In this interview with WIE's Carter Phipps, Dr. Jim
Tucker, assistant professor in the Division of Personality
Studies at the University of Virginia, discusses his personal
journey from child psychiatrist to full-time reincarnation
researcher traveling the globe in pursuit of children who recall
previous lifetimes.
Dr. Tucker continues the work of pioneering reincarnation
researcher Dr. Ian Stevenson, investigating and carefully
documenting the lives and stories told by children who claim to
remember past lives. Tucker's latest book, Life Before
Life, describes in detail many of the most compelling cases
documented over the last 40 years by himself, Stevenson, and
their colleagues around the world. These truly amazing tales of
children who clearly remember not just that they lived before
but are able to recount names and faces, people and places, are
backed up by extensive field interviews and have been thoroughly
documented. The evidence presented may not prove beyond a
reasonable doubt that reincarnation actually exists, but it
provides a weight of evidence that is impossible to dismiss
without a second—or even a third—hard look.
Whether you personally believe in reincarnation or not, the
stories Tucker presents are fascinating and intriguing, but give
them a more serious consideration, and you may find them to be
more than a little bit unsettling. After all, what would
you do if your three-year-old looked up at you one day and asked, “Where's my other mommy?”
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Recorded on: 9/16/2005
Reincarnation and the Afterlife