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| Summary Of 'Life Before Life' |
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| posted on Sunday, January 07, 2007 |
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EDITOR'S COMMENT:
Last month I reported on the book "Life Before Life" by Dr. Jim Tucker. The book summarizes forty years of research into young children's reports of past-life memories that have been conducted by doctors at the University of Virginia Medical Center. Altogether, more than 2500 such cases have been carefully investigated:
BOOK: 'LIFE BEFORE LIFE' (12/25/2006)
In a more recent message, Sherry Stultz provided us with a quick review of the book and invited those of us who are interested to stop by NHNE's Community Forum to discuss this important topic:
BOOK REVIEW & FORUM DISCUSSION: 'LIFE BEFORE LIFE' (1/4/2007)
NHNE Community Forum
I ordered the book as soon as I heard about it and today got my hands on it. Should you do the same? Absolutely. I would also encourage you to buy extra copies to pass around to family and friends, as I have done.
To help spread the word and generate more interest, I have put together a quick summary of the main discoveries that are itemized in the book...
--- David Sunfellow
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A SUMMARY OF THE MAIN DISCOVERIES PRESENTED BY "LIFE BEFORE LIFE"
- A rare number of elderly or dying individuals predict their future life. Two groups of people are especially noted for this ability: the lamas of Tibet and the Tlingitis, a Native American tribe in Alaska.
- Of forty-six cases reported among the Tlingitis, the previous personality made a predication about his or her subsequent rebirth in ten cases. In eight of the ten, the person gave the names of the parents to which he or she wanted to be reborn.
- In several Asian communities, a family member or friend may mark the body of a dying or deceased individual in the hopes that when that person is reborn, the baby will have a birthmark that matches the marking. This practice is know as "experimental birthmarks".
- An "announcing dream" can occur before the birth of the child. Such dreams usually occur in same-family cases, ones in which the previous personality is a deceased member of the subject's family, or in cases in which the subject's mother at least knew the previous personality. Cases from all the various cultures have included announcing dreams, which have occurred in approximately 22 percent of the first 1,100 cases investigated by the University of Virginia Medical Center.
- Most children who talk about past life experiences do so between the ages of two and four. The affected children almost always stop talking about these previous lives around the age of six or seven, and then go on to live normal lives thereafter.
- During the time that children are talking about their previous lives, some do so in a very matter-of-fact manner, while others show great emotion. Some children only make a few comments about their past life and only talk about it at certain times, often during relaxed periods, while others talk about it constantly and make many statements.
- The lives that children describe tend to be very recent ones. The median time between the death of the previous personality and the birth of the new one in only fifteen to sixteen months.
- With rare exceptions, almost all children describe only one previous life.
- Children tend to talk about people and events from near the end of their former lives.
- A child who describes a previous life that ended in adulthood is likely to talk about a spouse or children rather than talking about parents.
- Few children report having been famous personalities. Instead, almost all describe ordinary lives, often ending very unpleasant ways.
- Seventy-five percent of the children describe the way that they died in their previous life, and the mode of death is frequently violent or sudden.
- Some children have repeatedly acted out the death scene from the previous life.
- Children may display intense rage toward the people they claim killed them in a previous life.
- Phobias, such as an intense fear of water, appear to be related to memories of a child's previous life. Often these fears show up before a child begins to report past life memories.
- Many of the subjects are born with birthmarks or birth defects that match wounds on the body of the previous personality, usually fatal wounds. Such birthmarks were not rare among the University of Virginia Medical Center's cases. A third of the cases from India include birthmarks or birth defects that are thought to correspond to wounds on the previous personalities, with 18 percent of those including medical records that confirm a match.
- Many children demonstrate behaviors connected to the past life memories they are reporting. For example, many have strong emotional attachments to previous families and cry and beg for their current parents to take them to see their previous family -- and don't relent until their current family complies.
- Some children recognize people or places from their past lives.
- Some children are unusually fond of certain things, including foods the previous personality enjoyed, including alcohol and cigarettes.
- Children often demonstrate unusual play, imitating, for example, the tasks associated with a particular occupation in their previous life.
- Though most children do not talk about the time between lives, some do. Their statements involve either events that took place on earth, for example the funeral of the previous personality, or descriptions of other realms.
- Between 20 and 27 percent of Americans believe in reincarnation, as do a similar percentage of Europeans.
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WHAT "LIFE BEFORE LIFE" SUGGESTS REINCARNATION COULD MEAN:
"If these children are correct when they report that they lived before, then part of us can survive the death of our bodies."
"Perhaps we can stay close to loved ones as they continue their lives or perhaps go to heaven or to other dimensions or who knows what."
"We cannot change the mistakes we have made in the past, but being able to try to do better the next time would certainly be a comfort. If we get to live repeated lives, then perhaps we can make progress across lifetimes and become better people."
"When any of us grieve for loved ones we have lost, we would certainly be comforted to know that those people have continued in some form and that they may come back into our lives."
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