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The Blue Flower

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21. I'm reading Life Before Life by Jim B. Tucker, MD
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 01:27 PM
Apr 2021

It just came out. He took over the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia from its founder, Dr. Ian Stevenson. Both are pediatric psychiatrists who became deeply interested in researching seeming past life memories of children due to cases that parents brought to them. Both have researched such stories all over the world. Stevenson began his research in 1960 and in time he received funding to continue the research from one of the inventors of the Xerox process. Stevenson's initial groundbreaking book detailed 20 such cases. Tucker's book expands on the research, which he took over in 1996. While the preponderance of cases in Stevenson's time were in cultures that believe in reincarnation, Tucker has received thousands of stories from American parents, many of whose religious beliefs condemn the idea. The stories are amazing.

You can look up Tucker and the Division of Perceptual Studies online. He believes that consciousness can survive the death of a physical body and that aspects of quantum mechanics regarding consciousness will eventually explain the mechanism.

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The 3 yr old child of a coworker told her parents... Cracklin Charlie Apr 2021 #1
I love this stuff. Dream Girl Apr 2021 #2
Me, too! There are tons of books out there... have you read the one I mentioned below? It's a good s Karadeniz Apr 2021 #10
When I was five... 2naSalit Apr 2021 #3
Thank you for sharing your remarkable story...out of the mouth of babes! Your story is one of Karadeniz Apr 2021 #8
I had them often, I learned... 2naSalit Apr 2021 #14
Keep writing! It's usually children who express these memories because they do fade or they are Karadeniz Apr 2021 #15
My daughter, between the ages of 2 and 3-ish, MoonchildCA Apr 2021 #4
Spooky! The Midnight Gospel is the show for you! soothsayer Apr 2021 #5
Is that a podcast? Delmette2.0 Apr 2021 #7
It's a cartoon by the Adventure Time guy soothsayer Apr 2021 #11
I have read dozens of accounts, even using the exact phrasing you used!!! Karadeniz Apr 2021 #9
In the Ian Stevenson book, "20 Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation," (and those 20 are a handful of Karadeniz Apr 2021 #6
When a friend's daughter was about three she asked him rsdsharp Apr 2021 #12
Researchers would love to have this case. I'll bet Google would show reputable research orgs. Karadeniz Apr 2021 #16
Kinda late. This happened 30 years ago. rsdsharp Apr 2021 #17
Rats! If the parents were alive, they could verify the umbilical cord and water breaking. That's Karadeniz Apr 2021 #19
They are both alive, but their daughter no longer talks about it. rsdsharp Apr 2021 #26
Well, people are different. I would LOVE to turn over my experience to investigators, but there's no Karadeniz Apr 2021 #28
Well, we keep coming back until we truly get what is actually important. Ka-Dinh Oy Apr 2021 #13
You're right on!!! An excellent example of your point is Many Lives, Many Masters, if you haven't Karadeniz Apr 2021 #18
That sounds like a good read. Ka-Dinh Oy Apr 2021 #24
When my niece was around 3 she would talk about her brother Phoenix61 Apr 2021 #20
I'm reading Life Before Life by Jim B. Tucker, MD The Blue Flower Apr 2021 #21
My Mother And I Deep State Witch Apr 2021 #22
Delphi is so interesting. Julian Jaynes thinks it's the last vestiges of the bicameral mind soothsayer Apr 2021 #23
When I was fifteen-years-old my family was touring Europe by car. Laffy Kat Apr 2021 #25
I'm an open minded skeptic and Elessar Zappa Apr 2021 #27
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