One of the many proven cases of reincarnation

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The American psychiatrist Ian Stevenson, who researched thousands of childhood memories of past lives, has appeared on the pages of the Kramol portal more than once, and now we will get acquainted with the results of another academic scientist, Jim Tucker, who has been collecting evidence of reincarnation for 15 years.

Spontaneous memories and childhood games

When Ryan Hammons was four years old, he began acting as a director of films, and commands such as "Action" were constantly heard from his children's room. But soon these games for Ryan's parents became cause for concern, especially after he woke up one night from his own scream, grabbed his chest and began to tell that he dreamed of his heart exploding when he was in Hollywood one day.

His mother Cindy went to the doctor, but the doctor explained this with nightmares, and that the boy would soon outgrow this age. One evening, when Cindy was putting her son to bed, he suddenly took her hand and said: "Mom, I think I was someone else once."

Ryan explained that he can remember a large white house and a swimming pool. This home was located in Hollywood, miles from their Oklahoma home. Ryan revealed that he had three sons, but he cannot remember their names. He began to cry and constantly asked his mother why he could not remember their names.

"I really didn't know what to do," Cindy recalls. - "I was very scared. He was so persistent in this matter. After that night, he tried again and again to remember their names and each time was disappointed that he did not succeed. I started looking for information about reincarnation on the Internet. I even took several library books about Hollywood in the hope that pictures can help him. I haven't told anyone about it for months."

One day, while Ryan and Cindy were looking at one of the books about Hollywood, Ryan stopped at one page with a black and white photograph from the 30s movie Night after Night. The picture showed two men threatening a third. Four other men surrounded them. Cindy didn’t know these faces, but Ryan pointed to one of the men in the middle and said, “Hey Mom, this is George. We shot the film together."

Then his fingers slid to the man in the jacket on the right side of the picture, who looked sullenly: "This guy is me, I found myself!".

Although rare, Ryan's claim is not unique and is one of a total of more than 2,500 cases that psychiatrist Jim Tucker has collected in his archives at the Department of the Medical Center for Perceptual Research at the University of Virginia.

At two years old, children remember their past life

For nearly 15 years, Tucker has been researching the stories of children who, as a rule, between the ages of the second and sixth year of life, declare that they once lived before. Sometimes these children can even describe in sufficient detail the details of these previous lives. It is very rare that these previously deceased persons are famous or popular, and often not at all known to the families of these children.

Tucker, one of only two scientists in the world studying this phenomenon, explains that the complexity of such experiences is different. Some of them can be easily identified - for example, when it is clear that the harmless stories of children occur in families where they have lost a close relative. In other cases, as in Ryan's case, the logical explanation is the scientific explanation, says Tucker, which is both simple and surprising at the same time: “One way or another, the child remembers memories from another life.

“I understand that it’s a big step to understand and accept that there is something beyond what we can see and touch,” explains Tucker, who has served as medical director of University Children's Hospital for nearly a decade (Psychiatric Clinic Child and Family). “However, this is evidence that such incidents must be addressed, and if we look closely at such incidents, it makes the most sense to explain that there is a transfer of memories.”

The key to the existence of reincarnation

In his latest book, Return to Live, Tucker recounts some of the most compelling cases he has studied in the United States and presents his arguments that recent discoveries in quantum mechanics, the science of how tiny particles behave in nature, are the key to the existence of reincarnation.

“Quantum physics assumes that our physical world arises from our consciousness,” says Tucker. “This point of view is represented not only by me, but also by a large number of other scientists.”

For Michael Levine, director of the Center for Reconstructive and Regenerative Developmental Biology at Tufts University and the author of the academic review of Tucker's first book, which he describes as "top-notch research," the controversy stems from the models of science currently in use that can neither disprove nor prove. Tucker's discoveries: “When you fish with a net with big holes, you will never catch a fish that is smaller than those holes. What you find is always limited to what you are looking for. Current methods and concepts are simply not able to handle this data."

Tucker, whose research is funded entirely by the foundation, began research on reincarnation in the late 1990s after he read an article in the Charlottesville Daily Progress about the Ian Stevenson Clinical Death Research Fellowship: “I was interested in the idea of life after death and the question of whether the scientific method can be used to study this area."

Tucker's research results in numbers

After initially volunteering in Stevenson's department for several years, he became a permanent member of the team and passed on Stevenson's notes that date back in part to the early 1960s. "This work," says Tucker, "gave me amazing insight."

Approximately 70 percent of the children studied died (in their past life) from violent or unexpected death. About a third of these cases are recalled by boys. This corresponds almost exactly to the proportion of men with unnatural causes of death in the normal population.

While such cases are more commonly reported in countries where reincarnation is part of a religious culture, according to Tucker, there is no correlation between the frequency of incidents and the religious beliefs of families facing reincarnation.

In cases where the stories of the children could be attributed to some other person, the duration of this transition period, as a rule, ranged from about 16 months.

Further research by Tucker and others showed that children who have touched this phenomenon generally have IQs above average, but they do not have higher than average increased mental impairments and behavior problems. None of the children studied tried to free themselves from painful situations in the family with the help of descriptions of such stories.

Most of these statements of children decline by the age of six, which corresponds to the time, according to Tucker, when the child's brain prepares for a new phase of development.

Despite the transcendental nature of their stories, almost none of the children studied and documented showed other signs of "supernatural" ability or "enlightenment," Tucker wrote.“I got the impression that although some children make philosophical remarks, most of them are absolutely normal children. One could compare this to a situation where a child on his first day of school is not actually smarter than on his last day of kindergarten."

Growing up as a Southern Baptist in North Carolina, Tucker looks at other more mundane explanations as well, and investigates cases of financial and publicity fraud as well. "But most of the time, film contracts do not bring this information," says Tucker, "and many families, especially in the Western world, are embarrassed to talk about their child's unusual behavior."

Of course, Tucker does not rule out even a simple childhood fantasy as an explanation, but that cannot explain the richness of detail with which some children remember the previous person: "It goes against all logic that it could all be just coincidence."

In many cases, the researcher goes on to say, false eyewitness accounts are uncovered, but there have been dozens of examples where parents have carefully documented their children's stories from the beginning.

Tucker believes that the relatively small number of cases that he and Stevenson have been able to collect in America over the past 50 years can be explained by the fact that many parents simply ignore or misinterpret their children's stories: “When children are made to understand that. they are not listened to or believed, they just stop talking about it. They understand that they are not supported. Most kids want to please their parents

Ryan's meeting with his daughter in a past life

Cindy Hamons was not interested in these discussions when her preschool son recognized himself in a photo over 80 years ago. She just wanted to know who this man was.

There was no information about this in the book itself. But Cindy soon found out that the man in the photo, whom Ryan called “George,” is now the almost forgotten movie star George Raft. Who was the person in whom Ryan recognized himself, Cindy was still not clear. Cindy wrote to Tucker, whose address she also found on the Internet.

Through him, the photo got into the film archive, where after several weeks of searching it turned out that the gloomy-looking man was a little-known actor Martin Martyn during his lifetime, who was not mentioned in the credits of the film "Night after Night".

Tucker did not report his discovery to the Hamons family when he came to visit them a few weeks later. Instead, he put four black and white photographs of women on the kitchen table, three of which were random. Tucker asked Ryan if he recognized one of the women. Ryan looked at the photos and pointed to a photo of a woman he knew. It was Martin Martyn's wife.

Sometime later, the Hamons traveled to California with Tucker to meet Martyn's daughter, who was found by the editors of a television documentary about Tucker.

Before meeting Ryan, Tucker spoke to a woman. The lady was reluctant to talk at first, but during the conversation she was able to reveal more and more details about her father, which confirmed Ryan's stories.

Ryan said that "he" danced in New York. Martin was a Broadway dancer. Ryan said that he was also an "agent" and that the people he worked for had changed their names. In fact, Martyn worked for many years after his career as a dancer for a well-known talent agency in Hollywood that came up with creative aliases. Ryan also clarified that his old address had the word "rock" in it.

But her meeting with Ryan didn't go well. Ryan extended his hand to her, but hid behind his mother for the rest of the conversation. He later explained to his mother that the woman's energy had changed, after which his mother explained to him that people change when they grow up. “I don't want to go back (to Hollywood),” Ryan explained."I want to leave only this (my) family."

Over the next weeks, Ryan spoke less and less about Hollywood.

Tucker explains that this happens a lot when children meet with the families of the people they think they were. “It seems to confirm their memories, which then lose their intensity. I think that they then realize that no one from the past is waiting for them anymore. Some children are sad because of this. But in the end they accept it and turn their attention completely to the present. They pay attention to the fact that they should live in the here and now - and of course, this is exactly what they should be doing.