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A 3-year-old boy in the Golan Heights region near the border of Syria and Israel said he was murdered with an axe in his previous life. He showed village elders where the murderer buried his body, and sure enough they found a man's skeleton there. He also showed the elders where the murder weapon was found, and upon digging, they did indeed found an axe there.
In his book, "Children Who Have Lived Before: Reincarnation Today," German therapist Trutz Hardo tells this boy's story, along with other stories of children who seem to remember their past lives with verified accuracy. The boy's story was witnessed by Dr. Eli Lasch, who is best known for developing the medical system in Gaza as part of an Israeli government operation in the 1960s. Dr. Lasch, who died in 2009, had recounted these astounding events to Hardo.
The boy was of the Druze ethnic group, and in his culture the existence of reincarnation is accepted as fact. His story nonetheless had the power to surprise his community.
He was born with a long, red birthmark on his head. The Druse believe, as some other cultures do, that birthmarks are related to past-life deaths. When the boy was old enough to talk, he told his family he had been killed by a blow to the head with an axe.
It is customary for elders to take a child at the age of 3 to the home of his previous life if he remembers it. The boy knew the village he was from, so they went there. When they arrived in the village, the boy remembered the name he had in his past life.
A village local said the man the boy claimed to be the reincarnation of had gone missing four years earlier. His friends and family thought he may have strayed into hostile territory nearby as sometimes happens.
The boy also remembered the full name of his killer. When he confronted this man, the alleged killer's face turned white, Lasch told Hardo, but he did not admit to murder. The boy then said he could take the elders to where the body was buried. In that very spot, they found a man's skeleton with a wound to the head that corresponded to the boy's birthmark. They also found the axe, the murder weapon.
Faced with this evidence, the murderer admitted to the crime. Dr. Lasch, the only non-Druze, was present through this whole process.
To read more of Hardo's stories, read his book, "Children Who Have Lived Before."
Reader Comments
Cool story, and a great example to have on hand in dogmatic discourses.
And whose to say that we don't remember our past, on some level, as we live this life?
All there are lessons - more to come - infintum !
I would hope that there was a better place we go to after this life.
Being one that does entertain the belief of things in this story, it casts a shadow of dread.
Damn, if your victims are gonna start reincarnating and remembering how you killed/raped/pillaged them, then what are you gonna do? No wonder most communities run by predators try to stop this sort of thing. Sooner or later, some kid is gonna remember what they did and cause sort of discomfort for them.
According to Islam, deja vu are actually due to dreams. We see dreams which we forget upon waking up and when that event happens in real life, we get a strong sensation that we ave seen it before. Some consider it an event of past life whereas in reality, they are the forgotten dreams.
Dreams are of three types:
1) From God: While sleeping, He may show the dreamer something(s) from the future, present or past
2) From devil: Devil may cause visions as well while in sleep
3) From mind: These dreams are about those events one encounters in daily life
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What this child has encountered are dreams of the second type.
Are you sure about that? The story, if told truthfully, is very convincing as to the reality of what happened, including the murderer who admitted to the crime. And you are saying the boy had a dream/vision caused by devil? I can't see how you arrived at that. Seriously.
I see these instances as positive proof that "we" know very little about life, death and the reality of existence.
I believe that when the mind is opened in one aspect, other aspects suffer or are completely absent due to the limited capacity our brains have to accommodate it all at once.
Yet those that seek to control and take advantage of others tend to use religion as a means to mystify and manipulate based off the fear generated by the unknown or unknowable. As well as instilling this fear in order to facilitate religious control over the masses.
Which is why I will never agree that any religion has it right. Religion originates from human interpretations of the unknown in the world around them. I would venture to say that all "books" in any religion were written by the human hand. Subject to personal bias and influence for their own gain.
you just lobbied a very good argument on why lots of people of your religion are spiritually insane
Gdpetti, sooner or later they do 'do'
" He showed village elders where the murderer buried his body, and sure enough they found a man's skeleton there. He also showed the elders where the murder weapon was found, and upon digging, they did indeed found an axe there. "