8h34m
PublishedJune 11, 2014
Rating★★★☆ 3.9 / 5 (718 ratings)
CategoriesLiterature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Reincarnation
FormatAudiobook (Digital)
PlatformAudible

About This Audiobook

*Born Again* isn’t your typical new-age treatise on past lives—it’s a gritty, case-file-style dive into the messy, emotional business of remembering who you *were*. Hans Holzer, the godfather of paranormal investigation, ditches the crystal-waving mysticism and instead delivers three starkly different women’s accounts of reincarnation, each laced with psychological tension and eerie specificity. This isn’t about abstract spirituality; it’s about a housewife in Queens suddenly speaking fluent 19th-century German, or a Brooklyn secretary’s crippling fear of fire tracing back to a Civil War battlefield. The audiobook’s power lies in its refusal to romanticize—these are stories of disruption, not enlightenment.

Kevin Pierce’s narration is a masterclass in restrained intensity. His voice—familiar to true-crime and paranormal fans—grounds the material in sober credibility, even as the subjects’ memories spiral into the uncanny. The production leans into a documentary-like austerity: no dramatic music, no breathy whispers, just the cold recitation of dates, hypnosis transcripts, and the occasional cracked voice of a subject reliving a trauma not their own. What makes this audiobook distinctive is its refusal to sell you on reincarnation. Instead, it forces you to grapple with the cost of remembering.

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Editor's Review ★★★☆

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I’ll admit, I rolled my eyes when I saw *Born Again* categorized under ‘Spirituality.’ I expected either airy platitudes or sensationalist ghost-story schlock. What I got instead was something far more unsettling: a clinical, almost *legalistic* examination of three women whose past-life memories upended their present lives. Holzer’s approach is relentlessly methodical—he cross-references historical records, consults linguists, even drags a subject to a Virginia battlefield to verify her claims. The effect is less ‘woo-woo’ and more *Serial*-meets-*The X-Files*, with Pierce’s narration selling the gravitas. His delivery is perfectly pitched: skeptical but not dismissive, empathetic but never mawkish. When Pamela Wollenberg’s voice breaks as she describes drowning in a previous life, Pierce doesn’t ham it up—he lets the silence hang, and it’s *devastating*. That said, this isn’t a flawless listen. The pacing drags in the middle during Holzer’s dense historical deep-dives (do we *really* need a 20-minute dissection of 18th-century Prussian military uniforms?), and the lack of counterarguments feels like a missed opportunity. At times, the audio production’s minimalism works against it—some of the hypnosis sessions are nearly inaudible, forcing me to rewind. But the raw humanity of the subjects’ stories cuts through the academic clutter. June Volpe’s account of her past-life phobias manifesting in crippling panic attacks is the standout, a heartbreaking exploration of how memory—real or imagined—can hijack a life. If you’re looking for soothing spiritual affirmations, walk on. But if you want reincarnation treated like a *crime scene*, this is your audiobook.

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