(2022-12-28, 03:26 AM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: [ -> ]I guess that doesn't necessarily make them false, though I'd be curious about the evidential record of these pre-birth memories...I guess they are generally verified by parents?
Sorry for being late to respond to this thread, I had family visits in the past week.
As I'm reading the book, several (most?) are verified by the parents, sometimes including actions that occur before the conception, e.g. "memories" (from the soul's perspective before it incarnated and was watching the future parents) of what the future parents parents were doing, how they were dressed, etc., on a particular occasion, like when they got together on the first date. I haven't run into any where the memories related to the parents contradicted their experience.
There's several cases where the parents just can't believe what the child first says about having lived before, or chosen them, etc., until at a certain point in time they relate something extraordinarily specific that leaves the parents speechless.
For me, another "evidential" aspect of these pre-birth memories, that gives them weight, is that the pattern or general facts don't generally contradict each other. They pretty much all involve souls choosing parents. There's also lot of memories of the soul approaching the Earth sort of like using Google Earth.
It's very frequent also that the child or adult that remembers being in the womb remembers it as being extremely difficult or unhappy, part of it being suddenly losing connection to the light or a sense of connected bliss, and another having the veil imposed on your previous memories (which is the experience Christian Sundberg recounts also, so that he made the fetus abort one time, and recounts there being "veiled experience simulators"* to help the non-incarnates prepare for the experience).
The authors cite parallels to NDEs in terms of that "reluctance to exit the bliss" (as well as in some cases pre-life reviews paralleling the life reviews in NDEs).
At one point the book also brings in certain cases by Stevenson and Tucker that also involved pre-birth memories. I never read the book about James Leininger so I didn't know the case involved pre-birth memories as well. The boy told his parents he had "found them in Hawaii", describing in detail their celebrating their 5th wedding anniversary at a big pink hotel on the beach eating dinner at night (1997), which the parents had never told them. James was conceived five weeks later (1998).
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*Here's one place Sundberg recounts the womb experience and the simulators.
Starts at around 8:50.