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Jim B. Tucker is a child psychiatrist and Bonner-Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. [1] His main research interests are documenting stories of children who he claims remember previous lives, and natal and prenatal memories. [ 2 ]
- Background
- James Leininger
- Gender and Past Lives
- Review of Prior Work
- Cases with Written Records Made Prior to Verification
- Deformity Correlations
- Evidence Scale
- Intermission Memories
- Theory of Life and Afterlife as Shared Dreams
- Books
Jim B Tucker, MD, was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina, USA, on 1 January 1960.1 He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA degree in psychology in 1982, and completed his MD training in 1986, both at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. He then took post-graduate training in general psychiatry and child psychiatry at UVA, becoming board certi...
Tucker investigated the case of James Leininger, one of the most notable childhood reincarnation cases in recent times. In early childhood, James had frequent nightmares of being trapped in a burning aeroplane after being shot down near Iwo Jima. He said the plane had been based on a ship named ‘Natoma’. This correct statement (the ship was named N...
Tucker and co-authors investigated the relationship between gender identity and past-life recall, analyzing 469 cases. It was found that children who remembered an opposite sex previous life were far more likely to exhibit gender non-conforming behaviours than children who reported past life personalities of the same sex, suggesting an influence on...
Tucker reviewed childhood cases dating from 1963 to 2008, finding that in describing a recent past life the child would usually give sufficient detail to enable a matching deceased individual to be identified. Such cases occur around the world, including countries that have no cultural belief in reincarnation.11 Tucker also reviewed Stevenson’s ear...
In collaboration with parapsychologist Jürgen Keil, Tucker published a paper about a case in which the investigator recorded notes of a child’s statements in Turkey, finding that they corresponded in great detail to the life of a man who had lived in Istanbul 850 kilometres away and had died fifty years before the child was born. Tucker and Keil th...
The biological correlational work of Stevenson has been independently replicated. Keil and reincarnation researcher Satwant Pasricha have investigated many Asian cases which have provided strong evidence of past-life matches between past-life injuries remembered by the subjects, and current-life birthmarks or birth defects, using post-mortem and po...
In search of a quantitative tool for measuring the evidential strength of reincarnation cases, Tucker created a ‘strength of case scale’ (SOCS) and tested it by correlating each of its measures with all the others in 799 cases. His analyses revealed a positive correlation between strength of case and the economic status of the child’s family, but n...
In 2004, medical student Poonam Sharma and Tucker collaborated in a discussion of intermission memories, based on case reports in which young children described memories of the time between incarnations. These children tend to recall more details from the previous life than those children who do not have intermission memories. The co-authors’ break...
In 2014, Tucker published a paper in which, drawing on quantum theory, he proposed a model of consciousness, life and reincarnation as shared dreams, that is, possibilities created by the mind that only become fact by being observed. ‘We think of our minds existing in this world, but it’s actually the world that exists in our minds’, he writes. ‘My...
Tucker has written three books on reincarnation, all intended to make the case for its reality as a genuine natural phenomenon to popular audiences. Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children’s Memories of Previous Lives (2005) recounts the work of Stevenson and other reincarnation researchers, including Tucker himself, and presents s...
Jim Tucker is a Professor of Supramolecular Chemistry and a former EPSRC Leadership Fellow (2009-2014). He runs an active research group focused on the design and study of supramolecular systems and functional DNA-based assemblies.
Group Leader. Professor James Tucker. Jim was born in London and studied there at King’s College London (University of London), both as an undergraduate and a postgraduate, obtaining his BSc in 1989 and PhD in 1993, having studied in the group of Dennis Hall.
Professor of Supramolecular Chemistry at the University of Birmingham running a research group focused on the design and study of functional supramolecular and DNA-based systems....
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Dr. Jim B. Tucker. Child Psychiatrist & Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia. For the last sixty years, doctors at the University of Virginia Division of Perceptual Studies have investigated cases of young children who report memories of previous lives. Dr.
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“In Return to Life, Jim Tucker painstakingly and meticulously documents the recycling of memories from beyond the barrier of physical death. He then rigorously offers a scientific theory to explain how our consciousness transcends space/time and is, hence, eternal.
