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2 years ago  ::  Mar 12, 2011 - 10:40AM #1
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IME past life workers, a/k/a reincarnationists,
tend to also be bibliophiles ...
I know I moved 85 boxes of books
the last time we went across country ...

With that said, what are some books you've read
which you found insightful,
helpful,
or just plain eye-opening
with regards to exploring reincarnation?

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2 years ago  ::  Mar 12, 2011 - 10:40AM #2
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Mar 12, 2011 -- 6:31AM, DotNotInOz wrote:


Well, this one's old stuff by now but I think the story of young James Leininger, detailed in the book Soul Survivor, is one of the most compelling accounts I've ever read. The Leiningers were also featured on Primetime Thursday, one of the few times I've made it a point to watch that show.


Debunkers have gone after Bruce and Andrea Leininger tooth and nail;  however, both parents swear that they had nothing to do with their son's  spontaneous and highly detailed memories of having been Navy pilot  James Huston, Jr. in World War II. Bruce, in fact, is a fervent  Christian who resisted belief that his son's screaming nightmares could  be past life breakthrough. Once Bruce started researching what his  two-year-old son was saying about fighter planes, he learned that James  knew detailed information about vintage planes that the boy could not  possibly have acquired by normal means such as watching tv or movies.


One of the more stunning aspects of this case is a YouTube video, I  think it was, of young James at AGE 3, doing a detailed pre-flight  checkup on a WW2 fighter plane. Experts observing him testified that he  did every step in precisely the correct sequence.


Get into the book Soul Survivor if you've not already read  it. I wasn't thrilled by the author's style, but the details that young  James recalls are chilling and things that a two-year-old couldn't  possibly have learned by any other means, IMO.


Dr. Jim Tucker, who is continuing the work with young children done  by the late Dr. Ian Stevenson, has said he is investigating the  Leininger case. I'm eager to see if Tucker will consider this an  authentic case of reincarnation.




 


Don't know if this is the video you referenced, Dot ...
still, it's very much worth a look-see ...
thanks for sharing
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2 years ago  ::  Mar 12, 2011 - 11:46AM #3
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It's important to add, I think, for the skeptical who may watch the video and note that young James when asked what he remembers of the nightmares, replies that he doesn't recall them anymore.


This loss of recall as the child becomes focused in the current lifetime is typical of children who have vivid past-life memories when very young.


It certainly doesn't disprove that such children had extremely vivid and detailed memories, oftentimes before they could speak full sentences.


The people who argue that young James "obviously" gleaned his knowledge of vintage planes from trips to the flight museum while barely able to walk as yet still must explain to me how simply looking at the planes from outside rope barriers could enable this child at age 3 to demonstrate how a pre-flight check was done, start to finish, and without making a mistake or missing a step. They also must explain how a child of two parents uninterested in aviation could quickly and correctly identify World War II planes on sight, information completely unknown to the parents.


They must further explain how James Leininger knew the names and could describe several of the crew of the Natoma Bay, the small aircraft carrier from which James Huston flew.


When James met the only surviving sibling of James Huston, she said later while not a believer in reincarnation, she could not begin to explain any other means by which a young boy she'd never before met could have known details that only her brother would have recalled from their childhood.


I won't issue any spoilers, but one or two of those childhood memories volunteered by young James Leininger were absolutely stunning.


It really is a fascinating account.

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