In the 60s of the last century, in one of the Lebanese villages, Professor Ian Stevenson had a chance to talk and write down the stories of unusual children who remember the details of their past lives.

The first scientist met six-year-old Imad Al-Awar. The first words that the unintelligent Imad uttered were “Mahmud” and “Jamili”. This greatly surprised the boy's relatives, since among them there was no one with such names. A little later, he began to use the word "Khirby" frequently.

When Imad was two years old, another strange incident occurred. He noticed an unfamiliar man walking along the road, and ran up to him and began to hug him. The traveler asked the boy if he knew him. Imad quickly said that they were good neighbors. As it turned out, the man lived in the village of Khirby, which was located thirty kilometers from here.

A few years later, the boy learned to speak coherently. He began to tell amazing things for his sister and mother. He recalled that Jamila was very beautiful. He talked about his life in Khirby, where he constantly wanted to go. He also recalled an accident when one of his close relatives had his legs crushed by the wheels of a truck, from which he soon died. Although the relatives treated the boy's stories quite complacently, the father strictly forbade the boy to talk about his past life. He was annoyed at the thought that his son was someone else's incarnation.

Professor Stevenson was interested in this unusual phenomenon, he talked a lot with Imad, asked his relatives. Later, the professor went to the village of Khirby. Here the professor was able to find out that in 1943 a truck really crippled a young man named Saida, who died of traumatic shock. The deceased had a cousin, Ibrahim, who was denounced in the village for a dissolute lifestyle with his mistress Jamila. Ibrahim contracted tuberculosis and died very early - he was only 25 years old. For the past six months, he has been in bed, being cared for by his uncle Mahmud. As it turned out, the house in which Ibrahim lived his last years, was quite accurately described by Imad. And the man who lived in the next house was the same stranger whom the boy hugged.

Ian Stevenson managed to establish that of the forty-seven facts told by Imad about his past life, forty-four were true and related to the life of Ibrahim Bumghazi.

For 25 years of research, Professor Stevenson managed to collect more than a thousand similar cases of phenomenal "reincarnation". He talked with hundreds of storytellers who told him about events that happened even before they were born. The data that Stevenson collected shows that people who were reincarnated as newborns died prematurely or violently. However, this does not mean that rebirth happens only for those who died a violent death.

But the violent death of a person leads to deep traces not only in the soul, the bodies of the reincarnated also suffer, most often where there were mortal wounds that led to death. This fact can be traced in the case described by scientists from the Institute of Biophysical and Psychical Research in Brazil.

Girl Tina, born in Sao Paulo, worked in one of the law firms. Already in early age she knew her name and many details from her previous life. "Then" she was Alex, and her mother's name was Angela. They lived in France. Even now, Tina loves everything French and also hates the Germans, as during the occupation she was shot dead by a Nazi soldier. The girl says that this is confirmed by strange marks on her back and chest. They really look like a prolonged bullet wound. Doctors note that the same traces remain on the human body in the case when a bullet hits the chest and pierces the body right through.

Another interesting case is connected with Joan Grant, who was born into a strict English family in 1907. Already at a young age, memories of a previous life in a distant country began to come to her. She told her parents about it, but they forbade her to mention it. Already matured, Joan went to Egypt. There, so many vivid memories of the era of the pharaohs began to come to her that she decided to write them down in detail. She collected many such texts, but all the information was fragmentary.

But still, thanks to the support of her husband, a psychiatrist, Joan wrote the book "The Winged Pharaoh", based on her memoirs. She came out in 1937. It describes the life of Seketa, the daughter of a pharaoh who ruled almost three thousand years ago. Scientists, critics, and especially Egyptologists, highly appreciated the creation of the young writer, noting her deepest knowledge in the field of culture and history. ancient egypt. True, they were very doubtful about the fact that Joan was at one time Seketa. The memoirs were enough to publish six more historical novels, which, according to Joan, are chronicles of her previous life.

Many consider such cases to be fictions, or hallucinations, which gave birth to a tired or sick brain of people. But what amazing hallucinations can describe reality so accurately? Naturally, skeptics will say that memories of the past were considered by people with paranormal abilities. But none of the heroes of "reincarnation" had psychic abilities. Moreover, the information that is received extrasensory is most often fragmentary and unrelated. And the memories of reborn people are consistently built into one huge story, into one destiny.

Buddhists and Hindus believe that people's actions move the force or law of karma that determines a person's destiny in the next birth. The soul that has a large number of negative karma accumulated as a result of unrighteous actions in a past life, must atone for all their sins during the next incarnation. Thus, human life is only one of the stages in the development of the soul, which has to be reborn in different human bodies in order to achieve perfection. Such a religious and spiritual concept allows people to come to terms with hardships. Everyday life which are not always correct. It prepares people to face the inevitable, while at the same time saying that life always has a purpose and meaning. At the same time, people have hope for eternal existence.

“Last summer, my husband and I went to nature. This was the first time we had a rest, and it was not easy for me to fall asleep in the fresh air right under the stars. It's good to lie in the arms of my husband, but then he fell asleep, and I stayed half asleep for several hours, expecting an attack at any moment. After three days of this rest, I finally managed to fall asleep late at night, and I had a dream in which I was a little American Indian boy, lost in the place where we camped. I felt his anxiety and fear as he tried to find some food and find his way home. At night he lay on the ground and, like me, could not sleep, listening to every rustle and movement. It seemed to him that someone was chasing him or chasing him, and he looked around all the time. This went on day after day. Eventually he couldn't take it anymore and ran. However, the leg got stuck in the roots of a tree, and the boy fell and broke it. He could not move and lay on the ground waiting for death ... I woke up all sweaty, my heart was pounding. Convinced that she was that boy. Everything was perceived so vividly and real that it could not be just a dream.

“All my life I have been tormented by a bad feeling, as if something bad was about to happen. Last year I visited Athens for the first time, and when I was in the Parthenon, this feeling washed over me with unprecedented force. I collapsed onto the steps, tears rolling down my face. People passing by asked how to help me, but I could not answer them. I only knew that I had been here before. Not in this life, in another. Something bad happened to me in the Parthenon, and visiting this place sharpened all my senses. From that day on, I completely freed myself from them. I don’t think I really want to know about the events of that past life.”

“My brothers and sisters quickly learned to swim, but I was always afraid of water. But this infuriated my father, because our family was fond of boating and spent the whole vacation right on the water or on the ocean. As a thirteen year old boy, my parents took me to a hypnotherapist because of my nail biting habit. At the reception, I accidentally returned to a past life that took place on a small island in pacific ocean. Everything was good there, we were engaged in fishing. One day we hurriedly sailed to the house to escape the oncoming storm, but it still overtook us. I fell overboard and, although I was an excellent swimmer, drowned. I never thought about reincarnation before. The doctor explained everything to me, but I did not tell my parents what seemed too strange. And the strangest thing is that my current mother was my wife in a past life. This confused me for a long time."

Have you ever thought about your past lives? For some, a similar interest is caused by vague memories of something that happened in the distant past. Others have a desire to know more about themselves: where they have been and where they are going. In any case, there are tricks that allow you to open your past lives.

For thousands of years, people have believed in the idea of ​​reincarnation. This belief is spread all over the world: in Asia, the Americas, Africa, Australia and Europe - everyone believes that death is not the end and that it will be followed by rebirth in one body or another.

In the East, reincarnation has always been taken for granted. This concept is an essential part of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. Originally absent from Shinto, it gradually became part of that belief system when Buddhism reached Japan in the twelfth century. True, reincarnation is not part of Islam, but its Sufi direction accepts the idea of ​​rebirth.

It is known that the ancient Egyptians buried magic spells next to the dead, which were supposed to help a person be reborn in his chosen form. In Greece, in the sixth century BC. BC, the Orphic cult taught that all people are partly sinful, partly holy. However, developing through various reincarnations, we learn to get rid of the sinful side of our nature and eventually achieve holiness. At this stage, of course, the cycle of rebirths is completed.

Later, the ideas of the Orphics were adopted by Pythagoras and became an integral part of his philosophy. The scientist was able to remember his past lives. Iamblichus in The Life of Pythagoras wrote: “Pythagoras gave a lot of evidence that he had knowledge of his past lives, this allowed him to instill visionary attention in others and remind them of their past existences”2. In past lives, Pythagoras was: the Trojan warrior Ephorbus, the preacher Hermotimus, the burned rivals, the Cypriot fisherman Pyrrhus, the Phoenician prostitute and the peasant from Thrace3.

Socrates also believed in reincarnation. According to legend, he spent the last morning of his life thinking about how his soul existed before the birth of a person and how it will continue to live after the death of his physical body. Socrates philosophically analyzed human life, leaving us the well-known expression: "Know thyself!". It must be said that his original ideas about the soul are the subject of discussion today.

The most famous student of Socrates - Plato - firmly believed in reincarnation and wrote: “Know that if you become worse, you will end up with worse souls, if you get better - with better ones, and with each change of life and death you will suffer as much as you can suffer in such a case." Plato's ideas about reincarnation had a profound effect on the whole Western philosophy and have not lost their significance even today.

Later, the idea of ​​reincarnation was adopted by Greek Gnosticism. He played an important role in early Christian beliefs. In the second century AD, Clement of Alexandria argued that we develop through a process of many reincarnations. Origen, one of the most important theologians of the time, agreed with him.

The Bible also seems to accept the idea of ​​reincarnation. Thus, in the Gospel of Matthew (11:13–15), Jesus tells his disciples who John the Baptist was in a past life: “... for all the prophets and the law prophesied before John. And if you want to receive, he is Elijah, who must come. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!” This statement is confirmed by the Gospel of Matthew (17:12), where Jesus says: “... but I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but did to him as they wished; so the Son of Man will suffer from them.” On another occasion, Jesus asked his disciples, "Whom do people say that I, the Son of Man, is?" The answer was: "Some for John the Baptist, others for Elijah, and others for Jeremiah or one of the prophets" (Matthew 16:13-14).

The disciples again mention reincarnation when they ask Jesus about a man who was blind from birth: “His disciples asked Him: Rabbi! Who sinned, he or his parents, that he was born blind? (John 9:2). It is clear that this man could not have sinned before birth, unless he had sinned in a previous life. It is interesting that Jesus does not reproach the disciples for such thoughts and answers them: “… neither he nor his parents sinned, but it was so that the works of God might appear on him” (John 9:3).

Unfortunately, in 553 AD. e. The Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople declared that reincarnation is a reactionary doctrine. The Christian church immediately renounced the idea of ​​reincarnation and forced its adherents to go underground. Reincarnation was again declared heretical by the I Lyon (1247) and Florentine (1439) Ecumenical Councils. Anyone who believed in these ideas risked being burned alive at the stake.

Despite everything, the belief in reincarnation has not disappeared. Apparently, the most famous of the underground sects were the Cathars, exterminated by the Inquisition. Interestingly, the Bible contains only favorable references to reincarnation.

During the Renaissance in Europe there was a surge of interest in the ideas of Pythagoras, Plato and Kabbalah. Leonardo da Vinci was one of the few who accepted the idea of ​​reincarnation. In his "Notebooks" we find several expressions testifying to his belief in the immortality of the soul. It is known that Giordano Bruno was found guilty of heresy and was to be executed in 1600. Before being burned, he addressed the Inquisition with the following words: “I believed and believe that souls are immortal ... Since the soul cannot exist without a body in the same way as a body without a soul, it passes from body to body”6.

The idea of ​​reincarnation can be found among the Jews in the Kabbalah7 and the Zohar8. Numerous references to reincarnation are also found among the Hindus in the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads; and the Quran treats her favorably. In Buddhism, the ultimate goal is liberation from the endless cycle of rebirth and the achievement of nirvana. In fact, the idea of ​​reincarnation, or variants of it, can be found in the traditional beliefs of most of the peoples of the world.

Interest in reincarnation grew steadily during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In America, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine wrote extensively on this subject. In France, Voltaire, Victor Hugo, George Sand and Gustav Flaubert did not get tired of educating the public on this issue, in Germany - Johann von Goethe, Immanuel Kant and Gotthold Lessing, in England - David Hume and Alexander Pope.

In the modern era, interest in reincarnation has been revived with the start of the Theosophical Society. It claimed the role of a worldwide brotherhood and encouraged the study of the history of religion, philosophy and science, and also engaged in the study of inexplicable patterns in nature. Today, this society does not put forward any specific doctrines, but seeks to perceive the reality of reincarnation and karma. The Theosophical Society was founded in 1875 by Helena Blavatsky, Henry Olcott and William Judge. Madame Blavatsky announced that in past incarnations she was Pythagoras and Paracelsus.

Later, Edgar Cayce (Sause) (1877–1945), a committed Christian and physician, became the chief advocate of reincarnation. He became interested in her when, while in a trance, he mentioned karma. Before that, he had not heard anything about karma and believed that reincarnation refers to pagan beliefs. Fortunately, friends advised him to continue researching this issue. As a result of the experiments, he came to the conclusion that there is, in fact, nothing pagan in reincarnation. His ability to look into past lives has allowed him to heal his patients much more effectively than ever - both their bodies and souls. Between 1923 and 1945 Casey described about 2,500 past lives, the descriptions are preserved in the archives of the Association for Research and Education of Virginia10. They clearly show what changes are undergoing human personality on the way from one life to another.

In the twentieth century, interest in reincarnation steadily increased. First, the British psychiatrist Alexander Cannon and the French psychic, Colonel Albert de Rochas, explored hypnotic regressions. Even Aleister Crowley wrote a book about his method of replaying past lives. In the 50s of the twentieth century. the famous Bridey Murphy case in the United States and the past-life reminiscences of Mrs. Naomi Henry in England that followed, aroused general excitement and interest. These memories were revealed through hypnosis.

In Wales, the hypnologist Arnall Broaxham has also done much research into hypnotic past life regressions, recording over four hundred sessions on tape. Jeffrey Iverson, producer of a television show about Broxham's recordings, later wrote a book, More Than One Life, about him, which became a bestseller in 1976.

In 1983, Shirley MacLaine's first reincarnation book, In Peril, was published and became so popular that it was made into a television miniseries. MacLane's accessible books helped popularize the idea of ​​reincarnation among the masses.

Dr. Helen Wambach in the 1970s regressed more than a thousand people through hypnosis and collected a huge amount of data that confirmed the reality of reincarnation. All of her volunteers (with the exception of one) in previous lives were ordinary people and led an ordinary life. Most of them are peasants, whose path was incredibly difficult. They worked hard and ate monotonously, and their children died in infancy. This is not at all the kind of life that people would like to move themselves into simply by fantasizing.

Although most of Dr. Wambach's volunteers are white, middle-class, she noticed that they were often of a different race and of the opposite sex in past lives. Considering that there is an approximately equal number of men and women in the world, it is natural to assume that with a regression of a thousand people, this ratio should remain unchanged. And there is. In past lives studied by Wambach, out of 1,100 volunteers, 49.4% were women and 50.6% men11. If these regressions, as already mentioned, were pure fantasy, most people would want to become white men12. This did not happen, indicating the authenticity of memories of past lives.

Dr. Wambach's research provides an answer to another important question: does the fact that the world's population is steadily growing disprove the theory of reincarnation? Between the 1st and 15th centuries, the world's population doubled, then, by XIX century It doubled again and has quadrupled since then. Dr. Wambach observed that the number of returns of her subjects during these periods of history reflected the same proportions.

More than half of the world's population considers the idea of ​​reincarnation proven. These people agree that the human body with personality characteristics will die, but the soul itself is immortal. She has already lived many lives, and she expects even more in the future.

This is quite natural, since it is impossible to experience everything in just one lifetime. Many incarnations give us a variety of life experiences: we can know wealth and poverty, become black and white, male and female, intellectual and mentally limited, radiant with health and suffering from ailments. We can live in technologically advanced countries and return to places where there is still a struggle for survival. In fact, we are different people. But knowledge about reincarnation can make people more tolerant.

Over the course of many reincarnations, we gradually progress or regress, depending on our thoughts and actions during each lifetime. This is the law of cause and effect. We reap exactly what we sow.

WHY DON'T PEOPLE REMEMBER THEIR PAST LIVES?

According to the beliefs of the ancient Greeks, the gods immersed the souls of the dead in the River of Oblivion, so that at a new birth they would be freed from memories of past lives. It is probably a great stroke of luck that most people do not remember past incarnations, all the painful and difficult episodes of which would have made progress in the present life almost impossible.

Most people are born without conscious memories of previous incarnations. However, many are able to see sketchy pictures from their past lives, sometimes with a lot of detail. Throughout my life, I remembered myself as a small child. I sat near a huge fire and, having eaten my fill, looked at the large, continuously moving red circles. Looking closely, I realized that these red circles were the lining of the black dresses of Russian peasant women. When they danced around the fire, I saw only red circles. Obviously, it was a memory of a past life - but only a reproduction in the memory of an individual happy moment. I had to become an adult in order to restore the lost facts of a past life.

Not surprisingly, people who remember their previous incarnations are more common in countries where reincarnation is accepted as a fact. Studies conducted in northern India in the 1970s showed that "approximately one person in five hundred remembers a previous life"13. In the West, similar studies have not been carried out.

Dr. Ian Stevenson has been researching "reincarnation-type" cases for the past forty years and has published a number of well-argued books about his findings. Over the years, he has described over 2,500 cases, mostly involving past life memories of young children. About eight hundred of them have been studied in detail.

Dr. Stevenson believes that the testimonies of children are more convincing than the reports of adults. This is due to the fact that the first did not have time to read historical novels or watching a lot of movies that they might unwittingly pass off as evidence of past lives. The confusion in our minds of such information, hidden under the surface of consciousness, with events that actually happened is called cryptomnesia. Dr. Stevenson believes that most adult hypnotic regressions bring back these forgotten memories, not actual past lives.

One case, studied at length by Professor Stevenson and many others, concerns Parmod, the second son of an Indian professor. Parmod was born in 1944. As soon as he learned to speak, he spoke the following words: "Moradabad", "Saharanpur" and "Mohan Brothers". When he was two and a half years old, he told his mother that she did not need to cook food, as he had a wife in Moradabad. Once relatives brought him cookies, and he said that he owns a large biscuit factory in Moradabad. Parmod repeatedly asked his parents to take him there and said that he was one of the Mohan brothers. Over time, new details of his former life began to appear. The child claimed that his former name was Paramanand, that he was a businessman who died exactly nine months and six days before Parmod's birth.

When the boy was five years old, it turned out that there was a company in Moradabad known as the Mohan Brothers. When its owner Mohan Lal found out about Parmoda, he came to his house. Unfortunately, the boy was visiting relatives, but it was agreed that he would visit Moradabad.

When the family arrived in Moradabad, Parmod immediately recognized his brother and embraced him warmly. He recognized City Hall and announced that they were on their way to the firm. The driver of the car decided to drive past the store to check on Parmod, but the boy recognized the building and ordered the driver to stop. He entered the house in which he had lived in a previous life, and bowed reverently from the room in which he prayed daily. He recognized his wife, parents, brothers and all his children, except for the eldest son. When Paramanand died, this son was thirteen, and in six years he had changed a lot. Parmod joyfully recalled incidents from family life.

During the two days spent in Moradabad, the boy convincingly proved that he was the reincarnation of Paramanand, as he easily remembered different places and different people from your past life. He pointed to a building that had once been the offices of a branch office of the Mohan Brothers. He explained how water is carbonated, knew how to fix the installation. For such a check, the machine was specially brought to a non-working state14.

Children at a very early age often show some talent or ability. It is most likely that this is the result of past life experiences. Rich imagination small children is also a manifestation of previous incarnations.

One problem with hypnotic past life regressions is that they are hard to confirm. Someone can tell a beautiful story about a past life, full of incredible details that can be confirmed. However, there is a possibility that he got this information from books or movies. Such problems do not arise with young children, as they cannot obtain information about their past lives in any other way.

Children who recall past lives are often told not to make things up. As children grow older, the events of past lives are gradually erased from their memory and eventually completely lost.

IS IT DANGEROUS?

There is no danger in doing past life regression using the techniques presented in this book. However, there are others that are potentially dangerous. In the 1970s, drug-assisted past life research became widespread. Not surprisingly, some of these experiences ended badly. For a successful study of past incarnations, there is no need for artificial stimulants.

There are also techniques for returning to past lives using your own body. In this case, the assistant touches various sites your body and observe the reaction. When you touch the right point, you return to the past life. This method is effective. I have used it many times, but I am not including it here for two reasons. There are people who abuse this situation during the regression process. Obviously you have to trust whoever touches you. The second disadvantage of the method is that you cannot use it without help. On the other hand, none of the methods in this book require a partner.

The following must be taken into account. Awareness of past lives reveals to us the karma created in them. For some people, this knowledge can be a heavy burden. Most of us struggle with the karma created in this life without worrying about the karma created in past lives. Therefore, it is best not to undertake past life regressions unless you are confident that you can deal with the effects of past karmas.

In practice, I have found that for most people, returning to past lives does not cause difficulties. However, some people, despite trying all known methods, cannot open the door to past incarnations. I feel that this is no coincidence; they are protected from past life memories until they are ready to receive all the information.

WHY EXPLORE YOUR PAST LIVES?

People often ask me why you need to explore your past lives. And I usually answer that regression can give a clue to why a person does certain things, behaves one way or another in the current life. Turning to former lives, you can get information about the appointment of a person in the current one. Regression can explain the causes of difficulties and problems that a person experiences in this life, and suggest what karma needs to be improved. When people know why they act the way they do, they gain more control over their lives.

Past life reversal is also an extremely valuable form of healing. It allows you to act on the causes underlying the problem, instead of fighting only external manifestations. The memories of past lives are imprinted in the DNA of each of the more than ten trillion cells that make up our body. Using this method of treatment, we can heal an ailment that has existed, perhaps, for many previous incarnations.

Guilt plays an important role in the lives of many people. It is created by suppressed fear, anger, grief. Past life therapy can help such people to get rid of this feeling that arose in previous incarnations.

Many people turn to past life regression during times of crisis. They look for solutions to problems in it, when in reality everything is not going the way they want. Regardless of the outcome, such regressions are always beneficial.

One patient came to me shortly after her husband left her. “I have always been jealous,” she told me. - I do not know why. It's crazy, but I always lose the people I love."

She returned to her past life in Jamaica in the nineteenth century. Being the capricious eldest daughter of wealthy planters, she always got what she wanted. The young man with whom she fell in love, unfortunately, was infatuated with another. I tried all means to recapture it from my opponent, but nothing helped. Then, in a fit of jealousy, she paid to have that girl poisoned. The young man, having learned that his beloved had died, hanged himself.

After this regression, my patient came for consultations. Her life has improved, and the feeling of jealousy appears very rarely.

Perhaps the most important result that can be obtained from past life regression is forgiveness, both for oneself and for others. You can forgive people who hurt you in past lives and forgive yourself for hurting others. This contributes to the rehabilitation of oneself and other people. If this happens, you will definitely feel the joy of movement.

Knowing about past lives also gives a person peace of mind. Many are afraid of death, but the fear disappears when the realization comes that death is not the end.

Regressions to previous lives provide another benefit - the ability to discover in yourself abilities that you did not know about. The skills and talents you used in past lives are not lost. They are still part of you and can be developed in this lifetime.

Most people who decide to go through a past life regression seek to find out if they are following their destiny in this life. Many feel dissatisfied and want to know what to do with their lives. In this case, regression is extremely useful. And in the end, it will demonstrate that our potential is unlimited.

Most of my patients believe in reincarnation, not a few remain skeptical even after regression. However, with all the variety of views, they still receive a certain benefit when one of the past lives is revealed to them. Regardless of the depth of your interest in this issue, the experiments described in the following chapters will be useful to you in the present.

DOES EVERYONE HAVE A PAST LIFE?

In my practice of regression, there has never been a case where a person did not have past lives. On the contrary, most people seem to have an unlimited number of them to choose from.

One of my regular clients is a carpenter. In less than twenty years, we have explored many of his past lives. Sometimes, when he comes to me, he wants to return to some particular one, which we have already explored to the smallest detail. Another time - look into the unfamiliar. At times he prefers to let the course of regression be left to chance.

Common to his different lives is that he always worked well with his hands. Apparently, he had an equal number of female and male lives, and in all he used his skill. In male incarnations, he was a builder, cabinet maker, farmer, mechanic, etc. In female incarnations, he was a shepherdess, cook, nurse and cleaner.

I admire the practicality that runs through all his lives, because my own was the complete opposite. Basically, I was impractical and in most of my past lives I was a monk, a priest, a musician, a writer and a teacher.

Unfortunately, many of my patients come to me out of curiosity and don't continue to explore other lives like this carpenter did. Therefore, it is difficult for me to determine whether there is a common thread running through different incarnations of one person. This is an interesting field for research.

But I know for sure that you have gone through many lives, have been to Earth many times and will return here many more times in the future.

DO YOU KNOW DEJA VU?

Almost everyone is familiar with the feeling of deja vu, which in French means “already seen”. It is the feeling that you have been in this place before and experienced a similar sequence of events. Reincarnation is just one of many possible explanations. Other explanations may be: I saw this scene on TV before, I saw it similar to this but not identical, or I saw this event in a dream before it happened.

Sometimes, however, déjà vu leads to spontaneous recollection of a past life. This may surprise people who have no idea about the subject. A friend of mine experienced a similar feeling one evening at home. I cut a lemon to put in drinks prepared for myself and my husband, and then sat on the veranda to watch the sunset. When she raised the glass to her lips, she smelled lemon on her fingers and was immediately transported to her past life in Italy during the Renaissance, where she posed for an artist in a large garden.

I'm sure there was a scent of lemon in that garden, she told me. - His scent suddenly brought me back to the past. I don’t understand why this happened now, because the scent of lemon has been familiar to me all my life. In any case, I felt incredibly happy. I was in love with Aroldo, for whom I posed, and experienced a surge of delight, so strong that it seemed my heart could not stand it, - she smiled sadly. “There has never been anything like this in my life.

Dr. Frederick Lenz, a psychologist, has been studying spontaneous memories of past lives and has described his observations in his book Lifetimes. He noticed that most of these memories come in a dream or during meditation, when visions appear, or as moments of deja vu. Dr. Lenz drew attention to the fact that immediately before the spontaneous recollection of a past life, people feel that they become, as it were, lighter, and bright colors begin to flash before their eyes. They feel euphoric, feel good, and the room seems to vibrate. Then suddenly they are transported for a few moments into a past life. Often after that they seem a little numb.

CAN I PROVE THAT A PAST LIFE REALLY WAS?

Unfortunately, in many cases this is not possible. Most people led a normal life for the time in which they existed. Only a few could get an education or travel. Life proceeded in the vicinity of his own home. They did not always know the name of the nearest town or village, the year they were born, or the name of the country in which they lived. They might not even know their last name. Naturally, such stories are difficult to prove or disprove.

More recently, I regressed a young woman into medieval Europe. In that life, she was a male baker. He was ambitious, worked hard and eventually became the owner of his own business. Many details of the process of baking bread were amazed. But the baker was illiterate and had no idea about the era or even the name of the city in which he lived. Obviously, it would be extremely difficult to find out more about him, because he knew very little about himself.

In other cases, the richness of detail helps to prove existence in a former life due to lack of historical evidence. Jess Stern described one such case in his book Looking for the Girl with Blue Eyes. A girl with blue eyes lived in the late nineteenth century in Canada in the countryside. She never strayed far from her home, knew little about her neighbors, and lived at a time when records of births, deaths, and marriages were scarce or non-existent. Although this story is extremely convincing and rich in details, it is still impossible to prove the reality of reincarnation.

Another well-researched example concerns George Field, a fifteen-year-old student high school, who regressed to a past life where he was a farmer during the Civil War. When he refused to sell his potatoes to Yankee soldiers for a few cents a bushel, he was shot in the stomach. This regression was carried out by Loring J. Williams, who later wrote a report on it for Destiny magazine. After the publication of the article, new information appeared, which was included in Brad Steiger's wonderful book You Will Live Again16. Williams, along with George Field, went to Jefferson, North Carolina, to look for any evidence. George Field, or Jonathan Powell as he was called in a past life, was able to give very detailed information about the people living in the area at that time. However, although most of the information was confirmed, it was not possible to definitively prove the reality of past life regression.

From time to time, one of my patients returns to their former life, where they were a person whom we can learn about from history books. I regressed one person into a past life where he was Oliver Cromwell's accountant. A study of historical books showed that someone by that name was indeed known as Oliver Cromwell's accountant. This man remembered the smallest details and even terms that are already forgotten today. It is therefore possible, and even highly probable, that my patient was indeed that person at one time.

Unfortunately, nothing can be proved in such a case. Skeptics will readily say that my patient may have taken information from a long-forgotten book he had read. He might have heard a radio program or seen a movie or TV show showing such a person. Therefore, it is impossible to prove that he was him in a past life. My patient, however, believes all this to be true, which helped him. In the end, that's all that matters.

DO I HAVE A SOUL mate?

A soul mate is someone with whom you have had a strong bond through many incarnations. Most people think of a soul mate bond as a strong love connection between two people that has lasted for hundreds, perhaps even thousands of years. Often it is. And it's always great when people find out that someone they adore is current life, was their love in the past.

A soul mate relationship can include other important relationships between two people outside of the realm of love and romance. For example, your current leader has been your teacher or student in many past lives. This can also be considered a connection with a soul mate, it is just as strong, important and necessary for your progress, although it has a platonic character. Thus, another benefit of going back to past lives is the ability to find your soul mate.

What nonsense,” [Teddy] said. - All you have to do is remove the barrier when you die. My God, everyone has done this thousands and thousands of times. Even if they don't remember, it doesn't mean they didn't do it. What nonsense.

J.D. Salinger "Teddy"

Laurel Dilmet couldn't hide from the memories flooding through her. She remembered that in the sixteenth century her name was Antonia Micaela Maria Ruiz de Prado. She assured that Antonia was born on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean and later moved to Spain, and her life was full of love and romance.

She spent several months in the dungeons of the Spanish Inquisition, fell in love with one of the inquisitors, became his lover, followed him to South America and, in the end, drowned off a small island in the Caribbean. Antonia's terrible death was buried in Laurel's mind. She remembered how Antonia's lover tried to save her and how she died in his arms. Antonia realized that she was dead only when she no longer felt his tears flood her face.

It would have sounded like a convoluted fantasy or a romantic novel, were it not for the hundred facts mentioned by Laurel that would not have been known to her had she not lived in sixteenth-century Spain.

Psychologist Linda Taratzi spent three years verifying Laurel's story as it unfolded before her during a series of hypnotic regressions in 1970. Linda Taratsi spent hundreds of hours in fact-checking libraries, consulted historians, and even visited Spain. And while she couldn't determine if a woman named Antonia Ruiz de Prado ever lived there, she was able to confirm almost every detail of Laurel's story.

"Antonia" reported the exact names and dates that could be found in documents written in Spanish in the city of Cuenca in Spain, for example, the names of two inquisitors from Cuenca - Jimenez de Reynoso and Francisco de Arganda - and the names of spouses arrested on charges of witchcraft , Andreev and Maria de Burgos. Laurel had never been to Spain, and her knowledge of Spanish was limited to a bunch of travel phrases learned from a week's vacation in the Canary Islands.

Where did Laurel get this information? Genetic memory is ruled out because Laurel, who is of German origin, had no Spanish ancestors. Possession by a disembodied spirit is a far more incredible idea than reincarnation. And she could hardly have learned specific details in childhood or during training.

A schoolteacher from the Chicago area - she was raised Lutheran. Laurel went to a regular school (not a Catholic one), majoring in Northwestern University, was a teacher and could hardly be a criminal or a fraudster. She could not make any money on a story that fell outside the scope of academic journals, and forbade her to mention her real name. Isn't it surprising that Laurel knew in which building in Cuenca the court of the Inquisition sat in 1584? Even the government tourism department didn't know about it. Laurel described the building as an old castle towering over the city. From the department of tourism reported that the Inquisition was located in a building that stood directly in the city. However, from a little-known Spanish book, Linda Taratsi learned that the Inquisition was transferred to just such a castle in December 1583, shortly before the time when, according to Laurel, Antonia arrived in Cuenca.

Could Laurel have concocted "memories" from the romantic literature she happened to read? Linda Taratsi asked her about books, films and television programs ah, which she watched, and even checked the catalogs of historical literature. She found nothing resembling Antonia's story.

The case of Antonia seems incredible, since it is very much like a novel, - Taratsi admitted that “partly this may be so”, - however, at the same time, he is much closer to life than fiction. For example, despite the fact that inquisitors are usually depicted as villains in the novels, Antonia described one of them as more human.

Taratsi found confirmation of this characteristic. She found that at the time when, according to Laurel, Antonia lived in Cuenca, the Inquisition was quite tolerant there. No one was burned alive in Antony's time, although one person was quartered. The historical accuracy of Laurel's information is more than extraordinary.

Laurel's case is just one of thousands of attested past life memories that support the widespread belief in the West in the reincarnation of souls. When people hear stories like Laurel's, it often helps develop their dormant belief in reincarnation.

Other confirmations of it can be their own memories of past lives, out-of-body experiences and experiences clinical death. In this chapter, we will look at all three types to better understand why people tend to believe that they lived before.

haunting memories

Much of the documented evidence of past lives has been collected by Ian Stevenson, the most prolific researcher in the field. A psychoanalyst formerly head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Stevenson has devoted his entire time since 1967 to past life research.

That year, Chester F. Carlson, inventor of the technology used in Xerox copiers, set up a foundation to continue the work of Ian Stevenson. The scientist left his post in order to head the department of parapsychology as part of the university faculty of psychiatry.

Stevenson is careful not to deal with hypnosis, saying that it rarely produces "really valuable" results. (He mentions Antonia's case as one of the rare noteworthy). Instead, he prefers to work with people who have had spontaneous memories of past lives, mostly children. He questions them, writes down their memories, and then tries to verify the details of their past existence on his own. Stevenson has over 2,500 cases recorded, most from India, Sri Lanka and Burma.

Some skeptics have criticized Stevenson's information because it mostly comes from Asian countries where belief in reincarnation is widespread and it is likely that parents encourage children to remember past lives. However, many Asian parents do not encourage this. As Stevenson points out, they believe that such memories bring bad luck and lead to early death. In fact, in 41 percent of the cases recorded by Stevenson in India, parents tried to prevent their children from talking about past incarnations, even using methods such as spanking and rinsing the mouth with dirty water.

Stevenson suggests that the reason he recorded fewer "Western" cases is that people in the West don't know what to do with such memories when they arise. Their belief system does not give them any general outline. One Christian woman, whose child claimed to be an incarnation of her older sister, told Stevenson:

"If my church knew what I'm telling you, I'd be kicked out."

The recollections of some of his respondents are remarkably reliable. They recall names, places, and circumstances, and are even able to demonstrate skills, such as drumming, that they did not learn in this life, but that their personality possessed in a past incarnation. While Stevenson does not believe that any of this evidence can be considered as conclusive scientific proof of the reincarnation of souls, he believes that the ideal evidence must be found somewhere to become such. One recent case in England seems quite convincing.

Mother's love never dies

“I know it must sound very strange, but I remember family through dreams,” Jenny Cockell told the woman on the other end of the telephone line.

It was April 1990 and she was talking to the daughter of Geoffrey Sutton, an Irishman whose mother had died in childbirth on October 24, 1932. It was awkward for her to talk. It was her first contact with the family from whom she believed death had separated her some sixty years earlier.

It wasn't just dreams that brought them together. Memories haunted her in a dream and in reality, starting from early childhood. She first spoke of them when she was not yet four years old. Instead of fading away, the memories continued and became more detailed as she grew older. Jenny was haunted by an overwhelming sense of the need to make sure her children were all right.

While at school in England, she obtained a map on which she found the place where she knew she lived. This is the village of Malahide north of Dublin. Although she had never been to Ireland, Jenny drew a map of the area, marking the house where she lived with her husband and seven or eight children.

She knew that her name was Mary and that she was born around 1898 and died in the thirties of the twentieth century in a white room with high windows. She believed that her husband participated in the First World War and that his work was connected with "timber and work on high altitude". She retained joyful memories of married life before the birth of children. But subsequent memories became vague, and a "sense of quiet alertness" surfaced in the memory.

Jenny grew up, attended college and became an orthopedist. She got married and had two children: a son and a daughter. As the children grew up, the past began to haunt her again, and along with it, the desire to find out what happened to the other family that she remembered. In 1980, she bought over detailed map Malahide Village and compared it to a map drawn as a child. They were very similar.

By ruling out the genetic connection, she was convinced that her memories were real. Her only Irish relative was her great-grandmother, who was born on the west coast of Ireland (Malahide is on the east) and spent most of her life in Malta and India. Thus, she could not be a source of memories of twentieth-century Ireland.

Jenny came to believe that she was "living her past life again in reincarnation," as she wrote in her 1993 book Through Time and Death. She wrote that it was "the power of feelings and memories" that made her believe in the reality of a past life. She decided to undergo hypnosis, which helped her remember specific incidents.

She remembered that she often passed by a certain church, the image of which was so vivid that she was able to draw it later. Then the episode came to mind when the children caught a rabbit in a snare. They called her. She said as she approached, "He's still alive!" This memory helped the Suttons' eldest son, Sonny, to believe that she was in fact his reincarnated mother.

In June 1989, she spent a weekend in Malahide and received some amazing confirmations. The church she drew actually existed and looked surprisingly similar to her drawing. The view of Soudes Road, on which, according to her recollection, their house was located, has changed significantly. She did not find any building in the place where the house should have been. However, the stone wall, the stream, and the swamp were exactly where she spoke.

The trip gave her the confidence to continue her search. She wrote to the owner of an old house she saw on Sod's Road. He told her that he remembered a family living next door with many children whose mother had died in the thirties. His next letter brought her the family's surname - the Suttons - and painful news: "After the mother's death, the children were sent to orphanages."

She realized that there were indeed reasons to be concerned about their well-being. "Why didn't their father save the family?" she asked. She began an intensified search for the Sutton children. From the priest of an orphanage near Dublin, she learned the names of six children, and then began to write to people named Sutton with these names. During her search, Jenny found Mary's marriage certificate and, more importantly, her death certificate. She died at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, where there were indeed white rooms with tall windows.

Finally, in response to one of her many inquiries, she received a phone call from Geoffrey Sutton's daughter. Although Geoffrey showed little interest in her story, his family gave her the addresses and phone numbers of his two brothers, Sonny and Francis. The boys lost contact with their sisters after they were sent to orphanages.

She mustered all her courage to call Sonny and he answered. He confirmed that the house was where she spoke and said he wanted to meet her and talk.

Upon meeting Sonny, Jenny was immediately relieved. She wrote: "I discovered how accurate and detailed these memories were." She told him about the incident with the rabbit. “He just stared helplessly at me and said: “How did you know about this?” He confirmed that the rabbit was alive. “It was the first detail that shocked him with its authenticity,” Jenny wrote. “The incident was so concerned with the private life of the family that no one else could know about it.”

Sonny also confirmed Jenny's worst fears about Mary's husband. John Sutton, a roofer, was a binge drinker, sometimes violent. He beat his wife and flogged his children with "a wide belt with a copper buckle." After Mary's death, government officials took all the children away from their father except Sonny, Jenny wrote, "because they felt he was incapable of taking care of them." Sonny was the only one left at home. John became more and more rampant, regularly beating his son until he fled to the army at the age of seventeen.

With Sonny's help, Jenny found traces of the rest of the eight Sutton children. Three died, but in April 1993, the five surviving children met with Jenny during filming. documentary film in Ireland. "For the first time since 1932, the family has come together," Jenny wrote. Although Sonny said he accepts reincarnation as an explanation for Jenny's memories, the other kids don't go that far. The daughters of Phyllis and Elizabeth agreed with the explanation offered by a certain clergyman - that their mother had acted through Jenny to reunite the family.

Jenny is glad that she investigated her memories. “The sense of responsibility and guilt disappeared,” she wrote, “and I felt a peace unknown to me until now.”

False memories

Memories like those of Jenny and Laurel help keep Christians believing in a past life. But they are rarely confirmed in a similar way. For every series confirmed, there are hundreds of others that cannot be confirmed. Some of them are simply fuzzy and unverifiable. Others turn out to be inaccurate or, even worse, interfere with scenes from novels and films. Consequently, many people refer to them as fantasies.

The potential inaccuracy of hypnotic regression memories is clear from a study by Nicholas Spanos of Carleton University in Canada. His assistants put one hundred and ten undergrads into a hypnotic trance and told them to remember their past lives. Thirty-five of them reported their names in a past life, and twenty were able to name the time and country in which they lived. But most of the reports were unreliable. “When they were asked to name the head of state where they lived, and to say whether the country was at peace or at war, every one of them either could not name the head of state, called other names, or was mistaken about whether the country was at war in a certain year or not or reported historically incorrect information, Spanos wrote.

One of the subjects, who claimed to be Julius Caesar, said it was 50 AD. and he was a Roman emperor. Caesar was never proclaimed emperor and lived before Christ.

This study highlights some of the weaknesses of hypnotic regression. But unreliable memories do not refute the fact of reincarnation. People do not always accurately remember the events of their current life. Like all other abilities, people's ability to recall events under hypnosis varies. Most of the subjects recall events that caused strong feelings better than dry facts, such as names and dates. Others manage panoramas, but overloaded with details.

Although many past life memories are historically untrustworthy, more and more psychologists are using regression to treat patients. They claim that it helps in the treatment of everything from phobias to chronic pain, and also helps to improve relationships between people.

Although hypnotic regression is rarely useful in proving the reincarnation of souls, its growing popularity speaks volumes: people are not satisfied with the Christian orthodox outlook on life. They turn to alternatives like reincarnation because they are looking for better answers.

out-of-body experience

A few years ago, I received a letter from a man who described an experience he had in a near-death state. It happened in 1960 as a result of an accident on the football field and lasted seven minutes. “During this time,” he wrote, “I was carried along a dark tunnel towards a bright white light. In this light, I saw the figure of a bearded man who told me that I had more work to complete. Shortly after these words, I woke up on the operating table to the amazement of the doctors and nurses who were there.

I recognized in this description a typical near-death experience, or NDE.

Since 1975, when physician Raymond Moody published Life After Life, medical science has begun to take PSS seriously. AT huge number books and television programs on the subject, people described how they were embraced by the light, drawn to the light, saved and transformed by it.

Raymond Moody found several common elements of the PSS, such as making a loud noise, moving through a tunnel, meeting a being of Light, and viewing life. But the consequences are perhaps more interesting than the experiences themselves.

Since 1977, Kenneth Ring, a psychologist at the University of Connecticut, has consistently confirmed most of Moody's findings. And one of the less famous discoveries is that people who have had near-death experiences seem to become more receptive to the idea of ​​reincarnation. Thus, PSS is one of the factors contributing to the spread of belief in the reincarnation of the soul.

In 1980-81, a Gallup poll found that 15 percent of American adults, while on the "brink of death," believed "the continuation of life or awareness after death." Based on the figures given by the Gallup Institute, Kenneth Ring claims that 35 to 40 percent of people who were on the verge of death experienced near-death states.

Kenneth Ring also found that these people became " more receptive to views of life after death in light of the idea of ​​reincarnation". Ring-led research by University of Connecticut alumnus Amber Wells documents their change of heart. Wells interviewed fifty-seven people who had gone through near-death experiences about their belief in reincarnation. She found that 70 percent of them believe in the reincarnation of souls, although among the general population, 23 percent have such views, and in her control group - 30 percent.

Why do people who have experienced near-death states tend to accept the idea of ​​reincarnation?

Kenneth Ring found that many of the subjects explained the change in their views by special information given to them by a being of Light. For example, one of them told the scientist that the being he saw in his near-death experience told him that the eldest son of this man had 14 "incarnations in female physical bodies." He said that this made his belief in reincarnation "a matter of personal knowledge". Some of those interviewed claimed to have seen souls awaiting incarnation. Others attribute the shift in their views to simply developing a receptivity to new ideas in general as a result of their near-death experience.

Perhaps the PSS leads people to accept the idea of ​​reincarnation because they experience a state of being out of the body. This allows people to naturally conclude that they are not identical with their bodies. And from here it is easy to move on to the idea that one can leave one body and continue life in another.

An out-of-body experience I had while in college helped solidify my understanding that although my soul resides in this body, I am something more than it. I was going to work at the Christian Science Monitor in Boston. It was four and a half or five in the morning and the streets were empty. Suddenly I realized that my soul had soared to a great height. It was getting light and I looked down at my body walking down the street. I could even see how I was stepping with my feet, shod in light leather shoes.

Viewing everything from such a vantage point, I knew that I was part of God and looked at my lower self, the transitory self, being one with the permanent Self. God was demonstrating to me that I had a choice: to be one with my everlasting Self - the Higher Self, or to remain imprisoned in the lower self with all its worldly affairs. I have made the decision to take the higher road and surrender to that part of me that is real and eternal. From that day on, it became impossible for me to forget that I am part of God.

The memories of past lives, near-death experiences, and out-of-body experiences show us that we don't need to dwell on thoughts of death. These are gifts that allow us to penetrate other dimensions within ourselves. They guide us along the path of seeking the highest reality, the one thing that really matters. They can show us the detailed meaning of our destiny not only on planet Earth, but also in many areas of the Divine consciousness.

The ability of the soul to become one with God will be a constant theme in our research on reincarnation.

The material was prepared and taken from the book: “Reincarnation. The Lost Link in Christianity.

Incredible Facts

Is it possible to remember the details, names and dates of your past life?

Or return to earth in the body of another person in order to find his killer and pay him what he deserves?

Or maybe to see your loved ones again?

Scientific evidence and facts prove that this is possible.

Here are 10 outstanding stories that actually happened, where there are "memories of a past life".

Memories of past lives

1. 3-year-old boy remembered his past life, found his killer, as well as a hidden body

The late Dr. Eli Lasch, best known for his scientific work in Gaza as part of Israeli operations, studied the case of a 3-year-old boy who lived close to the border with Syria and Israel.

The boy said that he remembers how in a past life he was hacked to death with an ax. He told the details of his murder and even showed the village elders where his body was buried.

The body with a wound on the head was indeed found at the specified location.

In addition, he made public the place where the murder weapon itself was hidden. After the evidence was presented, he also identified his killer, confidently pointing to one of his neighbors.

The evidence confirming his guilt was so irrefutable that the man confessed to the crime.

past life of a person

2. The boy remembered his wife and the killer from a past life and found them again

Semih Tutusmus was born in the village of Sarkonak, Turkey.

As soon as the boy learned to talk, he told the family that his real name was Selim Fesli.

But something else is also strange: when the boy's mother was pregnant with him, she had a dream in which a man with a bloodied face, communicating with her, told some details of his life. He claimed that his name was Selim Fesli.

It turned out that a person with that name really lived in a neighboring village and died in 1958. He was shot in the face and right ear.

Tutus was born with a deformed right ear.

When he was 4 years old, the boy went to Fesli's house and said to his widow: "I am Selim, and you are my wife, Katibe."

He remembered some details of their life together, and also named the names of their children. No one could know these details, except for the deceased himself.

He then shocked everyone by identifying the person who shot him. This case was studied by the late Dr. Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia.

I remember my past life

3. A fireman was a general in the Civil War

Retired firefighter Jaffrey Keene felt an inexplicable desire to visit the field, where during civil war the famous Battle of Antietam took place between North and South.

Geoffrey went there as a tourist, but strange, almost anguished emotions did not leave him for a long period. Feeling almost physical pain, he could hardly describe in words everything he felt.

Discussing these feelings later with specialists, the phrase “not now” constantly revolved in Jeffrey’s head.

He became interested in the topic of the civil war and began to look through literature in local libraries and archives.

In one of the sources, he found an article about John Brown Gordon (John B. Gordon), a general who took part in the Civil War.

It turned out that the famous war hero resolutely repeated the phrase "not now" while holding his troops at the Battle of Antietam.

Also striking was the physical resemblance between him and Gordon. In addition, many of the firefighters in his brigade were remarkably similar to the people who took part in the battlefield.

Keene found other similarities between the general's appearance and his own. For example, in the place where Gordon was wounded, Keane showed birthmarks.

This case was studied by Dr. Walter Semkiw, a psychiatrist who works as an expert on reincarnation at the Institute for the Integration of Science, Intuition and Spirit (IISIS).

What was in a past life

4. The boy remembers his past life as a pilot in World War II

Dr. Jim Tucker of the University of Virginia studied the case of James Leininger of Louisiana.

When the boy was 2 years old, he began to have nightmares associated with a plane crash.

After terrifying visions, Jim claimed that he had been shot down by the Japanese, that his plane had taken off from the USS Natoma Bay, and that he had a friend named Jack Larson.

He also suggested that in a past life his name was James.

As it turns out, during World War II, there really was a pilot named James Huston Jr.

The life and death of this guy, surprisingly, coincided with all the details told by the boy.

With the help of the photograph, Leininger was also able to identify the site where Houston's plane had crashed.

Is there a past life

5 Burned Out In Chicago

Two-year-old Luke from Cincinnati, Ohio, was 2 years old when he started having strange visions.

The boy told his parents about his past life: he was a black-haired woman named Pam, who died in a building fire in the city of Chicago while trying to jump out of a window.

As it turned out, in 1993, indeed, it happened terrible tragedy: A fire broke out at the Paxton Hotel, as a result of which an African-American Pamela Robinson died - she jumped out of a window in an attempt to escape from the fire.

When Luke's parents asked the boy to describe Pam's appearance, he described her as she really was.

To finally verify the veracity of her son's stories, the mother printed out several photographs of African American women, including Pam's, and asked Luke to point to the one he was talking about.

The boy pointed to Robinson's photo without hesitation and said, "It's Pam."

*Luke's story is the basis for the documentary "The Ghost Inside My Child".

Remembering past lives

6. 4-year-old boy remembers his past life in Hollywood

Ryan was 4 years old when he began to remember his past life, which he spent in Hollywood, which was tragically cut short after he had a heart attack.

The book about Hollywood provoked a wave of further "memories".

And after the boy saw Night after Night, a 1932 film, he claimed to be friends with the man who played the role of the cowboy in the film and was also the actor in the cigarette commercial.

Actor Gordon Nance starred in this film. He starred in a number of films, playing cowboys, and, indeed, was the face of cigarette advertising.

Ryan presented a picture of his past life, spoke about a man named Marty Martin.

Ryan correctly reproduced the scenes in which Martin was involved and even described his life in great detail.

He spoke in detail about the actor's life, for example, about dancing on Broadway, about his three younger sisters, and also correctly named the color of his car.

This unusual case was dealt with by Dr. Tucker, who confirmed Ryan's memories by comparing the data obtained from the boy with members of Marty Martin's family.

Dive into past lives

7. The boy remembers his past life as a monk in Sri Lanka

Duminda Bandara Ratnayake, a three-year-old boy from Tundeniya, Sri Lanka, suddenly started talking about his past life as a monk.

He insisted on observing all the rituals and restrictions that are characteristic of the life of monks.

The boy confidently stated that he was the oldest monk in the temple of Asgiriya and that he died of chest pains.

He also talked about having a red car and a radio. He described the elephant with particular love.

The Venerable Mahanayaka Gannepana, the late Asgirian temple monk, did indeed live a few years ago. The details of his life and death matched everything the boy had said.

There were only minor discrepancies throughout the description: for example, he owned a gramophone instead of a radio, but the boy may not have known how to describe the gramophone, so he could not accurately identify this particular item.

This case has been carefully studied by Dr. Elendur Haraldsson, professor emeritus at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik.

Memory of past lives

8. Lebanese boy remembers his past life

Dr. Haraldson traveled to Lebanon to learn more about another strange case involving a boy named Nazih Al-Danaf.

Al-Danaf began telling his parents about his past life as soon as he learned to speak.

He proudly talked about his weapons, which he allegedly owned.

At the same time, the boy used terms that you obviously do not expect to hear from a small child.

His parents were also surprised that at this age their son showed an increased interest in cigarettes and whiskey.

He also told about a mute girlfriend who had only one arm, said that he had a red car and that he was shot by some people who came to his house.

Al-Danaf went to the house where he lived in a previous life. This small town of Caberchamun is located only 20 kilometers from his current home.

Indeed, a man named Fuad Asad Haddaj once lived there, and the details of his life fully corresponded to what the boy said.

The widow of Haddaj asked the boy some questions to test him. The questions were of the following nature: "Who laid the foundation of this gate at the entrance to the house?", "Who painted the walls?" etc.

Nazih answered all the questions correctly, this convinced relatives and friends that the boy was telling the truth and that he actually remembers his past life.