Famous Psychiatrist Reveals How You Live NOW Affects Your Afterlife

What if death isn’t the end—but just the beginning of your next chapter? Could uncovering past lives reveal what happens in the afterlife? Do near death experiences reveal past lives?

Dr. Jim Tucker (author of Life Before Life), a leading child psychiatrist and former director at UVA’s Division of Perceptual Studies, dives into 2,000+ real cases of children who vividly remember past lives and provides real evidence and research to scientifically explain near-death experiences (NDEs). In this mind-blowing exploration, he uncovers eerie patterns in some of the most famous past life stories, explains why past life memories fade with age, reveals how trauma may link past deaths to new lives, and explores whether we can tap into our own past life memories. From the mysterious Akashic Records to extrasensory abilities and near-death experiences, this is a deep dive into reincarnation research, consciousness, and what it all means for your health, relationships, and how we should be living

Though I'm broadly supportive of the ideas from this research, my first response is more urgent. We don't need to wait that long. Which is to say, how you live NOW affects your life. This life, the time interval between cause and response can vary, sometimes the same day, the next day or a few months. Sometimes the interval may be a number of years, so it may appear that there is no effect. Then it arrives.

Once I understood this, my life started making a huge amount of sense. And I'm not waiting for an afterlife to find out. I live it, experience it within the current life.

So I'm definitely not saying ideas about reincarnation are wrong, I think they are very much right. But maybe the patterns are like a fractal, we can observe call and response (I'm using a musical terminology) at any timescale, long  or short.

The interviewer gets it right at 42:46. This is actually how we learn... we learn access to... to get a result (Experience)

I find it interesting that, assuming we remember our past life, we don't bring much with us that would be useful.
There are exceptions, of course, but they appear to be rare.
If a complete life of learning is available, and it could give us advantages, like it does in real life, then the obvious part of evolving would be to link to this knowledge and bring it back so we have a kickstart.
Instead we have fleeting memories of places or people, or of some profession, or of the way death came visiting.
These all sound like some psychic readings I have heard, or Mediums.
Most all of these studies are based on dream recall from 3 to 7 year olds. Dream recall. Not memory recall.
Since I do a lot in my dreams, and I know about memory storage systems that exist out there, but are hard to prove, these children are likely simply tapping into the existing records and it feels real. That doesn't make it an automatic incarnation fact.
That doesn't mean they are the people they are experiencing memories of.
This is the part of this whole assumption topic that becomes very biased and becomes what the researchers want it to be, not what the facts are showing us.

I find it interesting that, assuming we remember our past life, we don't bring much with us that would be useful.
There are exceptions, of course, but they appear to be rare.

It isn't nearly as rare as you may think. Our past-life experiences are always brought with us in some sense or another. Even strong interests in something we have apparently only just discovered in the lifetime are such memories. I don't think we ever really forget anything, as noted in experiences of terminal lucidity.

If a complete life of learning is available, and it could give us advantages, like it does in real life, then the obvious part of evolving would be to link to this knowledge and bring it back so we have a kickstart.

Not everything is about "advantage" in some purely pragmatic sense. I find that an odd interpretation, when the stronger recollections, in my experience, are always strongly emotional in some way. The clearer memories I have recalled have had intense accompanying emotions that seem to sharpen the experience in a vivid way. They are experiences that feel like I am in another time and place, if for a moment. A flashback, as it were, whether positive or negative.

Instead we have fleeting memories of places or people, or of some profession, or of the way death came visiting.
These all sound like some psychic readings I have heard, or Mediums.

Grounded memories of a past-life are rather distinct from this:

https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...-research/

Past-Life Memory Research with Children

Children’s claims to remember previous lives have been the focus of systematic study since 1961. Cases have been reported largely from Asian cultures with beliefs in reincarnation, although there are important Western cases also. Some children talk about having been strangers whom they seemingly could not have learned about by ordinary means, and their statements are shown to be accurate. Along with the statements, the children typically exhibit behaviors that appear linked to the past life they recall. In the last few years, increasing attention has been paid to the past-life memories of adults as well as children.

Most all of these studies are based on dream recall from 3 to 7 year olds. Dream recall. Not memory recall.
Since I do a lot in my dreams, and I know about memory storage systems that exist out there, but are hard to prove, these children are likely simply tapping into the existing records and it feels real. That doesn't make it an automatic incarnation fact.
That doesn't mean they are the people they are experiencing memories of.

This ignores the more interesting sets of cases:

https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...ion-cases/

https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...ion-cases/

https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...ated-west/

This is the part of this whole assumption topic that becomes very biased and becomes what the researchers want it to be, not what the facts are showing us.

You assume bad faith, because you'd rather resort to what seems to be super-psi as the explanation.

It isn't nearly as rare as you may think. Our past-life experiences are always brought with us in some sense or another. Even strong interests in something we have apparently only just discovered in the lifetime are such memories. I don't think we ever really forget anything, as noted in experiences of terminal lucidity.


Not everything is about "advantage" in some purely pragmatic sense. I find that an odd interpretation, when the stronger recollections, in my experience, are always strongly emotional in some way. The clearer memories I have recalled have had intense accompanying emotions that seem to sharpen the experience in a vivid way. They are experiences that feel like I am in another time and place, if for a moment. A flashback, as it were, whether positive or negative.


Grounded memories of a past-life are rather distinct from this:

https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...-research/



This ignores the more interesting sets of cases:

https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...ion-cases/

https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...ion-cases/

https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...ated-west/


You assume bad faith, because you'd rather resort to what seems to be super-psi as the explanation.

Please don't tell me what I am assuming, or what you assume I'm resorting to.
My stance is perfectly legitimate, and as solid as yours, unless you can prove all cases to be what your bias thinks they are.
I'm simply taking a different stance to spur actual conversation and debate for a difficult subject.
I'm a fan of the Akashic records being experienced, and mistaken for previous lives.
The hidden treasure is a great example of this. Anything the person lived or knew is there for people to experience.
That is another option, and thus the reincarnation 'memory' is not a solid fact, but a biased opinion, unless 'you' refuse to see any other explanation.
You have to weigh all options and possible explanations, and look at things from other perspectives, otherwise you end up with an echo chamber of people either backing down or just agreeing with you.

Please don't tell me what I am assuming, or what you assume I'm resorting to.

Then please make your intent clearer, so as to leave no doubt in my or other's minds.

My stance is perfectly legitimate, and as solid as yours, unless you can prove all cases to be what your bias thinks they are.

I have to wonder if you are simply projecting your own bias...

I'm simply taking a different stance to spur actual conversation and debate for a difficult subject.

Then why is your tone so harsh, if that were all you are simply doing?

I'm a fan of the Akashic records being experienced, and mistaken for previous lives.

And I am a fan of not jumping to baseless assumptions of reducing all recollections of past lives to just being the Akashic records.

Some may be from such ~ but that does not mean all lives are.

The hidden treasure is a great example of this. Anything the person lived or knew is there for people to experience.

That is not the example you think it is ~ hidden treasure is an example of private knowledge, so why should we assume that it is just being randomly accessed by other people for no reason?

That is another option, and thus the reincarnation 'memory' is not a solid fact, but a biased opinion, unless 'you' refuse to see any other explanation.

I simply refuse reductive explanations that can be used to explain away things as something else because it aligns with a belief.

I lean towards past-life memories being genuine recollections of an individual past life unless the circumstances suggest otherwise, such as the case of multiple individuals giving conflicting accounts of the same events, or claiming to be the same person, usually famous.

These accounts I consider to be knowledge being drawn from, and confused with actual past-life memories.

I have recalled various past lives, and they are all lives that would be rather impossible for me to track down, given how deeply obscure they all appear to be from the context I can gather.

You have to weigh all options and possible explanations, and look at things from other perspectives, otherwise you end up with an echo chamber of people either backing down or just agreeing with you.

You yourself are seemingly not weighing all of the options and possible explanations ~ your wording suggests that everything can dismissed as just being information accessed from the Akashic records, therefore those aren't real past life memories. Such as with your reductionism of hidden treasure memories as just being Akashic record accessed.

I simply refuse reductive explanations that can be used to explain away things as something else because it aligns with a belief.

And so do I, without the mud slinging insults.

And so do I, without the mud slinging insults.

I have lost track of how many times you have pulled out that phrase.

It is a pretty simple fact that if we have other options, or possible causes or sources, then just like a jury in court, you have to weigh these options and give them the same focus and attention to come to a proper conclusion. That can't be based on your own subjective bias, just because you want that to be true.

Bias is making your own beliefs the only truth and not accepting the rest of the picture.

I have no real issues with the possibility of reincarnation, we have some good evidence for that. But I also have no issues with the alternative methods to get these types of information, that are just as legitimate as the reincarnation idea.
To make the one idea your focus, and then to blatantly trash anyone who disagrees and try to belittle and bully, is a sign of trouble.

Think about your position, and how you present it, and stop making it look like other people are not wording things properly, or using the proper language, or whatever other reason you sling mud.  You shouldn't need a reason for you to be considerate to them or other options and ideas.

Your issues are an issue here, and we just made that very obvious.