Is it a natural possibility?
The five years old boy from Cincinnati started making a curious remarks such as "When I used to be a girl, I used to have a black hair," since he was two years old. According to his mother, he repeatedly use the name Pam in many instances. When the mother asked him who Pam was, the boy replied, "I used to be Pam before I died." When the mother asked him further if he could remember how he died, the boy replied it was due to a fire accident. He even recalled the name of the city, and it was Chicago.
When the mother searched on the internet, she found out that there was indeed a fire accident at a residential area at the Paxton Hotel. In the accident, 19 people died including a black woman called Pamela Robinson who died jumping out of a window.
When the boy was presented with pictures of different people to identify Pamela, he made no mistake in pointing out Pamela. The boy identified the picture of Pamela while he was video recorded for the documentary film, Ghost inside my Child, produced by the Lifetime Movie Network (LMN).
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The three years old boy in the picture claims he was a reincarnation of an American pilot whose plane was shot down by the Japanese during WWII.
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When he was three years old, James Leininger who exhibited extreme fascination with planes at his early age started to have nightmares which he was not able to explain in words but described in drawings. He drew flying planes dropping bombs, and he talked about a plane crash and a little man who could not get out of the plane. When he was asked who that little man was, he replied, "It was me." He even said that it was the Japanese who shot his plane down. He also remembered the kind of aircraft he used to fly and told the name of the warship, called Natoma, his plane used to take off.
Later it was found out about James Huston who fought in the WWII against the Japanese, and who disappeared on 3 March 1945 when his plane was shot down. Another fellow soldier who survived the war and was still alive to confirm the claims made by the boy, witnessed that the names the boy referred to were actually his compatriots who lost their lives in the war. When the boy met the veteran solider in person, he identified the names of the soldiers he saw in the pictures. He also met the late James Hustons's older sister and asked about a picture her mother painted of her. It was baffling there was someone else other than her who knew about the picture. The boy recieved some of the items the late James Huston left behind, but eventually his memory of the deceased soldier gradually faded away. However, his passion for aircraft grew even stronger.
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Science Of The Soul - Full Documentary, Syndicado TV, March 29, 2019
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Stevenson published his first book in 1966 entitled, Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reirzcarrzatiorz. He followed an even-handed approach in his investigation of the cases without resorting to endorsement of the cases at face value or even dismissing their plausibility. He presented a careful documentation of the cases with exhaustive detail whenever possible and necessary.
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Children Who Claim to Remember Previous Lives: Past, Present, and Future; Article in Journal of Scientific Exploration 21(3):543-552 ·
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... there was one crucial difference observed in those children who made claims of past life. The children showed signs of post traumatic stress disorder ...
Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson, a psychologist from the University of Iceland examined the psychological conditions of such children in reincarnation cases. He found that their psychological characteristics were not much different from other children who never reported such cases of reincarnation. But there was one crucial difference observed in those children who made claims of past lives. These children showed signs of post traumatic stress disorder and he found this perplexing as they did not experience any thing visibly threatening in the present life. "They have these images of having died in another life. This may be the reason for this apparent post-traumatic stress disorder," remarks Dr. Haraldsson.
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A three year old girl named Kumkum Verma lived in a village 25 miles far away from another city called Darbhanga in India. The girl identified the particular district in the city she claimed to have lived in her previous life. She also named one of the artisans in the district, the name of her own son whom she said used to work with a hammer, the name of her grand son, and the town where her father in her past life used to live. She also identified such intimate details such as having an iron safe at home, a sword hanging near the cot where she used to sleep, and a pet snake that she used to feed milk. All these details were found recorded by her aunt.
Her present family did not know anyone from the district, so her father had to talk to one of his friends who had an employee working with him from that district. The employee was sent to find out a family that could match with the descriptions the little girl provided. And it was found out that a woman had died five years before Kumkum was born, and her life matched all the above descriptions the girl provided about her presumed past life.
Most children in the cases usually started to talk about their memories at a very young age of 2 or 3 years old and stopped talking about their memories of a past life at around the age of 6 or 7. And they spontaneously recall certain details from their past lives without the use of hypnotic techniques.
The median interval between the death of the deceased person and the birth of the children in the cases under investigation is 15 months, and the cases happened to occur usually in the same country. Some cases reported claims of reincarnation from the same family while others were found to be strangers from another place. The mode of death of the person in the reported past life was found mostly unusual for 70pc of the cases as it involved unnatural means such as violence and sudden death. However, it was only 35pc of the cases involving violent death that the children showed phobia related to the mode of death. The children demonstrated emotional longing towards their previous families particularly to certain members of their family they used to have intimate connection. They also exhibited repetitive patterns of certain behavior or activities that were noted to be related to the occupation of the deceased person or the re-enactment of the death scene of the same person.
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Dr. Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, is very sceptical about the scientifc investigation of claims of reincarnation. "I have no idea what this life after death is. I have no idea whether God exists."
"When people investigate reincarnation,most investigators want the claims to be true. They are not impartial at all and they want to believe people lived before.
"So they are prepared to make assumptions and prepared to look the evidence in a certain way. And essentially, in my opinion, tricked themselves up."
Dr. Wiseman referred to his experiments on some randomly selected children who were asked to make up stories about someone else who was supposedly lived before and died. He particularly mentioned one of the strongest cases that could likely be taken as evidence for reincarnation.
Molly was just asked to make up a story about another child whom she identified by the name Kate. Molly described Kate as the only child for her family, and she had red hair and blue eyes. She wore pink clothes which had a pattern and flowers on it. She was three years old and she liked going to the beach. And one day she run away from her mom when the monsters found her and bit her to death.
Dr. Wiseman then found a real life story showing strong similarity with the story of Kate whom Molly created in her imagination. The child was the only child fot her family and then she was abducted. She had red hair and blue eyes. On the day she was abducted she was dressed in pink with a T-shirt which had a flower on it. The girl was three years old and she used to live close to the beach where she was abducted and killed by her captor.
For Dr. Wiseman, this story would be the best reincarnation case of the century if Molly had made claims that she had lived before. "This is essentially a strong evidence but evidence against reincarnation," Dr. Wiseman asserted.
But his arguement seems to have overlooked other very important similarities in the cases for the claims of reincarnation including physical marks such as birthmarks closely associated with the physical injuries sustained by the deceased person. Dr. Wiseman did not even mention the name of the girl in the made up story above which would make his argument particularly stronger if it was found to be the same as what Molly said in her story, Kate.
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These Children Remember Their Past Lives| Real Life Reincarnation| Real Family, July 11, 2019
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A case of a woman in Britain showed claims of reincarnation of another woman who died leaving eight of her children behind. As Roman Catholics, the family never believed in reincarnation before they came across with this woman who claimed to be the reincarnation of their late mother. Jenny was convinced of her childhood memory of being another woman who died in a hospital room leaving her eight children behind. As an adult, she tracked down the traces of her haunting memories from her childhood and found each of the eight children one by one using the sir name of the family. After the mother died, the children were separated and grew up separately at different places.
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Kids' Past Lives (Reincarnation Documentary) | Real Stories, May 19, 2016
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Could such a case be easily explained away in simpler terms as mere coincidences when the woman with religious background that does not support the possibility of reincarnation came up with a story of another woman having eight children who died in a hospital? If it was a mere concidence, could it be possible that Jenny could imagine just eight children, not six or four or even less?
Such cases have been reported from different parts of the world including Asia, West Africa, South America, the US and Europe. The cases were also found in families with diverse religious backgrounds including Christianity, Islam and, of course, Budhism. Thus, would it be possibly to easily discard these cases as mere figments of imagination with the similarities explained away as a matter of chances and influences of cultural or religious backgrounds?
Dr. Jim Tucker, a child psychiatrist from the University of Virginia, does not agree with people who dismiss such cases because it disagrees too much with their belief how the world works.
"But to dismiss something because it doesn't agree with your substance is not very scientific. The scientific approach is to explore and learn what we can about it," Dr. Tucker noted.
One of the strongest cases for reincarnation Dr. Tucker studied was the case of a boy in Florida who remembers his past life as a policy officer that was shot dead in a gun fire. The five year old boy Ian was a very sick boy since birth due to a very rare heart disease. He had six major operations before he turned four. The first one was carried out just six hours later after he was born. His case was related to the underdeveloped pulmenary valve at the right side of his heart.
What is striking in this case is that his grandfather, the same policy officer, died as a result of raptured pulmenary artery caused by a gun shot wound. And that was exactly the same artery Ian was suffering from.
At the age of three, Ian once reportedly said to his mom, "When you were a little girl and when I was you daddy, lots of time you were bad and I never spanked you."
He also asked her, "When you were a little girl and I was your daddy, what was my cat's name?" When the mother told him the name of one of the two cats they used to have, the boy replied, "No, the white one?"
When the mother told him it was Boston, the boy added, "I used to call him Boss, right?" The mother confirmed that it was indeed only her dad, the same policy officer that was shot dead who used to call the cat in that particular way.
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Past Lives: Stories of Reincarnation (Full Story), Discovery Channel, November 21, 2015;
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Some things may be far beyond our present understanding and we may not have sufficient evidence to support them as a complete truth or reject them as a product of mere imaginations. In such situation, it may be wiser to recognize that we do not know enough and say, "I don't know." That would still leave the door open for the possibility that we would learn more and understand better to go beyond our own limitations or firmly ingrained misconceptions.
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