Children’s past life memories

Children’s active imagination or past life memories?

Children are so much more socially unconditioned than adults and as such will often, during play, talk of their ‘memories’ as if they are fact. They often will simply come out with matter of fact statements such as ‘When I was big’ or ‘When I was a Mummy’ as just two examples. As the child grows these memory fragments will often fade with time. Generally a Childs past life memory will be more active up to the age of 5 to 6 years and be forgotten after that age as they move on with their current life. The memories tend to easily and naturally surface and just as easily are absorbed by the child in to their life. If your child should give any indications of a past life memory it is important to acknowledge them and acknowledge the possible truth of that memory. Allow them to express the memory wherever it may take them and to allow them to freely express any emotions that may arise. Explain to them the difference between images from past lives and present reality.

Not all children will have memories of a past life and it is quiet uncommon. Often the only clue maybe a simple statement that is made in play and of course can be just as easily put down to childhood imagination. In other cases though the statements made will be consistent over several months or years. As an example below is the story of Cameron and a video clip.

The story of Cameron

Since he was first able to talk, Cameron talked about his life on the island of Barra. Cameron lives with his mum in Glasgow and they had never visited Barra in the outer Hebrides, Scotland. At first it was dismissed as childhood fantasy but his stories where just to consistent to be brushed away.

He describes a white house overlooking the beach where he would play with his brothers and sisters. He talks about his black and white dog. He mentions the airplanes that would land on the beach.

Together with his mum and child psychiatrist Jim Tucker,(Life Before Life) who is one of the few researchers to study children who have past life memories, they journey to the island of Barra in search of possible evidence