THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE BOY WHO REMEMBERED HIS PAST LIFE AS A WWII PILOT

 

Vought F4U Corsair

James Leininger was born in 1998 and at a very early age, recounted his death as James M. Huston Jr, a pilot in WWII during the battle of Iwo Jima. When he was 2 1/2, looking at a book about Iwo Jima, he told his father that it was there that his Corsair aircraft was shot down. A full article:

https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2017/04/REI42-Tucker-James-LeiningerPIIS1550830716000331.pdf

I heard about this case some time ago and it was the basis for creating Bin's thesis that while all creatures on Earth reincarnate and remember past lives, our species is the only that does not. Bin thought that something about the expansion of our large brain caused this memory failure. The consequences, said Bin, have been quite tragic. Humans continue to make the same mistakes over and over again as Georges Santayana famously noted.