Saturday, December 8, 2018

Oh, to be a Kid Again: Children and Past Lives.

In his book "Return to Life," Dr. Jim Tucker, associate professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral science at the University of Virginia, reveals his insights in studying over 2500 cases of children who claim to recall past lives.

Among these cases we find Ryan, a boy who claims to be the reincarnation of Marty Martyn, a former actor and agent working in Hollywood in the middle of the last century. Ryan was able to identify his past life persona with far more specificity than other children because of the high profile nature of this individual, which meant there was a picture of him in a book that Ryan was able to point to and many details written about him that could be corroborated.

Tucker was also able to accompany the family of Cameron Macaulay as they verified his claims of a past life living on the isle of Barra in Scotland's Outer Hebrides in a Channel 5 (UK) documentary entitled Extraordinary People: The Boy Who Lived Before. This documentary also touches on the case of Gus Taylor from the US midwest who at as few as 18 months old claimed to be the reincarnation of his own grandfather.

Both boys spoke of falling through a 'hole' from their old lives into their new ones.
Other commonalities Tucker noted included the fact that in more than 70% of these cases, the decedent had passed in an untimely fashion.

Tucker believes that, through mechanisms as yet unknown, the "self" can continue on in the universe much in the same way that broadcast signals can propagate after the initial transmission and be picked up later by another device.

Are these past lives to be believed? Or are these children being goaded into such revelations by fantasy-prone or attention-seeking parents? Tucker certainly has his detractors, but short of debunking claims by refuting the accuracy of any given evidence there isn't much to argue here. It appears to be a hypothesis that seemingly can only be tested by crossing over and returning as someone else.

SEE ALSO: "REINCARNATED" CHILD CATCHES HIS OWN KILLER.

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