Carol Bowman, the world’s leading expert on children’s past lives, shares verified cases like Chad—born blind and scarred—who recalled his deceased brother James’s life, with blindness improving after emotional validation. Dr. Ian Stevenson’s 3,000 documented cases, including birthmarks matching past-life wounds, underscore biological continuity. Bowman warns parents against dismissing claims of "being big before" or unresolved traumas in toddlers, as they may reflect unprocessed memories. Studies suggest souls return to families (e.g., Kathy’s children) or evolve through repeated incarnations, with unresolved bonds fostering soulmate reunions. Uncertainty remains around animal past lives and new souls amid Earth’s growing population, but Bowman’s work reveals reincarnation’s potential role in healing physical and emotional imprints across generations. [Automatically generated summary]
From the high desert and the great American Southwest, I bid you all good evening or good morning, wherever you may be, across this great land of ours and beyond, commercially, heard from the Tahitian and Hawaiian Island chain, southwest, eastward to the Caribbean and the U.S. Virgin Islands, south into South America, north all the way to the whole world wide on the internet this is close close a m and i'm art bell reminding you that if you would like to see the talk show host in pain
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You can actually see me as well as hear me on the internet now.
Some of the crisscross patterns are absolutely amazing.
And these are mostly photographed shots today.
You know, people after hearing the program.
So there you are.
Take a look.
I did get a couple of interesting notes on the Contrail program.
One is, Anne, Anna actually, who sent me the following, and you can take this as you will.
She did supply her full name and her phone number, though it's a little late to call her right now because she has to get up very early in the morning and go to work.
Otherwise, she'd be happy to talk to you on the air about this.
But she said, Dear Art, my husband said that I should tell you about a conversation I had this afternoon.
I was talking to a gentleman in the Army National Guard about contrails and the spraying of toxins over America.
And to my surprise, he confirmed it.
I asked him about the fact that there was a number of different toxins being used and their effects on people living in the areas that are being sprayed.
His eyes got really big, and he smiled, nodding agreement.
Then I asked him about the men flying the planes that are doing the spraying, and he said that a lot of them don't know what spray they are releasing.
I've had sinus problems, fatigue, and other things.
And so I'm going to put this aside, and maybe when a day comes when, next couple of days when she can stay up, we'll have her on the air confirming that.
Now, with everything, as with everything, William Thomas came on last night and presented his case as well as the findings of the stuff he's analyzed and those people who have submitted to examinations and what they found there.
But this story is presented to you as I present all stories to you.
For you to judge, for you to make up your own mind as an adult.
There is always with my program that caveat.
We deal with things that are out on the edge.
That's what the show is all about.
We deal with things that are on the edge.
And the caveat always is, judge for yourself.
Don't automatically accept anything you hear from my guests or even me as factual information.
I am not a reporter.
I am not myself an investigative reporter.
And so what you hear here may be true as the day is long, or it may be baloney.
I have no way of knowing.
I judge as you judge.
I listen to people like William Thomas.
And I think that William is sincere, and I think he's on to something, but that doesn't mean it's so.
but if you look at the response it certainly seems so Anyway, there seems to be no end to punishment for good deeds.
And I didn't know that Chuck Harter was still on the air, but he is apparently.
And I guess he was blasting me on his show, wherever it toured, for being irresponsible.
He says he wants to get stuff and test himself, the residue coming from comtrails.
Well, go ahead, Chuck.
How about it?
We had him on the air when he was having some troubles with his network and sort of tried to get a message out to his former listeners.
And so he takes a blast at me.
Well, I guess that's what you get when you're on top.
And we are, by the way, on top right now.
We are now coming up on 447 affiliates, something like that.
We're just growing like crazy.
About 447, I think.
So that's just something you learn to take from people, I guess, when everybody takes a shot at the top.
Don't shoot at the bottom.
You're right about that, guys.
Don't shoot at the bottom.
That'll get you nowhere.
The operations of the nation's nuclear labs are going to be reviewed by the president's intelligence advisors amid congressional complaints of security, lack of security, lax security, and suspicions of Chinese espionage.
The Chinese, of course, are saying, what, me?
We've never spied on you.
And we can take their word for that, right?
A very serious situation.
About 100 people, including at least one family who lost a relative in the deadly Amtrak collision that you've all seen a million times now in CNN, Attended a memorial service Thursday night.
Meanwhile, investigators believe they now have a credible witness to the entire thing that says the truck driver involved tried to go round the lowered crossing gates and beat the train.
The Monday night wreck, as you know, killed 11, injured more than 100.
So now they're saying they've got some sort of witness who apparently saw the whole thing.
And of course, the truck driver had said that the gates and the lights and all the rest of it were not going on, and he was in the middle when it happened.
Well, it doesn't look like eyewitness testimony is going to add up to that at all.
In the meantime, he's got an attorney.
Hallelujah.
Art says, hallelujah.
After a season of controversial calls, ladies and gentlemen, instant replay is back in the NFL for the 99 season.
NFL owners voted, check this out, 28-3 Wednesday in favor of instituting an instant replay challenge system at the spring meetings.
A total of 24 of the 31 owners were needed for approval.
Check this out.
The only teams opposed to replay were the Arizona Cardinals, Cincinnati Bengals, and New York Jets.
Well, I wonder...
Now, you can imagine all kinds of things.
You can imagine that from the perspective, perhaps, of those teams, they occasionally play, of course, there's dirty stuff in the NFL all the time, right?
Holding, poking, gouging, yanking, face masks, low cuts, you know, the whole thing.
It goes on all the time.
But maybe those teams who do more of it than others would not want instant replay for fear of getting caught.
I mean, let's lay it out the way it is.
On the other hand, they might just have some sort of moral objection, ethical objection, and they might like old-time football where mistakes can either go for you or again you.
Personally, I'm glad to see it because last season we had a lot of game-changing rulings that were awful.
And so when this one's completely dead and it's headed down that trail quickly, that's the end.
No more TV.
I used to put my own picture tube in, converge them myself, do the whole thing.
We're coming.
But now, after X number of years, forget it.
They don't make it anymore.
You've got to throw it away.
You can't fix it.
There's no such thing as a tube anymore for that TV.
certainly is a disposable society we live in, huh?
The End Okay, if you see a little bit of pain flicking across my face as the program goes on, my back went out this morning.
When I was somewhat younger and climbing phone poles, I did that for a while.
I would climb poles.
I did what's called burning a pole.
I burned a pole.
Now, when you're up a phone pole working, belted in with spikes and everything, you know, a lot of you who do that know what I'm talking about.
Generally, everything's fine, and it's a very safe thing to do, to climb a pole.
And I've climbed gazillions of them.
However, I burned this particular pole.
I didn't get a good bite, and I lost it, and I knew I was losing it.
And when you burn a pole, a phone pole, you have two choices.
And both of them Are not very good.
You can either, you see, as you're falling, you have two choices.
You can either hug the pole, hold on to the pole, in which case they're going to be picking out pieces of pole because they have these little barbs that stick out from most phone poles.
They'll be picking those out of you for a long time to come, your stomach, your arms.
That's choice one.
And choice two is to push off, enter midair, and hope for the best.
Well, that's...
And when I came down, I came down on my butt and my elbow and impacted L4 and L5.
And about twice a year, it goes out on me, and oh, baby, it's out right now.
It was sort of going out in the program last night and completed its outness this morning.
And so I'm not all hunched over.
I'm still sort of walking.
But my back presently, the best way to describe this is I have four little teeny-weeny ginzu knives down at the bottom of my back.
Down right where the back meets the butt, right?
And if I lean forward too much, lean to the left, lean to the right, lean back, one of the appropriately appointed little ginzu knives sticks me.
So I've been in a fair amount of pain all day, and tonight you're going to have an opportunity to hear Art Bell on drugs.
So I took a perkidin.
You know what a perkidin is?
It's a pain pill, and that's the only way I'm going to be able to get through this, I think, assuming that I do get through it now.
Why am I so anxious to be here, come what may?
Because tonight, in the next hour, we're going to have Carol Bowman on.
Carol Bowman, I would say, is probably the nation's expert on children's past lives.
And I really, really, really am dying to do this show.
Here's an example, something just sent to me.
I'll hold it up here in a minute so you can see it.
Entitled, A Child's Memory of a Past Life is Confirmed.
Geez Art, it happened to me two days ago.
Below is what I wrote to you that day.
I was caring for my niece this morning while my sister went to the hospital to have her second baby, expecting a boy this time.
Lori, my niece, was sleeping when I arrived at my sister's home, and by the time Lori woke up, her mother had already left for the delivery room.
Thinking that she might be a little scared that her mommy and daddy were not at home when she woke, I began explaining where they had gone.
In the middle of my explanation, Lori stopped me.
Keep in mind, Lori's four and a half years old, and she said she hoped that, quote, Barbara would come home with mommy and daddy.
Who's Barbara?
I asked Lori.
Oh, she said casually, Daddy and Barbara were my kids last time.
I have more of these than I could even begin to tell you about.
And tonight we have the lady coming on who will, I think, explain them to us.
She has been documenting these for years, and there's no way that you cannot be interested in what a two, three, or four-year-old child says about a prior life, spoken casually, spoken not as a two-year-old, but as an adult.
And we're going to talk to a lady who knows all about it.
She wrote the book called Children's Past Lives.
Now, we've got a link to it, by the way, on my website and a link to her website as well.
If you want to start doing some reading now, surely you do want to get up there and see the contrail photographs.
They are quite incredible, I must say.
Now, Y2K, bad weather, oh, bad weather.
By the way, check this out as I sort of segue into this.
Reuters, a burst of solar flare activity just about the millennium could wreak more havoc on satellite systems and power grids than the year 2000 computer problem.
According to a senior British Y2K planner, a surge of solar flares or solar storms that can shut down power grids and burn out satellites was expected to peak in late 1999 and early 2000.
Solar flares could do damage far beyond anything the Y2K disaster could do.
It could hit us on that weekend, said Michael Lewis, deputy executive of Britain's Association of Payments and Clearing Systems, or APACS.
The last peak in the 11-year cycle of solar flares was in March of 1989 when a surge of atmospheric magnetic activity shut down the Hydro-Quebec power grid in Canada, leaving 6 million people without power for days.
So, how about that?
In other words, just as we get to the Y2K bug, we're going to get hit with massive solar flares.
It is really going to be an interesting New Year, isn't it?
And yes, I will be on the air, the 31st, going into the...
I will try to be on the air, assuming that we have power, we have phones.
In fact, I'll come up, even if we just have power, I'll just talk to you.
Phones are gone.
But it's going to take a lot for that to happen.
A lot of links, a lot of satellites, a lot of radio stations, a lot of equipment has to go just right.
But I will be here.
I may be sitting here going, wish I was on here.
Somebody, a Kurt in Traverse City, Michigan sent me the following.
Kind of a play on NDE's near-death experiences.
He suggests that the Russians aboard the grief-stricken Mirror.
In fact, there was a little thing running around on the internet about the Mirror being an exercise in the endurance and the limits of human mortal terror.
They did everything but have a little alien knock on the window.
Anyway, Kent in Trevor City, Michigan says they ought to call it an MDE, Mir death experience.
A few of our guys have come back from Mir and said they would not necessarily want to repeat the experience.
All right, we're going to get a couple of other items out and finish our commercial break, the other side, and then top of the hour, past lives of children.
We will be right back.
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You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
Tonight featuring a replay of Coast to Coast AM from March 18, 1999.
Coast to Coast AM from March
Coast to Coast AM from March 18, 1999.
18, 1999.
You got me running over.
You got me thinking that I'm wasting my time Don't bring me down No, no, no, no, no I'll tell you what's wrong Before I get off the floor Don't bring me down
is I'll tell you what before I get the fuck out.
You're listening to Art Bell Somewhere in Time on Freemir Radio Networks.
Tonight, an on-court presentation of Coast to Coast AM from March 18th, 1999.
Dan from Nashville, WGNA Nashville, sends the following, in all sincerity, he says, Art, I sent my blonde wife to the hardware store to buy some 2x4 wooden studs to build my garage.
The store salesman asked my wife how long she wanted them.
And she replied, oh, we're building a garage.
we're gonna need them for a long time Ah, boy.
You guys are all right.
Let's see.
Here's something a little more serious, I'm afraid.
Art, I saw on ABC News Wednesday, the Japanese oyster farmers now have lost 90% of their quantities in the last couple of years.
That's 90%, folks, of the oysters they were getting gone.
They're dying in large numbers.
You may have touched on this last night.
I'm only able to listen for two hours or so.
No, I never did.
So Japanese are saying that 90% of the oysters they normally get aren't there anymore, and they're dying in droves.
Once again, the vision of the canary bouncing around on the bottom of the cage, huh?
All right, listen, tomorrow is going to be a kind of an interesting dreamland.
Very interesting, actually.
It's going to be a couple of witches.
That's with a W. They would object strenuously to that term.
Evelyn, Dr. Evelyn Paglini, who is a practitioner extraordinaire of the craft, is going to be interviewed by, or maybe they're going to interview each other, I don't know what they're going to do, my wife, who also dabbles.
The subject is the craft.
And I will come in and I will introduce Linda Howe and I'll do that segment and then I'll do the commercials.
But everything else, Ramona is going to do, my wife.
And then we're going to be taping that program between 1 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
1 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
It should be really, really interesting.
So if you can get to a computer later today, say between 1 and 4, you're definitely going to want to hear this one.
A discussion of the craft.
It's not something I talk a lot about on a personal basis.
You follow me.
With regard to my own family, but you're not going to want to miss this one.
You really are not going to want to miss this one.
That'll be between 1 and 4.
And of course, if you miss it, and I do understand a lot of you have to work, the broadcast is going to be on Sunday.
But the taping is 1-4, and you can hear it on broadcast.com if you have a computer and if you are so disposed.
So there you have it.
Don't miss that.
A show on The Craft.
By The Craft.
One to four o'clock, Friday afternoon, all times Pacific, or if you wish, preferred time.
I have connections, a connection to KNBC in Los Angeles, who reports to me regularly on interesting stuff going on.
The management at KNBC is trying very hard to find my deep throat, but they'll never, ever unearth who it is.
Anyway, my source at KNBC says, a San Francisco radio station.
Check this out now.
This is more of how you hear about things long after they have occurred.
You know, like asteroids passing Earth.
Earth last Tuesday had a very close call.
Well, gee, that's great.
Could have told us on Monday or even Tuesday.
But it's always a few days after.
Anyway, check this out.
A San Francisco station reports, according to KNBC, that an airliner loaded with 400 passengers barely cleared a mountain in a populated area last year.
Station KCBS says the United Airlines 747 had just taken off from San Francisco International for Australia when it ran into engine trouble during the flight last June.
This is last June, coming up on a year.
The plane came, it is said, within 100 feet of hitting San Bruno Mountain near South San Francisco.
The FAA confirms the plane went off course and, in fact, was lost to radar for 15 seconds.
It also says the pilot dumped some fuel before returning to San Francisco.
This is almost a year later we're hearing about this.
400 people in a 747 bound for Australia clears San Bruno Mountain by 100 feet.
Well, that must have been an interesting ride for the passengers.
You could count the leaves at the top of the mountain on the trees if they have any, or observe the nice bear spot coming real close.
You're absolutely right, because my earliest memories are of my dad bringing home this giant box with a 7-inch TV screen, 7 inches, in the middle of this giant piece of furniture.
It was amazing.
It was the first TV, and we had our antenna out on the fence.
So if you're a little older than I am, indeed, there would have been no TV.
Well, that's a little, as Stan would say, that's in the gray basket.
Maybe she got it somewhere.
But when children begin naming names and people, then, as I keep saying, it gives one a bit of chicken skin.
I've got a lot of stories here.
Yes, when we get into tonight's topic with tonight's guest, I'm going to restrict all of my phone lines.
I ask you all just sit back.
You don't need to call once we begin unless you have a story to tell of this exact kind regarding a children, very, very, very young children who obviously have memories of prior lives.
I mean, if you think about it a little bit, there really can't be any stronger proof than this, can there?
And who would be most likely to have some sort of recollection of a prior life?
Answer?
A child who had not yet developed or been conditioned to not believe or think about such things.
And that's exactly what we have.
Children who have not been conditioned to think about anything like this innocently say things that add up to proof of prior lives.
It's really an awesome topic, and Carol Bowman should do a good job.
Concerning the YTK problem, there have been recent ads put in local papers saying that Manitoba Hydro will be assuring the Manitoba consumer that they'll be able to provide electrical power on a regular basis, on normal power.
they can cut out of the band in fact last january I mean, if, look, if Manitoba cuts out of the grid, that means the grid goes.
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Well, that's just temporarily until they can re-hook up to those that are more stable.
You know, cut out the ones that are bringing the system down and reconnect with those that are more stable and capable of preventing that sort of thing from occurring.
Let the people in Quebec and Montreal let them twist fully with free money.
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I'm sure they won't have too many.
I'm sure they'll be able to have their system working just fine.
But the thing is, they said, they announced that there are going to be North American-wide tests being performed to check the grid and then their ability to disconnect from one another and so on.
This is going to be occurring on, I imagine, during the summer, a warmer weather.
And then a lot of things would be satisfied at once because there are a lot of purists out there running around saying, year 2000 isn't the millennium.
It's not really the millennium till 2001.
So we eliminate the entire year, make it 2001.
Everybody agrees it is now the millennium, and the Y2K bug is fixed.
But they fixed the problem, at least in Manitoba Hydro, by building a brand new power control and distribution system, which control center, which fixes that problem.
I'll always be around and around and around and around and around.
I'll fly a starship across the universe divide And when I read Free Hear Radio Networks presents Art Bells somewhere in Top Tonight's program originally aired March 18th, 1999.
A lot of people say reincarnation was in the Bible and it was taken out, literally voted out by man.
We are going to explore reincarnation in a very special Way this morning.
As you know, over the last week or so, I've been getting a lot of email and faxes from people who have been telling me the most incredible damn stories about their children, two and three-year-olds, that utter things that two and three-year-olds cannot possibly utter.
They utter things about prior lives, and they do so before they know they shouldn't be doing it, before society conditions them out of this idea of ever having been around before.
Some of the stories give you chicken skin.
That's a Hawaiian thing, chicken skin.
It means, you know, that little shiver down your spine.
Well, I have been in search of and have found an expert in this area, and her name is Carol Bowman.
She has written a book called Children's Past Lives.
It took a little looking and a little help from all of you out there, but Carol and I have finally connected.
Now, she's tired.
It's the middle of the night for her.
She's a day person, and I'm on drugs.
So we'll make quite a pair, I think.
Synchronistically, incredibly, she lives in Media, Pennsylvania, which is outside Philly, and I know because I lived in Media, went to school, grade school in Media, Pennsylvania.
And so that was pretty synchronistic.
I just found out she lives in media.
Amazing.
So we're going to get off to that shortly.
I do want to say a couple of things.
One, once the program begins, I want all of you just to hang up your phones.
Don't call me.
Hang up.
Because the only calls we're going to take tonight are going to be from people who have had this experience, probably mostly mothers and fathers, who have seen this, observed this in their children.
And I know there are many, many, many of you out there.
So when we do get to calls, that's all we're going to take.
And I am going to screen to be sure that's what I get.
So please just let your dialing finger rest and listen to what is about to unfold before you.
Now, on the other hand, if you are a parent who has had something like this in your face, you're going to definitely want to call.
Otherwise, just relax.
One other note.
Later today, there's going to be a rather unusual occurrence.
It'll be at 1 o'clock in the afternoon on Friday.
Pacific time.
Somebody suggests it should be prompt standard.
Prump time.
I'll never get away with that one.
Preferred time, I guess I've got to stick with.
About 1 o'clock in the afternoon, Ramona, my wife, is going to do a show with Dr. Evelyn Paglini on The Craft.
The Craft.
Yep, actually, Witchcraft.
Or, I guess, more tenderly, just called The Craft.
And they are going to talk about it because they both know what they're talking about.
And I'll leave it at that.
If you want to hear the program, it'll be carried on broadcast.com at 1 o'clock.
I will do the Linda Molten Howe interview, intro, and then I'll do the commercials.
The rest of it will be Ramona and Dr. Paglini, and I'm going to sit here and try to keep my mouth shut.
not an easy thing for me to do ever as you well know Many, many children remember their past lives.
Spontaneously, without hypnosis, without prompting, some as young as two and still in diapers blurred out things like, quote, I remember when I died before, or my other mommy had curly hair.
They frequently describe details from another time in history they had no way of learning in this life.
These memories happen naturally to young children in all countries of the world, regardless of the beliefs of their parents.
They can happen anytime to any child, but many parents do not notice because they don't know or believe it's possible or even know what to look for.
In 1988, Carol Bauman began her research into children's past lives to try and understand what happened to her two children when each had spontaneous memories of having lived before.
As a result of her first book, Children's Past Lives, which is published in 10 countries, and extensive public appearances on TV, radio, and newspapers, Carol has become the world's leading spokesperson in the field of children's past lives, hence her appearance tonight.
She's also been on Oprah, Good Morning America, Unsolved Mysteries, Sightings, The Unexplained on A ⁇ E. She will appear in a documentary on the Discovery Channel Science Mystery on April 15th of 99, Tax Day.
Carol graduated from Simmons College, has an MS from Villanova University, lives in Media, Pennsylvania, where I went to school, outside Philadelphia, with her husband Steve, and now her teenage son, Chase.
Sarah, her daughter, attends college in Massachusetts.
Here she is.
Carol, thank you for getting up in the middle of the night.
It really began with my own children, as you mentioned.
When my son Chase was five years old, he developed a phobia of loud noises, which we first noticed at a 4th of July fireworks celebration.
And his phobia puzzled me because it just seemed to come out of the blue, and I couldn't think of anything in his short life that would cause such a reaction in him.
He became absolutely hysterical when he heard the fireworks.
But things like this happen with kids, and I kind of filed away the experience in my mind, and I hoped that it wouldn't happen again.
But a few weeks later, it did happen when he was exposed to loud booming sounds at an indoor swimming pool.
So I got a little worried, and I tried to ask Chase about his fear, and he really couldn't articulate what was bothering him about those sounds.
But, you know, I thought, well, this is common with young kids.
And I just, I really didn't know what to do.
I really couldn't talk him out of it.
As fate would have it, within a month or so, I had a friend who was a hypnotherapist who was experienced with past life regression visiting us at our home in Asheville, North Carolina.
And the hypnotherapist's name is Norman Ng.
And I told Norman about Chase's phobia, thinking maybe Norman could give him some hypnotic suggestion so he could get over his fear.
And Norman suggested that we try a little experiment with Chase.
And I trusted Norm.
I knew he was competent.
And I said, sure, whatever you want.
And he said to Chase, who was a little guy at the time, sit on your mom's lap, close your eyes, and tell me what you see when you hear the loud sounds that frighten you.
And Chase's little eyelids started fluttering, and immediately he described himself as an adult male soldier crouching behind a rock.
He described his uniform.
He described a gun.
He was carrying a rifle with a sword at the end.
And as he was describing this, I went into a state of mild shock because Chase was not allowed to watch much TV.
His TV viewing was limited to Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street.
And he went on to describe in vivid detail his experience on a battlefield as a soldier with the emotions appropriate for an adult who would have been there, not a glorified version that he may have seen in a movie somewhere.
And I also knew in that moment that he had never been exposed to this type of thing before.
He was going to a preschool called Rainbow Mountain, and they didn't talk about war.
He hadn't seen any war movies.
And he went on to describe himself in this battle.
He said he was scared, confused.
He missed his family.
These were things that were coming out of a five-year-old.
And they took him to a hospital, but it wasn't like a regular hospital.
He said there weren't beds there.
There were hard benches.
And it looked kind of like a tent.
He said there were big poles in the ground with some material covering it.
And he said, they took me out of battle after I was shot, and they're bandaging my wrist.
And he said, I don't want to be there.
I miss my family.
And at this point, Norman picked up on the fact that Chase was probably well into a past life memory and assured Chase that he was just doing his job as a soldier, that in a war we have to, sometimes we kill or sometimes we are killed and it's only playing a part, like being in a play, and we learn through doing this.
that was enough yeah but now i i i i would imagine this look about what do you call chicken I imagine this was an awful lot harder on you than it was Chase.
Oh, yeah, it was no problem for Chase, but I was completely thrown.
However, my nine-year-old daughter Sarah was sitting with us.
This all happened at our kitchen table.
And she got very excited and said, Mommy, that wrist where Chase was shot is the same wrist as where he has his eczema.
And in the excitement of the moment, I had forgotten that since Chase had been about nine months old, he had a chronic and severe eczema on that spot on his wrist.
And the upshot of all this was that within two days, that eczema, which had not responded to medical treatment at all, I had taken him to about three doctors.
That Chase had this battlefield memory, and what was going on during that scene on the battlefield were loud booming sounds from the cannons and from the gunshot.
And I'm hearing these stories now, and I'm starting to think, well, maybe it's an absolutely natural thing, and it is our society that sort of trains it out of children.
And I say that spontaneous past-life memories in children are as natural as cutting teeth.
I think it's a part of a child's spiritual development, which has been overlooked in the West.
And before the age of five, the children have very fluid access to these memories because they haven't been layered over by our imposing cultural and religious views on them, that this is impossible, precisely as you said.
What we've seen is that these memories are available to about the age of seven when other developmental stages enter in too, when the children reach the concrete operational stages as described by Piaget, that there's something that happens with children around that age where they, most children lose those abilities or they're taught out of them.
But I think that with adults, different things can trigger these memories, illness, deja vu kind of experiences when you go to a new place and it's familiar.
Those things can stimulate memory.
They come in dreams.
But with children, I think they have very easy access until about the age of seven.
I will speak to you from the vantage point of the children who report back.
Precisely, yes.
Just from what the children have said, they go to a place which they describe as heaven, and they're with other beings, and they're taken care of, and there is some kind of planning process.
The children describe how they, with working with someone else, they chose their present parents.
And this is what the children say quite matter of factly, oh, I'm so glad I chose you as my parent.
And I think most people in the West would completely dismiss this as some cute little thing their child is saying when, in fact, they mean this quite literally that they do remember choosing.
You had Michael Newton on your program as a guest recently.
In viewing this and understanding how this works, think of consciousness as a continuum through death.
As we know from the near-death experiencers, consciousness continues after death, and it continues on through that intermission phase through the fetal stage and through birth.
So when these kids are coming in, they have all of these memories available to them.
And sometimes children will start talking about their pre-birth memories or their past life memories as soon as they start talking, even prior to the age of two.
So the memories are there.
Consciousness is a continuum, and the kids are showing this to us.
And I think that a lot of tribal cultures or pre-Christian cultures took this for granted, that we are part of the cycles of nature.
We are born, we die, and we return.
And I think that probably we have information available to us early on.
I believe that it's available to us in the womb, and we're actually ruminating about our past lives in the womb.
And some of us seem to be quite forgetful of where we've been.
And I don't know why some people tend to remember and others don't.
But even in, I think, Judaism, they have what they call the angel of forgetfulness who touches you right above your lip, right before you're born, so that you don't remember.
You have to come back and live the best life that you can.
If I were awaiting rebirth and I had the opportunity to pick my parents, why would I pick parents who would be poor or who would abuse me or abandon me or toss me into a dipsy dumpster or any of the other horrid things that occasionally occur to children?
In other words, I might, when I'm in that cosmic waiting room up there, I might understand, looking at all of my lives together, that I must have a certain experience, and I must react to it in whatever way I'm going to react to it.
It's kind of like when your boy Scout, you've got to get all the merit badges.
Right, and I think that these experiences, even the horrible ones, leave impressions in our soul that stay with us because we know that when we are born, we come in with a distinct personality.
And any parent who has ever held a newborn for the first time knows that there is this personality at birth.
And these personalities are forged in other lifetimes from all of these experiences.
And hopefully, if you have a horrible experience like that, you come in with some compassion.
And I think that there are several ways to look at this.
We don't incarnate successively.
We can stay out wherever that is on another level of existence for a while and incarnate.
We don't really know what a soul is if it's one traveling identity that remains intact, like, you know, making one for one.
Or maybe it's split.
Or there's another possibility, too, that we exist multidimensionally and maybe they're part of us on different planets right now.
Or there are these beings of consciousness that come down to Earth for a while to learn the lessons here, and then they go off to other planets or dimensions of reality.
carol moment is my guest and she will be back in a moment if you are telling the days to y_-two k_ watching the weather Somebody sent this to me earlier.
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It seems to, from what we understand from other research, too, that the soul or the consciousness goes in and out during pregnancy, and it is aware of what's happening outside the womb as well as inside.
So it's not really fixed.
And maybe sometimes it fixes or fixes to the fetal body before birth, but that's not necessarily the case.
I have cases of children who remember abortions and miscarriages where they tell their parents, I was going to come to you before, but I changed my mind, or the guide said, it's not a good time to come, and they didn't come, but they returned later.
When I was doing my research, I found that he was the only one who had done any serious reincarnation research using scientific methods.
And he started in the early 60s.
He was the head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia Medical School.
And someone brought him a case of reincarnation from India.
And he was so fascinated by the case that he went to India to investigate.
And he was inundated with cases once he got there.
And since that time, he's spent his career researching children's spontaneous past life memories.
And to date, he has almost 3,000 cases documented at the University of Virginia Medical School.
And about 1,000 of these are verified cases, which means that the two- or three-year-old gave enough detail, specific information, proper names, so that their identity in the past life could be traced.
And they would investigate these cases.
For example, the two-year-old would say, my name is really Rabbi Shankar, and I was born in this other town, and I had a wife and child, and we used to hide our money under the stairs.
Well, Dr. Stevenson would accompany this child to this other town, and typically the child would lead the way to his former house, identify the surviving relatives, and say to the wife, let's go, is the gold still under the stairs?
Yeah, so remarkable, Carol, that it begs the following question.
And that is, with this seemingly irrefutable research and proof, how can there not be more discussion in modern Western society and more belief in all of this?
I mean, a lot of this really is quite irrefutable, and it just sort of sits on the shelf, put up there, and it just sits there and it gathers dust and cobwebs while what everybody else believes is taught.
And, you know, we will inevitably have somebody call who will say, well, I'm reading the Bible, and it says you have but one life to live.
I just, speaking of putting it on the shelf, quite literally, Dr. Stevenson has written volumes on this.
In fact, he just published a two-volume set, 2,200 pages called Reincarnation in Biology, which I think is his masterpiece, in which he examines 225 cases of birthmarks and birth defects on the present child relating to past life injuries, disease, wounds on the deceased.
Where he went back in these verified cases where they could establish the identity of the previous personality, he would examine medical records, autopsy reports, and find that the current child has these marks or defects on the body in precisely the same locations and like kind to the past life characteristic.
So he has established a biological link between previous lives and present lives.
Well, and yet it's not only not refuted, but it's ignored.
And I guess that's the basis of my question.
Is it our current paradigm, our current belief system here in the West, that no matter how strong the evidence of the type you're talking about right now, we simply will not consider it?
And I just feel that his work hasn't been exposed to the general public.
And I think if it were, I think there would be a lot more believers because here's hard science showing that this is true.
And I'm trying to educate parents what to look for in their own children so they can recognize these past life memories, the expressions of these past life memories.
Well, the most obvious are statements the child makes before the age of five, when they talk about the way they died in the past or their other family or when I was big before.
And these remarks are made very matter-of-factly.
The child usually has a very serious tone when they're talking about this.
Look for information that you know your two- or three-year-old hasn't learned through normal means, meaning through conversations, TV, movies.
I think a lot would, but there's also a quality to these remarks where they're really hair-raising, where the parent feels that there's something very chilling about what the child is saying.
In every case, and I've probably had 100 faxes or emails now, that's been, in every single case, it's as though the child suddenly becomes somebody else, very adult-like, for a very short period of time, and then, boom, like that, bounces right back to being a child again.
Peril, could it be that the way things are supposed to be is that we are supposed to recall prior lives and that we are, as a society, doing all the wrong thing and we're suppressing them, that we're supposed to remember them for the growth And for the sake of the life we're in right now, which contributes to growth, we work out what happened last time, whatever the trauma might have been.
The way it's supposed to be is that way, not the way it is.
And you don't have to do anything fancy with the child.
Just acknowledge them, allow them to speak, because by doing that, you're creating the right, if you will, psychic climate for them to express these memories and do what they need to do.
And they will process these quite spontaneously on their own.
But I think it's an incredible gift if a parent is open to what a child is saying and allowing them to go through this process.
And I would like to see the day when this idea is so mainstreamed in the West that pediatricians, child psychologists, psychiatrists take this all very seriously and look at childhood phobias, separation anxiety, other problems with children as stemming from their past life experiences.
That's pretty radical, but I'd like to see that happen.
Yeah, so I've had to limit myself to phone calls, and I've met a lot of people at lectures who bring me their stories, their cases, and I get them that way too.
And now with our website, we have a forum on our website, and I get new cases from that.
And I encourage your listeners to check it out because people post these stories all the time.
People can contact me by email.
It's cbowman at childpastlives.org.
And I get a few new cases every day.
So in that way, I can dialogue with parents through email, and I actually counsel them on how to help their children if the parents feel they need.
My guest is probably the world's authority on children's past lives.
Happens to be the name of her book.
She's Carol Bauman.
She'll be back in a moment.
The following comes from Jen listening to my childhood radio station, WABC, Talk Radio in New York, New York City.
She's in Newark, and she says, when my son was three and a half years old, now 18, I went to awaken him to get him ready for nursery school.
He kept his eyes closed and kept Saying, not yet, not yet, I'm not finished.
I told him he could stay in bed for five more minutes.
Five minutes later, I dragged him out of the bed.
He was very angry with me in tone and action.
When I asked him why, he said he hadn't finished talking to your dead daddy yet, his grandfather.
My son then went on to describe how he'd been a farmer on all of this land, and the earth was black.
He was wearing coveralls, had been working in the fields.
About 12 to 14 months later, I got a call from a maternal aunt informing me that as my deceased mother's oldest child, I had just inherited my mother's share of the family farm that had one of the blackest, richest soil in Nelson County, Virginia.
To the very best of my knowledge, the farm has been in my mother's family for over 100 years.
I feel like my great-great-grandfather came back five generations later through my son.
That's Jen in Newark.
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That's Jen in Newark.
Now we take you back to the night of March 18, 1999, on Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
My son Art was born on 123.84, seven weeks premature, weighed in at 3 pounds, 3 ounces.
And I have two photographs I took of him in the incubator a few hours after his birth.
Both of you are identical, except that in the second picture, he has a long red beard coming off his chin.
Today he's 15, and guess what, has a long red beard.
As soon as he became verbal, he told us he'd been a Mexican who had run the border to Los Angeles.
He had a sister in San Francisco named Naranya, means orange in English.
He had a nephew and niece.
He said he'd been killed by other Mexicans in Los Angeles and was dumped into a dumpster still alive.
He told me, Dad, it smelled real bad in there.
At the time, I owned a market and 80% plus of my traffic were Mexican nationals.
I was concerned that as my place was a magnet for Mexicans, he might see and recognize his killer, which could have brought about another set of unfortunate experiences.
He remembered these things until he was about five, then forgot them.
It is an additional oddity that he was born to a woman who was incapable of conceiving.
And so, again, you know, I really think there's so much evidence, so much really hard evidence, so much of it verifiable that it's a little like Michael Cremo's forbidden archaeology.
If it doesn't fit with what our faith or the Bible tells us must be so, we put it up on the shelf and we say it's forbidden.
At age four, Chad started making specific statements about the life of James that he would have absolutely no way of knowing.
He asked To go to their other house and describe the apartment where she had lived with her grandmother.
He asked for a specific toy that had belonged to James, which he didn't own.
And he told his 10-year-old brother, I was here before, I was very sick, I died, but I came back.
At this point, Kathy contacted me to ask me if she was losing her mind, and I assured her that she wasn't.
And we started talking about Chad's physical problems or defect, the blindness in his left eye, which related to the death of James.
And she said that she took him to every specialist in the Chicago area, and they could find no physiological cause for his blindness.
So we went back and forth on the phone about a dozen times, and she started processing the grief that she had contained over the death of James.
And I said, you really need to acknowledge to Chad that you know he's back and he's now in a healthy body because as strange as this may sound, children don't know sometimes that they've made the transition.
Young children think almost a part of them is stuck back in the previous life.
That's where a parent can help them in assuring them that they're now in a new body, in a new lifetime.
So she finally mustered her courage and sat Chad down on her knee and said, honey, I don't really understand this, but I know you were my little boy before and you were very sick and you died and I was very sad, but now you're back in a healthy body.
Within 48 hours, he came running to her saying, Mommy, I can see now.
And he has partial vision in that left eye where he had been blind since birth.
So in a sense, this is an example of, as with my son, something physical that carries from lifetime to lifetime, which I believe can be healed if a child is allowed to express the past life, if they're acknowledged and they're assured that they're now in a new lifetime, which helps them gain completion on that transition.
It departs a little from children, but there are some few really giant things in life, giant imprints in our life.
If you were to look at a person's life as kind of an electronic bunch of noise, you would see these giant spikes.
One of the spikes in a lot of lives, Carol, would be the love of your life.
You know, your soulmate, I don't care.
People call it a lot of things the love of your life.
I can imagine that if somebody comes back, whether they consciously do it or not, they would be in search of the love of their life.
And we have people who seemingly find this person that was meant for them, and this person was meant for them because they were, in fact, together before.
We do tend to, and I think that is determined in the planning process, too, that there are very important people in our soul patterns who we are together with in many incarnations.
Exactly.
Not only because we have things to work out with them, but just because there's that strong love connection.
And that's what I'm seeing in these same family cases, too, where people or souls tend to reincarnate into the same family again.
It would have been impossible for you to do what you have done without brushing up against near-death NDEs and what people say about their near-death experiences.
I think the piece that fits best is the fact that consciousness is viable after death, that we have this sensory body that's still operative after the physical body dies.
As far as going into the light and having everything resolved, I'm not finding that with the children's memories.
I'm finding that sometimes they pick up pretty much where they left off and continue.
That not a lot is mitigated in that interval between lives.
Well, the best image that I've found that describes that comes from, I think, a Hasidic rabbi, and I can't remember who it is, but he said, and this is according to the Kabbalah, which is the esoteric Jewish text which describes reincarnation.
And he said, in our lifetimes, the purpose of life is to weave a garment of light.
And in some lifetimes, we add more threads of light, and in some lifetimes, we unravel some threads.
And to me, that image works best.
I think once we weave this garment of light, we become one with the Creator, or however you want to put it.
But we become light beings.
I think we are part of that universal energy without any resistance.
Children who die and come back to the same parents within a few years.
Grandparents who return as their own grandchildren.
And these children are recognized by the surviving family members because of statements they make, quirky behaviors or mannerisms that they have that are exactly like the deceased, physical characteristics like in the last story I told you about the little boy who came back with the physical characteristics of his older brother who died.
And I'm going to be concentrating on these stories because these families knew the deceased intimately.
They knew the circumstances of the life and the death.
And they're in a position to look at this new child and see where the soul left off, exactly what has carried over from lifetime to lifetime.
So I see these cases as extraordinary laboratories to study the mechanics of reincarnation.
The Western limited look at or belief in reincarnation, as you're expressing, and the one in India, as investigated by Dr. Stevenson and others, are in themselves quite radically different because in India they believe that souls may well reincarnate in animals.
For that reason, I believe they don't kill cows.
Isn't that true in India?
Is there any evidence in our investigation in the West of reincarnation that suggests such is the case?
In fact, one really fascinating aspect of Dr. Stevenson's research is that in different cultures where they have very specific beliefs about reincarnation, as in the Pacific Northwest where there's some native tribes,
and in certain tribes in Africa, if they have very specific beliefs on how we reincarnate, like you come back to the same family or whatever it is, it seems that belief creates what happens in a future incarnation.
When we come back, what I would like to do is to take some stories from the audience, and perhaps you can help some people through some things that they're going through.
Sure.
Because I surely believe in this, so stay right where you are, Carol.
Carol Bauman is my guest.
She's probably the world's expert on children's past lives.
That is her book.
My guess is you can get that book at just about any store.
If they don't have it, I'm sure they can order it.
Now, short of that, you can certainly go to my website, scroll down to the name Carol Bauman, go to her website.
There you will learn more.
You will read more.
You will have the opportunity to go and buy her book, I think, at Amazon.com by computer.
If there's a phone number to get her book, we'll tell you.
In fact, Carol, is there a phone number people can call to get your book or is it generally available in stores nationwide still or what?
You're listening to Art Bell Somewhere in Time on Premier Radio Networks.
Tonight, an encore presentation of Coast to Coast AM from March 18th, 1999 You found someone And don't admit my brown eyes blue I'll be fine when you're gone Be
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And they used them to help us Yeah!
Why, why does the soul take his place?
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I've been doing my life before I had to go to the world I've been doing my life before I had to go to the world I've been doing my life before I had to go to the world I've been doing my life before I had to go to the world I've been doing my life before I had to go to the world Good morning, Carol Bowman is my guest and she's probably the world's foremost authority on children's past lives
she'll be right back tomorrow night I'm going to have Chevrie Bird who is the surviving widow of Christopher Bird who wrote The Secret Life of Plants and co-authored Secrets of the Soil which has been reviewed very well indeed.
Boston Herald said a worthy sequel to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.
And of course you know about the secret life of plants, so Chubbery will be here tomorrow night.
We'll talk about all of that.
Once again, Carol Bowman.
Carol, just one quick E here, and then we'll go to the phones.
This is a facts for you, and it says, Art, I can't get through to talk to Carol, so please ask her for me.
My three-year-old granddaughter ran into the kitchen and worriedly asked me, Grandma, are you going to die in the fire again?
Having been through a few past life sessions with Dr. Bruce Goldberg, I understood the question.
I hugged her and I said, no, honey, I want to stay with you this time.
She smiled, went back to play.
In the last year to year and a half, I have not been able to get her to talk about it again.
She's terrified of things hot, like hot water.
Is this a connection and how can I get her to talk about it?
It may be a connection to that previous life memory.
When she gets in a situation like that, I would just continue to reassure her that she is now safe, that grandma is safe, and that's something that happened a long time ago, and that she's now in a different life.
Sometimes the children need continued assurances and reinforcement that whatever happened in the past is over.
As long as you have the title of the album, you walk in with that, you'll get it.
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Great, thank you.
All right.
Carol.
Yeah.
I experienced a reincarnation experience when I was three years old, and I asked my mother, she was ironing, and I was playing around in the living room, and I asked her where I was before I was here, because I remembered a previous life.
And she said, well, you were in the hospital.
I said, no, before that.
She said, well, you're in my tummy.
I said, no, before that.
And she said, well, you were with God in heaven.
I said, no, I mean before that.
Because I told her I remembered all this.
And she said, well, you didn't exist.
And I said to myself, I will never forget this the rest of my life.
And I remembered my past life, and I still do.
However, when I was 32 years old, I had a head injury.
This head injury caused me stroke.
I was in the hospital and I was in the emergency room and I was dying.
I don't know if I was aware of this, but I was bleeding severely.
So they pushed me in the broom closet so the rest of the people in the emergency room could not see me.
And I remembered dying in the previous fight.
Well, and I remember how I died.
Now, when I regained consciousness, which was much later, I knew that I would, that I had died and that I had an empty shell, and I remembered my previous life and the life before that.
Yeah, and it sounds very likely that he would remember previous deaths during that experience, too.
I mean, it's all in keeping with what I'm finding.
And I want to say, when his mother told him he didn't exist before he was born, when you do something like that with a child, it's like giving them a slap in the face for telling the truth.
And that will shut a child down faster than anything.
I think that's totally possible what this man was saying, that he had these past life memories during this time of trauma or near-death experience, whatever that was.
When my father, I was about three, and my father was a police officer at the time, his partner one day came up to him and said, you know, strangest thing, you know, I asked my son what he was before he died.
And his son said, well, I was a cop, and I got shot, and my name was so-and-so, and I was shot by so-and-so.
And supposedly they thought it was kind of funny, and they looked into the records, and they found out there was a cop named so-and-so that was shot by so-and-so.
And he is somewhat of a historian, I guess, and he told me that, you know, I didn't hear this story.
He didn't tell me about this until I was probably 15 or 16.
But he told me that the Japanese referred to certain islanders as monkeys, and the islanders used to take the Japanese soldiers, which filled their teeth with gold, and break their teeth out and steal their gold teeth.
Yeah, and the funny thing is, like I said, I never heard this story until I was a lot older, enough to understand it at least.
But looking back, I've always had a deep passion for the Japanese culture.
And I can say that, I mean, I was a little kid building wooden samurai sores, and I'm an artist, and I was into Japanese watercolor from as long as I can remember.
And it was a really strange experience.
And I've always believed in reincarnation because of that, and I've got the scars to prove it.
Martin Sheen recounts an experience while shooting Apocalypse Now.
Katie Lang, I think Ringo Starr narrates, but the most intriguing story is of a little three-year-old girl in India.
And like a child Carol mentioned earlier, one day the child took her new parents by the hand, walked several villages away to a house to people they did not know, walked into the house, pointed out what used to be her guitar, what used to be her clothing.
In her prior life, she was married to a very successful doctor who had murdered her.
Okay?
They started digging into those details because they're so strongly into reincarnation there.
And it went so far as to go to court and the man was convicted on this three-year-old child's testimony.
May I ask what you remember of the in-between time?
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Well, it was just like being in a floating, a sense of floating in nothingness where you feel no pain, but you also feel no real distinct pleasure.
And one thing I will say is that I always had an awareness that beyond the alluvial curtain or whatever you want to call it was the presence of God and that God would bring me forth out of it.
And in the last life, I died probably at, oh, I was probably only about an hour of age.
I died on a table in a hospital and I remember not being able to breathe.
And I remember the death process very, very distinctly.
And I remember rising over my body and this exhilarating feeling.
It's an extremely pleasurable feeling.
And once you get into the death process itself and you feel like united with every atom or every molecule in the room, it's like you can see, feel, and touch everything in the room, like it's part of your being.
And then all of a sudden being swooped into this kind of nebulous, dark state.
And so actually once you get beyond the point of, let's say, fear of dying, it becomes a very pleasurable process.
Yes.
And that lifetime, it's far more complicated.
I know we don't have a lot of time, but I also had a twin brother.
And the twin brother was taken, this was in the hospital during a birth, and the twin brother was taken into the next room because I think both of us were critical.
And I remember calling out psychically to the twin brother, let's go, this is awful.
And there were other things that went on in the room that made that particular life seem most unpleasant.
I kept calling for him to go back to the way it was prior to, you know, when we were comfortable in The mother's abdomen and so forth.
And I thought he was going with me prior to choosing to leave.
And once I went back into the nothingness phase, he didn't come with me.
I have a story to recount to Ms. Bowman as well as a question.
The story is regarding my brother, who is three years younger than me.
And when we were children, he had gone up to my grand uncle and was telling him about, he remembers sitting on the porch with him when he was little and they were eating fruit together and talking and whatnot.
And my uncle had said to him, you know, we don't have a porch at our house.
And he says, no, Uncle Bill, not that house.
He says, the other house, the one with the gray porch.
And of course, my uncle turned white and went to my family and had asked if we had ever seen pictures of his old house.
And they had said no.
In fact, they didn't have any pictures of his old house.
And he, in turn, recounted to my father the story that my brother just told him.
And it turned out that there was a little boy that used to come up to his porch and sit and eat fruit with him when he lived in his earlier house, the gray porch.
And the child had died very young.
And I just thought it was kind of weird.
It gave me the chicken skin when I first heard it.
It's interesting that he'd come back to be in his extended family, too.
He must have really liked your great uncle.
He was a great person.
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We didn't know him.
We weren't a very close family, so we didn't get to see him that often.
But he was my grandfather's brother, so he was very nice to us.
I do have a question, though, regarding reincarnation.
And it's just, actually it's more of a comment.
I was wondering if either of you had heard this.
I was discussing with a woman that studies Bible with me, reincarnation.
And it came back to me that reincarnation is actually, because demons don't incarnate, they just go from person to person, inhabit souls for a little while and go on, that they're actually bringing memories of other people into that person's body.
Well, it's actually saying that there's no such thing as reincarnation, and the memories that you have of a past life are actually demons that inhabit you at the time are bringing memories from another person.
And I'd like to commend you just quickly the other night when you had Dr. Day on, how honest and how straightforward you were about where you were and what information she presented.
I really appreciated that.
And I'd like to ask Ms. Bowman, regarding past life, these children that are at an early age brilliant musicians, are they previously musicians that reincarnate and at such an early age children play brilliant music?
I have one case in my book about exceptional artists, two twins in the Chicago area who at age four were doing extraordinary artwork.
And the mother was tucking one of the boys in one night.
And he told her, I'm so glad I'm remembering my art.
I was so afraid I would forget how to do this.
And both children had talked about their previous lives before, so this was just another piece.
But it would be really wonderful if someone could do some serious research in this area, too, because I believe that a lot of unlearned abilities in children or extreme talent are from past lives.
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Me being a musician, at an early age, I picked up an instrument, and without any musical lessons, I played.
I wasn't brilliant, but I played well, and I wasn't really encouraged to do so very much.
I took some lessons, but pretty much I'm a self-taught musician.
And I always wondered about that, and I always felt a sense of being an old soul.
And when I spoke to my parents, of course, when you say parents have a tendency of shutting children down or just like ignoring it, I always feel a sense of frustration about that.
And I'd like to ask you if there's any kind of therapy that could go back and unravel some of this past life energy to bring it forth.
And also another question is, if this is not fully expressed, can it manifest in some kind of imbalance in the body or some kind of this ease of body?
And let me give you the name of an organization in California which is a clearinghouse for past life therapists.
It's the Association for Past Life Research and Therapies in Riverside, California.
And you can call them at 909-784-1570 and get a referral list of therapists in your area.
Please send them a small donation to cover their mailing copying costs because it's a small organization.
They're doing this service.
But a past life regression could help you retrieve these memories and if there's anything you need to finish or resolve with a competent therapist you can do that in usually a session or two.
And I caught him a couple of times on the stairs crying that he didn't want to be alive and that he was tired of being somebody else.
And I took him to a therapist and the therapist was, you know, your regular therapist.
And I tried to explain to her about what was happening.
And I tried to introduce the past life experience.
And she was very, you know, do you believe in reincarnation?
And I told her, you know, I like to entertain that thought, but I don't instill it in my children.
And basically we stopped seeing that.
But I have a question, too.
I mean, right now, he does not remember anything, but he has a huge fear of rain.
And he has a huge fear of being out in the rain.
And as a little child, he had separation anxiety to the point where if we were outside mowing the lawn or if we were upstairs, he would scream wanting to know where we were.
And now he's better.
He has a little bit of separation anxiety.
He's nine now, but he does have this huge fear of the rain.
If it is related to a past life memory, I would also scan back and see if there was anything at all during your pregnancy, preconception, that may be related to that.
But be sensible about this and don't start looking for past life causes for everything.
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And actually it was interesting because I did try and go with it and ask him questions.
And he'd waver in and out.
He'd be confused.
He was kind of almost in a state and then he'd come out of it.
And after the whole incident with the photo album, I mean, five minutes later, he was running around the house chasing his sister and being a normal kid again.
And you might be able to help him yourself by just waiting for a quiet time and asking him if he sees any images or gets any impressions about the rain.
Or ask him, like the hypnotherapist asked my son, close your eyes and tell me what you see.
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It was very painful for him.
I felt when, especially at the part where he didn't want to be alive, and I hugged him and told him how happy I was and how sad I would be if he wasn't here.
And he was feeling a lot of pain, and I could feel that pain.
I could understand what he was going through almost, and I didn't want to push him any further because he was going through something that was obviously very traumatic for him at a very young age, and he couldn't understand it.
Well, real quickly, Carol, have you, through your research, have you ever found with religious families where they try to tell the child that it's just fantasy, stop playing, and basically force them out of remembering this kind of stuff?
I would say there could be several explanations for that.
One is quite literally that she was connected to this person in the past, and it appears that souls are often brought back to the same geographic locations again.
So it would make sense that she would reincarnate maybe 100 years later in the same location.
Another explanation could be that she was picking up some psychic impressions.