Remembering Past Lives
For the past 45 years, researchers have been studying young children who claim to remember past lives. These children usually describe ordinary lives, and in many cases, they provide enough specific details to match their statements to a particular deceased person. This phenomenon is found worldwide, with more cases observed in cultures that believe in reincarnation.
Typically, these children start talking about their past lives between the ages of two and three, and by the age of six or seven, they tend to stop sharing these memories. The descriptions they give are usually of recent lives, and the time between the death of the previous individual and the child’s birth is often as short as 16 months. While their lives are generally ordinary, the mode of death is often unusual, with 70% of the cases involving unnatural deaths.
Some of these children claim to have been deceased family members, while others believe they were strangers from different locations. When they provide enough details, people have been able to identify deceased individuals whose lives match the children’s statements.
In addition to their verbal memories, some of these children have birthmarks or birth defects that align with wounds suffered by the previous personalities…