Life According to the Soul Book Review

Life According to the Soul reframed how I see my own struggles. Honest, grounded, and deeply moving, it reminded me that I’m not just surviving a brief life, but participating in something eternal.

Life According to the Soul by David Allen

By Christopher Buck, Publisher OMTimes Magazine

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Life According to the Soul by David Allen. From the very first pages, I was struck by how boldly and searchingly the book investigates human existence, not through abstract theory alone, but through the lens of past-life regression, soul memory, and spiritual continuity. Right away, the book invited me to step beyond the usual view of life as a closed chapter between birth and death, and instead consider something far wider: that I am both body and soul, both temporary and eternal, both alone in my mind and yet connected through spirit.

What drew me in immediately was the opening image: breath. Something so simple, yet from there, Allen expanded into the great, troubling questions that have haunted humanity for centuries: who was I before birth? What remains after death? Why do I suffer? Why do certain patterns keep repeating in my life? I loved that these weren’t treated as remote philosophical puzzles. They were grounded in years of regression testimony: ordinary people recalling past lives, spiritual memories, and experiences that went far beyond the limits of their present personalities. That groundedness made the book feel real to me, not airy or detached.

One of the most compelling ideas for me was the distinction between loneliness and connection: that human loneliness may belong to the mind, while connection belongs to the soul. This felt like a genuine breakthrough, and it gave the book much of its emotional power. I appreciated that Allen didn’t dismiss trauma, despair, or confusion. Instead, he suggested that many of life’s wounds become more bearable when viewed from the soul’s wider perspective. Pain wasn’t romanticized, but it was given meaning, and that made a deep impression on me.

I also found myself thinking a lot about the dynamic tension he explores between the physical body and the immortal self. The body feels hunger, fear, pleasure, identity, and limitation; while the soul carries memory, compassion, awareness, and continuity. This dual structure gave the book a rich spiritual framework, especially when Allen tackled pivotal issues like gender, privilege, adversity, belief systems, and repeated life lessons. None of these were glossed over; they were handled with care and depth.

What made the book especially interesting to me was its willingness to enter difficult territory. It didn’t offer easy comfort or sentimental answers. In fact, its message felt more demanding and more rewarding for that: life matters because it teaches; suffering matters because it reveals; connection matters because isolation is never the whole truth. Allen’s voice came across as reflective, sincere, and often urgent, shaped by decades of listening to people describe experiences that challenged their ordinary understanding of life. I could feel that weight of experience in every chapter.

I also noticed that even if a reader is skeptical of reincarnation, there’s still immense value here in the deeper human questions the book raises. And for readers already open to soul studies, regression therapy, or spiritual psychology, like myself, it was genuinely fascinating. But at its heart, I came to see that this isn’t merely a book about past lives. It’s a book about why this life matters, right here and now.

Elegant, provocative, and spiritually ambitious, the book asked me to reconsider the very meaning of my own identity. Through a series of studies drawn from Allen’s hypnotherapy sessions, it bridged profound spiritual insights with the realities and challenges of modern life step by step, guiding me to connect my own life experiences with an understanding of how intimately I am connected to an eternal spiritual existence.

By the end, I didn’t feel like I had just read a book. I felt like I had been reminded of something I already knew deep down: that I am not merely surviving a brief human life, but participating in a much longer journey of memory, healing, and awakening. That message stayed with me long after I closed the final page.

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