Reincarnation is an exciting topic that has long been aloof from scientific research, but has recently begun to arouse serious interest in the scientific community.
Several decades ago, the American astronomer and astrobiologist Carl Sagan said that “there are three concepts in parapsychology that deserve serious research,” one of them is related to the fact that “young children sometimes tell the details of their“past lives, which, after checking, are accurate and they most likely did not know."
Many researchers became interested in studying this intriguing and inexplicable phenomenon, as a result of which a number of amazing discoveries were made. The study of reincarnation belongs to the non-material sciences, this area deserves a lot of attention.
University of Virginia psychiatrist Jim Tucker is perhaps the leading researcher of the phenomenon of reincarnation today. In 2008, he published an article where he spoke about cases that are suggestive of reincarnation.
Tucker describes typical cases of reincarnation. An interesting fact - 100 percent of those who report a past life are children. The average age of children talking about their past lives is 1.5 years, and their descriptions are often extensive and surprisingly detailed. The author notes that these children are very emotional when they talk about the events of the past, some cry and ask to be entangled with "past families".
According to Tucker: “Children usually stop talking about their past life by the age of 6-7, for most of them these memories are simply erased. At this age, children begin to go to school, they have more events in their life, and, accordingly, they begin to lose their early memories."
Sam Taylor
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Sam Taylor is one of the children Tucker studied. The boy was born 1.5 years after the death of his paternal grandfather. Sam, in a little more than a year, first mentioned a past life. Tucker writes: “Once 1.5-year-old Sam told his father when he was changing his diaper:“When I was your age, I usually changed your diapers.” From that moment on, the boy began to tell many facts from the life of his grandfather, it is noteworthy that he spoke about what he could not know and understand at all. For example, that his grandfather's sister was killed, that his grandmother made him milkshakes every day until his grandfather's death. Amazing, isn't it?
Ryan is a Midwest boy
Ryan's story begins at the age of 4, when he began to suffer from frequent nightmares. At the age of five, he told his mother: "I'm used to being someone else." Ryan often talked about going home to Hollywood and asked his mother to take him there. He talked about meeting such stars as Rita Hayworth, about participating in productions on Broadway and about working in an agency where people often change their names. He even remembered the name of the street where he lived "in a past life."
Ryan's mother, Cindy, said that "his stories were incredibly detailed and so full of events that the child could not just make them up."
Cindy decided to research the Hollywood books in her home library, hoping to find something that captured her son's attention. And she found a photo of the person Ryan considered himself to be in a past life.
The woman decided to turn to Tucker for help. The psychiatrist decided to get down to business and began his research. After 2 weeks, Tucker revealed who the man in the photo was. The photo is from a movie called Night After Night, and the man is Marty Martin, who was an extra and later became an influential Hollywood agent until his death in 1964. Martin did perform on Broadway, worked for an agency that gave clients pseudonyms, and lived at 825 North Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills. Ryan knew all these facts. For example, that the address contains the word "rock". The boy could also tell how many children Martin had, how many times he was married. It is even more amazing that he knew about Martin's sisters, although he knew nothing about Martin's daughter. Ryan also "remembered" the African American housekeeper. Martin and his wife had several. In total, the boy brought 55 facts from the life of this person. But as he grew older, Ryan gradually began to forget everything.
Shanai Shumalaiwong
Shanai is a Thai boy who, at the age of 3, began to say that he was a teacher named Bua Kai, who was shot while riding his bike to school. He asked and begged to take him to Bua Kai's parents, whom he felt to be his parents. He knew the name of the village where they lived, and eventually convinced his mother to take him there. According to Tucker, “His grandmother said that after getting off the bus, Shanai took her to the house where an elderly couple lived. Shanai recognized them, they were indeed the parents of Bua Kai, a teacher who was killed on his way to school 5 years before the boy was born.
It is striking that Kai and Shanai had something in common. Kai was shot from behind: on the back of his head there was a small round entrance wound from a bullet wound, and on his forehead there was a larger and uneven one. Shanai, on the other hand, was born with two birthmarks, a small round mole on the back of the head and a larger, irregularly outlined one in the front.
The case with P. M
A boy, let's call him P. M., died 12 years before his birth from a malignant tumor - neuroblastoma - a half-brother. The tumor was discovered after his brother began to limp and then constantly broke his left tibia. He had a biopsy taken from a nodule on his head just above his right ear and received chemotherapy through a catheter placed in the external jugular vein. The child died at the age of 2, being already blind in his left eye.
P. M. was born with 3 birthmarks, which seemed to remind of the problems of his stepbrother. One of them was in the form of a tumor 1 cm in size above the right ear, the other was a black almond-shaped mark in the lower part of the anterior surface of the neck, i.e. in the place where the catheter was placed for his brother. He also had a so-called "corneal lesion" due to which he was virtually blind in his left eye. When P. M. began to walk, he did it, limping on his left leg. And at the age of 4.5, the boy began to ask his mother to return to their former home, which he described with incredible accuracy.
Kendra Carter
At 4 years old, Kendra started taking swimming lessons and instantly became emotionally attached to the coach. Soon after the start of classes, the girl began to say that the coach's child had died, that the coach was ill, and she had a miscarriage. Kendra's mother was always present at the classes, and when she asked her daughter how she knew all this, the girl replied that she was the child from the trainer's belly. The girl's mother soon learned that the coach actually had a miscarriage 9 years before Kendra was born.
The girl became happy and cheerful when she was in class, and, on the contrary, withdrawn the rest of the time. The mother began to allow her daughter to spend more and more time with the coach, even to stay 3 times a week at night.
Subsequently, the trainer quarreled with Kendra's mother and stopped all contact with the family. Then the girl fell into depression and did not speak to anyone for 4.5 months. The coach renewed the relationship, but more limited, and Kendra slowly began to talk and take part in competitions.
James Leininger
James was a 4 year old boy from Louisiana. He believed that he was once a pilot who was shot down over the island of Iwo Jima during the Second World War. For the first time the boy's parents learned about this, when he began to suffer from nightmares, James stood up and shouted: “The plane crashed! The plane is on fire! He knew the characteristics of the aircraft, which is impossible for his age. For example, once he corrected his mother in a conversation, she called the outboard fuel tank a bomb. James and his parents watched a documentary in which the author named the Japanese plane Zero, and the boy claimed that it was Tony. In both cases, the boy was right.
James also mentioned a ship called Natoma Bay. As the Leiningers later learned, during the First World War, it was an American aircraft carrier.
How does a little Louisiana boy remember himself as a pilot during World War II, you ask?
The main skeptic in this story was the boy's father, who claimed to be very skeptical about the situation, but the information that James gave out was so startling and unusual.
Reincarnation in numbers:
- Tucker's study found interesting patterns in cases of children reporting past life memories:
- The average age at the time of death of a person “relocated to a new body” is 28 years
- Most of the children reporting past life memories are between the ages of 2 and 6.
- 60% of children reporting past life memories are boys.
- Approximately 70% of these children claim to have died a violent or unnatural death.
- 90% of children reporting past life memories say they had the same gender in a past life.
- The average time interval between the reported date of death and new birth is 16 months.
- 20% of these children report having memories of the period between death and new birth.
Anastasia Khomitskaya