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Abstract
Children have been found to report memories rooted in a past life and significant research has been conducted on this subject. However, since this has often been seen as a form of reincarnation, various groups of individuals have dismissed it on the basis of it not being a part of their religious beliefs. Therefore, this paper aims to focus on the retelling of cases primarily within the United States, evaluating case studies to elucidate any patterns or psychological causes that arise within these children. Additionally, there is also a critical discussion on the presence of synchronicity and numinosity and how these concepts can represent the experiences that families and children face. The argument will be made that, although reincarnation cases can be manipulated in regions where it is of high belief, children from places where reincarnation is not highly recognized also have compelling cases, solid with facts and devoid of fraud. 
 
Keywords: children, past life, synchronicity, numinosity, parallels, patterns, socio-psychological hypothesis


Works Cited

Haraldsson, Erlendur. “Children Who Speak of Past‐life Experiences: Is There a Psychological Explanation?” Psychology and Psychotherapy, vol. 76, no. 1, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2003, pp. 55–67, doi:10.1348/14760830260569256.

Haraldsson, Erlendur. “Persistence of Past-Life Memories: Study of Adults Who Claimed in Their Childhood to Remember a Past Life.” Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 22, no. 3, SSE, 2010.

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Jung, C. G.. Synchronicity : An Acausal Connecting Principle. (from Vol. 8. of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung), Princeton University Press, 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rutgers-ebooks/detail.action?docID=832661.

Kean, Leslie. Surviving Death: a Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife. Three Rivers Press, an Imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a Division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018.

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