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Children talk about past lives. True Stories That Prove Past Lives Are Real

Jim Tucker from Charlottesville (USA) is the only academic scientist in the world who has been researching children's stories about past lives for 15 years, thus providing evidence for reincarnation.

Tucker collected individual cases from the USA in a new book and presents in it his own hypotheses to the scientific aspects that may be hidden behind the phenomenon of reincarnation. The following is a translation of the article "The Science of Reincarnation", first published in the University of Virginia Journal.

Spontaneous memories and childhood games

His mother, Cindy, went to the doctor, but the doctor explained that he had nightmares, and that the boy would soon outgrow this age. One evening, when Cindy was putting her son to bed, he suddenly took her hand and said: “Mom, I think I was someone else once.” Ryan explained that he can remember a big White House and pool.

This house was located in Hollywood, many miles from their home in Oklahoma. Ryan said that he had three sons, but he can't remember their names. He began to cry and kept asking his mother why he couldn't remember their names. “I really didn’t know what to do,” recalls Cindy.

“I was very scared. He was so persistent in this matter. After that night, he tried again and again to remember their names, each time frustrated that he couldn't. I started looking for information about reincarnation on the Internet. I even took a few library books about Hollywood in the hope that the pictures might help him.

I didn't tell anyone about it for months." One day, when Ryan and Cindy were looking at one of the books about Hollywood, Ryan stopped at the same page as a black-and-white photograph from the 1930s movie Night After Night. The picture showed two men threatening a third. They were surrounded by four other men.

Cindy didn't recognize the faces, but Ryan pointed to one of the men in the middle and said, "Hey mom, it's George. We made a movie together." Then his fingers slid to the man in the jacket on the right side of the picture, who was looking sullenly: "This guy is me, I found myself!".

Although rare, Ryan's statement is not unique and is one of a total of more than 2,500 cases that psychiatrist Jim Tucker has collected in his archive at the Department of Perceptual Research Medical Center at the University of Virginia.

At two years old, children remember their past life.

Very rarely, these formerly deceased individuals are famous or popular, and often not known at all to the families of these children. Tucker, one of only two world scientists studying this phenomenon, explains that the complexity of these experiences varies.

Some of them can be easily identified - for example, when it is clear that innocuous stories of children occur in those families where a close relative has been lost. In other cases, like Ryan's, the logical explanation is a scientific one, Tucker says, that is both simple and surprising: "Somehow, the child remembers memories from another life."

“I understand that this is a big step to understand and accept that there is something beyond what we can see and touch,” explains Tucker, who has worked for almost a decade as medical director of the University Children’s Hospital (Psychiatric Clinic Child and Family).

“Nevertheless, this is evidence that such incidents should be considered, and if we look carefully at such cases, then the greatest sense has an explanation that there is a transfer of memories.

The key to the existence of reincarnation

In his latest book, Return to Live, Tucker recounts some of his most compelling cases in the United States and presents his arguments that recent discoveries in quantum mechanics, the science of the behavior of the smallest particles in nature, are the key to the existence of reincarnation.

“Quantum physics suggests that our physical world emerges from our consciousness,” says Tucker. “Not only I represent this point of view, but also a large number of other scientists.” While Tucker's work has led to heated debates in the scientific community, his research is based in part on cases investigated by his predecessor, who died in 2007, Ian Stevenson, who collected cases from around the world that are no less misunderstood.

For Michael Levin, director of the Center for Restorative and Regenerative Developmental Biology at Tufts University and the author of an academic review of Tucker's first book, which he describes as "first-rate research," the current models of science that can neither disprove nor prove Tucker's discoveries: “When you fish with a net with large holes, you will never catch a fish that is smaller than these holes. What you find is always limited to what you are looking for.

Current methods and concepts simply cannot handle this data.” Tucker, whose research is funded entirely by the foundation, began research on reincarnation in late 1990 after he read an article in the Charlottesville Daily Progress about a scholarship to research work Ian Stevenson on near-death experiences: "I was interested in the idea of life after death and the question of whether scientific method to study this area.

After initially volunteering with Stevenson's department for several years, he became a permanent member of the team and passed on Stevenson's notes, which date in part from the early 1960s. “This job,” says Tucker, “gave me amazing insight.”

Reincarnation in numbers:

Tucker's research revealed interesting patterns in cases of children reporting past life memories. Average age 28 years old at death of previous person Most children reporting past life memories are between the ages of 2 and 6 years 60% percent 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 were of the same sex at past life The average time between their reported date of death and rebirth is 16 months 20% of these children report having memories of the period between death and rebirth.

What are the characteristics of such children?

Further research by Tucker and others has shown that children affected by this phenomenon generally have above-average IQs, but do not have higher-than-average mental and behavioral problems. None of the children studied tried to free themselves from painful situations in the family with the help of descriptions of such stories.

About 20 percent of the children examined had scar-like birthmarks or malformations that looked like the spots and wounds of those people whose lives they remembered, and which they received shortly or at the time of death. Most of these statements in children decline by the age of six, which corresponds to the time, according to Tucker, when the child's brain is preparing for a new phase of development.

One could compare this to a situation where a child on his first day of school is not really smarter than on his last day. kindergarten". Raised as a Southern Baptist in North Carolina, Tucker also explores other, more down-to-earth explanations, and also explores cases of deception due to financial interests and fame.

“But in most cases, film contracts don’t bring this information,” says Tucker, “and many families, especially in the Western world, are embarrassed to talk about their child’s unusual behavior.” Of course, Tucker doesn't rule out even a simple childhood fantasy as an explanation, but that can't account for the richness of detail with which some children remember the previous person: "It goes against all logic that it could all just be a coincidence."

In many cases, the researcher goes on to say, false memories of witnesses are revealed, but there were also dozens of examples where parents carefully documented their children's stories from the very beginning. “None of the rational explanations put forward so far can yet explain another pattern where children—as in the case of Ryan—associate strong emotions with their memories,” Tucker wrote.

Tucker believes that the relatively small number of cases that he and Stevenson have been able to collect in America over the past 50 years can be explained by the fact that many parents simply ignore or misinterpret their children's stories: don't believe, they just stop talking about it. They understand that they are not supported. Most children want to please their parents."

A look at consciousness from the point of view of quantum physics

How exactly consciousness, or at least memories, can transfer from one person to another is still a mystery. But Tucker believes the answer can be found in the basics of quantum physics: Scientists have long known that matter, like electrons and protons, creates events when they are observed.

A simplified example is the so-called double-slit experiment: if light is allowed to fall through a hole with two small gaps, one of which is a photoreactive plate, and this process is not observed, then the light passes through both slits. If you observe the process, then the light falls - as the plate shows - only through one of the two holes.

The behavior of light, particles of light, is thus changed, although the only difference is that the process has been observed. In fact, there is also a controversial and powerful debate surrounding this experiment and its results. Tucker, however, believes - like the founder of quantum physics Max Planck - that the physical world can be changed by non-physical consciousness, and perhaps even originated from it.

If that were the case, then consciousness would not need a brain to exist. For Tucker, therefore, there is no reason to believe that consciousness also ends with brain death: "It is possible that consciousness manifests itself in a new life." Robert Pollock, director of the Center for the Study of Science and Religion at Columbia University, notes that scientists have long puzzled over what role observation might have for the physical world.

However, the hypotheses put forward are not necessarily scientific: “Such debates among physicists usually focus on the clarity and beauty of such an idea, and not on the circumstances that they simply cannot be proven. In my opinion, this is anything but a scientific debate. I think what Planck and his followers observed and are observing is the behavior of small particles, on the basis of which they drew conclusions about consciousness and thereby expressed hope.

While I hope they are right, there is no way to prove or disprove these ideas." Tucker, in turn, explains that his hypothesis is based on more than just wishful thinking. This is much more than just hope. “If you have direct positive evidence for a theory, it matters even when there is negative evidence against it.”

Ryan meeting his daughter in a past life

Cindy Hamons was not interested in these discussions when her son preschool age I recognized myself in a photo from over 80 years ago. She just wanted to know who this man was. There was no information about this in the book itself. But Cindy soon found out that the man in the photo, whom Ryan called "George", is now almost forgotten movie star George Raft.

Who was the person in whom Ryan recognized himself, Cindy was never clear. Cindy wrote to Tucker, whose address she also found on the Internet. Through him, the photo ended up in the film archive, where, after several weeks of searching, it turned out that gloomy the man is during his lifetime a little-known actor Martin Martyn, who was not mentioned in the credits of the film "Night after Night" (Night after Night).

Tucker did not report his discovery to the Hamons family when he came to visit them a few weeks later. Instead, he placed four black-and-white photographs of women on the kitchen table, three of which were random. Tucker asked Ryan if he recognized one of the women. Ryan looked at the photos and pointed to a photo of a woman he knew.

It was the wife of Martin Martin. Some time later, the Jamons, together with Tucker, went to California to meet with Martin's daughter, who was found by the editors of the television documentary film about Tucker. Before meeting Ryan, Tucker talked to a woman. The lady was at first reluctant to tell, but during the conversation she was able to reveal more and more details about her father, which confirmed Ryan's stories.

Ryan said that "he" danced in New York. Martin was a dancer on Broadway. Ryan said that he was also an "agent" and that the people he worked for changed their names. In fact, Martyn worked for many years after his career as a dancer for a well-known talent agency in Hollywood that came up with creative pseudonyms. Ryan also clarified that his old address had the word "rock" in the title.

Martyn lived at 825 North Roxbbury Drive in Beverly Hills. Ryan also revealed that he knew a man named Senator Five. Martin's daughter confirmed that she had a photograph of her father, along with Senator Irving Ives of New York, who served from 1947 to 1959 in the US Senate. And yes, Martyn had three sons, whose names the daughter, of course, knew. But her meeting with Ryan didn't go well.

Ryan held out his hand to her, but hid behind his mother for the rest of the conversation. He later explained to his mother that a woman's energy had changed, after which his mother explained to him that people change when they grow up. "I don't want to go back (to Hollywood)," Ryan explained. “I want to leave only this (my) family.”

Over the next weeks, Ryan talked less and less about Hollywood. Tucker explains that this often happens when children meet the families of the people they think they once were. “This seems to confirm their memories, which then lose their intensity. I think they then realize that no one from the past is waiting for them anymore. Some children feel sad because of this.

But eventually they accept it and turn their attention completely to the present. They pay attention to the fact that they must live here and now - and of course, this is exactly what they should do.

Translation by Alena Ivanova

A few months ago I came across one of information portals to an article that collected some rather unusual childhood sayings. It was also interesting to read the reaction of readers to these statements. In short, the reaction can be divided into two types.

Those who believe in reincarnation and past lives. Such users reacted quite calmly to these children's statements, realizing that all this is connected with past lives.
Those who do not believe in reincarnation. From such readers one could hear something like: "A child's fantasy is good."

Let's talk a little about this. And I will start with an excerpt from the AllatRa book, where it is very well written about all this.

« What is a human being? A human being during life is a multidimensional spatial object, which is built around the Soul and has its own intelligent Personality. The habitual form and structure of the physical body visible to the eye, together with its physical and chemical processes and control system (including the material brain), is just a part of the overall human structure, which belongs to the three-dimensional dimension. That is, a person consists of the Soul along with its information shells, the Personality and the structure, so to speak, consisting of various fields of other dimensions (including the physical body located in the three-dimensional dimension).

What is an intelligent person? In a new construction, in a new body, a new Personality is also formed - this is who any person feels during his lifetime, the one who makes a choice between the Spiritual and Animal natures, analyzes, draws conclusions, accumulates personal baggage of sensual and emotional dominants. If during a life a person spiritually develops so much that his Personality merges with the Soul, then a qualitatively new, mature Being is formed, different from the human, which goes into spiritual world. This is, in fact, what is called "the liberation of the Soul from captivity material world”, “going to Nirvana”, “achieving holiness”, and so on. If such a merger did not occur during a human life, then after the death of the physical body and the destruction of the energy structure, this intelligent Personality leaves with the Soul for rebirth (reincarnation), turning, let’s say conditionally, for understanding the essence, into a subpersonality. When the physical body dies, the human being continues to exist. In the transition state, it has a spherical shape with helical structures. This formation contains the Soul along with its information shells - subpersonalities from previous incarnations, including the Personality from a recent life.

In the photograph of the Soul, the marginal shell is clearly visible. It consists (as it deepens towards the ball) of red (the remainder vital energy- prana), as well as yellow and white-yellow colors of other energies. The spherical shape itself is sky blue with hints of light green; has a characteristic spiral structure, twisted towards the center, with shades of the rainbow and white blotches.

The information shells located around the Soul are sensory-emotional clusters, more precisely, a reasonable information structure, which can be compared associatively with a kind of nebula. Simply put, these are former Personalities from past incarnations. There can be many such subpersonalities near the Soul, depending on how many reincarnations a person had.

Anastasia: It turns out that a subpersonality is a Personality, like you, who was active in past incarnations of your Soul.

Rigden: Yes. In other words, this former Personality from a past life with all the baggage of sensory-emotional dominants (positive or negative) that she accumulated in her time during her life, that is, with the result of her lifetime choice.

A personality, as a rule, does not have a direct connection with subpersonalities, therefore a person does not remember past lives and, accordingly, the experience, acquired knowledge of these subpersonalities. But in rare cases, when certain circumstances overlap, a vague feeling of deja vu is possible, or short-term spontaneous manifestations of the activity of the last (preceding the current incarnation) subpersonality. This is especially true for a person in early childhood.

There are cases recorded in the works of psychiatry, when children who do not have any abnormalities, with healthy parents, show short-term unnatural behavior akin to borderline personality disorder. I will give one of the examples. Girl of four years, the same dream began to dream: against the backdrop of light, a boy who calls her to him, but does not let her into the light. She began to complain to her parents about this depressing dream, and in the evenings she began to show unpredictable, previously unusual aggressive behavior and unusual strength. A four-year-old girl in anger overturned tables, chairs, a heavy cabinet, did not recognize her mother, threw a tantrum at her in an accusatory manner that “you are not my mother”, “you will die anyway” and so on. That is, the words and behavior of the girl were unnatural for her, but very characteristic of a subpersonality that survived reincarnation and is in a state of "hell", experiencing torment and animal pain. And the next day the child again became normal, behaved as usual. This is a typical case of a short-term manifestation of the negativism of the previous subpersonality. The best thing that can be done in this case is to actively develop the child's intellect, expand his horizons of knowledge of the world and wait for the primary surge to occur, a new Personality to form.

The primary surge occurs, as a rule, by the age of 5–7 years of a person's life. The point is that in early childhood before the initial surge, a similar short-term activation of the previous Personality (subpersonality) can occur. The latter, while a new Personality is being formed, is trying to break through to consciousness and seize power over a person.

But much more often there are other cases of manifestation of subpersonality. This is when children aged 3–5 years (at a time when a new Personality has not yet been formed) begin to reason from the position of an adult, experienced person. On rare occasions, these may be detailed details of their previous adult life which, in fact, is impossible to know at that age. And most often it happens that a child unexpectedly wisely speaks out for some reason, expressing clearly not childish thoughts, and this sometimes mystically frightens adults. Parents should not be afraid of such manifestations, but should simply understand their nature. When the Personality of the child is formed, they will pass.

So, each subpersonality retains the individuality of its past consciousness in the form of desires, aspirations that dominated during its active life. Personality, as I have already said, has no direct connection with subpersonalities, that is, a person consciously does not remember his past lives. However, on a subconscious level, such a connection between the Personality and subpersonalities is preserved. Indirectly, the latter can influence the Personality and “push” it to certain actions, inclining it to make certain decisions. This happens on an unconscious level. In addition, subpersonalities, figuratively speaking, are like “foggy light filters”, due to which the direct connection between the Soul and new Personality, so to speak, between the source of Light and those who need it. (pp. 83-89)

Well, now, I will give examples of interesting children's statements, of which there are enough on the Internet.

I do not give the full story, because it is long, but in short, Maxim's mother had an older brother, 14 years older than her. He loved and cared for his sister very much, their dad died early. Brother was a pilot civil aviation and died in a car accident while returning home from a flight. The story ends with the words of little Maxim: “Do you remember, I promised to take you on a plane? So, when I grow up, I will definitely become a pilot and fulfill my promise, mom!”

“In a Druze community on the border of Syria and Israel, a boy was born with a long red mark on his head.

When the child was 3 years old, he told his parents that he had been killed in a past life. He also remembered that his death had come from a blow to the head with an axe.

When the boy was brought to the village from his memories, he was able to say his name in a past life. locals they said that such a person actually lived here, but disappeared about 4 years ago.

The boy remembered not only his house, but also named his killer.

When meeting with the child, this man seemed frightened, but he never confessed to the crime. Then the boy pointed out the place where the murder took place.

And to the surprise of everyone, a human skeleton and an ax were found at this very place, which turned out to be a murder weapon.

The skull of the found skeleton was damaged, and exactly the same the mark was on the head of the child.»

“At the age of three, the boy startled his parents by declaring that he was not their son, and that his former name was Chen Mingdao!

The boy described in detail the place where he lived before, and even named the names of his parents.

He also remembered that he died during the revolutionary actions from saber blows and shots. And on the stomach of the child were actually birthmarks that look like saber marks.

It turned out that Tang Jiangshan's former birthplace was not that far away. And when the boy was 6 years old, he and his parents went to his former native village.

Despite his childhood, Tang Jiangshan was able to find his home without difficulty. To the surprise of everyone, the boy was fluent in the dialect of the place where they arrived.

Entering the house, he recognized his former father and introduced himself as Chen Mingdao. Sande - the boy's former father could hardly believe the child's story, but the details that the boy told about his past life made him recognize his son.

Since that time, Tang Jiangshan has had another family. His father from a past life and his sisters accepted him as the former Chen Mingdao.”

(Eng. IanPretymanStevenson) (October 31, 1918 - February 8, 2007) - Canadian-American biochemist and psychiatrist. The object of his study was the presence in children of information about the lives of people who lived before them (which, according to Stevenson, proved reincarnation, or reincarnation).

Over the course of 40 years, Stevenson investigated over 3,000 cases of reports of children claiming past events. Each time, the researcher documented the child's stories and compared them to the actual events.

Stevenson tried to find explanations for the phenomenon not only from the point of view of the possibility of transmigration of souls, he tried to exclude both deliberate deception and cases when children could accidentally obtain information in the usual way or if there is a high probability of false memories of both the subject himself and members of his current or alleged past family . Stevenson rejected several cases. Stevenson did not claim that his research proved the existence of reincarnations, cautiously referring to these facts as "putative reincarnation", and considered reincarnation not the only one, but still best explanation for most of the cases he studied.

After spending many years researching reincarnation, Stevenson wrote:

"Orthodox theory in psychiatry and psychology presents human personality as a product of the genetic material of a person (inherited from ancestors through parents), changing under the influence of the environment in the prenatal and postnatal periods. But I have found that there are cases that we cannot satisfactorily explain by genetics, influence environment or a combination of them" ("Family Circle", June 14, 1978)

Stevenson had own system study, its own set of techniques. In his work, the doctor was based on the following principles:

families in which there was a child who had information about the lives of already deceased people were never paid a monetary reward,
studies were conducted mainly with children from two to four years old,
only one for which it was possible to obtain documentary evidence of the recalled events was considered a proven case.

Jan loved working with children. They usually remember "their" previous life and start talking about it from the age of two or three. The most typical is the age of two to four years, less often memories of a past life appear in older children. Often a child begins to talk about his former life as soon as he has learned to speak. Sometimes he has to use gestures to complete what he cannot express clearly in words (Stevenson. Reincarnation: Field Studies and Theoretical Issues, p. 637.)

By the age of five or six (and almost certainly by eight) these memories fade and disappear. This is the same age at which the child's social circle expands, he begins to go to school, etc. Presumably, this new experience is superimposed in the child's memory on those layers that contain memories of the previous life, and over time, the latter become inaccessible.

(Stevenson. Explanatory Value of the Idea of Reincarnation. - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, May 1977, p. 317.)

In many cases, the first words spoken by children are the names of the places where they lived or the names of people they knew before, which completely discourages their parents.

Talking about a past life, the child may behave somewhat strangely. His behavior may seem unusual for members of his family, but be consistent with what he says about his previous life (and in most cases it is found to be in full agreement with the description given by the relatives of the deceased person) ... Another feature: the child often shows “ adult" attitude to the world and behaves beyond his years seriously, wisely, and sometimes with patronizing indulgence towards other children. This is characteristic of those cases where the subject is convinced that he is still an adult, and not a child.

(Stevenson. Reincarnation: Field Studies and Theoretical Issues, pp. 637-38.)

Subjects often talk about the strangeness of their sensations in physical bodies. They express dissatisfaction with the fact that they turned out to be small children in them.

(Stevenson. The Possible Nature of Post-Mortem States. - Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, October 1980, p. 417.)

The events that children remember best are related to the death of their former self and the circumstances leading up to it. If a person says that in a previous life he did not die by his own death, then traces may remain on the body in the form of moles, birthmarks, scars, scars. About 35% of children who spoke about their past life had birthmarks or birth defects, the location of which corresponds to wounds (usually fatal) on the body of the person whose life the child remembers.

(Stevenson. Reincarnation: Field Studies and Theoretical Issues, p. 654.)

The information from Stevenson's research, which I briefly cited in short passages, in my opinion, correlates very well with what is written in AllatRa. At what age do unusual children's statements begin and end, what is their nature and behavior of the child.

Well, one more thing, which I will leave without comment. In some cases, children talk about how they chose their own parents. Here are some examples of such statements. How true these statements are, I cannot judge.

Decades ago, the American astronomer and astrobiologist Carl Sagan said that "there are three concepts in parapsychology that deserve serious study", one of them is due to the fact that "young children sometimes give details of their" past lives, which, after verification, turn out to be accurate and which they probably didn't know."

Many researchers have become interested in studying this intriguing and inexplicable phenomenon, as a result of which a number of amazing discoveries. The study of reincarnation belongs to the non-material sciences, this area deserves great attention.

University of Virginia psychiatrist Jim Tucker is perhaps the leading researcher on the phenomenon of reincarnation today. In 2008, he published an article where he talked about cases suggestive of reincarnation.

Tucker describes typical cases reincarnation. Interesting fact- 100 percent of those who report a past life are children. The average age of children who talk about their past life 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 brought to their “past families”.

According to Tucker: “Children usually stop talking about past lives 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 life, and, accordingly, they begin to lose their early memories.

Sam Taylor

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 little over a year first mentioned a past life. Tucker writes: “One day, 1.5-year-old Sam told his father when he was changing his diaper: “When I was your age, I used to change 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 the 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 boy from the Midwest

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 returning home to Hollywood and asked his mother to take him there. He talked about meeting stars like Rita Hayworth, doing Broadway productions, and working at an agency where people often change their names. He even remembered the name of the street where he lived "in a past life."

Cindy, Ryan's mother, said that "his stories were incredibly detailed and so full of events that a child could not just make them up."

Cindy decided to look through the Hollywood books in her home library, hoping to find something that caught her son's attention. And she found a photo of the person Ryan thought he was 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 a still from a movie called Night After Night and the man is Marty Martin, who was an extra and later became a powerful Hollywood agent until his death in 1964. Martin did perform on Broadway, worked at an agency where clients were given pseudonyms, and lived at 825 North Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills. Ryan knew all these facts. For example, that the address contains the word "rocks". The boy could also tell how many children Martin had, how many times he was married. Even more amazing is that he knew about Martin's sisters, although he knew nothing about Martin's daughter. Ryan also "remembered" the housekeeper of African American origin. Martin and his wife had several. In total, the boy gave 55 facts from the life of this man. But as Ryan grew older, he gradually began to forget everything.

Shanai Shumalaiwong

Shanai is a Thai boy who, at the age of 3, started saying he was a teacher named Bua Kai who was shot while riding his bike to school. He begged and begged to be taken 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's amazing that Kai and Shanai had something in common. Kai was shot from behind: he had a small round entrance wound from a bullet wound on the back of his head, and a larger and uneven shape on his forehead. Shanai, on the other hand, was born with two birthmarks, a small round birthmark on the back of his head and a larger, unevenly defined one in front.

Case with P.M.

The boy, let's call him P.M., 12 years before his birth, died of a malignant tumor - neuroblastoma - a half-brother. The tumor was discovered after the brother began to limp, and then constantly broke his left tibia. He was biopsied from a nodular lump 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, already blind in his left eye.

P.M. was born with 3 birthmarks, which seemed to remind him of the problems of his half-brother. 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 they put the catheter to his brother. He also had a so-called "corneal blemish" which left him virtually blind in his left eye. When P.M. began to walk, he did this, limping on his left leg. And being at the age of 4.5 years, the boy began to ask his mother to return to their former home, which he described with incredible accuracy.

Kendra Carter

At the age of 4, Kendra began taking swimming lessons and became instantly emotionally attached to the coach. Shortly after the start of classes, the girl began to say that the coach's child had died, that the coach was sick, 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 that child from the trainer's stomach. The girl's mother soon learned that the coach actually had a miscarriage 9 years before Kendra's birth.

The girl became happy and cheerful when she was in class, and, on the contrary, closed the rest of the time. The mother began to allow her daughter to spend more and more time with the coach, even staying 3 times a week at night.

Subsequently, the coach quarreled with Kendra's mother and cut off all contact with the family. After that, the girl fell into depression and did not talk to anyone for 4.5 months. The coach resumed 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 he was once a pilot who was shot down over Iwo Jima during World War II. For the first time, the boy's parents found out about this, when nightmares began to torment him, James got up and shouted: “The plane crashed! The plane is on fire! He knew the features of the aircraft, which is impossible for his age. For example, once he corrected his mother in a conversation, she called an external fuel tank a bomb. James and his parents watched a documentary where the author named the Japanese plane Zero and the boy claimed 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.

You ask where a little boy from Louisiana remembers being a WW2 pilot?

The biggest skeptic in this story was the boy's father, who claimed to be quite skeptical about the situation, but the information James gave out was so startling and unusual.

Reincarnation in numbers:

Tucker's research revealed interesting patterns in cases of children reporting past life memories:

The average age at the time of death of a person "moved into a new body" is 28 years
Most children reporting past life memories are between the ages of 2 and 6.
60% percent 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 date of death reported by them and a new birth is 16 months.
20% of these children report having memories of the period between death and a new birth.

Jim Tucker from Charlottesville (USA) is the only academic scientist in the world who has been researching children's stories about past lives for 15 years. Tucker has now collected anecdotal cases from the US in a new book and presents his own hypotheses on the scientific aspects that may lie behind the phenomenon of reincarnation.

The following is a translation of the article "The Science of Reincarnation", first published in the journal of the University of Virginia.

Spontaneous memories and childhood games

When Ryan Hammons was four years old, he began to play director of films, and commands such as "Action" were constantly heard from his children's room. But these games soon became cause for concern for Ryan's parents, especially after he woke up screaming one night, clutched his chest, and began to tell that he dreamed his heart exploded while he was in Hollywood one day. His mother Cindy went to the doctor, but the doctor explained it with nightmares, and that the boy would soon outgrow this age. One evening, when Cindy was putting her son to bed, he suddenly took her hand and said: " Mom, it seems to me that I was once someone else".

Ryan explained that he could remember the big white house and the pool. This house was located in Hollywood, many miles from their home in Oklahoma. Ryan said that he had three sons, but he can't remember their names. He began to cry and kept asking his mother why he couldn't remember their names.

"I really didn't know what to do", - recalls Cindy. - " I was very scared. He was so persistent in this matter. After that night, he tried again and again to remember their names, each time frustrated that he couldn't. I started looking for information about reincarnation on the Internet. I even borrowed some library books about Hollywood in the hope that the pictures might help him. I didn't tell anyone about this for months.".

One day, while Ryan and Cindy were looking at one of the Hollywood books, Ryan stopped at the same page as a black-and-white photograph from the 1930s movie Night After Night. The picture showed two men threatening a third. They were surrounded by four other men. Cindy didn't recognize these faces, but Ryan pointed to one of the men in the middle and said, " Hey mom, it's George. We made a movie together".

Then his fingers slid to the man in the jacket on the right side of the picture, who was looking sullenly: This guy is me, I found myself!".

At two years old, children remember their past life.

For nearly 15 years, Tucker has been researching the stories of children who, typically between the ages of two and six, claim to have lived sometime before. Sometimes these children can even describe quite detailed details of these former lives. Very rarely, these formerly deceased individuals are famous or popular, and often not known at all to the families of these children.

Tucker, one of only two world scientists studying this phenomenon, explains that the complexity of these experiences varies. Some of them can be easily identified, for example, when it is clear that innocuous stories of children occur in those families where a close relative has been lost.

In other cases, like Ryan's, the logical explanation is a scientific one, says Tucker, that is both simple and surprising at the same time: " One way or another, the child remembers memories from another life.".

"I understand that it is a big step to understand and accept that there is something beyond what we can see and touch."explains Tucker, who for almost a decade served as medical director of the University Children's Hospital (Child and Family Psychiatric Clinic)." However, this is evidence that such incidents should be considered, and if we look closely at such cases, the explanation that makes the most sense is thatmemories are transferred ".

The key to the existence of reincarnation

In his latest book, Return to Live, Tucker talks about some of his most compelling cases in the US and presents his arguments that the latest discoveries in quantum mechanics, the science of the behavior of the smallest particles in nature, are the key to the existence of reincarnation.

"Quantum physics suggests that our physical world emerges from our consciousness Tucker says. — This point of view is represented not only by me, but also by a large number of other scientists.".

While Tucker's work has led to heated debates in the scientific community, his research is based in part on cases investigated by his predecessor, who died in 2007, Ian Stevenson, who collected cases from around the world that are no less misunderstood.

For Michael Levine, director of the Center for Restorative and Regenerative Developmental Biology at Tufts University and the author of an academic review of Tucker's first book, which he describes as "first-rate research", the reason for the controversy is the current models of science that can neither disprove nor prove Tucker's discoveries: " When you fish with big holes, you will never catch fish that are smaller than those holes. What you find is always limited to what you are looking for. Current methods and concepts are simply unable to handle this data.".

Tucker, whose research is exclusively funded by the foundation, began research on reincarnation in late 1990 after he read an article in the Charlottesville Daily Progress about an Ian Stevenson near-death research fellowship: " I was interested in the idea of life after death and the question of whether the scientific method could be used to study this area.".

After initially volunteering with Stevenson's department for several years, he became a permanent member of the team and passed on Stevenson's notes, which date in part from the early 1960s. " This job Tucker says, gave me amazing insight".

Tucker's Research Results in Numbers

Approximately 70 percent of the children studied died (in their past life) from violent or unexpected death. About a third of these cases are remembered by boys. This corresponds almost exactly to the proportion of men with unnatural causes of death in the normal population.

Although in countries where reincarnation is part of religious culture, such cases are reported more often, however, according to Tucker, there is no correspondence between the frequency of cases and religious belief families who have experienced reincarnation.

One in five children who report a previous life they also talk about the transitional period between lives - between birth and death. However, it is almost impossible to find correspondences in these stories about how this transition is experienced. Some of the children claimed that they were in the "House of God", while others stated that they waited at the place of their death before they "entered" their (new) mothers.

In cases where the children's history could be attributed to some other person, the duration of this transitional period was usually from about 16 months.

What are the characteristics of such children?

About 20 percent of the children examined had scar-like birthmarks or malformations that were similar to the marks and wounds of those people whose lives they recalled and who they received shortly or at the time of death.

Most of these statements in children decline by the age of six, which corresponds to the time, according to Tucker, when the child's brain is preparing for a new phase of development.

Despite the transcendent nature of their stories, almost none of the children studied and documented showed other signs of "supernatural" abilities or "enlightenment," Tucker wrote. " My impression is that although some children make philosophical remarks, most of them are completely normal children. One could compare this to a situation where a child on his first day of school is actually no smarter than on his last day of kindergarten.".

Raised as a Southern Baptist in North Carolina, Tucker also explores other more down-to-earth explanations, and also explores cases of deception due to financial interests and fame. " But in most cases, film contracts do not bring this information. Tucker says, and many families, especially in the Western world, are embarrassed to talk about their child's unusual behavior".

Of course, Tucker doesn't rule out even a simple childhood fantasy as an explanation, but that can't account for the richness of detail with which some children remember the previous person: " It goes against all logic that it could all just be a coincidence".

"None of the rational explanations put forward so far can still explain another pattern when children, as in the case of Ryan, associate strong emotions with their memories" Tucker wrote.

Tucker believes that the relatively small number of cases that he and Stevenson have been able to collect in America over the past 50 years can be explained by the fact that many parents simply ignore or misinterpret their children's stories: " When children are given to understand that they are not being listened to or not believed, they simply stop talking about it. They understand that they are not supported. Most children want to please their parents.".

A look at consciousness from the point of view of quantum physics

How exactly consciousness, or at least memories, can transfer from one person to another is still a mystery. But Tucker believes the answer can be found in the basics of quantum physics: scientists have long known that matter, like electrons and protons, creates events when they are observed.

A simplified example is the so-called double-slit experiment: if light is allowed to fall through a hole with two small gaps, one of which is a photoreactive plate, and this process is not observed, then the light passes through both slits. If you observe the process, then the light falls, as the plate shows, only through one of the two holes. The behavior of light, particles of light, thus changes, although the only difference is that the process has been observed.

In fact, there is also a controversial and powerful debate surrounding this experiment and its results. Tucker, however, believes, like the founder of quantum physics, Max Planck, that the physical world can be changed by non-physical consciousness, and it may even have originated from it.

If that were the case, then consciousness would not need a brain to exist. For Tucker, therefore, there is no reason to believe that consciousness also ends with brain death: " It is possible that consciousness manifests itself in a new life.".

Robert Pollock, director of the Center for the Study of Science and Religion at Columbia University, notes that scientists have long puzzled over what role observation might have for the physical world. However, the hypotheses put forward are not necessarily scientific: " Such debates among physicists usually focus on the clarity and beauty of such an idea, rather than on the circumstances that they simply cannot be proven. In my opinion, this is anything but a scientific debate. I think what Planck and his followers observed and are observing is the behavior of small particles, on the basis of which they drew conclusions about consciousness and thereby expressed hope. While I hope they are right, there is no way to prove or disprove these ideas.".

Tucker, in turn, explains that his hypothesis is based on more than just wishful thinking. This is much more than just hope. " If you have direct positive evidence for a theory, it matters even when there is negative evidence against".

Ryan meeting his daughter in a past life

Cindy Hamons wasn't interested in these discussions when her preschool son recognized himself in a photo from over 80 years ago. She just wanted to know who this man was.

There was no information about this in the book itself. But Cindy soon found out that the man in the photo, whom Ryan called "George" - now almost forgotten movie star George Raft. Who was the person in whom Ryan recognized himself, Cindy was never clear. Cindy wrote to Tucker, whose address she also found on the Internet.

Through him, the photo got into the film archive, where, after several weeks of searching, it turned out that a gloomy-looking man is not enough even during his lifetime. famous actor Martin Martin, who was not mentioned in the credits of the film "Night after Night" (Night after Night).

Some time later, the Hamons traveled with Tucker to California to meet Martin's daughter, who was found by the editors of a television documentary about Tucker.

Before meeting Ryan, Tucker talked to a woman. The lady was at first reluctant to tell, but during the conversation she was able to reveal more and more details about her father, which confirmed Ryan's stories.

Ryan said that "he" danced in New York. Martin was a dancer on Broadway. Ryan said that he was also an "agent" and that the people he worked for had changed their names. In fact, Martyn worked for many years after his career as a dancer for a well-known talent agency in Hollywood that came up with creative pseudonyms. Ryan also clarified that the word "rock" was in the title of his old address.

Martyn lived at 825 North Roxbbury Drive in Beverly Hills. Ryan also revealed that he knew a man named Senator Five. Martin's daughter confirmed that she had a photograph of her father with Senator Irving Ives of New York, who served from 1947 to 1959 in the US Senate. And yes, Martyn had three sons, whose names the daughter, of course, knew.

But her meeting with Ryan didn't go well. Ryan held out his hand to her, but hid behind his mother for the rest of the conversation. He later explained to his mother that a woman's energy had changed, after which his mother explained to him that people change when they grow up. " I don't want to go back (to Hollywood), Ryan explained. — I want to leave only this (my) family."

Over the following weeks, Ryan talked less and less about Hollywood.

Tucker explains that this often happens when children meet the families of the people they think they once were. " This seems to confirm their memories, which then lose their intensity. I think they then realize that no one from the past is waiting for them anymore. Some children feel sad because of this. But eventually they accept it and turn their attention completely to the present. They pay attention to the fact that they must live here and now - and of course, this is exactly what they should do. ".

Translation by Alena Ivanova, 2nd year student of the Institute of Reincarnation.

Copying materials strictly with the indication of the magazine Reincarnation.

When Sally was three years old, she announced that her real name was Joseph. At first, the parents laughed, but the girl persisted and insisted that in another life she was a boy. She was sure that her parents, Anna and Richard, were not her real parents and their hometown was not her real home.

She was convinced that, like Joseph, she lived in a small house by the sea, with many brothers and sisters. She constantly asked when she would see the ships again, and her parents never even took her to the sea.

It should be noted that Sally's birth was almost a miracle - her parents tried in vain to have a child for many years and Anna went through a series of unsuccessful IVF procedures.

Sally was disappointed because the adults didn't take her stories seriously. Six weeks after she turned 3 and from the moment she started talking about her previous life, the girl stopped talking about Joseph and the house by the sea, and completely forgot those old memories.

The interesting thing is that memories of past lives appear in children under the age of 3 years, and then after a bright burst they subside and disappear completely as they grow older.

A similar story was told by a family from the English city of Chester. The father says that they have two sons in the family and that one of them named Ronnie, when he was 16 months old, began to talk about his “other house”, where he was an “adult” and lived with different mom and dad.

Susan Bowers, from the USA, was shocked when her three-year-old son looked up from his struggle with unruly shoelaces and said, “I used to learn how to tie my shoelaces and it was just as disgusting, I didn’t think I would again you have to learn it."

Ann Marie Gonzalez, another American, was dumbfounded when her daughter, sitting on her lap, suddenly told that she remembered the fire in which their house burned down. The little girl described in great detail the fire that killed both her parents and left her an orphan. After that, she lived with her grandmother named Laura.

Another girl named Heather Lee Simpson from Indiana hated the sound of a siren. She reminded her of a terrible day in her past life, when some people came and took her mother away and she never came back.

There are cases when memories appear even after 4 years, but this happens much less often. For example, a four-year-old boy from the USA named Tristan was watching a cartoon about Tom and Jerry, while his mother was cooking in the kitchen at that time. Suddenly the boy ran up to her and said, - "I remember that I also cooked food for George Washington, the first president of the United States. I was a child then. I was black and helped cook in the kitchen. But then I died - I could not breathe , they hanged me."

Intrigued by her son's story, Rachel read a book about the life of George Washington and discovered that his cook, named Hercules, had three children: Richmond, Evie and Delia.

Here is another story that Els Van Pooppel told about her 22-month-old son named Cairo. They had to cross a busy highway in Australia when Cairo said they had to be careful, "Otherwise I'll die again."

And here is a story told by Teen Mitchell, who lives with his mother in Blackpool, when they were in the car with her, he pointed to the clouds and said, “When I was zero, before I was born, I stood on a cloud and talked to god, like what with God. God told me to choose my mommy. I looked down and saw a lot of mommies everywhere. They all wanted me to choose them. Then I saw you. I liked you and I chose you."

Many children talk about remembering how they were given the choice of their future mothers. For example, Judy Smith, when she was three years old, declared to her parents that she chose them herself, - "I was somewhere above the earth, looking at many pairs of people below. I then heard a voice that asked me which of them I I would like to choose my parents.I was told that depending on the couple I choose, it will depend on what my future life and that this couple will teach me how to live. I pointed to you and said, "I'll take them."

But such a “selection process” does not always happen so quickly.

Four-year-old Chris Lucas complained to his mother, "Do you know how long I've been waiting for you to become my mother? Very, very for a long time! But I don't regret it. I chose you to be my mom because I love you so much!"

Robert Rinne, when he was 5 years old, suddenly asked his parents - "Mom, when will I get my wings back?". He said that he was in heaven and he was led through one door behind which he chose his mother, and then through another door where he could see his future brothers and sisters who would be in the chosen family.

Marie Birkett, from Southampton, had to terminate her pregnancy due to back problems. Years later, after she eventually became a mother, her two-year-old daughter said, "Mommy, you didn't take me the first time because you had back pain, but I came back when your back got better."

The mother of a girl named Amy Rattigan suffered two miscarriages before the birth of a girl named Amy. When she was 3 years old, she told her mother that she knew about the "skipped" brother and sister because they all played together in heaven while waiting for the birth, after they chose her.

Many children talk about what is up there in the sky, they had wings. Jody Lemberger's son snuggled up to her and sadly said, "I forgot how to fly."

And Susan Lovejoy told how her 5-year-old son, Joseph, broke his arm while trying to jump, he complained to his mother: "When will I get my wings back?" She explained to him that only airplanes have wings and he burst into tears, saying that God had told him that when he returned he would get his wings back.

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