Washington Post Article on Children's Past Lives

[Steve]

The Washington Post just published an excellent article about children who remember past lives. It features Jim Tucker. It fails to mention Carol at all. This could be a chance to set the record straight if this author were to follow up with an article that spotlights Carol's pioneering work and all the incredible information available on this Forum since 1997.

For example, it implies that Tucker developed the Leininger case, when in fact Carol counseled the Leiningers from the very start and worked with them for several years before Tucker or anybody else knew about it. Carol published Children's Past Lives in 1997 before Tucker got involved with Ian Stevenson. Many of the ideas he expounds now came from her book, other people repeat them, yet she's never credited.

Please take a look and, if you agree, leave a comment and mention Carol and this Forum. It would mean a lot to Carol. She's given up on ever getting proper recognition for all her work, but maybe this is a chance to set the record straight.

Here's the article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/05/02/children-past-lives/

Thank you,

Steve

 

[deborah]

I wrote to the author and suggested she look into the woman before Tucker, and her valuable books. Her work with Ian Stevenson not to mention the forum.

 

[SeaAndSky]

The Washington Post just published an excellent article about children who remember past lives. It features Jim Tucker. It fails to mention Carol at all. This could be a chance to set the record straight if this author were to follow up with an article that spotlights Carol's pioneering work and all the incredible information available on this Forum since 1997.

For example, it implies that Tucker developed the Leininger case, when in fact Carol counseled the Leiningers from the very start and worked with them for several years before Tucker or anybody else knew about it. Carol published Children's Past Lives in 1997 before Tucker got involved with Ian Stevenson. Many of the ideas he expounds now came from her book, other people repeat them, yet she's never credited.

Please take a look and, if you agree, leave a comment and mention Carol and this Forum. It would mean a lot to Carol. She's given up on ever getting proper recognition for all her work, but maybe this is a chance to set the record straight.

Here's the article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/05/02/children-past-lives/

Thank you,

Steve

Hi Steve,

I read Carol's book, which was excellent! I hope she gets the credit she deserves in this matter. And, I believe she will in due course. We're still in the early stages of PL research, and this is merely a newspaper article which ran in what is no longer a very reputable or reliable newspaper. The time will come when research and discoveries in this area will be a subject covered by reputable historians in history books, and researched and documented by numerous scholars. Carol's contributions will definitely be noted, documented and covered along with others who were pioneers in this area and currently seem to be forgotten by many.

Cordially,
S&S

PS--Frankly, I am not surprised by this oversight by the Washington Post. Despite its long history, I believe it (along with the NYT) has become just another unreliable "rag" in the current era.

 

[SundayAtDuskReturns]

Who reads the Washington Post any longer? Their website did allow me to read the article today for free. Yesterday it wouldn't let me read unless I subscribed for a week for $4. (Gee, isn't Jeff Bezos pouring enough of his billions into the paper?) It was a very good article. The little girl's possible Holocaust life was personally interesting to me. Moreover, it mentioned both the Leininger and Hammond cases, two of the most convincing US cases investigated.

It was no surprise Carol was not mentioned. She does not have the "important credentials" needed for such stories. In my local paper, which is a Tribune one, long stories about the lives of authors are often in the Sunday paper. Many of these authors are very famous, but some are not. The non-famous ones have written current books, however. While I doubt anything more or new could be written about reincarnation itself, how about a memoir by Carol?

Memoirs are very popular. I have read and reviewed over 200 in the last 15 years or so. (Mind you, most were ARCs from NetGalley and Amazon Vine.) Carol could write one, if desired, from the point of view of an average woman who became an expert in a field, without the "important credentials". She could also discuss running a popular forum, the good and bad, as well as being on the New Age conference circuit and such. I would love to read an honest account of those things. (Steve, you could add your own opinions or chapters to the book.) In addition, Carol could take the credit for the Leininger case that she deserves. Get that credit in writing in book form. (Plus, she could make the Leininger story seem far more sane than the Leininger book did. )

Today, too, there are so many ways to publish books--big publishers, small/indie publishers, self-publication. That makes it far easier to control what happens to the book and the author's obligation to promote it.