THE BOY WHO REMEMBERS A PAST LIFE WHEN HE DIED IN THE 9/11 WORLD TRADE CENTER TERRORIST ATTACK

This video came up this morning as I watched the World Trade Center Memorials taking place in New York City.  I'm not sure how old this boy is now or know how life has been for him.  I'm one of those who believe reincarnation happens. I don't know how it works or that every person born on this earth has or will experience it.  Memories of a past life seem to be more commonly understood and believed in places where the religious beliefs accept it.

CAROL BOWMAN ON CHOOSING ONE'S PARENTS IN THE PRE-EARTHLY EXISTANCE

The options are plentiful but not unlimited. 

Frankly, I myself have wondered how or why anyone would choose a parent or partner who is abusive to them as the soul plans the next incarnation. So though I'm partial to the idea that we do have many life experiences so that we can learn and improve ourselves, I feel that there is a risk in experiencing a life that makes us a worse person. I feel careful about having a "tit for tat" notion about spiritual experiences and using reincarnation theories as an excuse for bad behavior.

But let's see what Carol Bowman had to say in her book, which I highly recommend.

Page 144 : Not all souls participate equally in the planning process. Some are actively involved and choose carefully; others are passive, drifting into their next lives without much preparation.  Some apparently never leave the earth vibration and wander aimlessly until they fall into a convenient womb.  It's not a tidy process, not uniform or predictable, follows no formulas, and is definitely not the same for every soul.

Page 145 : It seems that in choosing a life the difference in the degree of planning is dependent on the soul's maturity and awareness. Studies agree that advanced souls spend more time in the afterlife learning and weighing plans for their next incarnation than less mature souls do. Since the advanced souls have mastered a higher level of lessons and skills on Earth, they have the understanding to create more ambitious and finely tuned plans.  On the other hand, less advanced "beginner" souls rush through the afterlife without giving much thought to what they are doing and jump back into the first body that seems good enough. These lives have a smaller chance of being productive compared with those that are carefully planned. The unplanned lives are more likely to end up being drab and meaningless or chaotic, or the individual may be overwhelmed by challenges it is not equipped to handle.

Carol Bowman's book was published in 2001 and so about twenty-five years ago.  I'm sure much more has been learned about reincarnation in the Western, Christian world, since then.  I'm aware that some Christian's believe that any belief in reincarnation is wrong, even demonic. I personally do not agree this is so. 

As a genealogist I encounter many family stories, many family secrets, many family scandals, and vow to show respect for those I work with and for by not revealing these to others. There is a lot of pain and shame in some cases. I realize that genealogy is most often promoted as a way to reunite a family, but sometimes the notion of "family" is one that needs to be redefined.

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CAROL BOWMAN ON REINCARNATION : U TURN IN THE WOMB : MISCARRIAGE and STILL BIRTHS

Perhaps this may give some comfort to those of you who've had a miscarriage...

Excerpts page 159 - 160 :

From our ordinary, earth-bound perspective these changes of plan are called by the medical terms miscarriage and stillbirth.  Most people, if they have never been through the experience, can't understand how deeply the parents feel a miscarriage or a stillbirth as a death, an inexplicable loss that leaves them bereft and grieving for a child they never knew.  Their beautiful hopes and dreams for loving companionship with the new baby evaporate.  Adding to the pain, no matter what medical explanation is they inevitable blame themselves at some point, wondering what they did wrong.

Yet looking at miscarriage and stillbirths from the perspective of the incoming soul turns our thinking inside out.  From the soul's perspective, a decision not to be born at that particular time and to a particular mother is simply a detour, a zigzag in the continuing journey through eons of lifetimes.  Souls decide to switch course for any number of reasons; to change sex or birth order, to wait for a more appropriate body for the soul's purposes, to wait until the parent's circumstances improve or to readjust the timing of a predestined rendezvous with another soul already on Earth or yet to incarnate.  Or it may be due to the biological fact that the fetus was defective.

Whatever the reason, it is clear that in some cases souls wait for another opportunity to return to the same family. How do we know? Because some children remember the whole process.  Then one day, in the middle of a causal conversation, they tell their parents about it. They innocently describe earlier attempts to be born to the mother or through another woman in the extended family. The parents are always shocked at first if the child's claim corresponds exactly to a pregnancy loss that had been kept hushed up, a personal secret too painful to talk about, and something beyond the comprehension of such a very young child. But after absorbing the truth of what their child is telling them, their shock turns to joy and relief when they realize the baby who died in the womb years ago was not lost to them forever. 

I've been reading the death records of a town in Europe that experienced waves of Plague - Cholera to be specific. So very many who had a few months or years to live... So rare to find someone who lived to be 70 or 80.

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REINCARNATION SYMPOSIUM WITH CAROL BOWMAN and HER SON CHASE BOWMAN

REVISITING CAROL BOWMAN'S RETURN FROM HEAVEN : RETURNING TO LIFE WITH UNFINISHED BUSINESS

I've posted on Carol Bowman and her work with children who remember past lives, as well as same family reincarnation, before.

Excerpt page 9 : If we die leaving with any kind of unfinished business - ding as a child in an accident or from a disease, as an adult filled with anger over an unsettled dispute, as a mother leaving young children behind, or simply with concern and ongoing for loved ones left behind --- the unfinished business travels with us when we return to Earth in another body, along with the impetus to complete or settle these issues.  If we return to the same family within a relatively short period of time, we practically pickup where we left off before we died.

Excerpt page 48-49 : I've collected hundreds of cases since 1988 when I began investigating children's past life memories. (Note the book was published 2001.) They come to me from people from all walks of life, from all parts of the United States and Canada, and some from Europe.  They come from people who have always believed in reincarnation, and also from people who clearly did not believe in reincarnation before it happened to them.  The cases are everywhere Once people discover that I know something about children's past lives, they open up and confess their "family secret."  I'm continually amazed at how often this happens, and how common these cases seem to be.  And since so many of them are same-family cases, their sheer number convinces me that same-family reincarnation is a much more common phenomenon than anyone suspects.

Bowman discusses the influential work of psychiatrist Dr. Ian Stevenson and questions of the mind-body connection, and the discovery that birthmarks in this life often appear where an injury occurred in another life.

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ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGY BLOGSPOT

Our genetic and spiritual ancestors help us with our research quests 

and, while we follow a linear research path, 

amazing dreams and synchronicity abound. 

We explore multicultural ancestry worship 

and the use of genealogy for past-life verification, 

as well as practical ways and means to achieve your research goals.

9/11 REINCARNATION STORY : CALEB REMEMBERS and COMMENTARY

The Ghost Inside My Child:  I recall that I may have reviewed this series some time ago, because I recall thinking that the title The Ghost Inside My Child was all wrong - inaccurate.  The title indicates that ghosts are possessing the body of the child....  I think it's attempt to suggest spookiness - creepiness. Reincarnation is not the same as possession or the same as a ghost.  It's a natural cycle of awareness.

The mother of Caleb says that other children's parents don't want their children to play with him.  Well, if it's a matter of not wanting their child to pay with another child because they don't share the same religious or spiritual beliefs, I'd say that's rather intolerant. 

Caleb is a child who is burdened with nightmares, phobias, memories of horror. And he's not the only one. Some children who are experiencing abuse in this life have no one to trust.  At least Caleb's parents love and support him.  If Caleb lived in my neighborhood he'd be welcome in my yard.

So what can we learn from children who remember a past life?

I think it's vital to listen to children who tell of their dreams, their beliefs.  If it seems that there is a past life possibility and the child is upset and this seem not to have an end to it, I would suggest you read Carol Bowman's books as a start.  There are a number of interviews and speeches she has given available on YouTube and the Internet as well.  I think she is in semi-retirement. Taking the child to a hypnotherapist is probably the next step.  I think it may be possible also for parents and children with this experience to network so that they all know they are not alone in this experience.

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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REVISITING DR. BRIAN WEISS - REINCARNATION RESEARCHER

BRIAN WEISS COM = REINCARNATION and PAST LIFE RESEARCH and BOOKS 

A Quote from this psychotherapist who has devoted his life to investigating past lives of patients and brought the discussion of reincarnation forward.

'You are not here by accident or by some coincidence of nature.  You are a spiritual being learning lessons of love in this earth school.'

CAROL BOWMAN's NEW ESSAY SUBMITTED to BIGELOW INSTITUTE FOR CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES

CAROL BOWMAN NEW ESSAY  This will take you to her site and the page where you link to the essay that you can download as a PDF file or read on line.

Always impressed with her work!

REINCARNATION : DR. IAN STEVENSON

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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CHILDREN's PAST LIVES by CAROL BOWMAN on NIGHTMARES

CHILDREN'S PAST LIVES
How Past Life Memories Affect Your Child
by Carol Bowman
C 1997 by Carol and Steve Bowman
A Bantam Book

page 257 by Carol Bowman

Some Children have NIGHT TERRORS... a series of sleep disturbance that is not in the same category as regular nightmares. "In a typical night terror episode, the child screams, thrashes about, and may even walk or run around and get violent, all while appearing to be awake. But afterwards, unlike a nightmare, the child has absolutely no memory of the incident and no dream story that might explain the bizarre behavior. This alone makes night terrors extremely difficult to treat. Scientists have no satisfactory explanation for what causes night terrors and no reliable remedy. But they do know that they occur during the deepest sleep cycle, and that they commonly begin between the ages of three and four, and fade by thee ages of five or six.

Since we know know that some nightmares have a past life cause, it makes sense that some night terrors would too. Perhaps during deepest sleep, a state furthest from waking consciousness, these children are being terrorized by vivid memories of a past life trauma. I think it's significant that night terrors occur at the same ages when children are most likely to have spontaneous past life memories...

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REVISITING HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. and FINDING YOUR ROOTS

PBS HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. FINDING YOUR ROOTS

I'm rewatching beginning with Season One.  LOUIS HENRY GATES Jr., who I respect, says that about ten percent of contemporary Black Americans have ancestors who were Free Persons of Color - not slaves.

I had one client whose New Orleans heritage took us to Free Persons of Color ancestors.  The reaction was a subtle disbelief at my research, as I showed them that their people had been part of a thriving crafts and tradesman community in which people lived in beautiful houses - some on tours today.

Who is or is not Black?

What is the difference between the White actress who most relates to her most recent Jewish heritage though she's got White Anglo Saxon heritage that goes back to King Henry the First of England, basically "feeling" herself Jewish" and someone whose appearance would not lead the average person to guess they have Black Heritage or someone whose DNA proves they are just a little bit African, but who most relates to contemporary Black culture?

In genealogy we search for documents.

But people often feel themselves to be most comfortable with one culture - including religion and spirituality - over another.  I sometimes think this has to do with past life memories, which I realize is controversial.  But through reincarnation we can experience what it is to live in different cultures, to be Japanese in the 14th century, or to have fought in the Civil War in this country for the Confederates.

As a result of reading hundreds if not thousands of documents as well as reading around American history,  and my belief that reincarnation is real, I may have a different feeling about my own life and that of others.

We must ask ourselves WHY are we here in this life?  What have we brought forward from the past, what have we learned, where do we want to go?


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SR. JIM TUCKER REINCARNATION LECTURE

From 2014 - Poster notes audio will improve at about five minutes in. Dr. Jim B. Tucker (M.D.) is Bonner-Lowry Associate Professor Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia.  He's the person whose been continuing the work of Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia.  Both men have published interesting books.

LIFE TIMES by FREDERICK LENZ : ANCESTRY WORSHIP GENEALOGY BOOK REVIEW

Some people who do genealogy research or who are into family history collecting wonder if they are like any of their ancestors, ones they never met, whose photo they will never see.

Some wonder if perhaps they have reincarnated into the same family or if their soul was once embodied by a great grandparent or other ancestor.  

Why do we meet someone and have emotions about them that make no sense such as feeling instant empathy for them or greatly disliking them?

If you read around reincarnation hoping to encounter more fascinating or even stunning stories, you may find a few in Frederick Lenz's Life Times : True Accounts of Reincarnation.  A small collection of testimonials in this book are in the category of spontaneous recall, a category that does not require hypnotic regression and seems to me to be the most creative and thus unbelievable. There's a bit about Buddhism and Hinduism here too and the beliefs that are more alike than not. Since I know a bit more than the author when it comes to the belief in karma, let's just say that the author's understanding is not complete and I sense this book was intended to be a short one so there wouldn't be room for that explanation anyway...

For purposes of this blog, which I long ago promised to be a bit unconventional and spiritual, I think my readers would most be interested in defining Twin Souls,  Soul Mates, and Karma-Connected Souls.  The words karma and soul mates have entered our American vocabulary and are used by those who are not Buddhist, Hindu or who are ignorant of their meaning.  I'll paraphrase:

Twin Souls:  People with similar talents or interests who have incarnated with each other for many lifetimes or who are joined by experiences they shared.  They are not necessarily compatible but may enjoy their time together inventing, learning, collaborating on a project.  (page 130)

Soul Mates:  Feeling magnetically drawn to a person is an indication that you actually had a close personal relationship in another life time(s), and implied that this was romantic.  "It would appear that one can have more than one soul mate, and that soul mates can be of either the same or the opposite sex." (page 135)

Karmic Connection: "Karmically connected souls are persons whose karma (actions) have temporarily joined them,until such time as their actions together have been completed. The link between karmically connected individual s is not so highly developed as the bonds between twin souls or soul mates."  (page 145)

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FEELING YOURSELF TO BE OTHER THAN YOUR DNA ETHNICITY OR CURRENT FAMILY GROUP

I've encountered so many people who simply feel out of place with their DNA ethnicity or current family group.  For instance, many Americans have so many intermarriages between ethnic groups in their heritage that they identify as "American," yet others relate to the ethnicity of their surname or the ethnicity of some family member who dominates the group.  (In some cases learning little about their other lines.) Others cannot relate to any of their lines.

I consider that memories from other lives, DNA, and other factors may result in feeling yourself to be, say Greek, rather than Irish. There are people who have never felt they belonged to the family they know though they certainly were born to the parents they have.

ASK YOURSELF HOW ALIKE OR DIFFERENT YOU ARE FROM THE STEREOTYPES OF AN ETHNICITY.  What ethnicity were you raised to be part of?

DO YOU LIKE FOOD THAT IS OUTSIDE OF YOUR CULTURE OF ORIGIN OR UPBRINGING?

DO YOU SEEM TO GRAVITATE TO OTHERS FROM ANOTHER CULTURE, feeling more comfortable with them?

Multiculturalism is apparent in so many countries, especially the United States and Europe, and it brings challenges but also some wonderful sharing.  

POLICE OFFICER REMEMBERS PAST LIFE AS AN ARTIST

SOUL SURVIVOR book ABOUT REINCARNATION - GENEALOGY TYPE RESEARCH USED TO VERIFY

This book intrigued me, not just because it's about one of the most convincing stories

of reincarnation in modern times, but because Bruce Leininger, the father of James, the child who remembered he was a World War II pilot who burned up and crashed in his plane in Japan, used research methods that any genealogist or family historian can relate to!
The devout Christian father had issues with the very idea of reincarnation, but slowly he became convinced as he decided to apply research methods to the many small comments that his son, beginning at about age 2, made.  Little James knew planes and plane parts, but he also named some of the men he was associated with back in the day as well as the name of the body his soul inhabited in the last.  And so Bruce attempted to get military records (but ran into the problem of not being a family member), contacted men who remembered the pilot, met with them (claiming he was only writing a book, though as we see he eventually did), and discovered that these old veterans were not as dismissive as he feared.  The story is interesting and convincing and Leininger and his wife (James' mom) Andrea, along with Ken Gross, manage to build their story so that you too will feel no stone was left unturned!
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MEDICAL GENEALOGY - KEEP THOSE DEATH RECORDS IN PERSPECTIVE

A long time ago I was listening to a radio talk program by the then popular Doctor Laura.  Someone who was adopted called in and wanted to locate their birth parent.  Among the reasons why was medical information.  Doctor Laura said that medical science was so on top of things (in so many words) that this was a dumb reason to find a birth parent.  And this was before DNA and an understanding about hereditary diseases!  Needless to say I could not disagree with Doctor Laura more.

Recently I was researching for someone who has a once in a life time opportunity to tour a European country with a church group.  He and his wife plan to depart from the group and spend about a week touring through ancestor homelands.  He lost a young son to colon cancer a few years ago and then was diagnosed with it himself and is surviving.  I'm thrilled that he will be well enough to go on this trip.  So I went ahead and, beginning with his father, verified which of several candidates with a fairly common surname in a small region of a particular state was his, found his father on census records, and discovered that his grandfather, who had died before he was born, had gone through an evolution of given names, which is making finding him coming in on a steamship or naturalization records that will tell me the name of the town his grandfather left over a hundred years ago a little bit tricky. Currently I have a declaration of intent that might be his, but no completion of citizen ship documented. 

I went ahead and got the death certificate for his grandfather and from the information printed on it by the attending doctor, there was a description of lesions on the colon.  (The word cancer was not used.) Tears sprung from my eyes at the realization that there is a familial aspect to this cancer.

The reasons why someone dies...
I recently listened to an audiobook by a popular author who does some hypnosis to help people heal from trauma, including the trauma of their previous deaths and violent experiences, such as rape, loosing limbs, car accidents, death in childbirth.  Hearing a long list of reasons why, I was reminded of all the death certificates I've seen.  Some of them come with oral histories from the family, for instance a carpenter who burned up in a fire.  The doctor noted his whole body was burned.  The family says he was the victim of arson by the mob.  Reading the death certificate I would not know that, and I may check some newspaper databases to see if there is any mention of the fire - or the mob.

One adoptee I know has made medical decisions based on the fact that breast cancer is rampant in her birth mother's line, which she would not know without having found her and done the genealogy.


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