Life Before Life
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Life Before Life is a book written by psychiatrist Dr. Jim Tucker, which is a very readable overview of more than 40 years of research at the University of Virginia Division of Personality Studies into past life recall by children. [1] The foreword to the book is written by Professor Ian Stevenson.
The book discusses:
- British twins whose birthmarks and behavior closely resembled that of their deceased older sisters.
- A boy from Africa who knows the names and personal details of people from another village, without having ever been there.
- An American boy who believes he is the reincarnation of his own grandfather.
- A child who dies of a gunshot in a previous life and carries a birthmark of the same size, shape and placement in this life.
The book also discusses objections to reincarnation: the paucity of persons who actually claim to remember a past life, the fragility of memories, the population explosion, the mind-body problem, fraud, and others.
[edit] Bibliography
Levin, Michael, "Book Review: Life Before Life", Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol 19, No 4, 2005.
Tucker, Jim B., Life Before Life: A scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives, St. Martin's Press, New York, 2005, 256pp. ISBN 0-312-32137-6.
