A Good Question

摘要

How do you thank someone for providing the adventure of a lifetime? After a long career of keeping a careful distance from the press, Ian Stevenson invited me to come along with him on two of his last journeys in search of children who talked about previous lives. Without caveat or precondition, he met me in Paris for a flight to Beirut, where we spent a month being driven at high speeds on narrow twisting roads in the Druze-inhabited hills that arced around the city Half a year later, we flew into the blinding chaos of Delhi, then by train, plane, and Maruti microbus we criss-crossed half the continent. Together we endured 14-hour days bouncing down rutted farm roads into the outback, a broken axle away from serious trouble We confronted undisguised hostility, and humbling hospitality. We went hungry, and we feasted. We pursued dead ends, and stumbled into gold mines of first-hand testimony.