Life Before Life (TUCKER, Jim B., M.D.)

“Jim Flicker gives us a clear, concise, and eminently rational insight into a forty-year investigation” — TOM SHRODER, author of Old Souls

"Life Before Life is extraordinarily important.” —LARRY DOSSEY, M.D., author of The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things, Reinventing Medicine, and Healing Words

“Jim B. Tucker’s fine presentation of Ian Stevenson’s decades of rigorous scientific research into evidence of children’s apparent past-life recollections expresses the true spirit of scientific skepticism, rather than the knee-jerk materialism that all too often waves that proud banner.” - B. ALAN WALLACE, President of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies

This popular examination of research into children’s reports of past-life memories describes a collection of 2,500 cases at the University of Virginia that investigators have carefully studied since Dr. Ian Stevenson began the work more than forty years ago. The children usually begin talking about a past life at the age of two or three and may talk about a previous family or the way they died in a previous life. Their statements have often been found to be accurate for one particular deceased individual, and some children have recognized members of the previous family. A number have also had birthmarks or defects that matched wounds on the body of the deceased person.

Life Before Life presents the cases in a straightforward way and explores the possibility that consciousness may continue after the brain dies. It is a provocative and fascinating book that can challenge and ultimately change readers' understandings about life and death.

JIM B. TUCKER, M.D., is a child psychiatrist at the University of Virginia, where he serves as medical director of the Child & Family Psychiatry Clinic.