64 The little Burmese The theme of “reincarnation”, ergo rebirth, has already been dealt with from all kinds of angles. I have at least four books in my bookshelves dealing with it. A newspaper report from 1962, cited from K. O. Schmidt’s book “Kehret wieder, Menschenkinder”, particularly remained in my memory. I recount the story in my own words: An eight years old girl in Burma (today’s Myanmar, in Asia) suffered head injuries in a severe traffic accident and lies in a coma for a long time after. When she finally wakes up, she has apparently lost the ability to speak her native tongue - and now speaks French. One of the doctors can understand her, because he had studied in Paris. After a while, this girl makes the following statement: Her name was Simone Rougard, she was born on the 9th of August 1887 in Briancon (in France) and she had four children. They were surely already wait for her etc. An American parapsychologist got to hear about this case and after a number of trips back and forth, he was able to establish that a girl with this name was born on the 9th of August 1887 in Briancon and that she had died of puerperal fever on the 7th of May 1914 when she was still a young mother. The house that she had lived in was still standing and when shown a photo, the little Burmese girl recognised it immediately. “Yes, this is where I live.” A lot of such cases have been described in the meantime. The American Ian Stevenson investigated the most promising cases for decades and published them in his book “European Cases of Reincarnation Type” in 2003. Once he found out that there was a child somewhere that recounted details of its past life, he travelled there in order to gain clarity through numerous conversations. He was sometimes able to verify an actual reincarnation on hand of powerful evidence. He was also able to ascertain that when children died very young, they would often reincarnate after a short time, after months or after one or two years, and sometime even into the same family. Other authors dealt with the question of why little children sometimes speak so strangely, as if they had memories from a time before they were born. This would often send a shudder down their spine. How could this possibly be?
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