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For the past forty years, doctors at the University of Virginia
Medical Center have conducted research into young children's reports
of past-life memories. Dr. Ian Stevenson, the founder of this work,
has always written for a scientific audience. Now, in this
provocative and fascinating book, Dr. Jim B. Tucker, a child
psychiatrist who currently directs the research, shares these
studies with the general public. Life Before Life is a
landmark work—one that has the potential to challenge and ultimately
change our understandings about life and death.
Children who
report past-life memories typically begin talking spontaneously
about a previous life when they are two to three years old. Some
talk about the life of a deceased family member, while others
describe the life of a stranger. They may recount details about
previous family members, events in the previous life, or the way
they died in that life. The children tend to show a strong emotional
involvement with the apparent memories and often cry to be taken to
the previous family. In many cases, parents have taken their
children to the places they named, where they found that an
individual had died whose life matched the details given by the
child. During the visits, some children have recognized family
members or friends from that individual's life. Many children have
had birthmarks that matched wounds on the body of the deceased
individual.
Researchers have studied more than 2500 such
cases, and their careful investigations have produced an impressive
body of work. JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical
Association, stated in a review of one of Dr. Stevenson's scientific
books that, "in regard to reincarnation he has painstakingly and
unemotionally collected a detailed series of cases . . . in which
the evidence is difficult to explain on any other grounds."
Life Before Life
explores the various features of this world-wide phenomenon,
describing numerous cases along the way. We meet a boy in Michigan
who, after being born with three birthmarks that matched wounds on
his deceased brother, begins talking about events from the brother's
life; a boy in Turkey who gives a number of accurate details,
including the name, of a man who lived 500 miles away and died fifty
years before the boy was born; and a girl in Sri Lanka who is able
to recognize the family members of a deceased stranger as they are
presented to her one by one, giving specifics about their lives that
she could not have known from their appearance.
Dr. Tucker
presents this material in a straightforward way, relating
extraordinary stories that have been amassed with a scientific
approach. He then considers how best to interpret the evidence, and
he lets readers reach their own conclusions—which, for many, will be
profound.
In The Press
“In this very elegant book, Dr. Tucker offers the most convincing
scientific evidence for the fact that our consciousness survives
physical death. And indeed, takes quantum leaps of creativity in the
form of reincarnation. The model that Dr. Tucker presents opens a new
vision of who we are, limitless beings that fill up all of space and
time.” —Deepak Chopra, author of Life After Death: The Burden of Proof
“[A][ solid case for reincarnation…. Tucker introduces
powerful grounds for credulous speculation.” —Booklist
“Jim Tucker gives us a clear, concise and eminently
rational insight into a 40 year investigation of what is
unquestionably the best evidence for the existence of reincarnation.
We are lucky to have in him a worthy successor to Ian Stevenson.” —TOM SHRODER, author of Old Souls: Compelling Evidence From Children
Who Remember Past Lives
“Anyone with an open mind, on reading Dr. Jim B.
Tucker's Life Before Life, will realize that our conventional
concepts of life and death are ripe for revision. The possibilities
raised by this book for human destiny are as hopeful as the current
view is grim.
Life Before Life is extraordinarily important.” —Larry Dossey, M.D., author of The Extraordinary Healing Power of
Ordinary Things, Reinventing Medicine, and Healing Words
“With his training as a pediatric psychiatrist, and the
mind of an inquiring scientist, Dr. Jim Tucker takes a fresh look at
one of life's most intriguing questions: 'Does consciousness survive
death?' Through the hundreds of case studies of his predecessor, Dr.
Ian Stevenson, and his own cases, Dr. Tucker adds new insight to this
amazing research, and draws us closer to understanding this perennial
mystery.” —CAROL BOWMAN, author of Children's Past Lives and Return From
Heaven
“Life Before Life adds to the increasingly
impressive science of consciousness and the continuity of
mind/memory…this book is the tip of an important iceberg that will
continue to expand our knowledge of the spiritual reality of Life.”
—C. NORMAN SHEALY, M.D., Ph.D., President, Holos University Graduate
Seminary; Founding President, American Holistic Medical Association;
author of Youthful Aging—Secret of the Fountain
“Jim B.
Tucker's fine presentation of Ian Stevenson's decades of rigorous
scientific research into evidence of children's apparent past-life
recollections expresses the true spirit of scientific skepticism,
rather than the knee-jerk materialism that all too often waves that
proud banner.” —B. ALAN WALLACE, President of the Santa Barbara Institute for
Consciousness Studies
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