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skywizard
12th November 2013, 11:54
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A file photo of a boy looking through an old photo album.
A boy called Sam in case studies made some startling statements while looking
through old family photos, cited as evidence along with numerous other cases of reincarnation.

A little boy referred to in case studies as “Sam,” showed convincing evidence that he is the reincarnation of his grandfather. Sam was 18 months old when his father was changing his diaper. Sam told his father, “When I was your age, I used to change your diaper.”

Dr. Jim B. Tucker at the Psychiatric Department of the University of Virginia explained Sam’s story in a video posted on the university website. Tucker has explored 2,500 cases of children remembering their past lives.

He explained that Sam made some startling statements while looking at an old photo album.

Sam was 4 years old when his grandmother died. His father brought an old photo album home from her house when he cleaned it out. To Sam’s parents’ knowledge, Sam had never seen a photo of his grandfather.

When they were looking through the album, Sam pointed to a photo of a car, and said “That’s my car.” It was his grandfather’s first car, one he’d been quite attached to.

Sam’s mother was skeptical—not predisposed to believe in reincarnation as a Baptist.

She tested him. She showed him a photo of his grandfather as a young boy with other boys of the same age. Sam pointed to his grandfather and said, “There I am.”

She corrected him and said, that’s your grandfather. “No, that’s me,” he replied.

Tucker said he looked at the photos and he would not have been able to tell which of the boys in the photo was the grandfather having seen other photos of the grandfather.

Testing it further, Sam’s mother asked if he remembered anything else from his past life. He said someone “turned my sister into a fish.”

“Who?” Sam’s mother asked. “Bad men.”

The grandfather’s sister had been murdered and her corpse was dumped in a body of water. Sam’s father said the boy would not have heard this story.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6M-nXjh_9I

Dr. Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic Magazine, asked in the video: “How do we know these things actually happened?”

He said Sam’s case and the thousands of similar cases are based on anecdotes told by the parents, and events can sometimes become distorted when told by an excited parent. Also, parents may influence the children in various ways.

Tucker took parental enthusiasm into account, however. He recorded the initial attitude of parents and found no correlation between that attitude and what the children reported.

Some children have given detailed reports of the locations they lived in previous lives. Visiting the sites, researchers have verified that people had recently died in the areas and that those people’s lives fit the descriptions given by the children.


Source: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/347716-boy-is-his-own-grandfather/


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skywizard

lookbeyond
12th November 2013, 23:12
Sometimes i wonder if one of my children is my Mother who passed when she was young,lb

Wolf Khan
13th November 2013, 02:40
It is entirely the way it works, reincarnation is deeply feared. Even enough for the church to change how they teach reincarnation, which they don't today. I wonder why?????

lookbeyond
13th November 2013, 07:32
It is entirely the way it works, reincarnation is deeply feared. Even enough for the church to change how they teach reincarnation, which they don't today. I wonder why?????

I think reincarnation is a beautiful and practical idea, and who knows us better than our parents,i just pray that i am always able to be in touch with my children...lb

Spiral
13th November 2013, 08:13
It is entirely the way it works, reincarnation is deeply feared. Even enough for the church to change how they teach reincarnation, which they don't today. I wonder why?????

This is a good point as reincarnation is actually in the Bible, there are only two reasons I can think of as to why they ditched it, the positive one is to stop people falling into fatalism, (why does such & such matter, I'll get another life anyway etc) and the negative one is to make people more fearful & obedient, esp when the Church claims to have the "key to Heaven".