Life Before Life: A scientific investigation of children's memories of previous lives - Softcover

Tucker, Dr. Jim B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749939893 ISBN 13: 9780749939892

Publisher: Piatkus, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

JIM B. TUCKER, M.D. is a child psychiatrist at the University of Virginia, where he directs research into children's reports of past-life memories at the Division of Personality Studies and serves as Medical Director of the Child & Family Psychiatry Clinic.

Review

"In this very elegant book, Dr. Tucker offers the most convincing scientific evidence for the fact that our consciousness survives physical death.  And indeed, takes quantum leaps of creativity in the form of reincarnation.  The model that Dr. Tucker presents opens a new vision of who we are, limitless beings that fill up all of space and time."--Deepak Chopra, author of  Life After Death: The Burden of Proof "[A][ solid case for reincarnation.... Tucker introduces powerful grounds for credulous speculation."--Booklist

"Jim Tucker gives us a clear, concise and eminently rational insight into a 40 year investigation of what is unquestionably the best evidence for the existence of reincarnation. We are lucky to have in him a worthy successor to Ian Stevenson."--TOM SHRODER, author of Old Souls: Compelling Evidence From Children Who Remember Past Lives
 
"Anyone with an open mind, on reading Dr. Jim B. Tucker's Life Before Life, will realize that our conventional concepts of life and death are ripe for revision.  The possibilities raised by this book for human destiny are as hopeful as the current view is grim.  Life Before Life is extraordinarily important."--Larry Dossey, M.D., author of The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things, Reinventing Medicine, and Healing Words
 
"With his training as a pediatric psychiatrist, and the mind of an inquiring scientist, Dr. Jim Tucker takes a fresh look at one of life's most intriguing questions:   'Does consciousness survive death?'   Through the hundreds of case studies of his predecessor, Dr. Ian Stevenson, and his own cases, Dr. Tucker adds new insight to this amazing research, and draws us closer to understanding this perennial mystery."--CAROL BOWMAN, author of Children's Past Lives and Return From Heaven
 
"Life Before Life adds to the increasingly impressive science of consciousness and the continuity of mind/memory...this book is the tip of an important iceberg that will continue to expand our knowledge of the spiritual reality of Life."--C. NORMAN SHEALY, M.D., Ph.D., President, Holos University Graduate Seminary; Founding President, American Holistic Medical Association; author of Youthful Aging--Secret of the Fountain
 
"Jim B. Tucker's fine presentation of Ian Stevenson's decades of rigorous scientific research into evidence of children's apparent past-life recollections expresses the true spirit of scientific skepticism, rather than the knee-jerk materialism that all too often waves that proud banner."--B. ALAN WALLACE, President of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies

Edition details

• Publisher: Piatkus
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749939893
• ISBN 13: 9780749939892
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272