Searching For The Science Behind Reincarnation

[pnwmom]

225. I do NOT want reincarnation to be true. One life is plenty. However,

two of my kids said odd things when they were between 2 or 3. Not about reincarnation, exactly, but just unexpected.

Once we were in a new city, going to a petting farm. My daughter, who still has an incredible memory for places, announced that she had been here before. We said that we hadn't. Then she said she HAD been there before, with her Grandpa. The one who died before she was born. For the next year or so, she talked about him often, as if he were her imaginary friend. They had done lots of fun things together and had plenty of good conversations. It kind of spooked out her grandma when she visited.

When my son was about two, he suddenly started to talk about the "God-place" where he had come from before he was born. (He supposedly came from there in a car.) He was our youngest, and we weren't trying to take a 2 year old to church, but he maybe he had gone once or twice. He said that he had been there, at the God-place, with uncle Jack -- my husband's deceased uncle. Over the course of a week, we had a number of conversations about this (as much as you can with a not-overly-articulate two year old.) I hadn't been talking to him about religion (or teaching him prayers, or anything) because he was so little, but I thought he must have picked up something at Christmas Mass or maybe Easter. So I asked him if by "God-place" he meant Church? NO! He meant the God-place, not Church. But did he mean that Uncle Jack was God? NO! And then he answered a question I hadn't even asked. "God is God! Uncle Jack is Uncle Jack! Mary is Mary!" As if I was the stupidest Mommy in the world. . . . eventually he stopped trying to get me to understand. But I'll always kind of wonder.