For decades, researchers have documented children who recall vivid memories of past lives, often with astonishing accuracy.
The late Dr. Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia meticulously recorded more than 2,500 cases across forty years. Many were historically verified, and about one-third of the children had birthmarks or physical traits matching injuries or features from the lives they described.
Psychiatrist Dr. Jim B. Tucker continues this work, verifying hundreds of additional cases that include specific names, locations, and causes of death later confirmed.
Famous examples include:
✵ Shanti Devi (India) → remembered her former family in precise geographic and familial detail.
✵ James Leininger (U.S.) → recalls being WWII pilot Lt. James Huston Jr., verified through military records.
✵ Carol Bowman (U.K.) → spontaneously remembered being a woman from the early 1900s, complete with accent and musical ability she was never taught in this life.
Across cultures, these children display similar patterns:
✵ Memories appear between ages 2 – 6 then fade as conditioning sets in.
✵ Birthmarks mirror remembered wounds.
✵ Phobias reflect former deaths.
✵ Knowledge and skills surface beyond their environment.
🚨THE RECENT BREAKTHROUGH
A new study published just yesterday, November 10, 2025, in Explore Journal, titled “New Methodological Directions for Involving Children in Past Life Memories Research," adds an entirely new dimension to this area of research.
The researchers in this study found that children shouldn’t be researched "on." They should be researched "with." When allowed to freely and spontaneously draw, play, move, and act out their memories, children reveal far more detail than when asked adult-style questions in an interview.
One six-year-old in the study, while playing with a toy doctor kit, spontaneously acted out her own past-life death, described being inside her mother’s womb, and even described her own birth, all through motion, play, and art. She wasn’t performing; she was simply remembering.
These new findings confirm what many of us the psychic and spiritual community have always known: children are more open to the spiritual or non-physical. Our perceptions, memories, and emotions move freely between realities at a young age, because we haven’t yet been taught to separate the seen from the unseen.
The children's recollections were embodied, sensory, and emotional, expressed through gestures, imagery, and movement, the same way psychic impression works for adults before it is relayed with 'words.'
🎓 WHY IT MATTERS TO SPIRITUAL WORK
For spiritual professionals (channelers, readers, healers, regressionists, counselors, teachers) this research validates what we witness every day: awareness that transcends mind-brain biology. It shows that:
✵ Metaphysical perception is first perceived as embodied rememberance, feeling, symbolism, imagery, before it is expressed as language
✵ Psychic awareness is remembered, not aquired or learned.
✵ Openness, playfulness, free flow, and uncensored self-expression are gateways back to pure psychic perception and spiritual awareness.
When guiding parents or clients, this evidence offers grounding and reassurance: listen without judgment, invite creative expression, and allow the child’s story to unfold naturally.
🌌 THE DEEPER SPIRITUAL MEANING
These findings challenge also materialist assumptions about consciousness. If a child can remember emotions and details from another lifetime, perhaps memory isn’t stored in the mind-brain at all. Perhaps consciousness itself is nonlocal mind-soul awareness resonating through a field beyond time, space and form.
Children remind us who we truly are: mind-soul consciousness exploring physical mind-brain and mind-body experience.They remember because they have not yet forgotten.
📖 Source: Thomas, D.M., Rycroft, E., Allan, K., & Sharif, S. (2025). New Methodological Directions for Involving Children in Past Life Memories Research. Explore. November 10, 2025.
📁 Downloadable PDF copy of article attached below.