have to take with a grain of salt as they could be made up for TV. interesting concepts tho

I just watched this Reincarnation video, it is amazing of how this boy can reiterate so much of his past life that it amazes me and people whom have made this movie!
I’m sure the Regression videos are just as good if not better!
good watch!
JJD

I remember Peter Ramster authored a book, “In Search of Lives Past” in the 1990s.

I’m just curious as to why, some of these people remember their past lives. Some were not even buddhists in their past lives, they did not train to remember. They have some of the abilities of the high lamas that have dedicated their lives to the training of the mind.

Dear Rinpoche,
Thank you for sharing these videos to us in your lovely blog. I was glued to the screen watching and it was very interesting and the video were nicely done.
Even people from different beliefs have came out to admit that there are actually reincarnations. Videos above proving thoughts of reincarnation does not exist is actually wrong and making a strong sense to people that believing in karma.
People now starting to believe as many evidence has been made public and hopefully people who watched these videos will benefit their live and do good for the FUTURE LIVES.

I do like all of them as i had a near death experience in this life and i could never found a answer to what i went through at that time …..

Dear joey,
It would be good to share with your friends to open their minds up to much more bigger and substantial things in life. To have their thoughts on happenings that have much more meaning so later they don’t feel lost and bitter with life.
Tsem Tulku

Thank you for making these videos available to us. I felt that the earlier ones with the melange of sinister music, violence and the sensationalism a bit scary. The last 2 on regression seemed a fairer investigation with an external auditor. The psychologist in these 2 videos also seemed skilled and truly cared for his test subjects.

Very interesting videos. I do agree that we have to be cautious about the first few videos which are a bit sensationalised. The subjects in these seem to all have very violent deaths, and I am not sure why. Is it that it just makes it a more interesting story? Am also a bit dubious about the physical scars of the reincarnates which is supposed to be the same as in their previous lives. Therefore I agree with Dr Chong, that the last 2 videos on regression seem to be a more unbiased, fairer presentation on reincarnation, which is great to show others.Thank You Rinpoche, for the videos.

Dear Wu Yew Seng,
I like very much what you wrote..it is excellent and I fully agree.
The mind-consciousness is ever changing as we have more experiences creating new karma. But whatever is to be experienced within existence will be nothing new, just variations.
I thank you for your very well thought out and well written comment.
Do share this videos with others and share your comments/thoughts with them also. It will benefit others.
Om Ah Ra Ba Za Na Dhi
Sincerely,
Tsem Tulku

Dearest Rinpoche,
Thank you for sharing these videos in order for us to have some form of discourse and self searching. To be honest I am more drawn to the videos with the children as they seemed more honest and “real” (dramatic ends to a life to me makes for a stronger inprint in my opinion and perhaps that is why the children could remember their previous lives at a more tender age?). The Regression videos seemed almost propoganda-like to me. However still thought provoking nevertheless.
I belief there is life after death and in that understanding we surely must have had a previous life human or not. And as such I belief strongly that the cause and effects of my actions are very much in play in this lifetime as they were in my previous ones. I still sometimes struggle with grasping the concept in its entirety but because of my personal journey and what I have been through and am going through in this lifetime, I trust this instinct within me. Perhaps this is faith but whatever words that my human understanding can come up with, it pales in comparison to the drive I know I have that compells me to dig deeper and learn more.
With you Eminence’s guidance, I am sure clarity is within grasp. If not now perhaps the seeds will be planted for my lifetimes after this.
Thank you again for making us look deeper within ourselves and much thanks to KIM and the e-division for their time and effort.
With much love… Andrew

As a european (fair to say an average one) who grew up within a culture that did not adopt or re-cognize rebirth, I think it is interesting to share here that the topic of re-incarnaion has always been a hot one for as far as I can remember, this is something that would be talked about and discussed amongst friends, family, and even with our school teachers.
It was discussed always with an open-mind, well, at least, that was my experience of it.
I remember discussing it as a child, as a teenager an after, and these discusions were not necessarily associated with a discussion on buddhism.
I clearly remember that as a child and up to maybe 10 years old, I was often wondering what my previous life was, an everytime I came across hearing about someone who had died little before my birth, I would say to myself “maybe that was me then”…
I later lost touch with that and came to loose confidence in re-birth though, until very recently.
We find that most of us humans are very open-minded, or at least curious about rebirth -these documentaries are demonstrating it- regardless of the culture or background we are coming from.
The topic of re-birth is a common topic, and not only a buddhist topic, it is simply discussing facts about that strong possibility that the consciousness occuring in a foetus is unlikely “appearing” or “created” from a physical-biological sequence triggered by the fertilization of the female cell by the male cell.
So where does it emerges from?
Where do habits come from? Habits that we all have seen being so strong already in the behavior of toddlers.
Applying intellectual thinking over the strong possibility of the reality of re-birth is opening to a vast array of WHY? and HOW?
It makes spirituality potent, and leads to the next topic of “cause and effect”. Indeed, if I have taken rebirth, then how did it come to happen in this body, this shape, this or that country, this time, with these parents, etc… Does rebirth occur random or not? If not, then how does it operate? If it operates specificaly, can it be controlled? How? Who? etc…
Sometimes, I wonder if it is not easier to reject re-birth as a possibility rather than acknowledge its possibility and contemplate on the questions that arize from its recognition. But then again, it can only be easier for a short “while”…
I rather choose to acknowledge its very strong possibility an lead my life accordingly, and with the guidance of those who would definitely know more than me about it.
Having said this, I did not like the documentaries too much, they came aross to me as half-scientifcal, half-sensational, not conclusive.
The one that was perhaps better than the others was the first one because someone said in it: “CONSCIOUSNESS IS HARD TO EXPLAIN AT A BIOLOGICAL LEVEL”, and that is, I think, the best comment I found through all of the documentaries, it is a comment that, coming from a scientific, opens up a lot of possibilities and avenues to think deeper.
For those who are curious about rebirth, I’d still say: “watch these documentaries, and as with everything, keep an open mind”.
Thank you for sharing these with us Rinpoche.
With respect and gratitude.
Thierry

Dear Rinpoche,
I like all the videos and the regressions the best.Thank you for preparing these videos for us.Watching these videos,hearing confessions from children too young to know how to lie and the regressions videos do give me great sence of conviction that the theory of reincarnation is true and real.I have never truly believe in reincarnation until I come to know Buddhism,and after that I heard this word again and again and heard real stories about it,since its a fundamental believe in Buddhism,I go along with it not thinking much,I thought I believe in reincarnaton now but it gives me the creeps watching it and hearing first hand accounts of children and real normal people relating to it.

Dear Tan Chye Sing,
You don’t have to convince them of anything.
You just practice yourself and show results and be firm in gaining ground in your personal transformation.
Everything not in alignment with Protestant theories are certainly not negative as these prejudices are made up by some people in the past for whatever reasons they personally had.
Forgiveness, compassion, harmony and genuine respect for others are religious ideals that are upheld by all spiritual traditions.
Tsem Tulku

Thank you so much, Rinpoche, for taking the time and trouble to select these reincarnation videos & sharing them with us. This has been a subject that has fascinated me for the longest time. Simply because I have always felt that if we are here now, then we could possible have been here before this and could possible be here again in the future. Also, the un-deniable feeling of “Dejavu” that have happened to many people – regardless to their faith, creed, race and culture. That strange familiar feeling that we have been some place before, seen or done something before, and even met someone before – so many examples to cite and yet, no real logical explanation can be given in such instances. Hence, I have always been very curious how much the mind remembers and how accurately it actually retains memories. Personally, I have read quite a few books on this subject – especially those written by Dr. Brian L. Weiss who is a trained adn certified Psychotherapist in the USA. He is one of many who made Past Life Regression very ‘mainstream’ when he published his books: “Same Soul, Many Bodies” and “Many Lives, Many Masters”. Dr. Brian Weiss himself was totally blown away and astonished when he first discovered that there was such a thing. And he was also brought up in a middle class America, very Christian environment – not believing in such things prior to a fateful session with one of his patients, Catherine, who was under hypnopsis at that time. It was a life changing moment for him and Catherine from that moment on. On a daily basis, we hold many different memories as it is. How much we remember and how accurately we remember will also present different answers to the puzzles in our lives. I do not believe that the argument that supports the existence of Past Lives fails when someone fails to recognise someone or something in this life, because some memories may be hard to recall for whatever reason. Especially painful ones. The fact that some people can recall something so far remote from their present lives is already proof in itself that we were all here before. And I do not believe that the theory of Past Lives rob us of our responsibility and desire to live out our current lives in full. Because, there is always the obvious and explicit existence of “free will”. As much as we are ‘recycled’, we also have the natural birth right to exercise our free will and that determines what choices we make one life after another. After all, this why we ended up with the state we are in now – be it in this life or the last. We made those crucial decisions and they have lasting results and effects. But fate and outcomes can be changed, when we ourselves make that change. One thing I do appreciate in the existence of “Past Life Regression” as conducted by medically trained therapists, it ‘legitimises’ the reality of it all. As always, in our currrent society, if it can’t be explained by Science, then it is illogical. And so, when doctors certify them, then it cannot be false. In any case, someone or anyone becomes a firm believer when they experiences it for themselves. Until then, they need to be persuaded or convinced. Because how can anyone believe in something they have not felt, seen or heard of? I totally echo what Rinpoche said earlier – whether we know or remember anything at all is not as important as what we choose to do with it and how we have benefited from it and become better people. That is the most important key issue here – how has anything in our lives helped us into becoming better examples of humanity. Thank you for sharing, Rinpoche. It is always a mind blowing lesson.

There are many researchers who dedicate their lives to do research on reincarnation-
Dr. Ian Stevenson collected 64 statements of Past life memories from Lanka, Lebanon, Turkey, Thailand and Burma which are accepted by the American Society for cyclical research and which is proven by the Journal of Nervous and Mental diseases, Journal of American Medical Association, International Journal of Comparative Sociology.
Many scholars came forward to find out the facts about the existence of the soul and reincarnation such as John Hick, Paul Edwards and Arthur Burger and Dr. E. Haroldson of the psychology department of the University of Iceland.
Dr. Antonio Mills of the University of Virginia has documented 26 cases of past life which involved people of Islamic background whose past lives had been Hindus and six children raised in Hindu families but were Muslims in a past life. The same type of proof is in Christian and Jewish families.
Dr. James W. Deardoff wrote a popular book, Jesus In India and Mr. A Bloxamm and Michael Newton tape recorded over 400 examples of Reincarnation. In many episodes, TV producer Jerry presented this on BBC and wrote a book called ‘mask of the soul’.

Dear Rinpoche,
I am watching Regression, the second part. This is for me the most interesting video because I wanted in past use hypnosis to make me remember my past lives.
I was Christian but already believed in reincarnation.
This is amazing how the lady is speaking French under hypnosis, I can understand her perfectly and her accent is stunning, knowing that she do not speak French in this life. This clearly shows that we have so muck knowledge somewhere hide in our mind.
They are speaking of human lives, but not others. It’s strange because when I was really young girl, I remember seeing “memories” of myself as a fox. This is really strange, it’s sad I can’t remember human previous lives, maybe it’s my first! hahaha! That’s why I believed in reincarnation in childhood, far before going in Buddhism and know about reincarnation.
I think that memories are not lost, but stock in the mind lives after lives, we just have too much ignorance to see it, too much veils. Buddha saw his previous lives as he had a clear mind which was free from all veils.
I think that posting these videos was a great idea, and this is nice that science tries to understand reincarnation in a serious way, and not only reject it. I hope that this will help people to be more open, even if they do not believe, they try to understand it.
I loves the video from the little Scottish boy too (he’s so cute), but we see here clearly that memories can be different in childhood in this life as we perceived it with our judgements in adulthood in the previous. As adult we’ve got judgement on our reality, as you say a child will see things, speak about things without concepts or judgement.
Thank you very much
Much love !

I don’t understand why there is some people that can remmember their previous lives something like 200 years ago but not what happened between these periods and their present life. I mean, it’s like there was nothing between their present live’s birth and previous life’s death 200 years ago…
Can you explain Rinpoche please?

I forgot to mention that what I truly value most about all these Reincarnation videos is the fact that it unites us all – by the mere fact that we could reincarnate or have been reincarnated at some point in time, as many different beings – be it a young Jew, a French woman, a monk, a fish, a courtesan, a Scottish boy, a Muslim teenager in Turkey – we are all “one big family” living in this same space called, Earth. Hence, we are all really just sentient beings – devoid of labels, names and tags. There is really no great divide between you and I. We may have been friends, brothers and sisters, or even parent and child. Peace and harmony between us all should not be that difficult then, should it?

I like the video with Scottish boy and the one with the former pilot. I also recommend you the amazing documentary “Unmistaken child” (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286798/
Buddhist believe is that the consciousness incarnate not the soul.
Do you think a consciousness can incarnate in 2 persons in the same time, like some people say is the case of 17-th Karmapa?

I liked the video with the child-pilot. “That’s not a bomb, mommy, that’s a drop tank.” I don’t think most ADULTS could make that distinction on an aircraft, including myself. Fascinating to watch both parents attempt to dismiss him with logic and finally ending in belief. All while maintaining their own religious perspective. I like how the mother was able to explain the ‘new’ concept of reincarnation from the words of her own religion. Also she was from the South. Convincing a Southern woman of re-incarnation is a tough sell!

The videos on regression are quite interesting. I am just intrigued as to why people would go to such lengths to try to dig into their past, possibly as a means to try to uncover trauma experienced long before and hopefully to find healing. But what is the point? Whatever happened has happened, nothing we can do to change that and would it not be better to focus on improving our future? Some might still think there is no black and white proof that reincarnation exists, at least not at our current state of mind. Ok, to the uninitiated, maybe there is, maybe not. But WHAT IF there is? Do we just gamble on our lives just because we can’t see proof? And if there is, where are we going? The prospect of being tossed around life after life without any control is scary. I’d rather assume there is and prepare and try to influence a positive outcome. The theory of karma and reincarnation makes perfect sense and gives us full control to harness whichever outcome we wish.

Youtube is indeed the best place to look for interesting videos of any sort. Thank you for helping to discover these great videos. These people are living proof of the existence of reincarnation, yet skeptics still don’t believe in the truth. I find it quite odd that a person can be reincarnated as his own grandfather and know everything that only his grandfather would know. I did not think it would be possible for a person to have consecutive human rebirths in the same family as the chances of a human rebirth for anyone other than those who have can control their deaths and rebirth. I found the Scottish boy video very interesting and the boy is also very CUTE!! I am quite confused as when some of the children go to the places that they mentioned they have went to in their past life, they seem to forget about the whole past life they used to be able to remember.

Thank you Rinpoche, Chris, Shin, and Jean Ai for putting this collection of videos together. What sticks in my mind is what Rinpoche said about “Previous lives is not the domain of Buddhism, it is universal law.” I like the first video as it showed examples from non-religious experience of the little girl, couple with that science and Tibetan Buddhism has to say about Reincarnation. Very informative video to get people to think about life…It is actually much harder to not believe in reincarnation than to believe. ok, i like ALL THE VIDEOS! I like reading, learning, thinking about reincarnation every since a young kid.
People who are closed to exploring the possibilities of Reincarnation usually use the reason that there’s no proof when there’s plenty only if people were to be open to listen. Now, I’d like to post the question back to these people.. “What proof do you have that reincarnation DOESN’T EXIST?!” Show one.

I watched all these videos and the one that stuck out most is “Child Remember Their Past Life”. I remember Rinpoche telling us that babies when born remember their immediate past life. But of course they can not express in words. When they are young they will still remember as it is still fresh in their memory. However, due to the environment when they are growing up, their minds gets recondition and slowly these memories fade away. In this video, the girls even before coming to the top of the hill already commented that there is a playground ahead. They have never been to the place, how can they tell? Why do you think some kids are so musically inclined even when they are 2 to 3 years old?? The only explanation can only be that it is something they are familiar with in their previous life, how else can it be?

This has never been clear to me:
When we talk of “consciousness”, “soul” or more specifically in Buddhist terms, the “mind” – don’t they all refer to the same entity/energy? Isn’t it just different terminology to mean the same thing?

Following the web from this beginning, I arrived at this beautiful video. Look out for the stunning look on the face of Ghandi, just beautiful.

Thanks to Tsem Rinpoche for initiating this surf.

I’ve watched these videos before but today, i decided to watch again, the video of little James whose past life was a fighter pilot. What struck me was the question posted to the father of little James how he see his little boy now that he know this boy was someone else before.

It is understandable that parents look at their children as theirs and theirs alone and why not. No convincing is needed when you are the one to have given birth to the child. Can you imagine, how you would feel if that child of yours was someone else before? For many, they rather not believe that the child has had previous lives as it may not be a pleasant one. For some, there is a curiosity pull to look into our own past. Are you curious about your past lives? Why and Why not?