For the past forty years,
doctors at the University of Virginia Medical Center, beginning with Dr. Ian
Stevenson, have conducted research into young children’s reports of
past-life memories. Now, in Life Before Life, Dr. Jim B. Tucker shares these
studies with the general public.
Children who report past-life memories typically begin talking about a
previous life when they are two to three years old. 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 also had birthmarks that matched
wounds on the body of the deceased individual.
Life Before Life explores the various features of this worldwide phenomenon,
describing numerous cases along the way. It is a landmark work—one that
has the potential to challenge and ultimately change our understandings about
life and death.
“powerful
grounds for credulous speculation”
—Booklist
“the most
convincing scientific evidence for the fact that our consciousness survives physical
death”
—Deepak Chopra, author of Life After Death: The Burden of Proof
“extraordinarily
important”
—Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Reinventing Medicine and Healing Words
“clear,
concise, and eminently rational”
—Tom Shroder, author of Old Souls
“adds new
insight to this amazing research”
—Carol Bowman, author of Children’s Past Lives and Return from
Heaven
