I’M ON ASSIGNMENT!

Taylor’s revealing memoir touches on Covid-19, past lives, and the Akashic record.

The author asserts that we humans are “souls with bodies, not the other way around.” Before someone is born, per Taylor, they choose aspects of their coming life, such as where they will live and the details of their physical appearance. A single lifetime is really a “building block to your eternal soul’s resume,” the author posits; as souls are reincarnated, they are put on assignment per a life contract in something called the Akashic record. Taylor was born in 1977 and grew up in a troubled household where money was always an issue. She married and she went through bouts of depression (she was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder). When Covid-19 hit, she was a single mother living in Las Vegas. Weathering health struggles (she went through a lengthy battle with pneumonia) and domestic strife, the author discovered something important about herself: Taylor believes that she is a reincarnated figure from the French Revolution—she states that in a past life she was Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, one of Marie Antoinette’s children. What’s more, the author determined that people in her current life, including a co-worker she calls Mom, were also individuals from that time period. The book maintains an intense tone as Taylor describes lives both past and present. (For instance, the author spares no detail when describing the agony of childbirth—she describes contractions as feeling like a “rectal charley horse.”) This intensity carries over into the reincarnation material, as in a section titled “I See Bourbons walking Around Like you and Me, and they don’t Know they Are Bourbons!” The author’s claims, such as her assertion that historian Maurice Lever was a reincarnated Louis XV, do not seem well supported; nevertheless, Taylor’s brash attitude keeps the book moving. Whether or not the reader gets on board with her conclusions, there is impassioned reasoning behind all of them.

A fierce exploration of reincarnation and the meaning of existence.