Little children tell how they were called by different names, how they looked different, what happened to them. But it’s easier for parents and grandparents to dismiss the child and accuse him of being a fantasist, making things up.

At this stage, the baby understands that it is safer to remain silent. He sees how angry the adults on whom he is dependent are, he tries with all his might to live up to expectations. This is how we lose memory.

And already here the legend is crumbling that if we don’t remember anything, then we don’t need to remember that it’s not for nothing that everything was closed to us. We come with a memory, but no one needs us like that in this world, even close people, and naturally, in order to survive we have to adapt to the environment, be like everyone else, and over time, completely become like everyone else.

If only you knew what kind of resistance people have when they try to remember. Sometimes it takes hours for a person to simply relax, let alone remember something. As children, adults were our role models; they knew how to do things right. And they taught you to resist, to question, what is truly a part of you - the memory of your soul.

In childhood, this is convenient for parents and the adult environment, and when we grow up, it is convenient for the system in which we live. Because in the past we had experiences that, if we remembered, we could turn to and make much fewer mistakes in life. Mistakes are probably not the right words, since everything is experience. But when you step on the same rake 156 times, it’s somehow not fun at all, because this might not have happened if we remembered past experience.

What is there in the soul's past experience that we could use now?

— experience of living in different bodies, including the bodies of animals.

It would be easier for you to understand how to live in a body that has the opposite sex or is androgynous. Often people despise certain qualities, something in behavior, but how would your attitude change if you knew that in one of your past lives you were exactly the same, behaved the same way, had the same preferences?!

- the experience of living in situations in which you do not have the opportunity to live in your current form of life, but this experience would help you out a lot, it would be useful.

For example, if you are not a fighter by nature now, and it is not easy for you to defend what you have, but you can remember your life when you already possessed those qualities that you lack, remember what it was like, “infected” with these qualities

- remember your talents and abilities.

For example , remember how you once spoke French and remembering this skill will make it easier and much faster for you to learn the language now. Or remember how you organized and managed your business, what you did, what qualities you showed, what/who you turned to and this will undoubtedly come in handy if you decide to open your own business now.

Is it necessary to remember?

Everyone decides for themselves. You can take advantage of the opportunity, or you can continue to live at random. The door is not tightly closed, the door is always slightly open, and you can always open it and enter.

Incredible facts

Is it possible to remember details, names and dates of your past life?

Or return to earth in the body of another person to find his killer and give him what he deserves?

Or maybe with the goal of seeing your loved ones again?

Scientific evidence and facts prove that this is possible.

Here are 10 outstanding stories that actually happened where “past life memories” are involved.

Memories of past lives

1. A 3-year-old boy remembered his past life, found his killer, and also the hidden body.

The late Dr. Eli Lasch, best known for his scientific work in Gaza as part of Israeli operations, studied the case of a 3-year-old boy who lived near the border with Syria and Israel.

The boy said that he remembers how in a past life he was hacked to death with an ax. He related the details of his murder and even showed the village elders where his body was buried.

A body with a wound on the head was indeed found in the indicated place

In addition, he revealed the location where the murder weapon itself was hidden. After being presented with evidence, he also identified his killer, confidently pointing to one of his neighbors.

The evidence confirming his guilt was so irrefutable that the man confessed to the crime.

Past life of a person

2. The boy remembered his wife and murderer from a past life and found them again

Semih Tutusmus was born in the village of Sarkonak, Türkiye.

As soon as the boy learned to talk, he told his family that his real name was Selim Fesli.

But something else is strange: when the boy’s mother was pregnant with him, she had a dream in which a man with a bloody face, communicating with her, told some details of his life. He claimed that his name was Selim Fesli.

It turned out that a man with that name actually lived in a neighboring village and died in 1958. He was shot in the face and right ear.

Tutus was born with a deformed right ear.

When he was 4 years old, the boy went to Fesli’s house and said to his widow: “I am Selim, and you are my wife, Katibe.”

He remembered some details of their life together, and also named the names of their children. No one could know these details except the deceased himself.

He then shocked everyone by identifying the man who shot him. This case was studied by the late Dr. Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia.

I remember a past life

3. The fireman was a general in the Civil War

Retired firefighter Jaffrey Keene felt an inexplicable desire to visit the field where the famous Battle of Antietam took place during the Civil War between the North and South.

Geoffrey went there as a tourist, but strange, almost painful emotions did not leave him for a long period. Feeling almost physical pain, he could hardly describe in words everything that he felt.

Discussing these sensations later with specialists, the phrase “not now” constantly swirled in Jeffrey’s head.

He became interested in the topic of the Civil War and began looking through literature in local libraries and archives.

In one of the sources he found an article about John Brown Gordon, a general who took part in the Civil War.

It turned out that the famous war hero emphatically repeated the phrase "not now" while holding his troops at the Battle of Antietam.

Also striking was the physical resemblance between him and Gordon. In addition, many of the firefighters on his brigade were remarkably similar to the people who took part in the battlefield.

Keane discovered other similarities between the general's appearance and his own. For example, in the place where Gordon was wounded, Keene had birthmarks.

This case was studied by Dr. Walter Semkiw, a psychiatrist who works as an expert on reincarnation at the Institute for the Integration of Science, Intuition and Spirit (IISIS).

What was he like in a past life?

4. The boy remembers his past life as a pilot in World War II.

Dr. Jim Tucker from the University of Virginia studied the case of James Leininger from Louisiana.

When the boy was 2 years old, he began to have nightmares associated with a plane crash.

After the terrifying visions, Jim claimed that he had been shot down by the Japanese, that his plane had taken off from the USS Natoma Bay, and that he had a friend named Jack Larson.

He also suggested that in a past life his name was James.

As it turns out, there actually was a pilot named James Houston Jr. during World War II.

The life and death of this guy, amazingly, coincided with all the details told by the boy.

Using the photograph, Leininger was also able to identify the location where Houston's plane crashed.

Is there a past life

5. Burnt in Chicago

Two-year-old Luke from Cincinnati, Ohio was 2 years old when he began to experience strange visions.

The boy told his parents about his past life: he was a black-haired woman named Pam who died in a fire in a Chicago building while trying to jump out of a window.

As it turned out, in 1993, a terrible tragedy really happened: a fire occurred at the Paxton Hotel, as a result of which African-American Pamela Robinson died - she jumped out of a window in an attempt to escape the fire.

When Luke's parents asked the boy to describe Pam's appearance, he described her as she really was.

To finally verify the veracity of her son’s stories, the mother printed out several photographs of African-American women, including a photo of Pam, and asked Luke to point to the one he was talking about.

Without hesitation, the boy pointed to Robinson's photo and said, "That's Pam."

*Luke's story became the basis for the documentary film The Ghost Inside My Child.

Remembering past lives

6. 4-year-old boy remembers his past life in Hollywood

Ryan was 4 years old when he began to remember his past life, which he spent in Hollywood, which was tragically cut short when he suffered a heart attack.

The book about Hollywood provoked a wave of further “memories.”

And after the boy saw the 1932 film Night After Night, he stated that he was friends with the man who played the role of a cowboy in the film, and was also an actor in a cigarette commercial.

This film stars actor Gordon Nance. He starred in a number of films, playing cowboys, and, indeed, was the face of cigarette advertising.

Ryan presented a picture of his past life, talked about a man named Marty Martin.

Ryan accurately reproduced the scenes in which Martin was involved and even described his life in great detail.

He talked in detail about the actor's life, such as dancing on Broadway, his three younger sisters, and also correctly named the color of his car.

This unusual case was handled by Dr. Tucker, who confirmed Ryan's memories by checking the information received from the boy with members of the Marty Martin family.

Dives into past lives

7. The boy remembers his past life as a monk in Sri Lanka

Duminda Bandara Ratnayake, a three-year-old boy from Tundeniya, Sri Lanka, suddenly began talking about how he was a monk in a past life.

He insisted on observing all the rituals and restrictions that characterize the life of monks.

The boy confidently stated that he was the oldest monk in the temple of Asgiriya and that he died of chest pain.

He also said that he had a red car and a radio. He described the elephant with special love.

Venerable Mahanayaka Gannepana, the late monk of the Asgiriya Temple, actually lived a few years ago. The details of his life and death corresponded to everything the boy said.

There were only minor discrepancies in the entire description: for example, he owned a gramophone instead of a radio, but the boy may not have known how to describe a gramophone, so he could not accurately indicate this particular item.

This case was carefully studied by Dr. Elendur Haraldsson, Emeritus Professor at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik.

Memory of past lives

8. Lebanese boy remembers his past life

Dr Haraldson traveled to Lebanon to learn more about another strange case involving a boy named Nazih Al-Danaf.

Al-Danaf began telling his parents about his past life immediately after he learned to speak.

He proudly talked about the weapons he allegedly owned.

At the same time, the boy used terms that you clearly would not expect to hear from a small child.

His parents were also surprised that at that age their son showed an increased interest in cigarettes and whiskey.

He also talked about a mute girlfriend who only had one arm, said that he had a red car, and that he was shot by some people who came to his house.

Al-Danaf went to the house where he lived in a past life. This small town of Cabershamun is located only 20 kilometers from his current home.

There really was once a man named Fuad Assad Haddaj who lived there, and the details of his life were completely consistent with what the boy said.

Haddaj's widow asked the boy several questions to test him. The questions were of the following nature: “Who laid the foundation of this gate at the entrance to the house?”, “Who painted the walls?” etc.

Nazikh answered all the questions correctly, this convinced his friends and family that the boy was telling the truth and that he actually remembered his past life.

Do you love mysteries? Do you like to unravel different incomprehensible stories, find missing information in order to get to the bottom of the truth? Then this article is for you!Your goal is to restore memory of past lives. Who knows what's hiding there?

Maybe you will find wealth, fame, Great Love or betrayal there.

You may be able to put all the puzzles together with ease, or you may have to scrupulously look for the smallest details.

In any case, an exciting journey awaits you! A journey to yourself, to the past of your soul, where the answers to many of today's questions are hidden, in past lives.

People and their previous lives

Do you think that this is not the first time you have lived? Maybe this question has been haunting you for a long time. Remember what interests you in this life? Maybe these are books related to a certain historical moment, films?

Maybe some one seems close to you culture, or when you come to another city or country, do you feel something special there? Maybe this is the place seems familiar to you?

Stop at this moment and listen to yourself. This is the quiet voice of your soul. She remembers.

And if you just want, she will reveal to you the secrets of your life, the secrets of your past births.

You will probably be interested to know yourself - who you really are. Welcome to a journey into the depths of your memory!

Memory of past lives [Yes, that was you too!]

Do you like the world around you? Are you comfortable here? Or maybe there is another period in human history that attracts you?

After all, think about such a rich history of mankind, and are you especially interested in Ancient Egypt? Or the Great Patriotic War? Perhaps you read books about that time, watch films? Maybe you can imagine what it was like to live there or maybe you like the clothes that people of that era wore.

In fact, everything you do how do you do it, what do you feel and think,- has something to do with you, but only in another time, in your other life, In a past life.

Children often remember their previous incarnations. They tell their parents about them.

But their parents are angry with them for these “fantasies” and say that “this cannot be true.”

Gradually, children begin to agree with adults, and the memory of past lives is erased, going deep into the subconscious. e.

The fact that you are interested in a certain historical period can be explained very simply: you have stored in your subconscious memories of previous births, and when your mind is more open to perception, these memories rise to the surface.

Consciousness works with memory, and memories of another time have an influence on you, but you have no idea where it all came from.

The soul lives for a very long time, and during this time it is born many times as a person and lives many different lives. After each incarnation, memories of the past life are added to the memory. Rebirth is also called “reincarnation”. By remembering your past lives, you turn to your own memory - the memory of your soul.

Michael Hathaway

Does reincarnation exist?

Have you ever wondered who are you really?? Why and why do you exist? Such thoughts come to mind, you just have to think about something more than momentary problems and worries. Maybe you think that besides birth, life and death there is nothing: no “later”, no “before” or “after”? What do you thinking about reincarnation? Or do you believe that there is only one life?

If that were the case, what would it be like? meaning in life? Imagine for just a moment that this life is not all there is. What this life is one in a series of others, and treat it accordingly.

If this is so, how to prove it? There is no scientific evidence yet.

Those who were not afraid to go beyond the generally accepted framework in their scientific research include work famous psychiatrist Ian Stevenson. This researcher was the head of the department of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Virginia College of Medicine, then became a professor of psychiatry in the department of behavioral medicine and psychiatry at Carlson University. At the same university, he was later appointed director of the personality studies program.

Already at the beginning of his scientific career he was disappointed How in Freudian psychoanalysis(where in the initial positions there are unconscious mental processes and motivations, as well as the repression from consciousness of unacceptable drives and traumatic experiences), so and in behaviorism(based not on consciousness, but on behavior as a set of reactions to environmental influences).

Stevenson went against these generally accepted theories, and at a time when they were considered basic in science! He began to study other concepts of personality development, and this led him to parapsychology- a field of science that seeks objective proof unusual human capabilities(for example, telepathy), as well as evidence of life after death and other unusual phenomena.

While studying the psychological literature, Dr. Stevenson came across scattered information about memories of a past life. Having become interested, he discovered several dozen similar reports in the press. Having begun to analyze and compare these cases, the scientist discovered common features in them, which prompted him to conduct his own search - the first, in fact, serious scientific research in this area.

Despite his initial skepticism, Stevenson encountered hundreds of similar situations that could only be explained theory of reincarnation. Therefore, he continued his research, despite the risk of being completely rejected by the community of traditionally-minded fellow doctors, who repeatedly ridiculed the scientist.

Brilliant researcher's innovation consider the fact that he turned to small children for receiving evidence of reincarnation. The fact is that it is almost impossible to convince the scientific community of the authenticity of the memories of adults - their stories, according to skeptics, can be borrowed from books, television and other media. Memory same baby pure from life experience.

Self number of cases, systematized and published by Dr. Stevenson, is very strong evidence. The total force of the above incidents can more than compensate for any error in individual parts.

Long established principle of scientific approach states: The agreement of the general pattern of many cases is more convincing evidence than the most reliable data obtained from individual sources. If the growing number of cases obtained by other researchers bears the same pattern, - the evidence is virtually undeniable.

Now they are becoming more and more popular, in which they are rising and developing theme of rebirth. People are starting to talk about this not only in whispers in the back room, but also on radio and television. If you are looking for a purpose in life, you can certainly find the answer by examining who you used to be and why you came here.

Write which period of history is closest to you? Has it ever happened that a place you were in for the first time seemed familiar to you? Or maybe you met for the first time people with whom it seemed that you had already known each other for an eternity?

In any study of the phenomenon of the existence of memory of past lives, it should be remembered that two of the main world religions in one form or another recognize and actively promote the concept of reincarnation (reincarnation, transmigration of souls). For Buddhism - both its Asian and Tibetan branches - this is one of the main dogmas; the same can be said about Hinduism, whose followers talk about the “wheel of life” and the “wheel of karma”, which consist in the cyclical nature of birth, death and rebirth. In some esoteric circles it is believed that the Bible once contained postulates about the possibility of reincarnation, but in 553 AD they were removed for political reasons by the Fifth Ecumenical Council. It is believed that it is easier for the state to govern a people who believe in the existence of hell than people who see the possibility of individual spiritual growth achieved through a series of earthly reincarnations. Surveys have shown that belief in the possibility of reincarnation is becoming increasingly widespread - according to a sociological survey conducted in the United States, four out of ten respondents consider reincarnation a reality, and a survey conducted by the British newspaper The Times showed that one in six respondents has experienced something like this , which convinced him that he had, at least once, already lived in the past.

Despite the popularity of the concept of reincarnation, convincing evidence of its existence - that is, evidence that can refute any doubts - is quite difficult to find. If we are going to go further than just believing or disbelieving the stories of those who claim the existence of "ancient memory", we need to conduct more thorough research. To “prove” the possibility of reincarnation, it is necessary to identify cases where someone reports information about other people who lived in the past, and they simply cannot know these things. Such knowledge appears to come in two forms: conscious and subconscious. Modern life is such that television and books give us the opportunity to learn a lot of information about other cultures and other eras, so it is not surprising that we know a lot about “other lives”. But have we really lived these lives? Or are they just lives lived by other people?

The existence of a phenomenon called “cryptomnesia” convinces us that although we seem to forget a lot, our mind remembers absolutely everything we experience. The human mind absorbs information like a sponge, storing away everything that may be useful in the future. Whether we will be able to access this information is a completely different question; it can “surface” only at critical moments, when some kind of threat hangs over our lives. But this information can also be retrieved by entering a state of hypnosis or when we are asked to remember a past life!

The relevant literature describes cases of people in a state of regressive hypnosis demonstrating fluency in foreign languages. However, this does not prove the existence of reincarnation - sometimes it turned out that in childhood these people lived abroad for several years. While “of sound mind,” they were unable to speak the language of the country in which they lived, but their subconscious absorbed all the information that was necessary for fluent communication in a foreign language, even after many years. So we can say about any person that he never forgets anything.

We have to take into account the possibility of the existence of such circumstances, so serious research into cases of reincarnation is a rather difficult task. However, there are two main ways of obtaining evidence of the possibility of reincarnation: through the spontaneous emergence of memories of past lives, which most often occurs in children, and through putting a person into a state of hypnosis, which is the more “scientific” method. It should be noted that in this case a problem arises related to the degree of suggestibility of the object of hypnosis. In addition, skeptics may argue that a hypnotist is able to suggest anything to a person.

Hypnosis first came to public attention as a way to tap into past-life memories in 1952, with the Bridie Murphy case. Bridie was a young Irish woman born in 1798. She was allegedly reborn in the memory of 29-year-old Virginia Tye, a resident of Madison, Wisconsin. The hypnotist was Maury Bernstein, although it is worth mentioning that he was more of a businessman interested in hypnosis than a hypnotist. Over a series of tape-recorded hypnosis sessions, Bernstein took Mrs Tay back to her life in County Cork: her Protestant father, her husband, a Catholic lawyer, their two weddings - Protestant and Catholic, their move to Belfast and life in a cottage on Dooley -road. It all looked pretty plausible. At least, we are convinced of this by how detailed the woman described all areas of everyday life in the nineteenth century, and the details she gave were later verified. For example, Tye-Murphy mentioned the names of the grocers who supplied her home with food - "Farr and Carrigan" - and it turned out that people with such surnames actually owned a grocery store at that time. Other facts that were verified were also mentioned - the woman accurately gave the names of areas and streets that could only be found on maps dating back to the beginning of the 19th century. The twopenny coin that Ty spoke about had only been in circulation for twelve years, the exact time period that she spoke about.

Virginia Tye had never been to Ireland, and neither had her husband, who turned out to be the most skeptical of all those who heard about this case. Perhaps the point here is that he had something to lose - namely, the personality of his wife. After the publication of the research results, numerous theories began to appear to explain the phenomenon of Virginia Tai: the first of them said that Tai simply watched a film about the life of Ireland at that time. But no such film has ever been discovered. In addition, Ty allegedly had acquaintances of Irish descent who could tell her about Ireland in the early nineteenth century. A rival newspaper to the one that covered the case tried to explain it this way: it was claimed that Virginia Tye had an aunt named Mary Bernay - "Irish to the core" - who taught her niece about Ireland. The newspaper also stated that Virginia Tye lived next door to a girl named Bridie Murphy.

All these statements turned out to be lies, but that’s not the point: the sensation was forgotten, the game “Remember who you were in a past life” that appeared lost popularity and almost everyone forgot that Virginia Tai once existed. Nevertheless, no one has been able to refute the evidence of this reincarnation. Of course, there is no denying the possibility that the entire Maury Bernstein "experiment" is nothing more than a hoax, but in the forty-five years since then, no one has been able to prove that Tye received such detailed information from someone other than the memory of Bridie Murphy. but from some other source.

These days, such cases usually fall under the shadow of the so-called “false memory syndrome.” The furor created by stories about the consequences of hypnotic treatment of people who claim that they were abducted by aliens plunged adherents of regressive hypnosis into complete confusion - no one knew who or what to trust. There seems to be a consensus that any person who practices hypnosis and hypnotherapy can be guilty of "suggestion," that is, putting into the heads of his patients ideas that the hypnotist would have them believe. The very fact that this entire branch of science can be discredited - at least in the eyes of public opinion - deserves the closest attention.

Most of the research into past life memory “recovery” that followed the Virginia Tye/Bridie Murphy case was conducted by university-trained psychologists through the method of regression hypnosis. Perhaps the most famous of these specialists is Dr. Allan Cannon, who put 1,382 volunteers into a state of regressive hypnosis. Despite the fact that he was initially skeptical about the concept of reincarnation, Cannon, during hypnosis sessions, found that his patients were able to remember not only details of the lives of people who lived in the recent past, but also details relating to eras many millennia distant from us . In 1950, Allan Cannon wrote a book called Inner Strength. Here is an excerpt from it:

“For many years, the theory of reincarnation seemed to me just an idle fiction and I tried in every possible way to refute it and even argued with my patients, convincing them that during a hypnotic trance they were talking nonsense. But the years passed, and the patients told me the same thing, the difference was only in the details, although the religion and life position of these people were very different. To date, I have studied more than a thousand such cases, and this has convinced me that reincarnation does exist."

The work of Cannon and others in the field of regressive hypnosis has produced a wealth of extremely interesting data. However, the crisis of confidence in such data, caused by false memory syndrome, is generating great interest in other forms of evidence for the existence of past life memory. These are usually stories from young children. The spontaneity with which children express their feelings, as well as the lack of skills in what might be called "adult lying," are precisely the circumstances that make children's testimony so important in proving the possibility of reincarnation. Perhaps the greatest success in identifying spontaneous childhood memories of past lives was made by Dr. Ian Stevenson. Over thirty years of work in this field, he has provided much convincing evidence for the existence of the phenomenon described here. In his book, Twenty Cases Suggesting the Possibility of Reincarnation, he recorded the memories of children living mainly in India, Nigeria, Alaska and the Far East. One of the most interesting cases is the story of Bishen Chand, the son of a railway worker from the city of Bare or that in the northern part of India. The stories of four-year-old Chand were recorded for some time by a local lawyer named K. K. N. Sahay, only after a certain period of time was an attempt made to verify this information.

According to Sahay, Bishen Chand started talking about a place called Pilibit even before he could speak properly. Pilibit is a town located thirty miles from where Chand lived. Chand later revealed that he was the nephew of a man named Har Narain, a resident of Pilibit. He also claimed that he lived next door to Sunder Lal, a gentleman who had a green gate, a sword and a gun. Chand told Sahai that Sunder Lal organized parties in the courtyard of his house, which were attended by dancers.

Sahay decided to take four-year-old Chand to Pilibit in order to verify this information. It should be noted that this trip was not organized in the way that skeptical scientists might have demanded. Nevertheless, her results were stunning - first Chand found the house of Sunder Lal and his green gate, and then the place where his uncle from a past life, Har Narain, lived. Then one of his “relatives” approached Chand with a photograph in his hands: could he recognize his uncle from a past life in the photograph? “This is Har Narain,” Chand said confidently, “and this is me.” He claimed that in his previous life he was a person named Lakshmi Narain. Chandu was asked several questions about Lakshmi, who led a far from sinless life. Among them was this one: “What was the name of his favorite prostitute? "Padma!" - Chand answered immediately. The people around them nodded their heads in agreement - it was true. Obviously Lakshmi has not forgotten her.

The final test of Chand's journey to the places where his past life took place was a meeting with his mother from a past life. Chand was asked a series of questions, and he remembered how he once threw out canned fruit because it was infested with worms - quite often in such circumstances one remembers precisely such things. In addition, he was able to tell that he worked on the railway in Udha and that he had a servant, a short dark-skinned man named Maiqua. Having answered all the questions asked of him, Chand, as the reincarnation of Lakshmi Narain, was admitted to the family in which he lived in a past life.

Stevenson also described a case of double reincarnation that occurred in Sri Lanka. Two three-year-old twin sisters - Shiromi and Shivanti Hetierahti - described their deaths as similar to those of two young people killed in the 1971 Communist-led uprising. In 1982, Shiromi said she jumped off a cliff to her death, and Shivanthi said she was shot. Both of them were able to name the names under which they lived in past lives, and provided enough details for both sets of parents to recognize them as incarnations of their dead sons.

There is another pair of twins who have been able to provide solid evidence of the possibility of reincarnation - the Pollock sisters, Jennifer and Gillian, born in the English county of Northumberland in October 1958. Their life story, both tragic and touching, began several years before their birth, when their older sisters, eleven-year-old Joanna and six-year-old Jacqueline, were hit by a car while returning from church. Both girls died on the spot. Their father, John Pollock, as often happens in such circumstances, blamed himself for the accident. John, a devout Catholic who, however, believed in the possibility of reincarnation, decided that the accident was a kind of punishment for his sins. He also believed that his girls would return to him, incarnated as other people. After some time, his wife Florence became pregnant, and John's assumption that twins would be born came true. When Jennifer and Gillian were born, John immediately noticed that one of them had the same distinctive features on her body as the late Jacqueline: a birthmark shaped like a fingerprint on her left thigh and a thin, scar-like stripe on her forehead. Jacqueline received this scar as a result of falling off her bicycle. As a devout Catholic, Florence made her husband promise that he would not tell anyone about these reincarnations and that when the girls started asking questions about their dead sisters, he would tell them that their sisters were now in heaven.

When the twins were three months old, the family moved to another house, located a few miles from the previous one. When the whole family visited the place where the tragedy occurred a few years later, the girls behaved very strangely. First, without prompting, they pointed to the house in which they were born. They knew they were approaching swings and slides even before the place could be seen. They also knew that the school their dead sisters had attended was nearby.

One day, when the girls were shown dolls that belonged to their dead sisters, Jennifer immediately declared: “This is your Mary, and this is my Susan.” These were the same names that their older sisters gave to the dolls. Several times the sisters began to squeal for no reason at the sight of a car, and the cars usually did not approach them, but simply moved towards them. One day, the mother saw Gillian cradling Jennifer’s head, saying: “Blood is flowing from your eyes. A car hit you here.” What was happening gave Florence Pollock more and more fear, despite the fact that her husband believed that nothing terrible was happening. However, by the age of six, the memories stopped appearing, and by the age of thirteen, the girls did not even remember what their father told them about their childhood. Although some investigators of this case believed that the father's interest in reincarnation weakened the credibility of the information, it is still difficult to imagine how he could fabricate evidence and put it in the mouths of his children. In addition, the incident also points to the fact that in predominantly Christian countries, believing parents - for religious reasons or out of unbelief - may suppress cases of possible reincarnation.

Perhaps the most reliable evidence of reincarnation was provided to us by a thirteen-year-old girl who composed songs in medieval French and mentioned the names of real people and events that we now know actually took place several centuries ago. Few writers on the topic of reincarnation have explored the phenomenon of "ancient memory" better than practicing psychiatrist Dr. Arthur Gidem. He worked successfully in the field of classical medicine for a long time and gained a reputation both in scientific circles and in society at large. Gidem later wrote two books that forever changed many people's views on the concept of reincarnation. The impact of what Gidem learned from his patient on his life position was so strong that he felt that he should devote the rest of his life to describing and analyzing the feelings of the woman who became widely known as Mrs. Smith.

The records of the Holy Inquisition helped Gidem verify the existence of the woman with whom Mrs. Smith identified herself; it turned out that this woman actually lived in France in the 13th century and was a member of a little-known religious sect. Members of this sect, known as the Cathars or Albigensians, became victims of violent persecution by the Roman Catholic Church, which at that time used the Inquisition with its torturers and executioners to combat heresy. As it turned out, “Mrs. Smith” became one of the victims of the mass burning of heretics at the mountain fortress of Montesugar, located in the Pyrenees.

Mrs. Smith first came to Gidem when she was just over thirty years old - she was tormented by nightmares in which she was attacked by a person she did not know. Some time passed before she spoke about the rather painful, but at the same time simply incredible sensations she experienced in her youth. From the age of thirteen, she was troubled by temporary loss of consciousness; traditional medicine could not explain these attacks. Mrs. Smith almost did not believe that Dr. Gidem could help her with anything. She was very afraid that one day she would not be able to control herself and her visions would get the better of her. In January 1965, Mrs. Smith described it this way: "I have a terrible tendency to 'fall out of time.' Sometimes I experience strong doubts about whether my interlocutor said something, or whether he will say it in the future, or whether our conversation took place in the distant past.”

Mrs. Smith recalled memories of an affair with a traveling musician - a troubadour named Roger. Her memories were so strong that at the age of thirteen she wrote a lyrical song in some incomprehensible medieval dialect of French, although she knew very little modern French. She often dreamed of her meeting with Roger:

“I can write a book about Roger, and it will be absolutely no difficulty for me. I once dreamed of all this, and I just need to put my memories on paper. This book will never be published - I couldn't stand it. There is nothing strange about other girls dreaming of men touching or courting them, but my dreams seem so strange and vivid that I don’t want anything like that to happen in my life.

I fell in love with him the same night when he came to our house in a snowstorm. I tried not to look at him, but I still felt that he was nearby. I was overwhelmed with joy - the weather was so inclement that he was forced to stay with us for the night. That night, as soon as he fell asleep, I kissed him...

The day my father beat me and kicked me out of the house was one of the best days of my life. I went straight to Roger, I had nothing with me but clothes, I didn’t even have shoes... His house was on top of a hill, and the road leading to it was rocky and bumpy. He lived in a large building, not a castle, but rather some kind of fortified house... We were very happy.”

The happiness did not last long. A crusade was launched against the Cathars, and in February 1966 Mrs. Smith was forced to relive her own death at the stake at the hands of the Catholic Inquisition, some seven centuries earlier.

“We were all led barefoot through the streets to the square, where woodpiles of firewood were stacked for the future bonfire. Several monks stood around, they sang church hymns and prayed. I didn’t feel grateful to them - on the contrary, I thought: “How they have the audacity to pray for me - after all, I must be an inveterate sinner!” When I am awake, sinful thoughts do not enter my mind, but I often dream of terrible things. I hated that these monks would watch me die. One girl at school once said that she dreamed of being crucified on the cross like Christ. I would rather be crucified on a cross than burned - the pain was simply unbearable. When dying, you should offer prayers to God, but how can you pray when you are writhing in unbearable pain? I thought about Roger and how much I love him. The pain the flames caused me couldn't even compare to the pain I felt when I realized Roger was dead. Suddenly I felt glad that I was dying. I didn't know that when you are burned alive at the stake, your body begins to bleed, but blood poured out of me. Blood dripped and sizzled in the flames, and I wished there was enough blood in my veins to extinguish the flames. The worst thing was the pain in my eyes... I tried to close them, but I couldn’t do it - my eyelids probably burned out, and I realized that now the flames would touch my eyes with their evil fingers.”

Most of the stories about reincarnation contain some common elements. A person who has experienced reincarnation will often have birthmarks and other distinctive features on their body that indicate where they were injured in a past life—perhaps some kind of reminder of the past. In some cases, it is possible to associate such markings on a person's body with how his "predecessor" died - one can discern bullet wounds, scars, or even physical injuries associated with death. For example, a spot on the forehead of former USSR President Gorbachev, according to some researchers, indicates that in a past life he died from a blow to the head. Another indication of reincarnation may be a fear of unknown origin, which is believed to be explained by a violent death in a past life - for example, a fear of water may indicate that a person drowned in a past life. The fear of fire can develop as a result of the fact that in childhood a person was greatly frightened by a sharp flash, but it can also be the result of a brutal death at the stake. Believers in reincarnation also believe that a person can retain skills acquired in a past life. They say that Moscow was not built all at once, but it is also possible that composers of the caliber of Beethoven or Mozart honed their skills in a whole series of reincarnations. In this way, the manifestation of any outstanding gift can be explained, as well as someone’s limitations or weaknesses.

For those who believe that DNA is involved in the process of reincarnation, all of these speculations raise some interesting questions. Although fear and other emotional response patterns can be passed on through genes—just as the instinctive responses seen in animals are passed down through generations—the transmission of individual skills through genes is much more difficult to explain. For those people who believe that life is built on the concept of the soul as a “package” of complex energies that can be inherited from body to body, the explanation for this phenomenon may be simpler, although not ideal. The famous American psychic and “past life reader” Edgar Cayce was once asked the following question: “Which of my ancestors did I inherit more traits from?” Convinced of the possibility of reincarnation, Case replied: “What you inherited most is not from your parents, but from yourself. Family is just a river along which your soul floats.” It is understandable that the concept of reincarnation is quite controversial: it is based on our most fundamental ideas about life and death. With so much at stake, perhaps the credibility of the evidence shouldn't be so important. As American psychologist William James said:

Memory of past lives

The soul, having parted with the body, retains in memory only the quintessence of the experience gained during life, and not its specific details. Details relating to a past life can only be retained in memory if the soul retains the personality of the previous incarnation as part of the new incarnation. Otherwise, the memory of past lives comes only through the faculty of yogic vision, yogadrishti.

Sri Aurobindo

The outer being - mental, vital and physical - born of parents and shaped by the environment and circumstances of life, does not reincarnate. Only the psychic is not subject to birth and passes from one body to another. It logically follows that neither the mental nor the vital being can retain the memory of past lives or recognize itself in a particular person or in the manifestations of his character. Only the psychic has such memory; and only through awareness of your psyche can you restore specific impressions from past lives.

Mother

In ordinary life—by “ordinary” I mean the life of fairly educated and developed people—contact between the outer being and the psychic is accidental and fleeting, conditioned by certain experiences or inner needs. At the moment of such contact, the psychic, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, is “on the surface,” that is, on the surface of consciousness, and for a short time is in direct contact with material circumstances, with objects, words, sounds, etc. During these short glimpses, the psychic records, as if it records on a photo or film everything with which it comes into contact. But such moments in life are so rare that they can be counted on one hand. They can be repeated, but their duration is equal to several moments. It is what the psychic comes into contact with during these few seconds that is stored in its memory. And when you come into contact with the real memories of the psyche, involuntary and genuine, not fabricated by the mind or the vital being, you see that they take the form of separate, unconnected fragments of events or experienced circumstances and life situations. Therefore, it is very difficult to determine from psychic memories what kind of life you lived in your previous incarnation. It happens, however, that a psychic experience takes place at some very important moment in your life, and the situation itself gives you a clue: clothing, individual words spoken, or details of the environment. And then you can say: “Oh! I lived in that life." But if someone starts telling you detailed stories about their past lives, starting with a monkey, you can be sure that it is all pure fraud.

Mother

There are quite often stories in the newspapers about small children who remember their past lives and tell a lot of details about previous incarnations, and all their memories are confirmed by facts. It is cases like these that provide parapsychologists with evidence of the existence of soul reincarnation. How are these things connected, and is there other scientific evidence for soul reincarnation?

The newspaper articles you are talking about describe cases that are connected exclusively with the memories of the vital being leaving one body in order to move into another. Sometimes this happens, but not very often.

I mean the memory of the psychic, which can be accessed only by entering into conscious contact with a psychic being.

But one does not contradict the other.

Mother

In 999 cases out of 1000, only a tiny psychic being remains from a person after death, everything else is destroyed, falls apart and dissipates, and as a result the person ceases to exist. Now let us see how often the psychic being participates in the physical life of a person?... Now I do not mean those who practice yoga and have at least a little discipline in their lives; I am talking about the average person with a sufficiently developed psychic, which can intervene in his life and direct it - for such people many years pass without any emergence of the psychic to the surface. But they are the ones who begin to tell you stories about what countries they used to live in and who their parents were in other incarnations, and what their house looked like, and what kind of roof was on the neighboring church, and that there was a forest next door, and a lot of other small details . This is complete absurdity, because such memories cannot be preserved, they are completely erased from memory; Only a single episode from life can remain in memory when, due to special circumstances and the “liveness” of the moment, the psychic, as a result of internal aspiration or absolute necessity, suddenly comes to the surface, and then this moment is preserved in the memory of the psychic. When you come into contact with psychic memory, a picture of a certain specific moment from a past life emerges before you, especially your inner experiences and emotions, the state of consciousness in which you were then. Then some associations from the environment of that moment, a separate word or phrase, arise in the mind. But the most important thing is that you experience the state of consciousness of a specific moment from a previous incarnation, because it is very clearly and clearly stored in psychic memory. These tangible milestones in the life of the psyche are made up of episodes and events that left a mark on its formation. Therefore, you can only remember that which your psychic being has consciously come into contact with. There may be only a few such episodes, imprinted in the form of glimpses in psychic memory, and on the basis of these memories you can say: “I lived at such and such a time, did such and such, my name was such and such.” In other words, this means that in that rare moment, a favorable combination of circumstances allowed you to fix the time, place, country and era of your incarnation. This happens.

As the psyche progresses, it participates more and more actively in the life of a human being, and as a result, more and more memories are stored in its memory. Ultimately, a moment comes when you can trace your previous incarnations, but, of course, only in general terms, without details. Individual moments, the most important in life, are restored in memory, on the basis of which it is not difficult to understand the main direction of life. It is necessary that your being completely and completely identify itself with the psychic, concentrate around it your entire life down to its smallest manifestations, all actions, all movements, all experiences, everything must turn into a single whole, directed towards the Divine. Then, after the death of the body, the entire personality will be preserved. Only the fully formed conscious psyche carries with it the memory of past incarnations; it can even move consciously from one incarnation to another without any gaps or interruptions in memory. How many people achieve such a state?.. I think not. But those who actually have this ability are usually not at all inclined to talk about their adventures.

Mother

Only by achieving conscious connection and self-identification with one’s divine source can one truly speak of memory storing the events of previous lives. Sri Aurobindo speaks of the gradual manifestation of the Spirit in the forms in which it resides. Having reached the pinnacle of this manifestation, your inner gaze opens to a vision of the entire path traveled, imprinted in memory.

But this memory is not of a mental nature. And those who claim that in the Middle Ages they had the title of baron, or tell you that they lived at such and such a time and in such and such a place, look at least funny, because they are victims of their own imagination. In fact, what remains in your memory from past lives are not beautiful pictures in which you see yourself as a powerful owner of a castle or a victorious general leading an army - all this is a romantic fiction - only individual moments are preserved in which the psychic rose from the depths of your being to the surface and revealed itself to you, that is, those rare moments when you were completely conscious. As evolution occurs, there is a gradual growth and expansion of consciousness, and the memories of past lives usually contain critical and key moments of evolutionary development, marking the main milestones of your movement forward.

At these moments you are not at all concerned with remembering that your name is Mr. X and that you live in such and such a place and in such and such an era; Your social status is not stored in memory. On the contrary, all such superficial trifles are erased from your consciousness; minor details disappear to allow you to experience the fullness of soul revelation or contact with the Divine. When you remember these moments from past incarnations, you see individual events so vividly and vividly that it seems to you that it happened only yesterday, and in its reality it is in no way inferior and even surpasses the sensations and experiences of your present life. Sometimes in a dream, when you come into contact with certain planes of consciousness, you may encounter living and seemingly tangible memories, filled with such bright colors that are not characteristic of the physical world. This happens in moments of a glimpse of true consciousness, and then everything is painted in unusually bright and vibrant colors and appears in such outlines that you will never see in ordinary life.

These fleeting contacts with the soul often occur at decisive moments in life, marking a certain progress in consciousness, in evolution, which, in turn, is often associated with a crisis, with a critical situation that is accompanied by a call of your whole being, a call so strong that the inner consciousness penetrates the unconsciousness that hides it and breaks through to the surface in all its radiance. This inner impulse can be so strong that it can cause the descent of a divine emanation-personality, a divine aspect, which unites with your personality at a certain moment in order to do a necessary work, win a battle, or give expressive form to a thing. After the work is done, the emanation is usually removed, and the events of those few moments of revelation or inspiration experienced may remain in memory: the surrounding environment, the dress you are wearing, the color of your own skin, some surrounding objects - all this with extraordinary clarity and accuracy is firmly fixed in the mental memory, because in a matter of moments you had a vision of the true appearance, colors and colors of objects of everyday life. The consciousness that opens in you immediately reveals the hidden consciousness inherent in the surrounding things. Sometimes, with the help of individual details, you can understand in what era and in what country you lived and what you did. And here it is difficult not to succumb to temptation and indulge in fantasies.

However, it should not be assumed that all past life memories are associated with moments of crisis, fateful actions or revelations. Sometimes the simplest and most uncomplicated moments remain in psychic memory, which in one way or another contributed to the expression of the perfect harmony of your being and were associated with the most insignificant external circumstances.

Apart from those things that immediately surrounded you at the moment of contact with the psychic, nothing remains in your memory. As soon as the direct connection with the psychic is interrupted, it plunges into a state of internal slumber, and all external life turns into a gray and monotonous, monotonous stream that does not leave any trace in the memory. However, this is very similar to what happens to you in ordinary life: with the exception of rare moments that require the mobilization of all your mental, vital or even physical forces and abilities, the rest of your life passes in neutral tones, of little interest, at the same time, it doesn’t matter at all to you where you are and what you are doing. And if you suddenly try to take a mental look at twenty, thirty or forty years of your life, then two or three images or events associated with acute and vivid experiences and impressions will immediately emerge in your memory; everything else is forgotten without a trace. It’s as if an involuntary selection takes place in your consciousness, and a lot of things are removed from memory. This gives you some idea of ​​what happens to the memories of previous incarnations: only a select few moments are retained, everything else is subject to elimination.

It should be noted that the first incarnations in human form are of a pronounced rudimentary nature, and very little of them remains in the psychic memory, only very rare and far separated moments in time. But when consciousness becomes more mature and the psychic being more developed, its participation in the external life of a person becomes more active; the number of stored memories increases, they acquire consistency and accuracy. But still, only episodes associated with the emergence of the soul to the surface of your being and with revelations of the psychic are preserved in memory. There is no information about civil and social status, as well as changing pictures of life. Now it should be clear to you why memories of previous incarnations in the form of animals are pure fantasy: in animals the divine spark is hidden too deeply to consciously rise to the surface and come into contact with external life. Before you can truly say that you remember your previous lives, you must become fully by nature a conscious being and connect with the original divine source.

Mother

Some people can talk about your past incarnations.

Yes, I know. I had to listen to a lot of different things, everything that could be heard. There are people who are ready to tell one story after another... They look into your eyes and tell you who you were and what you did in a past life. I can say with complete confidence that all this is fiction. For I know well how you can determine where you saw this or that person and who he was before: all this cannot be contained in one short story. When you look into a person, a sensation arises associated with the perception of the psychic world, and this allows you to see where the psychic being of this person was previously; and then suddenly a separate episode, an image, some thing or a spoken word appears before your eyes; there are associations on the basis of which individual sympathies and affections of this person, preserved from past lives, become obvious. But, as I already said, all this consists of “moments” of life that can be seen, but it is impossible to tell the whole life from them.

Mother

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