March 22, 2021 | When I Was Someone Else | Stéphane Allix

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 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, 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, 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.

ABOUT STEPHANE ALLIX

Stéphane Allix is an investigative journalist and author of the best-seller The Test. He founded the Institute for Research on Extraordinary Experiences (“Inrees”) and the Magazine Inexploré. He also created and currently hosts Enquêtes Extraordinaires, a documentary series on French television channel M6.