Reincarnation of souls

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

The theory of reincarnation (transmigration of souls) has been known since ancient times. The first written mentions of it date back to the 6th century BC. Legends about how the spirit of the deceased takes on a new body have survived among many peoples - from the Bushmen to the Eskimos.

Socrates, Pythagoras, Napoleon, Goethe, Schopenhauer and other brightest representatives of their time believed in reincarnation. But only modern studies have provided the basis for the conclusion that this phenomenon is not only possible, but also necessary to be studied.

Daughter after a prophetic dream

The book Past Lives of Children, published in 1997 by American psychotherapist Carol Bowman, drew attention to one of the most striking phenomena of reincarnation - when it occurs in the same family, and moreover, when in some cases previously deceased children are born again to the same mother. The most famous case of such a transmigration of the soul occurred in the Italian city of Palermo. In March 1910, five-year-old Alexandrina, the daughter of a local doctor and his wife, Adele Samoya, died of tuberculosis.

A few weeks later, Adele had a vision: the girl came to her in a dream and said that she was returning. Immediately after that, the woman found out that she was pregnant, despite the fact that earlier, according to medical indications, after the operation, she could not have children. In December of the same year, Adele gave birth to two twin girls. One of them had a birthmark in the same place as the deceased Alexandrina. After some hesitation, her parents called her by the same name. The born Alexandrina was a copy of her deceased sister.

In addition to the complete external resemblance, she was also left-handed (unlike the second twin girl), she loved the same games, clothes and food. A few years later, Adele told her daughters that they would soon go to the Sicilian city of Montreal. Alexandrina immediately remembered the streets and buildings of this city, and also talked about the red clothes of the priests whom she saw there. The girl spoke confidently about how she walked around Montreal with her mother and a woman with a scar on her forehead.

Adele and the twins had never been to Montreal, but a few years before that she had visited the city with her first daughter and girlfriend, who actually had such a scar. Then, in the main square of the city, they remembered a group of Greek priests in red robes. Since then, the parents finally believed that the soul of their deceased daughter returned to the body of another.

Nightmarish memories

Another incident occurred in the British Pollock family. In May 1957, John and Florence Pollock's two daughters, 11-year-old Joanna and 6-year-old Jacqueline, were hit by a car right outside their home. The injuries were fatal. A few months after the tragedy, John Pollock began to tell others that the souls of his daughters would return to the bodies of new children, that his wife would soon have twin girls.

He even argued with a local doctor, who claimed that Florence was pregnant with only one child. But John's wife did give birth to twins. The eldest of the girls was named Jennifer; she had a small scar on her forehead from birth, and a large mole on her head, which Jacqueline had. The second girl, named Gillian, did not have any vivid distinctive features, like her deceased sister Joanna, although the twins were identical, that is, those whose moles usually coincide.

Four months after their birth, the Pollock family moved from their native Haxham to the neighboring town of Whiteley Bay, and three years later John took the family to their former place of residence to see acquaintances. To the surprise of the husband and wife, the girls remembered all the attractions of Haxham, including the road on which their older sisters went to school.

And the place near the old house, where the children had once been hit by a car, made a terrible impression on them: for several months after the trip to Haxham, they had nightmares, and, waking up, they again and again recalled the details of the car accident.

Swing on the day of death

On one of the Russian forums dedicated to reincarnation, you can read the following story. The woman writes that in the 1990s, her husband had a daughter, Eleanor, in his first marriage. In 1995, the girl fell off the swing and died. After the tragedy, the couple divorced and created new families. The father of the late Eleanor had a son in his second marriage - and the boy was a copy of the deceased sister and a blonde with dark-haired mom and dad.

The new wife of Eleanor's father, knowing the story of his daughter, never allowed her son to swing on a swing. But one day, on a warm, fine day, I decided to shake it myself, controlling the amplitude with my hand. And the son told her that once he had already swung on a swing, and then flew into the sky. It was April 17, the day of Eleanor's death.

The woman is absolutely convinced that the soul of his sister has moved into the boy. Psychotherapist Carol Bowman writes in her book that many such cases have been recorded, and the deceased were reborn not only as brothers or sisters, but also as nephews, and grandmothers became granddaughters.

Moreover, such phenomena are much more common than it is commonly thought, because not everyone is ready to share their secrets. At first, the family usually does not perceive the newborn as a deceased loved one, but later this often happens after his amazing memories.

How a child became a stepfather

Transmigration of souls can occur not in the bodies of newborn relatives, but also in the children of friends or simply acquaintances. University of Virginia professor Ian Stevenson has studied reincarnation for over 40 years. In one of his books, he gives a unique story that happened in the city of Sitka, Alaska.

In 1945, a man named Victor Vincent came to his friend Mrs. Chatkin and said that he would soon die, after which he would be reborn as her son. Victor showed the woman the scars that will be on the body of her child - not congenital marks, but marks from two surgeries on the back and the bridge of the nose. Vincent really died soon (he was over 60 years old), and Mrs. Chatkin had a boy in 1947.

Ian Stevenson visited the family in 1962 and found out that the child's body from birth had the marks that Victor Vincent had spoken about - right down to the clearly distinguishable holes from a medical needle, despite the fact that he had not had any operation. The boy, named Corles, knew Vincent's life in detail from a young age.

One day, his mother took him with her to the local dock, where they met Victor's adopted daughter, whom the child had never seen before. Corles happily shouted that it was his Suzy - and he called her by the name that only her stepfather used in conversation with her and no one else knew.

More often where they believe

Professor Stevenson noted several patterns related to such examples of reincarnation. First of all - that the memories of children of who they were once occur at the age of two to seven, after which the child forgets them. The second feature: the interval from the death of a relative or close friend to the birth of a child who embodied his image is no more than 15 months.

And one more feature inherent in these events - the appearance of such children most often occurs in places where people believe in the transmigration of souls, that is, in India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, some areas inhabited by the indigenous people of Africa and North America. The girl Ha Ti Khyen, who was born in 1988 in Lam Phu commune (Vietnam), barely learned to speak, claimed that she lived in the family of their acquaintances from a neighboring commune and died, choking on a peach bone. The parents took her to her former place of residence, where the girl recognized all the relatives, although she had no previous contacts with them.

In the same commune, Ian Stevenson recorded five more similar cases of soul transmigration, when the deceased were born in neighboring families after a short period of time. Dr. Satwant Pasrici of the University of Delhi in the book Reincarnation Claims.

An empirical case study in India”described dozens of similar events. One of them is the birth of the girl Manju Sharma, who from the age of two began to claim that she was born not in her hometown of Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, but in the village of Chaumukha, located a few kilometers from it, naming the names of her former relatives, as well as the circumstances her death (she fell into a well and drowned).

Manju was taken to the indicated village, where she unmistakably identified her former parents, who fully confirmed the girl's words. After a few years, Manju stopped thinking about another life, but the fear of the wells remained with her forever.

There are many more girls

Ian Stevenson's follower, American Jim Tucker also studied this phenomenon. In his book "Return to Life", he suggested that reincarnation occurs thanks to quantum particles, carriers of the mind - but their mechanism and functioning remains unknown.

The statistics given by Tucker made it possible to find out some more patterns of transmigration of souls, including into the bodies of children born in former families or in the neighborhood. It turned out that 70% of their previous lives ended in tragic death. Moreover, two-thirds of the "twice-born" are girls. Unfortunately, there is no clear explanation for this phenomenon yet. Reincarnation, despite a long history of study, continues to remain mysterious and incomprehensible.