Is James Leininger reincarnation of Second World War fighter pilot?

The Telegraph ^ | 20 Aug 2009 | staff reporter

[Daffynition]

[Dumpster Baby]

Very interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Natoma_Bay_(CVE-62)

The Past Life Memories of James Leininger

http://pastlives.tribe.net/thread/f4a007fe-0b5c-4f0b-89d5-3fbfaeddaf0b

http://www.reversespins.com/proofofreincarnation.html

[Perdogg]

ping

[Doogle]

"yeah, and I'm the lion king"

[iowamark]

Let the kid try to fly a plane and see how convincing he is. I think his parents would immediately say: "It was all a joke."

[RepublicanChick]

Yes, I believe the boy. It is a very interesting case and as much proof that you can have for reincarnation.

Many on FR may not agree, but I do believe we live again and again, etc. It is too early for me to write my thesis on the subject, lol!

[rellimpank]

—he needs to check up on Bridey Murphy-—

[rellimpank]

-—check this out—

—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridey_Murphy

[6SJ7]

You know what the poet said:
"Through the travail of ages, Midst the pomp and toils of war,
Have I fought and strove and perished Countless times upon a star.
As if through a glass, and darkly The age-old strife I see—
Where I fought in many guises, many names— but always me."
Do you know who the poet was? Me.
Patton (1970)

[Liberty Ship]

I’ve read the book and I was convinced. Amazing story.

[PGR88]

At least he’s not claiming to be Joan of Arc.

[Houghton M.]

I’m including NYer and Salvation in on this reply since you may wish to ping the Catholic FReepers on this story. I don’t know the ins and outs of the pinglists and you do.

I clicked on the second item that Dumpster Baby listed. Previously, I had heard an interview with the author of the book on the reincarnated Art Bell Show (I forget the name of his successor) and had begun to wonder whether there might not be something to this reincarnation stuff.

But the second item above ( http://www.ianlawton.com/cpl3.htm ) holds two clues new to me that everyone is missing because of their presuppositions.

When the parents asked the boy why he named his three GI Joe figures the way he did, he said, “Because the [these three aviators] greeted me when I went to heaven.”

The little boy “went to heaven.” This story may will be evidence of the reality of the “communion of saints” rather than reincarnation.

There are stories of Padre Pio visiting a young boy stricken with cancer, a boy who had not been baptized and who had no knowledge of Christian faith or of Padre Pio (eliminating power of suggestion from religious educators as an explanation). The boy recited information about Padre Pio that he could not have known. There are also the stories of Adrienne von Speyr, a Swiss physician, who “visited with” the saints in heaven and described how they prayed, each in their own different way (the stories of these visits, once available only in German in a private edition, are now out in English with Ignatius Press).

The second clue is that James Leininger signed his drawings as “James 3.” This makes no sense if he is the reincarnation of James Huston, Jr. James Leininger treats himself as a SON OF JAMES HUSTON Jr., not as the same person as James Huston, Jr. Moreover, what he has in common with Huston is his first name, not his last name: he is the third “James” but not the third James Huston. Only in that way does “James 3” make sense.

But people dealing with this case seem to have entirely ignored that illogicality because they only explanation on their horizon is reincarnation. The possibility that he has learned about James Huston’s plane crash from James Huston as a distinct, real person. We can identify with someone else’s experience if it is described sufficiently to us, so James Leininger could imagine himself in a burning, crashing plane based on description of it by James Huston, alive in heaven.

In short, this story could actually prove that reincarnation is NOT true, that our personhood is a distinct and everlasting reality, as the Jewish and Christian tradition claim, and that heaven and the communion of those in heaven with those on earth is real, not imagined and not necromancy (the initiative came from those in heaven to James Leininger and not from James Leininger toward those in heaven).

I will use this puzzling story when I teach about questions of last things, heaven, hell, and the lives of the saints.

It’s evidence of how much of the evidence, how many crucial clues, we can miss and how badly we can misinterpret evidence if we don’t bracket out presuppositions.

[GreenHornet]

he remembered the name Jack Larsen.

So do I. He played Jimmy Olsen in "The Adventures of Superman."

[GreyFriar]

ping

[OKSooner]

Ping.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

pfl

[Daffynition]

I appreciate your comment.

"Reincarnation doesn't help you if in your next incarnation you still don't know who you are."
Stillness Speaks ~ E Tolle

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[SunkenCiv]

Well said.