Friendly Fire: Life Before Life (featuring Dr. Jim B. Tucker)

In this episode of Friendly Fire, John Whitehead goes head-to-head with Dr. Jim Tucker, a board-certified child psychiatrist who directs research into childrens reports of past-life memories.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Jim B. Tucker
• reincarnation
• afterlife
• Friendly Fire
• Dr. Ian Stevenson
• John Whitehead

[HaphazardCrappola]

@A0Candle0In0The0Dark I think its called energy.

[minimayhen88]

@zezt I agree with you ... it clearly does happen, and in J. Tuckers book he discusses cases in which consciousness itself has menifested physical injuries (under hypsnosis) ...thus we must be open minded :) ... also the nature of these childrens deaths are frequently extremely traumatic, which suggests that as J.Tucker states 'the normal dying process maybee altered' ... due to the traumatic circumstances of death ....

[zezt]

@squamish4244 there IS no evidence is my point.

[squamish4244]

@zezt We can't let ''I seriously hope not'' type statements cloud our thinking. I seriously hope that I don't get cancer, but that doesn't mean it won't happen. The real issue is HOW an occurrence in one life can be transferred to another. Science has not yet identified how, but does that mean we should dismiss the evidence? We don't understand much at all of how magnetism works, but it clearly does. The only thing that will settle this debate is more research.

[zezt]

@squamish4244 No sorry, that doesn't click with me. Yes it is true accidents happen which can seriously hurt or kill you, I know. But the idea that something disfiguring your leg in a train accident must mean birth with a similarly disfigured leg doesn't make sense. What about someone totally mangled, does that mean they are born that way? I seriously hope not. AND there is no way to either prove it nore disprove it.

[squamish4244]

@zezt It can be viewed as simple cause and effect. There is no judgment or blame, just one thing leads to another. For instance, an accident at work kills someone, and it is a tragedy but not ''cruel'' because nobody did anything on purpose to cause it.

[minimayhen88]

@GermanOperaSinger I agree completely : )

[GermanOperaSinger]

When Dr. Stevenson's research is finally taken seriously by the scientific community, it will open a whole new field of scientific research. The negative repercussions of organized religion has caused society to turn away from even the possibility of a spiritual reality. Mainstream scientific research is conducted on the assumption of materialism. Stevenson's work was not associated with biased religious dogma. It was objective, empirical, scientific, and quite frankly, very convincing evidence.

[A0Candle0In0The0Dark]

@minimayhen88 But how will it all connect. How does quantam physics prove that consciousness survives beyond the brain? I am just wondering I am not a scientist.

[minimayhen88]

Great video :) Such a theory or observation seems to tie in with, theories of quantum physics, philosophy, those reports of near death experiences, the notion of regression therapy and possibly the paranormal in the sense of un-explained energy :) Very interesting .... I think such work may lead to a shift away from sciences present discourse of materiality .... and possibly lead to science acknowledging spirituality in so far as a 'missing piece' :) thank you :)