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Dr. Tucker, in a follow-up to his book Life Before Life,
explores American cases of young children who report memories of
previous lives in the New York Times bestseller,
Return to Life.
A first-person account of Jim
Tucker's experiences with a number of extraordinary children with
memories of past lives, Return to Life focuses mostly on
American cases, presenting each family's story and describing his
investigation. His goal is to determine what happened—what the child
has said, how the parents have reacted, whether the child's
statements match the life of a particular deceased person, and
whether the child could have learned such information through normal
means. Tucker has found cases that provide persuasive evidence that
some children do, in fact, possess memories of previous lives.
Among others, readers will meet a boy who describes a
previous life on a small island. When Tucker takes him to that
island, he finds that some details eerily match the boy's statements
and some do not. Another boy points to a photograph from the 1930s
and says he used to be one of the men in it. Once the laborious
efforts to identify that man are successful, many of the child's
numerous memories are found to match the details of his life. Soon
after his second birthday, a third boy begins expressing memories of
being a World War II pilot who is eventually identified.
Thought-provoking and captivating,
Return to Life urges its readers to think about life and
death and reincarnation, and reflect about their own consciousness
and spirituality.
In The Press
“In Return to Life, Jim Tucker painstakingly and meticulously
documents the recycling of memories from beyond the barrier of
physical death. He then rigorously offers a scientific theory to
explain how our consciousness transcends space/time and is, hence,
eternal. This book is an important milestone of an emerging scientific
paradigm that suggests that consciousness conceives governs constructs
and becomes the universe or perhaps multiple universes.” —Deepak Chopra
“A breezy page-turner...Tucker presents these
cases...with professioanlism and palpable respect.” —Spirituality and Health
“Jim Tucker is a worthy successor to Dr. Ian Stevenson.
He approaches these fascinating cases of children who appear to
remember previous lives with an intelligent curiosity, sober judgment,
and a real knack for telling a story, which is a good thing, because
these are great stories.” —Tom Shroder, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author of Old
Souls: Compelling Evidence from Children Who Remember Past Lives
“These incredible cases are not simply solid grounds for
accepting some form of reincarnation into our Western worldview. These
are heart-rending, poignant reminders that many of us do not quite
'fit' into the cultural and religious worlds into which we are born.
Obviously, we are more than these worlds. Way, way more.” —Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Authors of the Impossible: The Sacred
and the Paranormal
“Researchers at the University of Virginia Medical
School's Department of Perceptual Studies are studying reports from
children around the world who claim to remember their past lives. More
than 2,500 such reports have been analyzed by the Project's founder
Ian Sevenson and several colleagues, among them Jim Tucker.Their work
has immense implications for our understanding of the world and human
nature, but has received relatively little attention from mainstream
scientists and religious groups. Return to Life, like Dr.
Tucker's previous book, Life Before Life, opens a door on this
historic research. Even if you disagree with Tucker's brief
speculations about the afterlife, you will get a good look at the kind
of evidence for reincarnation that the University of Virginia team is
assembling. It is astonishing to me that their work is not better
known.” —Michael Murphy, Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Esalen Institute,
and co-author of God and the Evolving Universe
“Return to Life comes as a resounding wake-up call
regarding human existence. For decades, materialists have insisted
that consciousness is nothing more than a function or emergent
property of the brain. But the fact is that scientifically, the
origins and nature of consciousness and its role in nature remain a
mystery. The greatest obstacle to illuminating these issues through
scientific discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion that we
already have the answers. The empirical evidence that Dr. Tucker
presents in this book challenges the reductionistic, metaphysical
beliefs of scientific materialism. If his research methods are flawed,
the scientific community should bring this to his and the public's
attention. If they are irreproachable, then the empirical facts he
reveals compel us to reassess even our most fundamental assumptions
about consciousness, human nature, and the universe at large.” —B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D., President of the Santa Barbara Institute
for Consciousness Studies and author of Dreaming Yourself Awake
“With Return to Life, Dr. Jim B. Tucker has driven
a very large nail in the coffin of materialism. This is an important
contribution to the growing body of evidence that consciousness
survives the death of the brain and body. The fear of death and
annihilation has caused more suffering in human history than all the
physical diseases combined. This book is a powerful antidote to that
dread.” —Larry Dossey, MD, author of One Mind: How Our Individual Mind
Is Part of a Great Consciousness and Why It Matters
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