Return to Life, Jim B. Tucker, MD
Return to Life, Jim B. Tucker, MD
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Return to Life
Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives

Author: Jim B. Tucker, MD

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 7 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/05/2014


Synopsis

A first-person account of Jim Tucker's experiences with a number of extraordinary children with memories of past lives, Return to Life focuses mostly on American cases, presenting each family’s story and describing his investigation. His goal is to determine what happened—what the child has said, how the parents have reacted, whether the child's statements match the life of a particular deceased person, and whether the child could have learned such information through normal means. Tucker has found cases that provide persuasive evidence that some children do, in fact, possess memories of previous lives.

Among others, listeners will meet a boy who describes a previous life on a small island. When Tucker takes him to that island, he finds that some details eerily match the boy's statements and some do not. Another boy points to a photograph from the 1930s and says he used to be one of the men in it. Once the laborious efforts to identify that man are successful, many of the child's numerous memories are found to match the details of his life. Soon after his second birthday, a third boy begins expressing memories of being a World War II pilot who is eventually identified.

Thought-provoking and captivating, Return to Life urges its listeners to think about life and death, and reflect about their own consciousness and spirituality.

About Jim B. Tucker, MD

Jim B. Tucker, MD, is Bonner-Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. He is continuing the work of Ian Stevenson at the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies with children who report memories of previous lives. His first book on the research, Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives, has been translated into ten languages.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne

I give this book 5 stars, not because it is particularly well written, but because its premise is simply mind blowing. Jim Tucker is a psychiatrist who is a professor of psychiatry and nuerobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia. He has conducted extensive research in the UVA Division of......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

This is a book about reincarnation. Most folks might stop there, roll their eyes and move on. Jim B. Tucker, M.D. would like you to give his book a chance and read through to the end. And I must say that the end is certainly the best part of the book. I don't know if reincarnation is real or not. Bu......more

Goodreads review by jiyoon

you know, until i got to the last third, i fully thought the writing in this book was mediocre—the contents were irrefutably stunning, but the writing was just fine. but dr. tucker really shines when writing about quantum theory; he breaks down complex ideas and concepts very well and offers a lot o......more