"THE PAST LIVES OF CHILDREN" > Page 1, 2
Past Life
as a Nun
Carol Bowman relates
the story of a little girl named Elspeth
who, before she was even two years old, spontaneously recalled becoming a nun.
"I'm going to take my vows," she suddenly told her mother while
bathing, in one of the first full sentences she had ever uttered. "I'm not
Elspeth now. I'm Rose, but I'm going to be Sister Teresa Gregory." This
small child even described some of her convent duties, including milking the
goats, making cheese and saying prayers. She even described her own death.
The
Sewing Sailor
In another anecdote
from Bowman's book, five-year-old Tommy
Hibbert somehow knew how to sew a button back on his pants. "Tommy
went and got a needle and thread," his mother recalled, "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." Tommy grew up and joined the Navy.
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everyday life: 1. gender identification conflicts 2. deja vu experiences 3. children with adult memories 4. child prodigies and idiot savants 5. unlearned language (xenoglossy) 6. multiple birth defects and distinctive birthmarks 7. love or hate at first sight 8. obsessions and compulsions 9. multiple personalities and schizophrenics 10. jinxes and hard-luck cases 11. infant addicts and Down's Syndrome cases 12. unearthing buried treasures |
Cannon
Balls
At the Children's
Past Lives Forum, a mother tells of the many
"memories" of her three-year-old daughter who would say, "I
want to go to my other home!" Even after asking her, she couldn't explain
it - just that their house wasn't her home. She also unexpectedly told her
father that "cannon balls go really far" and killed "me and my
horse."
Foreign
Language
Another post on the
Forum tells this
interesting story: "My son, who is 15, had a very interesting
experience last evening. He, myself and my wife all fell asleep watching TV in
our den. I work third shift and set an alarm to awake me. I told my son to make
sure I was awake so I could get ready for work. Well, the alarm went off and
seemingly only awoke me. I called out to my son several times. He is a very deep
sleeper and when he awoke, it was a startling awakening. He sat up and started
talking in a foreign tongue for several seconds. Nothing I recognized. He is in
his third year of Spanish, but it was not Spanish. After I called out to him, it
seemed as if though he 'snapped' out of it and awoke. His eyes were open the
whole time and he does not remember his speaking."
A
Great King
A poster to the Forum from St. Louis tells this
story: "Upon waking from a night's slumber just days ago, the
five-year-old son of one of my dearest friends shared with his mother that he
was once 'King Hitop' in a past life. According to the five-year-old, he was
'very powerful' and that his royal background had been revealed to him in a
dream. He even spelled the name: H-I-T-O-P. According to his mother, there had
been no mention of ancient kings or queens in his preschool class and, as far as
she could remember, he hadn't watched anything on TV or read any books on the
subject."
The Great
Ship Wreck
In his article, "Evidence
of Reincarnation and the Creation of a New World" for Awareness
magazine, Walter Semkiw relates the story of William Barnes who began to speak
of past-life memories at age four: "At the age of four, I drew a
ship with four smokestacks and told my parents, 'This was my ship, but she
died.' I insisted my mother call me 'Tommie' and spoke of two brothers, a
sister, aunts and uncles, none of whom my parents knew," Barnes wrote in
his book, Thomas
Andrews - A Voyage into History. "There were also relentless
nightmares - a huge ship looming above me, piercing screams, heated arguments,
the frigid water stabbing at my body, a peach-colored mass of steel falling on
me - and, again and again, I would wake up crying... At age 25, I sought the
help of a counselor who used hypnosis as a means of relaxation. During the
session, I heard myself arguing about 'the ship’s design.' At the instant I
came out of the trance, I sat up and said, 'my name is Tommie Andrews.'"
Thomas Andrews was the designer of the ill-fated ocean liner Titanic. 
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