IS OUR LIFE ACTUALLY A DREAM? EXCERPTS FROM JIM TUCKER'S RETURN TO LIFE

EXCERPTS:  'Being open to the possibility of life after death naturally makes me curious about what it might involve.  With the idea that the world exists as a shared dream, my thinking about it has changed.  I no longer imagine that we go to another place when we die.  Instead, we have another dream...(page 195)

...With the past life memories they reveal, the children in our case studies seem to be returning to the world in which they lived a previous life.  A better way of describing this is to say that regardless of whether the children have an intermission experience, they fall back into the same dream they were in before ---- meaning this world. (page 200)

It's unclear how time would work across mind created worlds.  It's easiest to conceptualize lifetimes as being sequential -- first I have one life, then another, then another -- but I don't know if that makes compete sense when the lives involve different dream worlds.... (page 207)

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RETURN TO LIFE by JIM B. TUCKER M.D. : ANCESTRY WORSHIP BOOK REVIEW

 

Jim B. Tucker was an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehaviorial Sciences at the University of Virginia, continuing the work of the renown Ian Stevenson at the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies when he wrote this book which was published in 2013. He has continued on with his research since then.  The focus here is on finding cases of children who remember being someone else in a previous life who are American (or from Western Christian cultures) His predecessor found cases in India where a belief in reincarnation is strong. He prefers that the memories be spontaneous rather than achieved through hypnotic regression.  If it is not the memory of an individual's past life, then how does a child access information about someone else's life that can be checked out?

Remaining the scientist, Tucker asks this question:  Is MIND different than the organic BRAIN and how does that work?  Can understanding the potential of the mind explain why some children are psychic?

Does remembering a talent or skill or obsession from a past life explain the child protégée in sports, music, art?  Two of the children whose cases are revealed in this book claimed to have lived Hollywood lives. 

Does having nightmares or repetitive dreams have its basis in events that occurred in a past life?

Does everyone have one life?  Two?  Many?  Does a soul have a choice?

And of great interest to me is how these children explain how they died and where they were between lives. One child says the air all went out of her.  Another says that when she died she did not exist but turned into bits of dust which floated allover but other people who were dust there made friends with her.

Something else of interest in this book is Tucker's explanation that while more boys seem to remember past lives than girls, this may be because boys have a greater chance of dying accidently or prematurely.

In this book you will discover that some people think tumors and birthmarks may be coo related with accidents and injuries or illnesses in another life.

However, Tucker does ask if perhaps a person has disassociation or a multiple personality disorder or even possession.  And as he says, there are things that even hit into his "boggle threshold."

Worth a read!  (I'll excerpt in a future post.)

Link to the author's academic site here JIM B TUCKER - RETURN TO LIFE

THE GHOST INSIDE MY CHILD : ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGY BLOGSPOT FILM REVIEW

THE GHOST INSIDE MY CHILD : ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGY BLOGSPOT FILM REVIEW

The title is bad.  Wrong. These are not ghost stories.  These are stories of children who have had spontaneous past life recall.  The editing is overly sensational.  I hate the close ups that reveal every pore.  I hate the glowing red eyeballs.  Really, the editing and production that was inclinded to raise the hair on our heads cheapened this series.  I wasn't scared.  Nor should you be.

Ignore all that.  Reincarnation is natural.  It's human nature.

And it's a message all of us who fear death need to hear.

This series features one interesting story after another, most of which include the parents or some other person doing research to verify that such a person existed.  And no, for you skeptics, the girls don't all remember being Cleopatra and the boys don't all remember being Harry Houdini.  Hey, some of these children are a different race, ethnicity, or gender this time around.

Remembrances in Season One and Two include, the memory of being a fighter pilot shot down during World War II, the memory of being a girl whose family was killed by Indians - later she was traded to a more peaceable tribe, the memory of a girl who died in Hollywood during the Silent Film era at age 14, an actress who probably died after an abortion - so many others!

In many cases, the children go to the place they remember living or dying, or at least a museum - which often helps them let go and get on with this life.

So, despite my recommendation - should anyone producing this series be reading - that you cut the silly boo-hooey - I suggest that watching this is worth your time and if you aren't familiar with reincarnation will be a wonderful introduction. 

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REVISITING CAROL BOWMAN and CHILDREN'S PAST LIVES

After starting the rerun of Louis Henry Gates, I decided to check on YouTube for fairly recent talks that CAROL BOWMAN, perhaps the most respected researcher in Children and their Past Lives in America, might have given. 

As of December 2024 there are several videos featuring Carol.

Now I have to convince a friend of mine to consider past life experience as the reason for her grand-daughters overly dramatic fear of the loving family dogs. Her two year old sister shows no such fear but this one seems unable to get over being afraid of them.

LINK TO https://www.carolbowman.com/reincarnation-forum  December 2024

An appearance on Oprah got her a book contract.

Innocent children have no reason to recreate their last life traumas through spontaneous memory, through the art they make, and the way they indulge in play.

I admire Carol for all she's done to open our minds to this natural phenomena.

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