In this interview with WIE's Carter Phipps, Dr. Jim Tucker, assistant professor in the Division of Personality Studies at the University of Virginia, discusses his personal journey from child psychiatrist to full-time reincarnation researcher traveling the globe in pursuit of children who recall previous lifetimes.

Dr. Tucker continues the work of pioneering reincarnation researcher Dr. Ian Stevenson, investigating and carefully documenting the lives and stories told by children who claim to remember past lives. Tucker's latest book, Life Before Life, describes in detail many of the most compelling cases documented over the last 40 years by himself, Stevenson, and their colleagues around the world. These truly amazing tales of children who clearly remember not just that they lived before but are able to recount names and faces, people and places, are backed up by extensive field interviews and have been thoroughly documented. The evidence presented may not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that reincarnation actually exists, but it provides a weight of evidence that is impossible to dismiss without a second—or even a third—hard look.

Whether you personally believe in reincarnation or not, the stories Tucker presents are fascinating and intriguing, but give them a more serious consideration, and you may find them to be more than a little bit unsettling. After all, what would you do if your three-year-old looked up at you one day and asked, “Where's my other mommy?”

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