​Reincarnation within the same family

 

What if you could be together with a deceased loved one, not in the afterlife, but here and now, in this lifetime?

Dr. Ian Stevenson (1918-2007), founder of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, is the most famous and influential figure in reincarnation research. He began his medical career in the field of psychosomatic medicine studying the effects of emotion on well-being, often referred to as the mind-body connection.  As a young doctor he made major contributions to the field and came to believe that neither environment nor heredity could account for certain special abilities, fears, and health problems that he saw in children and that reincarnation provided a potential explanation. Back in the early 1950’s he began to concentrate on “what survives bodily death?”, to determine if the mind could operate separately from the body. This led him to investigate near-death experiences, psychic mediums, apparitions, and other supernatural phenomena. In his initial experiments, he ran into a major problem: separating evidence from the expectations, prior knowledge, and biases of his subjects who were all adults. Then in 1960 he came upon a few isolated cases of children’s past life memories and concluded that young children make superb research subjects because it’s realistic to know what they have been exposed to. He threw himself into the systematic study of children’s past life memories and, after 14 books on reincarnation, he is considered the father of reincarnation research with scientists around the world utilizing his techniques in matching his results. Dr. Stevenson was not interested in taking credit for discovering scientific evidence for reincarnation. He was much more interested in contributing to the body of knowledge on the cause and effect relationship between birthmarks, birth defects, and past lives. He traveled worldwide for over 40 years investigating more than 3000 cases of children’s past lives.

Past-life Regressionist, researcher, and hugely successful author Carol Bowman’s study of children’s past lives began in 1988 as a natural response to her motherly instinct to help her own kids. Her … year old daughter, …, spontaneously remembered a past life in which she died in a house fire, and her 5-year-old son, Chase, related a vivid description of his violent death on a Civil War battlefield.

At the time, she was unaware that children could access past life memories. But their thoughts of the past seemed so authentic, so precisely articulated, and the feelings were so fitting, that she knew they had never seen or heard anything in their environment that could have inspired such life-like depictions of those events. A short time later she noticed that both children had been cured of common maladies as a result of understanding, accepting, and integrating their past life traumas.

In her first book, “Children’s Past Lives”, which was translated into more than 23 languages, Carol Bowman lays out the four signs of children’s past life memories:

1) Matter-Of-Fact Tonality. The Sudden change in the child’s manner of speaking resembles a grown-up making statements of fact, not the usual playful way that kids tell tales of fantasy.

2.) Consistency over Time. Kids will tell a detailed past life story repeatedly over a significant period of time without changing any of the details, although they often add more specifics as their memories crystalize over time. When children tell fantasy story’s, they’ll add pieces from other stories, their imaginations, and from storybook or cartoon characters, and mix them all together.

3) Knowledge Beyond Experience. An example would be a very young child , age two or three , that describes details beyond their range of experience, that even the parents don’t understand, such as the leopard spotted coat of their favorite appaloosa horse, or detailed accounts of life as a train conductor in the era of steam engines, or vivid images of a past life in a remote village of a foreign country.

4) Corresponding Behavior and Traits. A past life story frequently explains instinctive skills, natural talents, unique mannerisms, and phobias that have no basis in the child’s grounded experience or family history. Stories of past life injuries or deaths can explain birthmarks, birth defects, and health conditions in this lifetime. Extremely advanced music, math or sports skills at a very young age are often a result of past life karma.

Birthmarks are often indicators of past life injuries, such as knife or bullet wounds, that have carried over to this life. Missing fingers, toes, and limbs are often outcomes of a brutal unresolved past life trauma.

These indicators have nothing to do with scientific proof such as the results of Dr. Stevenson’s research. Rather, they are criteria utilized by parents to evaluate their own children, because they know them so well, what they have been exposed to, and when the story doesn’t match their limited memory.

Knowing what signs point out potential past-life memories fosters our ability to ascertain whether a child’s soul has been reincarnated from a previous generation.

Carol Bowman’s second book “Return from Heaven”, elaborates on how common it is for deceased loved ones to reincarnate back into the same family. Scores of parents have shared how their toddlers spontaneously spoke in great specificity about the lives of deceased family member’s. Through counseling and consultation, Carol Bowman works out the details of past life relationships and opens the door to healing for parents and their current life children.

Bowman coined the phrase “Family Return”, to explain the process that occurs when souls from previous lives reunite as family in this lifetime.

Unfinished business often creates the opening for a past life relationship to emerge. When we return to earth in another body, often we are accompanied by the impetus to complete or settle unresolved issues with loved ones, friends, and rivals from past lives. Examples include a young mother who abandons her children, an untimely death or separation without the chance to say goodbye, feuds, unkept promises, business deals gone sour, and the longing to reunite with loved ones.

If we return to the same family soon after we depart, it’s possible to continue our relationships where we left off in the previous life. By comparing the circumstances of the child’s past life near the time of death with those of the present life, parents can get a clearer picture of the child’s unfinished business.  They have an extraordinary chance to learn the lessons the child brought back to complete with them.

Candy and Artise

“After I die, I’m going to be back. I’ll be back to see you again”, her mother said shortly before she died. Candy didn’t quite understand what she meant by that but sarcastically replied that she couldn’t wait. Her mom, Artise, loved to sing and dance, and a few years after she died, she returned with almost exactly the same charm, character and talents, but as Candies daughter.

Candy thought she couldn’t have any more children and was struggling in her marriage. The doctors warned that having another child would be dangerous, but she believed that God wanted her to have the baby, whom she named Carrie.

When she first saw Carrie, her husband and grandmother, Dolores, were with her in the hospital. The three of them were amazed that Carrie looked just like Artise! She had that same sparkle in her eyes. Her husband thought it was genetics, but Dolores and Candy wondered if her mother’s prediction had come true.

Candy dearly loved and admired her mother and was happy to have her back. Switching roles also gave her the opportunity to learn patience and fulfill Artise’s dying wish to know her daughter better.

When Candy was a child, Artise worked as an accountant and was also a multitalented singer and dance instructor who performed in the local theater. When Candy was 13 years old her father died. Artise was a devoted mother who was stretched thin but worked hard to take care of Candy and her younger brother.

When Candy was 33 years old, Artise was diagnosed with breast cancer and moved in with Candy, her husband and two small children. Candy was overloaded and stressed out when Artise died and had some regret that she couldn’t take better care of her and spend more time with her before she died.

Everyone in the family saw the similarities between Carrie and Artise from early on. When she was nine months old, before she could walk, she would hum old songs that Candy didn’t recognize. But Dolores knew the songs and played the melody on the piano for her. Carrie swung her arms to the music. She would just light up! Dolores was astonished, because she recognized them as tunes that Artise had sung.

Carrie spoke in full sentences a little after her first birthday. Artise had a unique and distinct personality and Carrie mimicked it completely. Dolores and her husband were thrilled to pieces anticipating what cute and clever things Carrie might say that Artise had said exactly the same way.

Around age two, a few things happened that made the family believe with certainty that Carrie was the reincarnation of Artise. Before that time, it was kind of amusing that this adorable little girl had so many things in common with her deceased grandmother, but no one took it very seriously.

One day Candy and Dolores took Carrie with them on a shopping trip. They were floored when Carrie started singing “Chattanooga Choo-Choo”, word for word, from the back seat. Candy was so astonished she had to pull the car over to the side of the road and Dolores was beside herself as they sat and waited until Carrie finished all of the verses. Every line.

They remembered that Candies grandfather loved the song and sang it to them as he drove the car. They were both sure that Carrie had never been exposed to the song before from the radio or television and neither of them actually knew the song very well at all.

 A short time later, Candy and Carrie were in the supermarket. Carrie was riding along in the grocery cart. She was tired, fussy, and acting up. Candy lost her patience and scolded her. Carrie fired back at her that when she was little, she used to do the same thing and she never got in trouble for it.

At that time a strange woman whom Candy had never met overheard them as she passed by and said that she knew that Carrie was the reincarnation of her mother. She later found out that this woman was a well-known past life regressionist and intuitive.

Everyone seemed to notice how Carrie and Artise were similar in temperament.

Carrie was very different from Candies other two children. She was mischievous, outspoken, and had a hot temper, just like her Artise had.

Carrie is compulsive about choosing the right clothes, jewelry, and makeup in exactly the same way that Artise loved the wonderful fashion of the stage. She plays dress-up a lot and loves to wear flamboyant costumes.

At her first tap dance class, she glided across the dance floor as if she had done it a thousand times before. The teacher was impressed as she watched her, assuming she knew what she was doing. She asked if she had already taken lessons.

Candy was amused and thought to herself “she used to be a dance teacher she knows what she’s doing”.

Dolores died when Carrie was five. One day Candy and Carrie were sorting through her things when Candy wondered out loud where Dolores got certain things, and Carrie knew. She recognized the Christmas gifts that Artese had given to Dolores.

When Carrie chose things from Dolores’s possessions, like jewelry or China, they were all things that were meaningful to her from her days with her mom.

By this time Carrie was a teenager. She and her mother got along very well. Kerry had an awareness that she was Dolores reincarnated but not a moment to moment knowing. She did her best but lived in both worlds. She learned to identify the parts of her thought life that came from Dolores, however, it wasn’t easy for her. The awkward nature of being a teenager was more difficult as she learned to blend her past life awareness with her ability to stay grounded in this life. She became frustrated when she had to do things that she felt she had done before as Dolores, such as studying for exams.

Like Dolores, she loved cooking and had an interest in things a mature woman would appreciate.

Shortly before Dolores died, she told Candy she was sorry that she didn’t get to know her better, that she was proud of her, and that she was a fine human being. She expressed regret that she wasn’t able to spend a lot of time with her because she was so busy working and holding household together. Because of this, she felt shortchanged.

Candy got angry with her for waiting so long to tell her she was proud of her and that she cared for her. She believes that Dolores returned as Carrie to make up for the lost time when she could not spend time with her. Candy feels blessed that she has the rest of her life to work on her relationship with Carrie. She sees the same fears and stubbornness in Carrie that her mother had. She sees her relationship with her daughter as quite similar to what she had with her mother only with the roles reversed. She was stubborn and willful with her mom when she was young. And now she’s reliving it with Carrie. She sees the importance in acknowledging Kerry’s good points: that she is self-directed, determined, and respected. Candy feels very fortunate that she was able to work with Carrie on the lessons she was put on earth to learn on her souls evolutionary journey. End