Jim B. Tucker Quotes

“By the time they get to where they can really verbalize them, the images may have faded, whereas with these kids, they start talking about it, and it kind of firms it up in their minds and becomes a full case.”

“Consciousness is the core of reality that the physical world grows out of, not the other way around.”

“How could a two-year-old in Louisiana remember being a World War II pilot shot down over the Pacific? Or a boy in Oklahoma recall being a Hollywood extra?”

“I have become convinced that there is more than just the physical world.”

“The average age when a child starts talking about their past life is 35 months, so usually it's around their third birthday. Seventy-five percent of them will talk about how they died in their last life. In those cases, 70% of them are through some sort of unnatural means: murder, suicide, combat accidents.”

“The brain died physically, and the consciousness continued on.”

“The child has to be in the right frame of mind to talk about these things. It's usually during relaxed times, sometimes after a bath or during a car ride.”

“There's a well-known case where a child who remembered being a World War II pilot, which was 50-plus years ago. We can be pretty certain that child didn't hear about this random person, and yet they have a lot of memories.”

“We are not just physical beings trapped in a random universe for a few decades and then we're gone. This is a hopeful message for people.”

“What the child describes, does it match somebody who lived and died in the past? The child has to recall the right details that would allow tracing, typically names of either people or places; otherwise, it's extremely difficult.”