I agree with Carol Bowman when she writes that young children's memories of past lives are "perhaps the best documented evidence yet for reincarnation."

Readers of this "good-news-letter" know that since the first issue I have been on a mission to promote acceptance of the theory of reincarnation by highlighting true stories of children and adults who have had memories of living a previous life.

Adults often learn of a past life through past-life regression and/or snippets of spontaneous recall. Many books have been written about their stories, which can be riveting, and of their fears and/or phobias that most often disappear when they relive the past-life source of the fear. I have highlighted many of those books in previous issues of this newsletter since 2020 which are available at the "previous newsletters" link at the end of this issue.

When young children begin telling of their memories of being another person as soon as they are able to speak, the effect can be mind-boggling, especially for the parents. The best explanation for such a phenomenon for me is that their stories are true. They have lived before and are now reincarnated into a new body. Many of the cases of young children's past-life claims have been "solved" by researchers when they are able to validate the child's statements with actual historic facts.

Carol Bowman is one such parent. Both of her children exhibited fears that had no basis in this life. With the help of a regressionist, the children were able to realize that their fears originated from events in previous lives. When the children no longer experienced the fears, Bowman sought information to help her understand the phenomenon. She found very little about children remembering past lives and how to deal with the memories, and she began to compile what she could research herself.

Bowman eventually went to graduate school to earn a degree in counseling. From her studies and her experience with her own children, she developed methods to help parents work with their children who exhibit knowledge of previous lives. The result is her amazingly helpful book, Children's Past Lives, published in 1998 and another, Return from Heaven, published in 2003. Bowman has a website at Carolbowman.com and an online forum for parents to discuss their experiences at carolbowman.com/reincarnation-forum.

In this issue, I include summaries of three cases of young children, 2 two-year-old boys and a five-year-old boy, who spoke of their previous lives and deaths.

In two of the cases, a traumatic death was uncovered, with evidence of phobias carried over into the current lives. In both cases, when the children were able to understand that the trauma was from previous life, their phobias went away.

In the third case, the child was born with a precocious talent evident in his previous life as a well-known baseball player.

I hope the short summaries below inspire you to read the books, if you have not already done so. Included with each summary is a short video introducing you to the children and their parents.

When we learn of believable past life stories, especially those of children, I believe we begin to understand that life continues after our deaths. We do not really die! To me, that's the good news!