title: The Stain
author: Jones, Charlene
description: Deja vu ever crept up your spine? Ever looked around and wonder why everything feels so...familiar? Questioning the sense that the same people with the same outlooks, the same activities with the same outcomes replay through your life?
  Reincarnation usually brings to mind a sense of this for that. You hit me last lifetime, I retaliate this one. Not so. Reincarnation is the replay of deeply worn grooves of thought, emotion and action. Exactly like a needle stuck in a groove, repeating and repeating, reincarnation expresses the deepest sorrows, hardest hits, strongest loves of people who came before, people with whom your life intertwines.
  
  Tahni in the 17th century weds Chief Takoda in a glorious meadow that exactly matches the beautiful meadow of her nightly dreams. Her happiness leaves when Takoda does not return. Tahni's breaking heart leaves her vulnerable to the medicine man, Chaytan who uses his powers to connect his life with hers, beyond time.
  In London England in the 1890's Mary stands wretched in the corner of the asylum rocking an invisible baby yearning to get to the meadow she sees just beyond this world. A single visitor claims her. Who is this stranger? Can she truly heal from her heartache, betrayal and loss?
  Contemporary, middle-aged Diana weaves the tale of her life, including the rape she endured as a young girl, the madness that followed and her trail of meditation and travel that led to healing. Her listener, the mysterious and attractive Jake awakens in her feelings she thought she'd never have again. Can she trust her heart and life to his hands?
  Three women their lives bound by a single, horrifying event, replay madness, betrayal, brutality and loss until one of them finds a way to clear them all from the karmic suffering of The Stain.
  
  Ever look around and wonder why the same people, same events keep repeating in your life? Reincarnation bears the simple answer to this question and more. Read about Tahni, a native woman from 1660's in Tonawanda. Explore with Mary from the 1890's in England how men and women relate. Examine life through the eyes of Diana and learn from all three of these women how reincarnation works and how to release yourself from The Stain.