[explodingspleen]

ABC News: Your source for paranormal fringe science and the latest Kerry propaganda material.

[treeclimber]

Fascinating!

[Drango]

slow news day....

[Prime Choice]

Paging Rod Serling. Clean-up on aisle 1123782, please...

[Quix]

There are AT LEAST

TWO OTHER

possible explanations . . . for such claims . . .

Person B alive now, would have easily been followed in terms of ancestory of any sort by demonic forces alive since creation. Such demonic forces would have plenty of information and power capacity to simulate anything desired for seducing a currently living person into a philosophical/religious orientation feeding satan's agenda.

Person B alive now could also have easily been followed by any number of ET type races in terms of person B's ancestory of any sort in a way similar to demonic tracking and manipulating.

I know of NO means, short of Holy Spirit discernment, to detect such goings on.

I know of NO means to prove reincarnation vs the above.

[Sofa King]

Does the phrase "desperate for attention" jump out at anyone else?

[nmh]

What utter nonsense!

There is no such thing as reincarnation. The parents were feeding this little one. His young behavior is VERY typical. They're just trying to make money off of him.

[TADSLOS]

Put him behind he controls of an F4U and let's see what happens...

[woofie]

I knew a therapist in Santa Fe who was at a party ....a strange woman came up to him and said "You strangled me in a previous lifetime" ...He was lucky she didnt sue.

[nmh]

"James' vivid, alleged recollections are starting to fade as he gets older — but among his prized possessions remain two haunting presents sent to him by Barron: a bust of George Washington and a model of a Corsair aircraft."


Are they so stupid as to not realize this is a little boys vivid imagination fueled with presents? The parents are in heavy duty self deception. If anything as the kid gets older his recollections should be MORE VIVID!

[kitkat]

***But Professor Paul Kurtz of the State University of New York at Buffalo, who heads an organization that investigates claims of the paranormal, says he thinks the parents are "self-deceived." ***

For what it's worth:

***Professor Paul Kurtz of the State University of New York at Buffalo is also a full-time leftist.

Prof. Paul Kurtz, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, is a renowned academic philosopher of high rank. He has moreover the merit of having carried the ideals of secular humanism rationalism to the broad general public.
SNIP
. His dedicated work of several decades in service of the liberation of human mind from the bondages of religion, superstition and all kinds of dogmatism, has made a lasting impact on the intellectual climate of our times and stands as a guidepost into a better future.***

http://www.rationalistinternational.net/associates/p_kurtz.htm

[Aliska]

It's not necessarily reincarnation.

It is a curiosity that these cases usually have someone with a common language or culture from the past.

It's also odd that the father had to find the identity of the dead airman. It isn't real clear, but one would expect the boy to known what his name had been in the alleged past life.

It could be a case of possession. I wondered if the boy was baptized because I thought perhaps it would protect against things such as this, but then I remembered my catholic girlfriend who had left the church but presumably having had her son baptized telling me a similar story about her son about this age talking about having been a fighter pilot.

I've studied hundreds of accounts such as this and never heard of one where a devout Christian was troubled with such a thing which is not to say that it doesn't happen.

Believer? I concede that there very well are probably spirits who pass on information to the living which can be verified. Of that I have no doubt. Whether it is proof of reincarnation is another matter.

A couple of my kids came up with similar odd stuff like this and I didn't press the issue. Now, I chalk it off to the fact that I wasn't bringing them up in a normal Christian manner.

There was that case in Chicago years ago where the spirit of the murdered girl gave her friend information which helped to solve her murder. It, too, involved nightmares, but there was no chance that reincarnation was involved because the "medium" and the murdered person had lived as contemporaries.

[djf]

I find it hard to believe that the parents could be accused of promoting it, at least not at the start. Like many cases, the kid showed weird, unexplainable behaviors and memories, knowledge that would freak out the parents.

When I first met my wife, she had dreams often that we had lived together before, in a small town I never heard of. A few years later, we bought a house, which had an address in the same small town. In 1995, I had a dream we had been together, had 3 kids, and I was killed in a farming accident at 41 years old. In 2000, my wife died from a massive brain aneurysm... she was 41 years old.

The fact that we met and fell in love was not that unusual, we were in fact born about 175 miles apart.

On the east coast. We met after we had both moved to Washington state.

None of us knows all the ways things work. I think if we ever did, we'd be astounded, amazed, and horrified all at once.

[lawdude]

Has ANY of this been confirmed?

[Bon mots]

There was a story similar to this in Ireland or the UK not long ago. (Not Bridey Murphy, which has been debunked.)

A mother who died and left young kids behind, then came back as a man or something, but he also convinced her children it was her...

[Blue Screen of Death]

He should sue for back pay and hope he gets Shirly McClain on the jury.

[CzarNicky]

"I'd wake him up and he'd be screaming," Andrea told ABCNEWS' Chris Cuomo. She said when she asked her son what he was dreaming about, he would say, "Airplane crash on fire, little man can't get out."

Watched the World Trade Center loop a few too many times perhaps.

[millefleur]

The little boy could be being used by "familiar spirits", see Leviticus 20:6
I'm not saying the little boy is doing anything wrong himself, he's just a little boy..but he IS being USED.

Familiar spirits exist through the ages, gathering knowledge of people and places. But God has warned against consulting them. God would not warn us against something that doesn't exist.

[CyberAnt]

Well .. the real "reality check" .. this is called "familar spirits". It's nothing new.

[kissmyconservativebutt]

ABC news. That is all I need to know.