Discussions about the immortality of the soul can be found back in the days of the Ancient World. Then reflections came down more to understanding what the soul is and how it is connected with human thinking and consciousness.
With the change of generations, changes in people's views on life, new hypotheses appeared. Human history has accumulated more and more mysterious and inexplicable events with each century.
Today there are many views on the topic of reincarnation, many work sessions have been conducted for
But even sessions of immersion into past lives that are unique in their content encounter resistance from science. And in fact, how to prove what a person takes “out of his head”? In this case, accurate data and measurements are largely powerless.
But there are circumstances in which even the most inveterate skeptics throw up their hands. These are children's memories of past lives. In this case, even professors of psychological and medical sciences cannot refute the events described.
Do you remember, mom, when we died together?
« I was taking my three-year-old daughter by car from the dentist. She just had silver crowns placed on her side teeth. But she was a good patient - she never cried and listened to the doctor in everything. On the way home, she said worriedly: “I don’t like silver teeth. Remember when we died together, those bad guys took our silver teeth?»
The fact is that the child, due to his age, is much closer to the moment of birth - to the period when he was still beyond the bounds of real reality.
The memory of what was actually “there” is so vivid that memories can arise spontaneously. Often the trigger can be some kind of association, which leads to the revival of events in the child’s memory.
The sun is shining as it was then
« One day, my two-year-old daughter and I were driving in a car, she was sitting in a special child seat and looking at the sun’s reflections on the glass. As we drove across a bridge over a deep gorge, she said clearly and confidently: “Mom, this is very reminiscent of the place of my death.” I even stopped the car and carefully asked a few questions.
And this is what I heard: “The car fell from the bridge into the river. I didn't have a belt on, and I flew into the water. I lay on the rocks and saw a bridge above, sparkling in the sun, just like now, and bubbles that rose to the top.” I was stunned: my daughter had never seen any bubbles in the water anywhere. For about a year, Leah rarely thought about her death and was always worried about seat belts».
Children's memories are valuable precisely because the child does not yet have the opportunity to receive a large amount of information from the world around him.
His mental processes, from the point of view of psychology and physiology, are aimed at their development: in early childhood - this is the knowledge of space at the objective level, the recognition of close people.
In the future, through play, he will master the norms and rules that he has already seen from communicating with adults. But some situations simply do not fit into the framework that a particular family may envision.
The king killed me
« When our son was a little over two years old, one evening my husband began to compose a fairy tale for him and invited his son to choose the name for the main character himself. Nikita immediately called the name - Kanik.
And after the game, he often mentioned this to Kanika. When we began to ask him who this man was, Nikita said that Kanik is a king, he rides with a sword on a horse and in one of the battles... he killed him, Nikita!
It was quite strange for us, but we still looked for information on the Internet - what if such a person really once existed? Imagine our surprise when it turned out that in ancient Khorezm in the 8th century AD there actually lived a ruler named Kanik!»
Since the child’s main activity is play, it is often during the process of play that he begins to remember something from the events of past lives. Sensitive parents are not afraid of such statements, but, on the contrary, try to find out what their child wants to say.
I lived in a big house
« My son was 3 years old. He then sat his toys down and started playing with them as if he was giving them a tour. “Look, this is our house, yes, it’s so big. This is a staircase. There are portraits on the walls of my relatives. And this is mom and dad.
Look how beautiful the flowers are in these vases - our gardener puts them out every morning. And on the second floor is my room. From the window you can see the garden - these flowers grow there. Here are the fruits - I can eat as much as I want.
My room is my toys, my books, my clothes. My aunt gave me this hat for my birthday last year. My dresses are what I wear to church, and this is my favorite! To the hat..."
And since I draw, I quickly sketched a drawing of a girl about 12 years old - like Becky Thatcher from “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, I show it to my son, he answers: “Yes, that’s me!” Then suddenly he looks at me with suspicion: “Wait, mom, how do you know what kind of girl I was?!”»
And here it is important to note that even the fact that the child’s gender was different in a past life does not manifest itself in his present life. That is, he perceives himself as a boy, remembering that once upon a time he wore dresses. All this does not indicate pathology, but precisely the fact that such memories have their place.
The expression “parents are not chosen” is well known. And in fact, in the usual understanding, a person cannot predict what family he will be born into and what will surround the first years of his life.
On the one hand, this frees us from responsibility, and we can say to ourselves with a sigh: “ Well, it just so happened... It’s not my fault that my parents are like that... They didn’t teach me anything...».
On the other hand, this can lead to blaming one’s parents, who “didn’t teach us anything,” and not every one of us is able to accept this fact. But is it really so? Are parents really not chosen?
I'm glad I chose you, mom
« My son, aged two to six, loved to tell the story of how he chose 
me as your mother. According to him, he was in a lighted room with a man dressed in a suit. Opposite there were people “who looked like dolls,” and the stranger invited him to choose his mother».
« When my nephew learned to put words into sentences, he told my sister and her husband how glad he was that he chose them. He claimed that before he became a child, he saw many people in a brightly lit room, of which “I chose my Mom because she had a cute face ».
How to perceive such statements from your child? Many parents who are faced with such situations fall into panic and despair - “Is my child crazy?!” But don't rush to conclusions.
1. Listen to your child, if necessary, ask leading questions: “where was it?”, “when?”, “what was your name?”, “do you want to tell me anything else?” You might even wonder why he remembered something from a past life right now, and what significance it has.
2. Write down everything your child says. You can do this in the form of a game - for example, in the form of drawings, supplementing them with notes. Maybe during this lesson your baby will tell you something more.
3. Express your attention and interest to your child. The feeling that a loved one supports him is especially important at such moments - this will only strengthen your relationship with your child.
4. Under no circumstances no need to laugh and joke Regarding what has been said, it may not only offend your child, but will also be etched in his memory. Who knows, maybe he will carry this into his next life?
Be sensitive and attentive to your baby! Remembering past lives is an important event! This speaks of the subtlety and uniqueness of your child. Watch, maybe he will reveal his other talents and abilities. And for your attentive approach to the events of his past life, your child will thank you as an adult!
Jim Tucker from Charlottesville (USA) is the only academic scientist in the world who has been studying children's stories of past lives for 15 years, thus providing evidence of reincarnation. Now Tucker has collected selected cases from the United States in a new book and presents in it his own hypotheses about the scientific aspects that may be hidden behind the phenomenon of reincarnation.
Spontaneous memories and childhood games
When Ryan Hummons was four years old, he started playing movie director, with commands like "Action" constantly blaring from his childhood room. But these games soon became a cause for concern for Ryan's parents, especially after he woke up screaming one night, grabbed his chest, and began telling him that he dreamed that his heart exploded while he was in Hollywood one day.
His mother Cindy went to the doctor, but the doctor explained it as 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 once someone else.”
Ryan explained that he could remember a big white house and a swimming pool. This house was located in Hollywood, many miles from their home in Oklahoma. Ryan said he had three sons, but he couldn'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,” Cindy recalls. - “I was very scared. He was so insistent on this matter. After that night, he tried again and again to remember their names and each time he was disappointed that he could not. I started looking for information about reincarnation on the Internet. I even checked out some library books about Hollywood in the hopes that the pictures might help him. I didn't tell anyone about it for months."
One day, while Ryan and Cindy were looking at one of the books about Hollywood, Ryan stopped at one page of a black and white photograph from the 1930s film Night After Night. The picture showed two men threatening a third man. 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 film together."
Then his fingers slid to the man in the jacket on the right side of the picture, who looked sullenly: “This guy is ME, I found myself!”.
Although rare, Ryan's claim is not unique and is one of a total of more than 2,500 cases that psychiatrist Jim Tucker has collected in his archives at the University of Virginia Medical Center's Department of Perceptual Studies.
At two years old, children remember their past life
For nearly 15 years, Tucker has been researching the stories of children who, usually between the ages of two and six, claim that they lived once before. Sometimes these children can even describe quite detailed details of these former lives. Very rarely are these previously deceased individuals famous or popular, and are often completely unknown to the families of these children.
Tucker, one of two scientists in the world studying this phenomenon, explains that the complexity of such experiences varies. Some of them can be easily identified - for example, when it is clear that children's harmless stories occur in those families where they have lost a close relative.
In other cases, like Ryan's, the logical explanation is a scientific one, says Tucker, that is both simple and surprising: “Somehow, the child remembers memories from another life.
“I realize it's a big step to understand and accept that there is something beyond what we can see and touch,” explains Tucker, who spent nearly a decade as medical director of University Children's Hospital (Psychiatric Clinic Child and Family). “However, this is evidence that such incidents need to be considered, and if we look closely at such cases, the explanation that makes most sense is that memory transfer occurs.”
The key to the existence of reincarnation
In his latest book, Return to Live, Tucker recounts some of the most compelling cases he has studied in the United States and presents his argument 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 arises from our consciousness,” Tucker reports. “This point of view is represented not only by me, but also by a large number of other scientists.”
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 controversy stems from models of science currently in use that can neither disprove nor prove Tucker's discovery: “When you fish with a net with big holes, you will never catch a fish that is smaller than those holes. What you find is always limited by what you are looking for. Current methods and concepts simply cannot cope with this data."
Tucker, whose research is funded entirely by the foundation, began researching reincarnation in late 1990 after he read an article in the Charlottesville Daily Progress about Ian Stevenson's research fellowship on near-death experiences: "I was interested in the idea of life after death." and the question of whether the scientific method can be used to study this area."
Tucker's research results in numbers
After initially volunteering in Stevenson's department for several years, he became a permanent member of the team and handed over Stevenson's notes, which date in part to the early 1960s. “This work,” says Tucker, “gave me amazing insight.”
Approximately 70 percent of the children studied died (in their previous life) from a violent or unexpected death. About a third of these cases are recalled by boys. This corresponds almost exactly to the proportion of men with unnatural causes of death in the normal population.
Although such cases are reported more frequently in countries where reincarnation is part of the religious culture, according to Tucker, there is no correspondence between the frequency of cases and the religious beliefs of families who have experienced reincarnation.
In cases where the children's histories could be attributed to some other personality, the duration of this transition period was typically between about 16 months.
Further research by Tucker and others showed that children affected by this phenomenon generally have an IQ above average, but they do not have higher than average mental disorders and behavioral problems. None of the children studied tried to free themselves from painful situations in the family through descriptions of such stories.
Most of these statements in children decline by the age of six, which corresponds to the time, according to Tucker, when a child's brain is preparing for a new phase of development.
Despite the transcendental nature of their stories, almost none of the children studied and documented showed other signs of "supernatural" abilities or "enlightenment," Tucker wrote. “I got the impression that although some children make philosophical remarks, for the most part they are absolutely 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 considers other, more down-to-earth explanations, and also examines cases of deception due to financial interests and fame. “But in most cases, this information does not come from film contracts,” 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 simple childhood fantasy as an explanation, but that can't explain the richness of detail with which some children remember the previous person: "It flies in the face of 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 dozens of examples where parents carefully documented their children's stories from the very beginning.
Tucker believes that the relatively small number of cases 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 their children's stories or misinterpret them: “When children are given the idea that... they are not listened to or believed, they simply stop talking about it. They understand that they are not supported. Most children want to please their parents
Ryan meeting his daughter in a past life
Cindy Hamons wasn't interested in the debate when her preschool-age son recognized himself in a photo from more than 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 discovered that the man in the photo, whom Ryan called "George," was the now almost forgotten movie star George Raft. Who the person Ryan recognized himself was was still unclear to Cindy. 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 the gloomy-looking man was still a little-known actor Martin Martyn, who was not mentioned in the credits of the film “Night after Night.”
Tucker did not tell the Hamons family about his discovery 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 Martin Martyn's wife.
Some time later, the Hamons and Tucker traveled to California to meet Martyn's daughter, who had been found by the editors of a television documentary about Tucker.
Before meeting Ryan, Tucker spoke with a woman. The lady was reluctant to talk at first, but as the conversation progressed, she was able to reveal more and more details about her father that 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 Hollywood talent agency that created creative aliases. Ryan also explained that his old address had the word "rock" in the name.
But her meeting with Ryan didn't go well. Ryan, although he extended his hand to her, hid behind his mother for the rest of the conversation. He later explained to his mother that the woman's energy had changed, after which his mother explained to him that people change as they grow up. "I don't want to go back (to Hollywood)," Ryan explained. “I only want to leave this (my) family.”
Over the next weeks, Ryan spoke less and less about Hollywood.
Tucker explains that this often happens when children meet the families of people they believe 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. This makes some kids sad. 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.
Jim Tucker from Charlottesville (USA) is the only academic scientist in the world who has been studying children's stories of past lives for 15 years, thus providing evidence of reincarnation.
Tucker has collected individual cases from the United States in a new book and presents in it his own hypotheses about the scientific aspects that may be hidden behind the phenomenon of reincarnation. Below is a translation of the article “The Science of Reincarnation,” first published in the University of Virginia Journal.
Spontaneous memories and childhood games
When Ryan Hummons was four years old, he started playing movie director, with commands like "Action" constantly blaring from his childhood room. But these games soon became a cause for concern for Ryan's parents, especially after he woke up screaming one night, grabbed his chest, and began telling him that he dreamed that his heart exploded while he was in Hollywood one day.
His mother Cindy went to the doctor, but the doctor explained it as 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 once someone else.” Ryan explained that he could remember a big white house and a swimming pool.
This house was located in Hollywood, many miles from their home in Oklahoma. Ryan said he had three sons, but he couldn'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,” Cindy recalls.
“I was very scared. He was so insistent on this matter. After that night, he tried again and again to remember their names and each time he was disappointed that he could not. I started looking for information about reincarnation on the Internet. I even checked out some library books about Hollywood in the hopes that the pictures might help him.
I didn't tell anyone about it for months." One day, while Ryan and Cindy were looking at one of the books about Hollywood, Ryan stopped at one page of a black and white photograph from the 1930s film Night After Night. The picture showed two men threatening a third man. 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 film together." Then his fingers slid to the man in the jacket on the right side of the picture, who looked sullenly: “This guy is ME, I found myself!”
Although rare, Ryan's claim is not unique and is one of a total of more than 2,500 cases that psychiatrist Jim Tucker has collected in his archives at the University of Virginia Medical Center's Department of Perceptual Studies.
At two years old, children remember their past life
For nearly 15 years, Tucker has been researching the stories of children who, usually between the ages of two and six, claim that they lived once before. Sometimes these children can even describe quite detailed details of these previous lives.
Very rarely are these previously deceased individuals famous or popular, and are often completely unknown to the families of these children. Tucker, one of two scientists in the world studying this phenomenon, explains that the complexity of such experiences varies.
Some of them can be easily identified - for example, when it is clear that children's harmless stories occur in those families where they have lost a close relative. 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 realize it's a big step to understand and accept that there is something beyond what we can see and touch,” explains Tucker, who spent nearly a decade as medical director of University Children's Hospital (Psychiatric Clinic Child and Family).
“However, this is evidence that such incidents need to be looked at, and if we look closely at such cases, the explanation that makes most sense is that memory transfer occurs.”
The key to the existence of reincarnation
In his latest book, Return to Live, Tucker recounts some of the most compelling cases he has studied in the United States and presents his argument 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 arises from our consciousness,” Tucker reports. “This view is not only mine, but also a large number of other scientists.” While Tucker's work is leading to heated debate in the scientific community, his research is based in part on cases studied by his predecessor, who died in 2007, Ian Stevenson, who collected cases from around the world that were equally misleading.
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 controversy stems from models of science currently in use that can neither disprove nor prove Tucker's discovery: “When you fish with a net with big holes, you will never catch a fish that is smaller than those holes. What you find is always limited by what you are looking for.
Current methods and concepts simply cannot cope with these data.” Tucker, whose research is funded entirely by the foundation, began researching reincarnation in late 1990 after he read an article in the Charlottesville Daily Progress about Ian Stevenson's research fellowship on near-death experiences: "I was interested in the idea of life after death." and the question of whether the scientific method can be used to study this field.”
After initially volunteering in Stevenson's department for several years, he became a permanent member of the team and handed over Stevenson's notes, which date in part to the early 1960s. “This work,” says Tucker, “gave me amazing insight.”
Reincarnation in numbers:
Tucker's research revealed interesting patterns in cases of children reporting having memories of past lives. The average age at the time of death of the previous person is 28 years. Most children reporting past life memories are between the ages of 2 and 6 years. 60% of children reporting past life memories are boys.
Approximately 70% of these children say they died a violent or unnatural death 90% of children who report past life memories say they were of the same sex in a previous life Average time between their reported date of death and rebirth 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 showed that children affected by this phenomenon generally have an IQ above average, but they do not have higher than average mental disorders and behavioral problems. None of the children studied tried to free themselves from painful situations in the family through descriptions of such stories.
About 20 percent of the children studied had scar-like birthmarks or malformations that were similar to the marks and wounds of the people whose lives they recalled, 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 a child's brain is preparing for a new phase of development.
Despite the transcendental nature of their stories, almost none of the children studied and documented showed other signs of "supernatural" abilities or "enlightenment," Tucker wrote. “I got the impression that although some children make philosophical remarks, for the most part they are absolutely 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 considers other, more down-to-earth explanations, and also examines cases of deception due to financial interests and fame.
“But in most cases this information does not come from film contracts,” 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 simple childhood fantasy as an explanation, but that can't explain the richness of detail with which some children remember the previous person: "It flies in the face of 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 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 account for another pattern in which children—as in Ryan’s case—link strong emotions to their memories,” Tucker wrote.
Tucker believes that the relatively small number of cases 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 the impression that they are not being listened to or don't believe it, 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 be transferred from one person to another is still a mystery. But Tucker believes the answer may be found in the foundations 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, behind one of which there is a photoreaction plate, and this process is not observed, then the light passes through both slits. If you observe the process, the light falls - as the plate shows - only through one of the two holes.
The behavior of light, of 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 quantum physics founder Max Planck—that the physical world can be changed by nonphysical consciousness, and may even have evolved from it.
If this were true, then consciousness would not need a brain to exist. For Tucker, therefore, there is no reason to believe that brain death also ends consciousness: “It is quite 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 in 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 that Planck and his followers observed and observed this 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 wasn't interested in the debate when her preschool-age son recognized himself in a photo from more than 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 discovered that the man in the photo, whom Ryan called “George,” was the now almost forgotten movie star George Raft.
Who the person Ryan recognized himself was was still unclear to Cindy. 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 the gloomy-looking man was still a little-known actor Martin Martyn, who was not mentioned in the credits of the film “Night after Night.”
Tucker did not tell the Hamons family about his discovery 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 Martin Martyn's wife. Some time later, the Hamons and Tucker traveled to California to meet Martyn's daughter, who had been found by the editors of a television documentary about Tucker. Before meeting Ryan, Tucker spoke with a woman. The lady was reluctant to talk at first, but as the conversation progressed, she was able to reveal more and more details about her father that 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 Hollywood talent agency that created creative aliases. Ryan also explained that his old address had the word "rock" in the name.
Martyn lived at 825 North Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills. Ryan also revealed that he knew a man named Senator Five. Martin's daughter confirmed that she has a photo of her father with Senator Irving Ives of New York, who served in the US Senate from 1947 to 1959. And yes, Martyn had three sons, whose names the daughter, of course, knew. But her meeting with Ryan didn't go well.
Ryan, although he extended his hand to her, hid behind his mother for the rest of the conversation. He later explained to his mother that the woman's energy had changed, after which his mother explained to him that people change as they grow up. "I don't want to go back (to Hollywood)," Ryan explained. “I only want to leave this (my) family.”
Over the next weeks, Ryan spoke less and less about Hollywood. Tucker explains that this often happens when children meet the families of people they believe 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. This makes some kids sad.
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
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 on the seashore, with many brothers and sisters. She constantly asked when she would see 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 endured a series of unsuccessful IVF procedures.
Sally was disappointed because adults did not take her stories seriously. Six weeks after she turned 3 years old and from the moment she began to talk about her previous life, the girl stopped talking about Joseph and the house by the sea, and completely forgot those old memories.
It is interesting that memories of past lives arise in children under the age of 3 years, and then after a bright burst they subside and disappear completely as they grow older.
A family from the English city of Chester told a similar story. The father says that they have two sons in the family and 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 another mother and father.
Susan Bowers, from the USA, experienced a real shock when her three-year-old son looked up from struggling with unruly shoelaces and said, “I learned to tie my shoelaces once before and it was just as disgusting, I didn’t think I’d have to do it again.” I'll have to learn it."
Ann Marie Gonzalez, another American, was dumbfounded when her daughter, sitting on her lap, suddenly said 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 couldn't stand the sound of sirens. 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 later than 4 years, but this happens much less frequently. For example, a four-year-old boy from the United States named Tristan was watching a cartoon about Tom and Jerry, while his mother was cooking in the kitchen. Suddenly the boy ran 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 prepare food in the kitchen. But then I died - I couldn’t breathe.” , I was hanged."
Intrigued by her son's story, Rachel read a book about the life of George Washington and discovered that his cook, Hercules, had three children: Richmond, Evie and Delia.
Here's another story Els Van Pooppel told about her 22-month-old son named Cairo. They were crossing a busy highway in Australia when Cairo told them they had to be careful - "or I'll die again."
Here's a story told by Teen Mitchell, who lives with his mother in Blackpool, when he was driving with her in the car, he pointed to the clouds and said, “When I was a zero, before I was born, I stood on a cloud and talked to God, "What the hell. 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 a choice about their future mothers. For example, Judy Smith, when she was three years old, told her parents that she had chosen them herself: “I was somewhere above the ground, looking at many pairs of people below. I then heard a voice asking me which ones I was.” I would like to choose my parents. I was told that depending on the couple I choose, what my future life will be like and that this couple will teach me how to live. I pointed at you and replied: “I’ll take their".
But this “selection process” does not always happen so quickly.
Four-year-old Chris Lucas complained to his mother, “Do you know how long I waited for you to become my mother? A very, very long time! But I have no regrets. I chose you to become my mother because I love you very 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 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 giving birth to the girl named Amy. When she was 3 years old, she told her mom that she knew about the "missed" brother and sister because they were all playing together in heaven waiting to be born after they chose her.
Many children talk about how up there in the sky they had wings. Jody Lemberger's son, clinging to her, sadly said: “I forgot how to fly.”
And Susan Lovejoy told how her 5-year-old son Joseph broke his arm trying to make a 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 told him that when he returned, he would get his wings back.
Indisputable proof of reincarnation is children's memories of a past life.
Children are incorruptible witnesses who describe events they could not have known about. They expand our understanding of this world and the laws of existence.
Sam's story. My own grandfather
Little Sam took his parents by surprise by declaring that he saw his car in an old photo!
The father showed the child a family photo album, and one of the photographs showed the car of Sam's grandfather, who died before he was born.
Seeing the car in the photo, the child said with complete confidence: “This is my car!” Sam's mother was completely distrustful of the child's statement and decided to “test” him.
She showed Sam a photograph of the boy's grandfather as a child, surrounded by his peers. Even the mother herself would have had a hard time finding Sam’s grandfather.
To the surprise of everyone, Sam pointed to the boy in the photo and said: “And that’s me!” He unmistakably found “himself”, that is, his grandfather, among the children who were depicted in the photograph.
Sam also said that he knows about the death of “his” sister. Sam's grandfather's sister was indeed killed, about which the boy said: "Bad people killed her."
This case was investigated by the famous American scientist Jim Tucker.
In his work, he studied more than 2,500 children's memories of past lives. Dr. Tucker approached his work professionally and took into account the influence of parents on children's memories.
After meeting with Sam, he came to the conclusion that the boy's memories were true - information about his grandfather could not be obtained from his parents, and there were some facts he simply could not know.
The boy found his killer in a past life
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 was caused by a blow to the head with an ax.
When the boy was brought to the village from his memories, he was able to say his name in his past life. Local residents said that such a person actually lived here, but disappeared about 4 years ago.
The boy remembered not only his home, but also named his killer.
The man seemed scared when meeting the child, but 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 in this very place, which turned out to be the murder weapon.
The skull of the found skeleton was damaged, and exactly the same there was also a mark on the child’s head.
I'm not your son
The story of a man named Tang Jiangshan is equally interesting. He was born in the Chinese province of Hainan in the city of Dongfang.
At the age of three, the boy amazed 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 strikes and shots. Moreover, there were actually birthmarks similar to saber marks.
It turned out that Tang Jiangshan's previous birthplace was not that far away. And when the boy turned 6 years old, he and his parents went to his former home village.
Despite his childhood, Tang Jiangshan was able to find his home without difficulty. To the surprise of everyone, the boy spoke fluently the dialect of the place where they had 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 forced him to recognize his son.
Since then, Tang Jiangshan had another family. His past life father and sisters accepted him as the former Chen Mingdao.
How is my mother doing?!
At the age of 6, Cameron Macaulay began talking about how he used to live in a different house. Each time his descriptions of his past life became more and more detailed.
The child named the island where he lived before, described the house and his family. Cameron often worried that his mother was missing him; the boy wanted to meet his family again and say that he was doing well.
Norma, Cameron's mother in real life, could not calmly look at her son's experiences. And she decided to go on a trip to find the very house that her son had talked so much about.
Inviting psychologist Dr. Jim Tucker, who specializes in past lives, on a trip, they went to the Isle of Barra. According to the boy's stories, they found the very house where Cameron lived.
It turned out that the previous owners were no longer alive, and Cameron and his mother were met by the new owner.
Norma was worried that it would be hard for her son to find out that he had not met those for whom they had come. But, fortunately, Cameron inspected the house, I remembered all his rooms and his favorite places, and calmly accepted the fact that his former family was no longer there.
After the trip, Norma became convinced that her son’s stories were not a deviation in the child’s psyche or his imagination, but a real story.
They returned home with Cameron, and he was no longer worried about meeting his old family.
All these stories prove that children's memories of a past life can be real, but parents do not pay attention to them.
Or maybe this is how the child wants to tell his parents important facts that will help his parents understand
Based on the book “Children Who Lived Before: Reincarnation Today” by Trutz Hardo.