About past lives ... Uniontown WW II flyer's memories in Louisiana boy (weirdness alert!)

DAILY COURIER ^ | Thursday, April 15, 2004 | Judy Kroeger

[musical_airman]

James Leininger, 6, of Lafayette, La., loves airplanes. "He has always been extraordinarily interested in airplanes," said James' mother, Andrea Leininger, by telephone from their Louisiana home.

Lots of kids love airplanes, but James' story is unique. He has memories of being a World War II fighter pilot from Uniontown -- Lt. James McCready Huston, shot down near Iwo Jima in 1945.

At 18 months old, his father, Bruce Leininger, took James to the Kavanaugh Flight Museum in Dallas, Texas, where the toddler remained transfixed by World War II aircraft.

few months later, the nightmares began.

"They were terrible, terrible," Andrea said. "He would scream, 'airplane crash, on fire, little man can't get out!' He'd be kicking, with his hands pointing up at the ceiling."

When James was 2 1/2 years old, he and Andrea were shopping and he wanted a toy airplane. "I said to him, 'Look, it has a bomb on the bottom' and he told me, 'That's not a bomb, it's a drop tank.' I had no idea what a drop tank was."

Neither of the Leiningers have ever served in the military, nor are they involved with aviation. Until James began showing an interest in planes, they had nothing aviation-related in their home.

Andrea's mother sent her a book by Pennsylvania author Carol Bowman, called "Children's Past Lives." The Leiningers started using Bowman's techniques of affirming James' nightmares and assuring him that the experiences happened to a different person, not the person he was now. "It helped. The nightmares stopped almost immediately," Andrea said.

However, the memories did not stop, but they do not come up all the time.

[Grassblade]

I’ve done a lot of searching on this topic and of the ones I found that were recorded by doctors most of the occurrences were violent deaths. I have a thought on this. Since these are ‘Memories’, and if someone’s last moments were sudden and/or unexpected it would create a very pronounced memory in their mind.(even if they survived they’d remember it). These cases that seem to be so unevenly revealed as violent deaths, logically should be more common.

When someone dies of a long, slow terminal illness, they simply lie there groaning in pain, so there final memories aren’t violent, exciting or action packed.

If someone dies of a heart attack on their front porch their memories would be more of confusion.

If consciousness is in fact a form of energy, and energy is never lost, then we have something to at least investigate.

[StolarStorm]

I dont know about that. I’ve had recurring dreams/nightmares since I was a todder of being a slave in North Africa. I have very vivid and detailed dreams of things I have never see. So I guess my old soul is a slacker. lol.

[Twinkie]

I agree with your baloney assessment. A lot of times the spiritual environment can influence a child to espouse the pet religions and Twilight Zones of the parents and grandparents. . and if it’s not scriptural, it tends to go off the rails. - This is an old thread, but I posted anyway.