Reddit reviews Children Who Have Lived Before: Reincarnation Today

This isn't a first-person account, it's a story on an Indian site summarizing a story about a kid in Syria. The story is found in Children Who Have Lived Before: Reincarnation Today, a book written by German therapist Trutz Hardo and published over a decade ago.

Consider which is more likely:

• A 3-year-old Syrian kid had a birthmark exactly like the wound that killed him in a previous life. This happens so often that his culture recognizes the phenomenon as evidence of reincarnation, but it hasn't happened enough for other cultures to notice it.
  
• A German therapist decided that a collection of troublesome-to-disprove past-lives stories might get him a lucrative book deal.
  
  As for your cousin the gullible psychiatrist, he should have submitted his patient's story to the James Randi Foundation's One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge and retired with the prize money.
  
  Consider this: We have comprehensive knowledge of diseases that only affect one person in millions. Don't you think there would be entire branches of psychiatry devoted to such maladies as past-life-acquired PTSD if these stories had even a shred of truth in them, and even one person in a hundred were reincarnated?
  
  The fact is that reincarnation doesn't happen. People don't remember past lives, though they may have vivid delusions that they do. You can take my word for it--I used to be Sigmund Freud.
  
  > I find it difficult that people would go through the effort to fake something like that
  
  Read the stories of a few historical hoaxes and consider that last line again.

Thank you for your reply. :-)

Indeed, the boy's story has been published in a variety of sources. It appears to be from the book Children Who Have Lived Before, by Trutz Hardo. I am aware also of other books, with similar stories. A number of them claim to have confirmed evidence.

I wish you good luck with the Sphinx hidden chamber. :-) It would certainly be interesting if the chamber was found.

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