Case of Ryan Hammons:
I am using this one case out of the two I discuss as the primary source to illustrate children with past lives. This one is regarded as having the most verified information, which is why it's the main case to discuss.
Ryan Hammons’ case deals with a child who details his “spy” and great Hollywood life to his mother at a relatively young age. Ryan’s mother decides to take him to a library to see if any books about old Hollywood would start a spark within Ryan. As they flipped through a book, they found an image that Ryan said was the person who made up the memories of his past life experiences. His parents, firm non-believers in the reincarnation phenomenon, did not know what to do with their son. Tucker, a child psychiatrist who was known to play a vital role in the research within this field, is when the discovery into Ryan’s past life becomes more apparent. With minimal information about this mystery man, a Hollywood historian is left to dig into archives of who this personality could be. Once the data was uncovered, Ryan was told to take recognition tests (many images or names were given four at a time from which Ryan had to see which ones drew towards his memory). He successfully matched all corresponding information to the image of his past life. It was then discovered that this man was Marty Martyn, who ran a talent agency in Hollywood. This summarization ran the basis of the very detailed storyline that Ryan Hammons had. His case has the most verified information, with that being “grand” details like information about age (which was proven to be wrong on documentation) and “smaller” details like the color of his car.
My frame deals with the idea of synchronicity. Which, in brief, is what I describe as synonymous with the idea of coincidence. This idea where archetypal evidence is not seen as meaningful until the very end when there is an end result (identity of a past life personality). It can also be attributed to the “collective unconscious” that presents these symbols. I also add that this frame essentially begins the domino effect for all cases. So with this case, in particular, synchronicity is seen with the book that Ryan and his mother discover. Out of all the books they could have chosen, this one, in particular, had the picture of Martyn, which then starts the domino effect of trying to discover who this man was, and this was until Martyn was found.
The sources I am using in this story are Leslie Kean’s Surviving Death, Jim Tucker's Return to Life. While not using direct quotations, I have watched the Netflix show Surviving Death based on the novel, which provided a visual description of cases like Ryan’s.
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