Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives

by Jim B. Tucker

Hardcover, 2005

Collection

Status

Available

Call number

TUC-001

Publication

St. Martin's Press (2005), Edition: First Edition, 256 pages

Description

Children who remember a previous life usually begin talking about it, quite spontaneously, at the age of two or three. This remarkable book builds on the ground-breaking investigations into reincarnation carried out by Professor Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia. For the past 40 years, doctors at this major American medical centre have conducted research into your children's reports of past-life memories. In Life Before Life, psychiatrist Dr Jim B. Tucker reveals their fascinating research. *British twins whose birthmarks and behaviour closely resembles their deceased older sisters. *A boy in Africa who knows the names and personal details of everyone in another village without ever having been there. *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. This remarkable material will challenge and ultimately change your understanding about life and death.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member Phantasma
This was an interesting book. I wish there had been more case evidence and less...manipulation of facts. Jim Tucker tries very hard to get you to believe that he's being entirely objective with his analysis of the case studies. He's not. I enjoyed this book very much, but it could have been so much
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more. Enjoyable, but ultimately disappointing.
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LibraryThing member Grandeplease
I couldn't buy author Dr. Jim B. Tucker's thinly disguised efforts to validate the collection of 2,500 cases of children's memories of previous lives he and other investigators studied at the University of Virginia.

Some of the cases child psychiatrist Dr. Tucker review appear to support the
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possibility that a consciousness may have had an earlier existence in a human body. However, the too easily dismissed reality that humans lie, forget or coincidental events occur, strain the credibility of Dr. Tucker's Life Before Life. The fact that only a handful of the cases occurred in North America or other First World countries further encouraged me to doubt.

Is reincarnation a possibility? Perhaps, but Life Before Life is merely speculative evidence at best.
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ISBN

0312321376 / 9780312321376

Call number

TUC-001

Rating

½ (19 ratings; 3.6)

Pages

256
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