I thought I would share several pre-birth Stories I read
in preparing my talk..
Most
memories of a recent pre-birth existence come from children who reveal their
recollections spontaneously and without prompting. One such case, from a woman
identified only as Lisa P., is told in the book, Coming from the Light by Sarah Hinze:
I was
putting three-year-old Johnny to bed when he asked for a bedtime story. For the
past few weeks, I had been telling him of the adventures of his
great-great-grandfather: a colonizer, a soldier, a community leader. As I
started another story, Johnny stopped me and said, "No, tell me of Grandpa
Robert." I was surprised. This was MY grandpa. I had not told stories of
him, and I could not imagine where he had heard his name. He had died before I
had even married. "How do you know about Grandpa Robert?" I asked.
"Well, Momma," he said with reverence, "he's the one who brought
me to earth."
One such experience was related by Oscar-winning actor Richard
Dreyfuss to Barbara Walters on the show "20/20":
The
conversation went back to Dreyfuss' meteoric rise to stardom with such
memorable films as The Goodbye Girl, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and
Jaws. History has proven that such rapid success is often difficult to handle.
Dreyfuss was no exception. Now 50, he responded to Barbara's pointed questions
with the hard-earned yet peaceful candor of one who has succumbed to addiction
and overcome it. The interview revealed that Dreyfuss' first marriage had
fallen casualty to his troubled years, as had some great film roles. Over 20
years of addiction recycling had come and gone. The turning point occurred
miraculously in a dark hour. Dreyfuss was hospitalized in an effort to detox
him yet again from the grasp of drugs and alcohol. Hours passed. As he sobered
all alone in the hospital room, there entered a three-year-old girl in a pink
dress and shiny black patent leather shoes. She told him, "Daddy, I can't
come to you until you come to me. Please straighten out your life so I can
come." And she was gone. But the pleading message of her haunting eyes was
seared into Dreyfuss' memory, a constant inspiration to reorder his life so that
his daughter might come. With this sacred incentive he maintained sobriety,
remarried and prayed. Within three years a daughter was born to Dreyfuss and
his wife - the same girl who had come to his hospital room.
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| Left: What About Bob? {Dreyfuss is pictured on the right} Top-Right: Mr. Holland's Opus; Bottom-Right: Dreyfuss today |
For our children and the younger generation, I tried to think of
a movie Richard Dreyfuss played in, that they would be familiar
with, I came up with his part as the psychiatrist in “What About Bob?”
There
were many more of these experiences recorded, but I chose to just share the two
above.
