Reincarnation – Part Two
Examples of Past Lives
Despite the fact that over 1,500 years have passed since Christianity officially rejected the doctrine of reincarnation, a surprising number of modern Christians believe that we continue to be reborn again and again.
In a survey conducted among adults in the United States in September 2023, roughly one quarter of those who call themselves Christians embrace the idea. This includes 10% of all “born again” Christians.
In addition, Catholics say that they are more likely than Protestants to believe in reincarnation, and nearly half of all Hispanic Catholics claim to be believers compared with a third of White Catholics.
And the reason why they do so is undoubtedly because children continue to be born in every generation who possess vivid memories of past lives, and who astonish their parents with tales of where they lived and what they did.
While relatively few children are born with memories of past lives, enough of them are to suggest that we do indeed live multiple lives, and that our memories carry over from one lifetime to another. Here are some examples.
Example No. 1
Born in Seattle in 1991, Sonam Wangdu was only two years old when he realized he was actually the fourth reincarnation of the original Tibetan lama (“lama” is the Tibetan word for “guru”), Dezhung Rinpoche I.
This realization was the culmination of a number of signs that had been accumulating since before the boy was even born. These included the visions of his mother and her own lama, as well as the words of the third reincarnation of Dezhung, himself (Dezhung Rinpoche III), who informed his acolytes in 1987 (the year of his death), “I will be reborn in Seattle.”
In 1996, the boy, who by then only answered to the name, Trulku-la (meaning “reincarnation”), left his family to be raised by monks while studying Tibetan Buddhism in Kathmandu, Nepal and eventually becoming the head of a monastery there.
Arriving in Nepal, “dressed in gold and maroon robes and riding on a luggage cart pushed by his mother, the little lama smiled widely,” reported SeattleMet in a 2016 follow-up story tracing the boy’s journey over the past 20 years.
“When asked how long he would stay in Nepal, though, the little boy was serene, almost stoic. “Lots of time,” he said. “I’m just going to stay here a long time.”
And that has proven to be true. The boy is now in his 23rd year of life as the fourth reincarnation of Dezhung Rinpoche I. (Source)
Example No. 2
In 2004, ABC News aired a story about a six-year-old boy named James Leininger who, at age two, began to have what many believe were spontaneous past life recalls. It all began innocently enough when he was only 18 months old and the family visited a war museum.
Gradually, the child’s fascination with airplanes increased and developed into recurring traumatic nightmares of a burning plane crash. He would wake up screaming, “Airplane crash! Plane on fire! Little man can’t get out!”
He drew detailed pictures of the fight that claimed his past life. He signed the drawings as James 3, stating he was the third James. As he began to develop speech, James started telling his parents about his former life as a fighter pilot in the World War II Pacific Campaign.
James not only named the kind of plane he flew but also the name of the carrier, Natoma. He named a pilot, Jack Larsen, who had witnessed his death. All of these statements were verified as true facts.
His parents later identified James M. Huston, Jr., as the name of the only pilot from the USS Natoma Bay who died in the battle James described. Since the pilot was a Jr., it was surmised James Leininger considered himself to be James III.
His parents managed to track down Jack Larsen and confirmed he’d seen James Houston’s plane hit and crash. They also contacted James’s sister from his former life.
The sister confirmed the statements James made about their family and their father’s alcoholism. She was convinced that James was her brother reincarnated. His parents later published a book about James’s story. (Source)
Example No. 3
A three-year-old boy, touted as a golfing prodigy, claims he is 13-time winner Bobby Jones. The little boy called Hunter (not his real name) received a kid’s set of plastic golf clubs when he was two years old and was immediately hooked.
While watching a video clip from the 1930s that aired on the Golf Channel, Hunter pointed to Bobby Jones and announced that was him when he was big. After that, he insisted his parents call him Bobby since it was his real name.
In an attempt to verify what Hunter was saying, his father showed Hunter six photos of 1930s golfers. Hunter pointed to the photo of Bobby Jones and said, “That’s me!”
Curious, Hunter’s father showed the boy several houses that included one of Bobby Jones’s childhood home. Hunter looked at all the pictures and when he got to Bobby’s childhood home. He said it was home.
Hunter’s golfing talent grew quickly, and he was accepted into the 5-year-old class. Hunter is living up to his reincarnated claims, having won 41 out of 51 junior tournaments. Twenty-one of those were in a row.
Strangely, people who don’t know about the little boy’s claim comment to his father that the child swings like Bobby Jones. The little boy proclaimed to his parents that the Augusta course is his favorite.
It so happens that Bobby Jones founded the Augusta National Golf Club and helped to design it. Jones had tremendous influence on the game and was co-founder of the Masters Tournament. No one is saying he’s destined to be the next Bobby Jones. Instead, they are predicting he’ll be the next Tiger Woods! (Source)
Example No. 4
One reincarnation story left an impression on Dr. Frederick Lenz, who wrote in his book, “Lifetimes, True Accounts of Reincarnation”, about the verified claim by a boy named Charlie, who at age four, recalled his death at Pearl Harbor.
It all began when Mary took her daughter and son to a cliff diving performance and on the way back to their car, Charlie blurted out, “I died once!” Mary thought he said dived and asked him when he had dived. Young Charlie quickly corrected her. “No. I died once, and it hurts!”
Mary asked how he died, and he replied that his leg was badly hurt. Over time, Charlie’s story was pieced together through these conversations. In his past life, he was born an only child named James Kellow from San Francisco.
When he was in his 20s, Kellow was a naval officer and served onboard a warship. The ship was bombed and exploded. James and three other men made it into a lifeboat and when they got to shore, James dragged the only surviving crew member onto the beach. James fell onto the beach and died.
Mary decided to take Charlie to visit the decommissioned USS Alabama, having misheard the name of the ship. She didn’t find James Kellow on the ship’s roster and the guide told her that the Alabama was never hit, but the USS Arizona was.
While there, Charlie scooted about the ship as though he were a seasoned sailor. Later, his mother began researching the USS Arizona, lost during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Eventually, she was able to check the Arizona roster and found an officer, James Kellow from San Francisco.
Dr. Lienz verified these and other aspects of Charlie’s story, including the recovery of Officer Kellow’s body and those of the men in the lifeboat after the Arizona was struck with a Japanese torpedo bomb.
The bomb hit the ship’s magazine and exploded on December 7, 1941, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The ship is still lying at the bottom of Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial just out onto the water, just above the ship’s hull. (Source)
Example No. 5
Also known as “The Boy Who Lived Before”, Cameron Macauley of Glasgow, Scotland, started telling his mother at the age of 2 that he wasn’t from Glasgow at all, but rather from a small island called Barra off the west coast of Scotland in the Outer Hebrides.
Cameron described intimate details of his life there, including his black-and-white dog, the beach he used to walk on, his mother, the house they lived in and his seven siblings. He even named his former parents, claiming that his father’s name was Shane Robertson and that he had died in a car crash.
Determined to get to the bottom of all this, Cameron’s parents took him to Barra. Although no one there remembered anyone by the name of Shane, the Macauley’s found the house Cameron had described — a house owned by the Robertsons. The black-and-white dog was in one of the family photos, and the car that Cameron remembered was there, too. (Source)
In addition to the stories mentioned above, here are a few videos of children who recall experiences in past lives.
Video No. 1
Video No. 2
Video No. 3
March 1st, 2024 at 3:13 am
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