Life Before Life
A Scientific Investigation of Children’s Memories of Previous Lives
This popular overview of research into children’s reports of past-life memories describes a collection of 2,500 cases at the University of Virginia that investigators have carefully studied since Dr. Ian Stevenson began the work more than fifty years ago. The children usually begin talking about a past life at the age of two or three and may talk about a previous family or the way they died in a previous life. Their statements have often been found to be accurate for one particular deceased individual, and some children have recognized members of the previous family. A number have also had birthmarks or defects that matched wounds on the body of the deceased person.
Life Before Life presents the cases in a straightforward way and explores the possibility that consciousness may continue after the brain dies. It is a provocative book, one that can challenge and ultimately change readers’ understandings about life and death.
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“Anyone with an open mind, on reading Dr. Jim B. Tucker’s Life Before Life, will realize that our conventional concepts of life and death are ripe for revision. The possibilities raised by this book for human destiny are as hopeful as the current view is grim. Life Before Life is extraordinarily important.”
LARRY DOSSEY, M.D., Author of One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Great Consciousness and Why It Matters
“A solid case for reincarnation…. Tucker introduces powerful grounds for
credulous speculation.”
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“Jim B. Tucker’s fine presentation of Ian Stevenson’s decades of rigorous scientific research into evidence of children’s apparent past-life recollections expresses the true spirit of scientific skepticism, rather than the knee-jerk materialism that all too often waves that proud banner.”
B. ALAN WALLACE, President of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies
“In this very elegant book, Dr. Tucker offers the most convincing scientific evidence for the fact that our consciousness survives physical death.”
DEEPAK CHOPRA, Co-Author of Super Brain
“Life Before Life adds to the increasingly impressive science of consciousness and the continuity of mind/memory…this book is the tip of an important iceberg that will continue to expand our knowledge of the spiritual reality of Life.”
C. NORMAN SHEALY, M.D., Ph.D., President, Holos University Graduate Seminary; Founding President, American Holistic Medical Association; author of Youthful Aging–Secret of the Fountain
“Jim Tucker gives us a clear, concise and eminently rational insight into a 40 year investigation of what is unquestionably the best evidence for the existence of reincarnation. We are lucky to have in him a worthy successor to Ian Stevenson.”
TOM SHRODER, author of Old Souls