Children's Past Lives: How Past Life Memories Affect Your Child [Hardcover]

Carol Bowman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 3, 1997

Chase had a terrible fear of loud noises that would send him into uncontrollable fits of tears. His mother, author Carol Bowman, could find no rational explanation for her son's behavior and decided to try an experimental procedure, allowing Chase to experience past life regression. She was shocked to hear her red-haired, freckle-faced son describe, in accurate detail, how he was an African American soldier who fought in the Civil War and died on the battlefields. He spoke of the rifles, of being wounded, of missing his wife and children, of wishing he had not volunteered to fight, of the loud sounds of shots ringing out incessant thunderous outbursts, and of dying. After Chase remembered this past life, his fear of loud noises utterly disappeared.



Chase's experience, and its beneficial outcome, led Bowman to begin research on children's past life memories. In this book, she offers the fascinating, startling, and truly incredible true stories of children who remember their past lives, including the experiences of her own son and daughter, and the past life regression she recalled herself. The book also offers advice to readers, illustrating how to detect clues to past life awareness, how to trigger past life memories, and how to use those memories to reap the full benefits of health and self-understanding for the child. Finally this is a book of inspiration that strongly supports a belief in reincarnation. Bowman demonstrates how the past influences the present, how we can learn to understand the realm of the spiritual, enter into that world to discover the immutable nature of the soul and explore the essence of life, death and the spaces in between.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

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.

From Publishers Weekly

When her young son's hysterical fear of loud noises is cured by past life regressionist Norman Inge, and her daughter's fear of house fires is likewise laid to rest, Bowman, who had already been regressed by Inge, began to explore past-life regression techniques and theories, particularly as they relate to young children. Part memoir, part guidebook for parents, part summation of the works and philosophies of such respected authorities as Jungian therapist Roger Woolger, psychologist Helen Wambach and psychiatrist Ian Stephenson, among others, this book argues passionately for the existence of past lives and for the special abilities of young children to recall their pre-birth memories. Topics covered include death accounts by children, the way phobias may be connected with death in a past life, particularly a traumatic death, and the signs that indicate that a child is struggling with an unresolved past-life burden. Once remembered, a death may become a source of inspiration, according to Bowman. Clearly written, though at times not clear in its chronological layout, this study should appeal to a broad range of New Age readers.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Bantam; First Edition edition (March 3, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553101846
• ISBN-13: 978-0553101843
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (88 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #691,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book About Children's Past Life Memories, June 22, 2003

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This review is from: Children's Past Lives: How Past Life Memories Affect Your Child (Mass Market Paperback)

Carol Bowman begins by relating the experiences she had with her own young son, who was hysterically afraid of loud noises, to introduce the reader to typical experiences that can happen before children are born, but to which they are reacting in this life.

The primary focus of this book is on helping children to overcome their phobias, especially when traditional psychotherapy fails to uncover a cause or solution. The book is aimed both toward parents of children with phobias, and also just toward parents generally.

The only reason I am giving the book four stars, instead of five, is that I was already a believer in reincarnation and was looking for a book relating many, many cases of reincarnation.

While the book does present a reasonable number of cases, these are not the books primary focus. The primary focus is toward parents who may never before have considered the possiblility of reincarnation. The book spends a great deal of time discussing research by other eminent researchers (an EXCELLENT summary, by the way, for further reading), and giving guidelines toward how to tell the difference between which memories may be from past lives, vs. made-up fanatasies on the part of the child. If you are a parent, and your child has any unexplained exceptional talents, odd behaviors, or phobias, this book is for you. If, like me, you already believe in reincarnation, and you are looking for more actual cases to read about, I suggest you skip this book and go directly to Carols second book, Return From Heaven, which is even better than this excellent book (and also includes her experiences with her own children).

Carol is perhaps the worlds current leading expert on this subject.

Anyone looking for this book on the British Amazon site, and finding limited availability, will find the book READILY available from the American site.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding. Easy to read. An absolute Delight!, August 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Children's Past Lives: How Past Life Memories Affect Your Child (Mass Market Paperback)

Ms. Bowman has done us all a tremendous service in taking time to research and write this book. She suggests that she is not an author, yet her organization and writing skills are superb. The book is organized into two main sections. Each section is broken down into bite-size sub-sections of a few pages.

Section #I is biographical in nature. She tells how she became interested in this topic and how she researched the topic. She shares with the reader her trials, tribulations as well as her successes. After reading this section I felt that here is someone just like me going down the crooks, crevices and turns of the research just the way I probably would have done it.

Section #II is more of a do-it-yourself section for parents who are interested in using this technique for therapeutic purposes for their children.

As a scientist, with a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics, I am more interested in Section #1. I am interested in evidence of past lives. Carol Bowman has given me weighty evidence directly and pointed me in the right direction of more evidence. She has generous bibliography and reference sections.

Read this book and you will be as enthused as I am!

Why do I have this feeling that Carol was meant to write this book?

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking, mind blowing and educational., February 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Children's Past Lives: How Past Life Memories Affect Your Child (Hardcover)

This book was the first book on past life regressions I had read. After completing this book I was compelled to read others on regression. Carol's book is so full and complete, and answered so many questions. Her coverage of the topic of children's past lives was comprehensive. She seemed able to anticipate questions of the reader and follow through with the answers. I found her book almost impossible to put down. The ideas of children being helped through past life regressions is inspiring and leaves me hopeful. I feel that this book has opened up a whole place of exploration in my life. I would like to thank Carol for writing this book and writing it so well. I would encourage others to read it and explore this new world too.