Children's Past Lives: How Past Life Memories Affect Your Child

by Carol Bowman

Book Overview

Has your child lived before? In this fascinating, controversial, and groundbreaking book, Carol Bowman reveals overwhelming evidence of past life memories in children. Not only are such experiences real, they are far more common than most people realize. Bowman's extraordinary investigation was sparked when her young son, Chase, described his own past-life death on a Civil War battlefield--an account so accurate it was authenticated by an expert historian...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 055357485X
• ISBN13: 9780553574852
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Reincarnation

Truth or myth. My husband died recently and I have been reading alot about reincarnation. This book appealed to me because I have often wondered about family and friends coming back to live another life. I have been a christian most of my life, I was saved at the age of 12. I never really wondered until after my children were born. Although most Christians make fun of reincarnation I have found that it has increased my faith in God and Jesus and helped me to better understand His word. My Uncle had been like a father to me, he and my aunt were always there for me. My father never worked a day if he could help it. My mother was chronically depressed. We lived with this Aunt and Uncle most of my childhood. In 1973 my uncle died at 53 of heart failure. I had 2 children by then and did not want any more. Surprisingly, even though I was on the pill, I got pregnant at the end of 1975. In April of 1976 I gave birth to a little girl. This child has been there for me at every trouble I have had, esspecially the death of my husband. She has been my rock and my staunch ally throughout all of her life. If I have a need she is there. My other children are very like her, in that I only have to ask and they are there for me. All are very supportive. But she seems to find my needs before I do. But when she was small, only 2 years old, she would cry every time I mentioned my Uncle's name, and when we went to the cemetary she became very upset. I wish I had read this book at that time. I would have asked her questions. When I ask her now she remembers crying, she says she felt at that time that she knew him. Now she is 27 and says she doesn't feel like that now. This book opens up alot of questions and I found it an amazing record that is very well written. If you are interested in this phenomona I highly recommend this book.

Everything it CLAIMS to be!!!

I have to disagree with "A Reader" from New Jersey. Children's Past Lives is not a book about Past Life Regression Experiences (by means of hypnosis) and neither does it claim to be. Many children remember their past lives spontaneously, without hypnosis or prompting, and this book illustrates the many cases of this "remembrance" in our society, that are so often brushed off and under the carpet as childish ramblings, imagination and stories. Children are not born with any real perception of time as we experience it in everyday life - we have constructed our lives and routines around this man-made concept for as long as we remember....but to children, things that happened months ago, can feel like just the other day, things that happened to them "before" they arrived here in their "new" family, are also surface memories that they have full access to, and Children's Past Lives does an excellent job of illustrating this point.These memories CAN and DO happen naturally to all young children, all over the world, regardless of their parent's beliefs. They can happen any time and to any young child (or adult of course), but parents often don't notice, because they are not aware that these possibilities even exist, let alone how to deal with them even if they did. Children's Past Lives is about one such mothers journey of discovery - through learning about her own childrens "lives" and witnessing the healing that took place and the phobias disappear in her own children, once their memories had been recognised and released - Carol Bowman set out on a mission to make this knowledge and "evidence" more available to the public; to find out as much as she could about the subject for herself, then share every inch and example of this to parents out there with the same questions she once had.I personally think that this book WAS a ground-breaking book, on an area not widely discovered, researched or even really considered in Western society. I think the cases she brings forward and the ancient texts and research that she includes alongside her cases to explain her thoughts and opinions, shows that she done extensive research and a lot of self discovering, along the way.This book is worth every star I've given it - and then some :o)

Outstanding. Easy to read. An absolute Delight!

Ms. Bowman has done us all a tremendous service in taking time to research and write this book. She suggests that she is not an author, yet her organization and writing skills are superb. The book is organized into two main sections. Each section is broken down into bite-size sub-sections of a few pages. Section #I is biographical in nature. She tells how she became interested in this topic and how she researched the topic. She shares with the reader her trials, tribulations as well as her successes. After reading this section I felt that here is someone just like me going down the crooks, crevices and turns of the research just the way I probably would have done it. Section #II is more of a do-it-yourself section for parents who are interested in using this technique for therapeutic purposes for their children. As a scientist, with a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics, I am more interested in Section #1. I am interested in evidence of past lives. Carol Bowman has given me weighty evidence directly and pointed me in the right direction of more evidence. She has generous bibliography and reference sections. Read this book and you will be as enthused as I am! Why do I have this feeling that Carol was meant to write this book?

Thought provoking, mind blowing and educational.

This book was the first book on past life regressions I had read. After completing this book I was compelled to read others on regression. Carol's book is so full and complete, and answered so many questions. Her coverage of the topic of children's past lives was comprehensive. She seemed able to anticipate questions of the reader and follow through with the answers. I found her book almost impossible to put down. The ideas of children being helped through past life regressions is inspiring and leaves me hopeful. I feel that this book has opened up a whole place of exploration in my life. I would like to thank Carol for writing this book and writing it so well. I would encourage others to read it and explore this new world too.