Documented cases of children with memories of a past life - Reincarnation?
 

Dr. Bruce Greyson, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry, at the University of Virginia, has done significant research into a phenomenon called "post mortem survival". Others call this phenomenon "past live recall/memories".

Regardless of the name given to this phenomenon, it is manifested in young children just starting to speak where the child has a VERIFIABLE memory of a past life and may even have birthmarks and phobias consistent with the manner of death in that remembered life. There are literally hundreds of such cases that are well documented, and I have heard Dr. Greyson's successor speak on this subject in a real-time zoom meeting earlier this year.

What are your views regarding this phenomenon? Does it imply reincarnation or are there other explanations?

In this video (starting at the 49:56 mark), Dr. Greyson himself describes this phenomenon in an easily understandable manner --- far clearer than any article that I have thus far found regarding this subject.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPGZSC8odIU

There is a whole section in this article on "Children Who Remember A Past Life" which describes the phenomenon quite well for those who prefer not to listen to the video.

I would have quoted an excerpt from the article but I believe there is a Spiritual Forum Rules that limits the amount of info that can be directly quoted in an article. In any case, here is the link to the article.

https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/a...ortem-survival

Hi, :)
I should count myself out since I remember 3 past lives ---well, imp scenes from them...(and thus,
my relationships to many people now); as clear as day.
And that I have had one fault I carried with me here...which finally I am 90% overcoming. Yay!
(Meaning, I am a shockingly slow learner, embarrassing as it is.)
But, not THIS life time, no siree, I'm learning my lesson!!
And a couple more add-ons!

So my views? They are real memories, period.
Yeah, I have a famous book on children past life studies. Quote a couple good sentences, that's fine!! :wink:

In one of his videos, Dr. Greyson was asked if this "proves" reincarnation. He responded that there are cases where TWO living children have a memory of the SAME past life.

How would you explain that? Can a being bilocate in the sense of reincarnating as two different individuals at the same time. I have to get more details on those cases as I am citing that from memory.

There are some great ---yet slow, unprofessional youtubes of kids and the parents taking them
to where they used to live and such.
Fascinating...cuz neighbors are still alive confirming many things, too,
from decades earlier.

This phenomenon is very real with lots of documentation. Yes!

"I think everybody's born innocent. There is a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding about that."

Someone said this here, they can speak up when they see this if they want to :wink: - Cuz it's a good topic!
Are we? Or do we carry things 'not so innocent ' with us when we are born?

A parallel ... Can we say that the me-from-one-of-my-dreams is a reincarnation of me-from-a-previous-dream? I believe we can't.

If you pay attention, you'll notice than in many of your dreams you revisit locations and situations you've dreamed of in other dreams. Often those are locations and situations that can't be found in your awake-life.

What does it mean?

Your dreams are translations of non-physical experiences you can't directly perceive because you can't (yet) use your inner-senses. That's why you translate them into the language of your five physical senses, the only one you understand now.

(if interested, read my post about the psychological time)

When you die, that feels like waking up to another you. When you're born, it is similar to when you fall asleep. You can get lucid-while-awake, as you can get lucid-in-your-dream.

Regarding young children's recollections ... When you wake up in the morning, sometimes you recall your dreams, other times you don't. Usually your dream recollection fades quickly.

Why? Because the non-physical memory is associative, while the physical memory is sequential (time).

I believe that everybody's born innocent. We aren't supposed to be completely oblivious to what we are, and why we are here, but civilization made us forget that, unfortunately. The primitive man was more in tune with his non-physical aspect.

In a new dream, we don't have to pay for what we did in another dream. We aren't the same personality.

We don't have to pay in this life for what we did in past lives. We are't the same personality.

You don't have to pay in the 4th grade for something you did in the 3rd grade.

While I agree with much of what you say about dreams, this particular phenomenon involves vivid VERIFIABLE memories that a child (often between the ages of 2-5) has regarding a life (not necessarily reincarnation) often in a far-away place with sufficient detail that it can be verified. In it, there are verifiable details of a life to which it is highly unlikely the child would have known under what most would consider "normal" (what really is "normal") circumstances.

In my initial post, I asked whether there might be explanations for this well-documented phenomenon other than reincarnation. I can visualize other explanations but am curious to hear what you have to say about this particular phenomenon.

I agree with this because i can remember a few of my past lives.


Namaste