Asking Your Child About Their Past Lives

By Harold Klemp

Whatever your chosen religion or belief, that choice is necessary for you at this stage of your journey home to God. That’s why you hold to it.

Your religion or belief is a valuable and important part of you because it reflects all your experiences from past lives.

Our spiritual heritage is far richer than a single lifetime could ever produce, the real reason many enter this life with a special gift or talent without the apparent need for learning it. Some kids even reincarnate with the knowledge of a foreign language which their siblings lack. Parents who treat reincarnation as foolish may simply dismiss such a gift with an airy, “Oh, well, he sure didn’t get it from us,” and let it go at that.

They have no inkling as to where or how the child picked up such an ability.

Whenever I look at a child, I see a little adult. Mighty oaks from acorns grow. There’s no impulse to talk down to children once you realize they are Souls returned from an older time and place. They need today’s leg of their spiritual journey, too, the same as you and me.

Sometimes they reincarnate to wield the sword of fear or power, while at other times they come to demonstrate the Law of Love.

A child of three, four, or five will display a unique personality, perhaps an outgoing or adventurous one. But by age eight to ten, the child may suddenly turn shy and reserved. Upon reflection you’d say it isn’t the same individual.

A young child often remembers the distant past and may well speak of it.

A good question to ask a child of two to four is this: What did you do when you were big? You could be surprised if the child, in a nonchalant manner, sketches out a past life in broad details. Recognize it for that.

When people leave this physical life, they ascend to the next heaven, the Astral Plane. Some advance to a higher place, the second or third heaven. The second is the Causal Plane. St. Paul spoke of a third heaven. It is one of the regions in the upper worlds where Souls go to rest, to learn different facets of spiritual law—including the Law of Love.

The books of ECK present these planes and laws in some detail.

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Would you like to help your child remember their past lives? You can read the children’s ECK book When I Was Big to them and see if they recall any experiences of their own.