It is fascinating, isn't it?
I do not think that we all come back. If we did, then there are very few recorded memories of former lives compared to the population of the world. Pretty much all documented reincarnation events seem to happen with past lives that have ended traumatically. Maybe the energies of these lost souls have unfinished business (such as the reincarnation case of Sonam Wangdu - which is a really strange account that changed the child's life forever - literally - and worth searching for reading about) which makes them come back.
For more than 45 years, a team at the Division of Perceptual Studies at UVA (University of Virginia) has been collecting stories of children who can recall past lives. Close to three-quarters of the cases investigated by the team are 'solved', meaning that a person from the past matching the child’s memories is actually identified.
In addition, nearly 20% of the children in the UVA cases have naturally occurring marks, or impairments, that match scars and injuries on the past person. One boy, who recalled being shot, possessed two birthmarks - a large, ragged one over his left eye and a small, round one on the back of his head. These were found to line up like a bullet’s entrance and exit wounds.
This is an example of one of many of the UVA's cases.
It was TV producers who let UVA know about the best-known recent reincarnation case study. In 2002, they were contacted to work for, and appear on, a show about reincarnation (the program never aired) and they were informed told about James Leininger, a four-year-old Louisiana boy who believed that he was once a World War II pilot who had been shot down over Iwo Jima.
His parents first realized that James had these memories when he was two and woke up from a nightmare, yelling, 'Airplane crash! Plane on fire! Little man can’t get out!'. He also knew details about WWII aircraft that it would seem impossible for a toddler to know. For instance, when his mother referred to an object on the bottom of a toy plane as a bomb, James corrected her by saying it was a drop tank. Another time, James and his parents were watching a History Channel documentary, and the narrator called a Japanese plane a Zero. James insisted that it was actually a Tony.
In both cases, he was right.
James had said that he had also been named James in his previous life and that he’d flown off a ship named the
Natoma. His parents, looking more into his claims, discovered a WWII aircraft carrier called the USS
Natoma Bay. In its squadron was a pilot named James Huston, who had been killed in action over the Pacific.
James talked consistently about his plane crashing and he suffered nightmares about the event a few times a week. His desperate mother contacted past-life therapist Carol Bowman for help. Bowman told Andrea not to dismiss what James was saying and to assure him that whatever happened had occurred in another life and body and he was safe now. Andrea followed her advice, and James’s dreams diminished. His parents coauthored
Soul Survivor, a 2009 book (a highly recommended read if you are interested in reincarnation) about their family’s story.
There are dozens of similar accounts from children around the world and you have to stop and wonder........
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