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