What Are The Four Signs Of Children's Past Life Memory?

[Kelly]

You can often tell when children are sharing past life memories as opposed to “making” up stories by the tone of their voice and the way they express whatever it is they say to you. When children make up stories you can see their little minds ticking over whilst they “create” the story in their own head first and then communicate it to you.

If it is a traumatic past life memory, children can sometimes get upset recalling it – but in a lot of cases, children discuss past life memories in a very matter-of-fact way, then just get up, or turn away and carry on with what they’re doing originally (much like they got caught up in a moment of reverie).

Consistency is another way of working out a tale from truth, children will often forget their "lies" or details from stories they've told before, but with real memories, they are drawing from something deep within their consciousness and so the details will remain the same.

THE FOUR SIGNS of CHILDREN’S PAST LIFE MEMORY

*Abridged from Children's Past Lives by Carol Bowman,

 

[Kelly]

Case Excerpts


A mother comments:

"With these memories, she comes up with the same story consistently. When she tells a fantasy story, she will add pieces from other stories, from her imagination, and from fairy tales, mixing it all together with the story she's making up. I can identify these easily: she alters them and the stories always change. But, in this past life story, there is no fantasy about it. She is very matter-of-fact, and is very clear about the details. She has told this at least three times, and it's always consistent."

From the case of Tommy Hibbert:

"Around the same age, when Tommy was four or five, he lost a button from his pants and I didn't get around to sewing it on right away. So Tommy went and got a needle and thread, threaded the needle, and sewed that button on so expertly that I couldn't believe it. I had never taught him to sew and he had never even seen me do it. Amazed, I asked him, "Where on earth did you learn to sew buttons on like this?"
"Well, we used to do it on my ship all of the time," he answered.


"You were a sailor?"


"Oh, yes." And then he told me about how his ship would creak in the night while he was lying in his bunk in what he described as an old sailing ship with tall masts and many ropes. This memory proved to be very important to his life because when he grew up he joined the Navy and went to sea for four years, hardly ever on land that whole time, and loved it."

 

[Kelly]

Members Cases Regarding Children's Memories

Since my middle son was about two, he engaged in constant conversation with his "imaginary" friend, "Thomas". I would ask my son if Thomas was his friend. Incredulously, he would reply, "No mom, he's my brother." At first, I just shrugged it off to common childhood imagination.
When he was about three, he asked me if I remembered the fire. I inquired about what fire he was speaking about. He said, "You know, mom, the fire when I died." I told him I didn't "remember" that but to tell me more about it. He said, "You were there ... except you weren't my mom, you were my sister ... and we lived in New York ... on a farm. When the fire started, you pushed me and Thomas and Jonifer down into a hole with a door."


I asked him about Jonifer using a female pronoun and he corrected me, stating Jonifer was a boy. At the time, the descriptions he was using seemed very detailed and advanced for his age. Further, we had never visited New York nor talked about it to my knowledge.


Since Jonifer is such an unusual name, I have actually contemplated researching the incident but don't know where to begin.


Ironically, my older son had a terrible phobia of candles as a young child. At Christmas time, his grandmother's house was decorated with artificial candles in each window. We had to turn them all off in order to get him to stay inside the house. Coincidence?


Posted by TJ

This is creepy. My daughter just turned 4 and for the past year or so, she has had an imaginary sister named Cathy. Also she frequently describes tales in vivid detail that always start, "Mommy, remember when I was big?" and often, "Remember when I was 15?" It's always age 15. Cathy is in many of her "tales" as her sister. She talks about living "far, far out in the country where there are lots of flowers."
She doesn't discuss personal tragedy but often tells about how Cathy, her younger sister, got into her bedroom and choked on something and then went to heaven. She is absolutely neurotic about leaving any small item within a younger child's reach, and now that we are expecting our 2nd child, she is constantly patrolling the nursery looking for things that her "baby sister" might choke on. She is constantly saying things like, "I promise Mommy, I won't let my baby choke on any of my toys. I promise."


I never thought twice about it before, but after seeing the special "Beyond Death" last night on A&E, the segment with Ms. Bowman gave me the chills. I have always dismissed my daughter's tales as being part of her vivid imagination but she is constantly telling about when she was "big", and just last week a friend of mine commented that it seems like she's been here before.


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