Education
She studied with pioneers in the field of past life regression, and holds an Master of Surgery in counseling from Villanova University, after graduating from Simmons College in Boston.
She studied with pioneers in the field of past life regression, and holds an Master of Surgery in counseling from Villanova University, after graduating from Simmons College in Boston.
Her first two books, Children"s Past Lives (Bantam, 1997) and Return from Heaven (HarperCollins, 2001), about reincarnation, have been published in more than twenty three foreign languages. Bowman has also been a practicing past life regression therapist for adults for more than twenty-five years. She has been a leading spokesperson for children"s past lives since the publication of her books
She has appeared on many television and radio programs, including Oprah, Good Morning America, Unsolved Mysteries, American Broadcasting Company Primetime, "The Katie Couric Show", and The Art Bell Show, as well as shows on A&East, Discovery Channel and the British Broadcasting Corporation. She has lectured in Norway, Belgium, Spain, Ireland, and the Netherlands, and has spoken at the Omega Institute and for the Edgar Cayce Foundation.
However, philosopher and skeptic Robert Todd Carroll heavily criticized the book and described it as a "firsthand testimony to ignorance of science, to gullibility and, above all, to wishful thinking.".