Have you ever heard about children who remember their past lives?

The notion that the soul is immortal is not unfamiliar to any religion we humans have ever invented.

Some religions, like Buddhism, place the idea of everlasting life at the center of their teachings, with everything else being just a mere consequence of this assumption. The interesting part related to our story is that the selection process of the new Dalai Lama is done after the death of the previous one and that all candidates are children.

A child who can recognize the objects that belonged to the deceased spiritual leader is named his successor. Reincarnation in its purest form, wouldn’t you agree? Buddhists are not the only ones who believe in the never-ending cycle of life and death, as a matter of fact, similar beliefs can be found on every continent.

In the last hundred years, many psychiatrists have researched the phenomenon of people who claimed to remember the facts from their past lives. In their studies, they have discovered that most of their subjects were children between the age of 3 and 7. Interestingly, most of the children forgot these memories in the same period most of us lose their early childhood memories, around the time we turn 6 or 7 years old.

So let’s take a look at some of the studies that claim that past lives and reincarnation are more than just stories from a religious book.

Hanan Monsur and Suzanne Ghanem

Hanan Monsur was born in Lebanon in the 1930s and by the time she was twenty, she married a policeman named Farouk. She gave birth to two girls Leila and Galareh. During the second pregnancy, Hanan experienced heart problems, but she decided not to listen to the doctors and became pregnant for the third time. In 1962, her third child came into the world, this time, a son.

During this period, she told her husband that she was going to be reincarnated and have lots to say about her previous life. A year later, her health condition worsened and she had to go through an operation. Hanan flew to Richmond, Virginia, where she died while recovering from the operation. Before dying, she tried to make a telephone call to her daughter Leila. She never reached her.

Ten days after Hanan died, Suzanne Ghanem was born. At the age of only sixteen months, Suzanne picked up a telephone and was constantly repeating ‘Hello Leila’. At the time her family didn’t understand what was going on, but as Suzanne grew, she was able to identify thirteen family members from her past life. The two families met and Farouk accepted Suzanne as a member of his own family. They were in contact for the rest of his life.

Rashid Khaddege and Daniel Jurdi

On a sunny day in 1968, a mechanic named Rashid Khaddege got into a car with his friend Ibrahim and went for a ride. They drove to the Military Beach in Beirut, but unfortunately, the driver lost control of the vehicle. Both men died on the spot. One year later, a boy named Daniel Jurdi was born. His first words were Ibrahim.

As a two-year-old Daniel repeatedly claimed that he wanted to go home, that his parents were not his real parents, and that he didn’t have a father because his real father was dead. He also claimed that his father’s name was Naim, as it turned out Naim was the name of the Rashid’s father.

While driving with his mother near the place where Rashid had died, little Daniel recognized the place and told his mother ‘This is where I died’. Years later, the two families met. Daniel recognized Rashid’s sister as his sister without ever seeing her before. He also knew that Rashid’s favorite fruit was a banana. Strangely enough, Rashid’s family had stopped eating bananas because it evoked memories of him. Daniel still has a car phobia due to his experiences in his previous life.

Anne Frank and Barbo Karlen

Perhaps one of the saddest stories we all remember from our childhood is Anne Frank’s story. An innocent young girl hiding from the Nazis in the attic for years, only to be captured and executed in the concentration camp. A horrible story that informed us of the horrors people had to go through during one of the most terrible wars in history.

As many of you know, Anne died in 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Nine years later, a little girl named Barbo came into this world. As soon as she could speak, she started claiming that her parents were not her real parents and that she wasn’t in her real home. During that period, she had frequent nightmares in which men were breaking through the attic door. Barbo’s parents discarded these stories as fantasies.

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While growing up, Barbo realized that Anne Frank was a famous person and that sharing memories of her past life made people around her uncomfortable.

She decided to keep quiet until the age of ten. While visiting Amsterdam with her parents, Barbo was able to find Anne Frank’s house without any directions or help from anyone. To the amazement of her parents, she knew the inside of the house. Barbo took her parents directly to Anne’s hiding place.

Barbo Karlen has struggled throughout her entire life to overcome the phobias she got in her previous life. Can you imagine how horrible that must be?

Paul Gauguin and Peter Teekamp

Peter Teekamp didn’t accept the fact that he was the reincarnation of the famous painter until 2005. He was 55 at the moment, but strange experiences he couldn’t explain started when he was just a little boy. Without any reason, the words ‘Go Gone’ were often on his mind. Peter frequently used them as a cheer. A few decades later, Peter was able to associate them with the surname of the famous artist.

During his teenage years, Peter started drawing and developed an interest in the visual arts. His drawings from that period resemble Gauguin’s work, but Peter never had a chance to see the drawings produced by the French artist. As if Paul Gauguin was remembering his own work. Throughout his entire life, Peter experienced similar life situations as Paul did.

It was a long process of realization that the two men have more than just a few things in common. Being a painter himself, Peter’s work has striking similarities with Gaugin’s.

James Huston JR and James Leininger

On May 1, 2000, a two-year-old boy was having a nightmare. In his dream, he was shouting ‘Airplane crash!  Plane on fire! Little man can’t get out!’  This boy’s name was James Leininger. His nightmares continued five times a week and every time he repeated the same words.

When his parents asked him who was the little man and who was trying to shoot his plane down, he replied that the little man was himself and that the people shooting at him were Japanese soldiers. He recognized the flag or ‘the big red sun’ as he described it.

All these unusual behaviors encouraged James’s parents to research a little about the Pacific war. While going through the section of a book about Iwo Jima, the child said that this was the place of his death in the previous life.

After years of searching for answers, James’s father found out that a pilot named James Huston belonged to the Natoma Bay unit and that he lost his life on March 3, 1945, during the battle of Iwo Jima. When confronted with pilots who witnessed the Huston’s plane go down young James was able to describe in detail what happened to the brave pilot.

Do you think that these and other stories about past lives are true? Do you have any idea why these lives are sometimes separated by only a few days and sometimes by several decades? Feel free to share your opinion with us in the comments.

References:

  1. https://www.rd.com
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org

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  1. Hans van der Walt

    It is a scientifically known fact that the universe is a massive energy field and that energy cannot be created or destroyed. Energy can only transform state e.g., (Ice to water to steam and thereafter into an ionised state). I have only used a simple example for illustration. Everything shares the same atoms and that reality is a totally debateable idea. Thought is initially nothing as we cannot store “nothing” but as soon as we create a thought we create something and this something can now be saved. My personal view is that our mind (memory) is not part of our physical body but that all thought is saved in some sort of “cloud”, be it a frequency, energy fields or whatever. This cloud is then part of the ether where similar thoughts gather to strengthen the idea. There is an assortment of clouds (collective minds) out there which holds true for individuals as well as groups. My idea is that our brain is only a tuner that tunes into a specific cloud/frequency where memory is stored. We then at any time remember by retrieving memories. The more we repeat an action/thought the less likely it will become to forget. If we add feeling to thought/action it will help trigger memories randomly. Now it is my belief that this saved memory does not disappear when we die but it is kept alive and if someone later on is born with a similar frequency to the person saving the memory they will be able to “see” the saved ideas of a forerunner. As an example think of radio frequencies that is invisible/inaudible until you tune your radio/TV into the signal.
    Now the interesting part comes. Our basic minds’ frequency can be altered by medication, environment, sound, emotion, sleep and many more. The brain is a slave to external input and follows without logical reason and these functions are communicated to the subconscious where we have no control. When we sleep our brain frequency changes and passes through many of these saved memories of others with similar natural frequencies and voila we dream. In most cases we do not know the scenes or people although in the dream our brain interprets the information as if it is its own just like when you are watching a movie and partaking as if hypnotized.
    One last idea is that people with schizophrenia and other mental ailment might only have a shift in their natural brain frequencies which make them hear voices or see “imaginary” things.

    These are mainly my personal ideas but I would like to have some feedback.

    1. Arshdeep Singh

      Hey i like your theory, but it fails to mension anything and is just made up of pure imagination.
      i have some thoughts you might like.
      i believe a soul is created in one brain when a child comes to this world, this soul is what we call our heart(not literally). this soul see the world and began to make some exceptation, goals in his life as we all do, and when some one dies unexpectedly like in above 4 examples( car crash, plane crash, deseased to dead, tortured and starved to death ), these souls must had some ambitions they want to fullfill so they tend to exist after life not like the ones who dies peacefully. then these souls try to find somebody without soul, i believe an infant in a womb is perfect. thus they tend to live more and the soul which was to be developed in brains is replaced by a soul already existing out in world.
      my thoughts are totally my own and im not religious guy.
      its funny i am replying to you exactly after 3 years. i am so interested in these topics today.

  2. Rajiv

    i totally believe in the soul migrating from one body to another body after death. However in your first example of Hanan Monsur and Suzanne Ghanem, it is not possible for the soul to reincarnate in a human body in just 10 days. The moment a child is formed in the womb of the mother, the soul finds its new place. stays in the mothers womb for approx. 9 months and then comes out. However in this particular case what I believe could be possible is that every human being’s sub conscious mind has the potential to see beyond the range of senses.

    1. Ayala

      Actually no one knows when a fetus gets a soul, no one can be sure about this because no one has any way of knowing the truth. So for all we know, Suzanne’s story could be true.

  3. marvin ngabonzira

    oh my goodness,
    i have to research more about this topic…….Anyway i had that feeling too….And i believe souls migrate

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