WW 2 Pilot Re-incarnates
I believe that Re-incarnation is Real. There are many reasons for my assertion of its reality based on many years of reading the research that has been done by respected scientists, reading the Near Death experiences of hundreds of people, and considering the implications of quantum reality with regard to the survival of consciousness after physical death. (More on this in later posts).
But what brought the subject of re-incarmation to mind is a book, Soul Survivor, that I read recently about a little boy who at only 18 months of age began having nightmares about his death in combat in World War II.
But what brought the subject of re-incarmation to mind is a book, Soul Survivor, that I read recently about a little boy who at only 18 months of age began having nightmares about his death in combat in World War II.
WW 2 Pilot Re-incarnates
From about six months of age little James Leininger had had an obsession with toy planes, especially fighter planes used in World War II. He had an odd way of playing with them: he would "crash" the planes in such a way as to break the propellers. He would do this over and over again in what alomst seemed a ritual to onlookers. When James's father, Bruce Leininger, noticed his son's obsessive interest in the toy planes (toy cars and trains were left untouched), he decided to take James to an aircaft museum to see the real planes. James was immediately comfortable in the airplane hangar and went straight for a WWII fighter plane called a Corsair. He walked around the aircraft as though giving it a pre-flight inspection. Since his only exposure to TV had been Barney and Friends and the Tele-Tubbies, it was impossible that he was mimicking the behaviour of a pilot in a TV show or war movie. Besides, he was only 18 months old at the time of the visit to the museum!
"Little Man Can't Get Out"
As the months went by, James's nightmares increased in number and intensity happening on an almost nightly basis. His screams and struggles frightened his parents, especially his mother who could do nothing apart from holding her son until the trauma passed and he stopped crying. Watching this almost nightly suffering was terrifying for her but she noticed that James always screamed the same words at the height of the nightmare: "Airplane Crash! Plane on fire! Little man can't get out!"
As the months went by, James's nightmares increased in number and intensity happening on an almost nightly basis. His screams and struggles frightened his parents, especially his mother who could do nothing apart from holding her son until the trauma passed and he stopped crying. Watching this almost nightly suffering was terrifying for her but she noticed that James always screamed the same words at the height of the nightmare: "Airplane Crash! Plane on fire! Little man can't get out!"
The same wording occurred in every nightmare. Not wanting to make too much of these strange dreams, his parents followed the advice of pediatricians and took a neutral tone with regard to what James remembered. Gently, they asked for more information being careful not to 'prompt' James with leading questions. They simply asked what details he remembered. The most shocking detail came in repsonse to his mother's question: Who is "little man"? James replied matter of factly "me". And his father asked "Who shot at your plane" James replied, "The Japanese". And when Bruce asked James how he knew it was the Japanese he said "The Red Sun". That was the beginning of a four year quest undertaken by Bruce Leininger to get to the bottom of his son's extraordinary revelations about life as a fighter pilot in the Pacific war, an hypothesis Bruce was not prepared to entertain. Instead, he hoped to prove that the 'memories' were mere childhood imaginings.
The Evidence Piles Up
Suffice to say that the sheer numbers of 'memories' related by this small boy were shocking. As far as Bruce , an Evangical Christian, was concerned re-incarnation was a pagan belief and he wanted none of it. He decided to research the details given by James (still under 6 years of age at the time) but only to convince his wife that it was all "imagination" and not reincarnation. The evidence, however, showed distinctly that imagination had nothing to do with it.
Re-incarnation just might be real?
At the age of two James was able to correct his mother when she mistook a back-up fuel tank in a photograph for a bomb. Her mistake was certainly understandable since the tank looked exactly like a bomb! But little James insisted it was a 'fuel dwop' and it turned out he was correct. Such revelations were an almost daily occurence and Andrea Leininger began noting them down for her husband to research. Amongst the memories Bruce was able to confirm from military records was the name of the pilot - James Huston, Jr. that little James claimed he had been Bruce also found, to his shock, the name the pilot's friend, Jack Larsen. Not only was the name correct, but Bruce discovered Larsen was still alive and using military data on veterans he managed to find down Mr. Larsen. One by one the facts that little James related to his parents were being confirmed by official records and now by an eye witness to the events of Pilot Houston's war service who knew James Houston and served with him.
Extraordinary Knowledge Cannot Be Ignored
James's extraordinary knowledge of aircraft, naval vessels and people he had never seen in this lifetime was also confirmed by Larsen and military records. This included the name of the ship that Pilot James Huston had been serving on when he was shot down: The Natoma Bay. Bruce Leininger was sure there wouldn't have been a ship with a Japanese-sounding name in the American fleet during the war but James always gave the name as The Natoma when Bruce questioned him about it. A search of War Department Naval records confirmed that little James was correct again! And it was the ship's logs and memoirs of those who had served on the Natoma Bay that finally opened Bruce's mind to the possibility that re-incarnation just might be real and that his son was indeed James Houston re-incarnated.
The Clincher: A Pink Hotel?
All of the above is amazing but what ultimately convinced James's parents of the reality of their son's memories was a pre-birth memory he told them about involving a 'pink hotel'. I won't spoil it for you by revealing that detail here but it is a shocker!
© Delia O' Riordan 2012
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Get additional information on the James Leininger from ABC's documentary story HERE
Photo credits: Bruce and Andrea Leininger, "Soul Survivor".
