AI 7 “Soul Survivor: Return to Life”

1. List the specific reasons stated by the parents for adopting their interpretation:

• From an early age the child was obsessed with airplanes.
• At age 2 the child began having nightmares about an airplane crash which involved him as the person who was trapped
• The child only watched Barney and Teletubbies
• The parents did not watch WWII documentaries or have conversations on military history
• The child would say things that were puzzling referring to a plane having a drop tank and not a bomb
• Between the ages of 2 and 4 the child would reveal extraordinary details about the life of a former fighter pilot, James Huston, Jr.
• Anne Baron, the sister of James Huston, Jr. met with the parents and …show more content…
The parent only stated that the dreams were about an airplane that crashed and was on fire, and the person trapped in the plane was the child. I have known children and adults that have had the same bad dream over and over so with this being the only reference from the parent, for me, is not enough to interpret the dream as reincarnation of a fighter pilot.

3. Do you accept the parent’s reasons as factually so or do you regard them as less than the truth? Why?

I accept the parent’s reasons as less than the truth because the information given in the story was too vague with no support except for Anne Baron who herself stated that the child was very convincing. Was the information given to Ms. Baron given by the child or the parents? What information was given for her to conclude that the child could not have known any of this unless it was a “spiritual thing”? The statements made by the parents were very general and do not support, in my opinion, the claim that their child had a past life. Personally, I do not believe in reincarnation for the one reason that the Bible states very clearly that reincarnation is erroneous, only one life and when your life is over, you wait for judgment; you do not come back to life as someone else. Jesus came back but as Himself. Jesus raised the dead, but they were the same people as when they died; they did not come back as someone