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Return to Life

Disciplines:
psychology
parapsychology

Summary

Jim Tucker's second book — focusing specifically on American children with past-life memories, demonstrating that the phenomenon is not limited to South Asian cultures where reincarnation belief is normative.

Core Contribution

American past-life cases: addresses the objection that these reports are culturally conditioned (if only Indian children reported past lives, it might be cultural). Documents Western children reporting past lives with no cultural expectation of reincarnation. The 'James Leininger' case: an American boy who reported WWII pilot memories subsequently verified in unusual detail.

Historical Influences

Ian Stevenson Jim Tucker's earlier work

Intellectual Lineage

Parapsychology Consciousness Research

Allied Works

Life Before Life Children Who Remember Previous Lives

Contemporaries & Peers

Life Before Life

Minds Influenced

Consciousness Research

Intellectual Posterity

Reincarnation Research

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