Welcome to part two of our fascinating conversation with Dr. Jim Tucker, the former director of the University of Virginia Division of Perceptual Studies. He's a child psychiatrist, and he has studied over 2,000 cases of children who recount memories from a previous life. Make sure to check out part one of our conversation, and we cannot wait for you to hear what we talk about in part two.

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Now, I will say most of these kids do not show other sort of psychic abilities, with occasional

exceptions, but for the most part, they don't seem to be especially gifted in that way.

So it's not necessarily that they have a channel, you know, open channel to the other information

more than other kids do.

So along those lines, what happens to these kids when they get older?

Like, you talk about that many of these things kind of, I don't want to say fizzle out,

but when they're older, that it sort of goes away-ish, what do we think might be happening

there? And do some of them carry this

throughout their lives? Right. So most of the kids stop talking about these things around school

age, six or so, five to seven, something like that. They have so much homework to do. They can't

spend their time thinking

about their past lives well yeah i think that actually is sort of part of it that they get wrapped up

in this life but in addition that's the same age where we all lose our early childhood memories

so you know early childhood amnesia where the as as you know, better than I, the brain has

undergone tremendous changes around then, and you get this pruning effect.

And so, in any event, memories for all of us, past, you know, occasionally you get little

glimmers from along before then, but for the most part, they all fade out.

So it would make sense that these would fade as well.

And then they kind of just go on and lead their lives.

So we've recently done a study where we interviewed adults

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