Editorial Reviews  
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Everyone I've talked to about this book loved it as much as I did. While I was reading, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up, not from fright, but from the emotional charge. It makes sense that children are likely to remember past lives as their open minds allow them to experience a trance state that adults have to practice to achieve, and maybe more children relive their former lives than we think. Carol Bowman gives us a guide for recognizing and handling such episodes. She writes not just as a researcher, but as a mother who has seen her own children go through the experience. 

Book Description  
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. Even more astonishing, Chase's chronic eczema and phobia of loud noises completely disappeared after he had the memory. 
Inspired by Chase's dramatic healing, Bowman compiled dozens of cases and wrote this comprehensive study to explain how very young children remember their past lives, spontaneously and naturally. In Children's Past Lives, she tells how to distinguish between a true past life memory and a fantasy, offers practical advice to parents on how to respond to a past life memory, and shows how to foster the spiritual and healing benefits of these experiences. 
Perhaps the most moving, convincing, and best-documented evidence yet for life after death, Children's Past Lives will stand alongside the classics of Betty J. Eadie, Raymond Moody, and Brian Weiss in its power to comfort, uplift, and transform our thinking about life after death 

Synopsis  
Therapist Carol Bowman reveals how amazingly widespread--and profoundly affecting--past life memories are in children, while guiding parents toward understanding and loving support. Parents can read true-life stories, learn to distinguish between fantasies and memories, and help a child to heal, with this informative and powerfully convincing book. 

Synopsis  
The author tells of her son's repressed memories of being a black soldier in the Civil War and draws from his case and those of other parents to examine the effects--often positive--of children's former lives on their health. 

Synopsis  
Fascinating and sure to be controversial, this groundbreaking book reveals how widespread--and profoundly affecting--past life memories are in children, while guiding parents toward understanding and loving support. 

The author, Carol Bowman http://www.childpastlives.org , October 9, 1997 
This book is not just for parents -- it's for everybody.  
I wrote Children's Past Lives for parents. It's a guidebook to help them recognize and respond to spontaneous past life memories in their own very young children. But I'm getting a lot of email from people without children who are inspired by the book as well. They say it triggers them to recall inexplicable memories or incidents they had when they were very young. After reading the cases in Children's Past Lives, they recognize that what they had experienced were flashes and feelings from a past life. Spiritual seekers, or people who simply wonder about the meaning of life and death, write to say that my book has helped them too. Many already suspected that reincarnation was true; now they are grateful to have their feelings confirmed by the cases of young children. I hear from therapists and doctors. They find themselves agreeing with the idea that many psychological and even physical ailments could have a past life origin. The quickness of the cures with the little children is what gets their attention. I'd like to know what you think of Children's Past Lives. If you want to look before you buy, visit our website (www.childpastlives.org) to see excerpts from every chapter, and much more. Email me. I'd love to hear from you. Thank you, Carol Bowman