Kendra Carter's Case Analysis

Another case that deals with reincarnation from the direct family is Bobby Hodges’. A few years before Bobby was born, his aunt had had a miscarriage of twins. When Bobby was around the age of speaking, he constantly claimed that he belonged with his cousins and blamed his younger brother for them not being born to their aunt, which is both strange and fascinating. Another case that dealt with a child claiming to belong to someone else is Kendra Carter’s case. Her case was very intriguing because she was able to describe how she was another woman’s abortion and would cry when she didn’t get to see the woman during the week. When Kendra was unable to see the woman, she stopped talking for months, but as she seemed to age, she did not seem as connected to the woman.
Going back to children with past lives, not within their family line, there is Kumkum Verma, a girl in India. What was interesting about her case is that Kumkum spoke with an accent not from within her family, but an accent of the lower classes of Darbhanga and she even used expressions related to the lower classes, too. The last …show more content…
Tucker, I find it a bit farfetched that birthmarks or scars from the past life can carry over. In the book it is discussed that some children do have birthmarks or scars that the past life did have, but it could possibly just be a coincidence. Also, in some ways, science has not developed an accurate study on what reincarnation is. Here we are as people, trying to make explanations for the unknown, but how are we to figure out such a thing as reincarnation without dying ourselves? Perhaps what we view to explain reincarnation is just because there is nothing else to explain it. The more these things are viewed with normal explanations such as describing it as faulty memory or a child’s fantasy, it is true, children have wild imaginations, but that would just mean the informant’s mind is just as wild to think the child would have said such