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• Porky the Pig in the pram

  In brief: After deep meditation he asks for his earliest memory and gets the smell of his baby pram at about three or four weeks old, then…

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  i've told this before i don't mind saying this it's not quite psychic powers but it's pushing the envelope a little bit i'm not allowed to say about my experiences my own previous lives but what i do do to give you the the idea i was doing this once years ago and what came into my my consciousness was a smell and you know i asked what's my earliest memory and i got this smell in my nose it wasn't in the hall where i was sitting and i recognized it immediately it was the smell of my baby's pram when i was maybe three or four weeks old and with that smell just came all the memory you could actually eyes were closed i was back in my baby's plan with all my little toys and the one i liked the best was porky the pig that's what my mother used to call it you know even though i'm not supposed to have a brain to remember that i remember that and it was a little pig it had some like beans inside plastic and she used to walk it you know and make it rattle and i love that little pig porky the pig my favorite toy is a little and he could you can actually look around you know feel just the um uh the blankets or the sheets and the black and whites of the the pram you could see everything and you could actually like you can move just no will what's over there what's over here and this is all just in a re-imagination not really re-experiencing of an old memory you're back in your when you're three or four weeks old i know exactly how long but maybe around that time and that was how it works and no doubt at all that that's you very clear being able to move around if you want to ask a question know what was my name who was that you can get the answer straight away just think and the answer comes and that's what it's like re-experiencing and of course you know i told that story to a few people just to check it out and one interesting thing which i got from that because i was never you know did any medicine i was physics and maths and i was told afterwards that in the first weeks of life the dominant sense in a baby is smell now their hearing is not developed even side is not developed at all and you recognize your surroundings and you recognize your mother in particular by her smell not by her sight so just because i'm a cheeky monk i tell young mothers when you've got a young kid please do not change your perfume you'll confuse the hell out of your kid

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• The heart that remembered the murder

  In brief: Girl ~10–11 gets heart transplant; recurrent nightmare of being attacked and killed. Mother traces donor — murdered prostitute. Dream…

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  there was a few stories of people who had heart transplants and They Carried some sort of memories of the previous owner of the heart there's one amazing story is a young girl had a heart transplant he must be only about 10 or 11 years of old and after the operation very good success when she was sent home afterwards so she started having nightmares recovered nightmares the same scene in The Nightmare all the time so she told her mommy her dream was that she was attacked in a dark Street and killed and murdered and it was so recurrent that her mother sort of went to the doctor and said there's something weird going on here my child has got the same dream night after night and she wakes up screaming and of course the doctor said oh it's just the trauma of the operation you know it's a very heavy operation it might have done something to the play but she'll get over it just forget about it take another Panadol or something I shouldn't say things like that I get trouble with the doctors in this audience but usually say if it doesn't go away within two weeks come back again we do some more tests but I'll being cheeky but I get away with that but anyway it didn't go away so she took it further so it kept on recurring again so that she she had some contacts in the hospital so she did a little bit of U uh suppose it's illegal improper searching to find out where this heart came from and she found out that the heart had actually come from a prostitute who had been killed and murdered and when she heard that she went to the police station and told all the whole story this is a dream of my daughter I just found out the heart came from a murdered person does her memory in dream match any of the situation only the circumstances of the murder and the police people they investigated the situation where the original owner of the heart was killed it matched and the information they got from this girl after you know she had a heart transplant the information she got from her dreams was enough for the police to identify a suspect question him and he confessed they caught him very weird and strange thing there was enough memories left in that heart to actually to find the killer of the old heart

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• The teacher who woke in a drowned boy's body

  In brief: A now-famous meditation teacher (unnamed, still alive) was, it seems, reborn into the body of a village boy who had drowned in a lake and…

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  that happened to a great teacher it seems i won't say the name because they're still alive was born in the body of a drowned boy the boy had died in a village lake and he's been under the water for hours when they find him he came alive again and the person who he eventually became is quite a famous meditation teacher and he said that was his first memory this brilliant light and he gaining consciousness in the body of this young boy

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• Charlie's mark on the heel

  In brief: A healthy Thai woman's first baby, Charlie, is stillborn after turning in the womb days before birth. Ajahn Brahm conducts the funeral;…

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  the story of a Thai couple who come here - just making sure they're not here, they may be embarrassed if I tell you this; but no, they're not here. When this lady - years ago now - when she got pregnant (this was a normal pregnancy), and just five days before birth she had an ultrasound. And when the birth happened - stillborn. A tragedy. Because they had everything expected for a baby, and they were just so excited, the first kid they were gonna have. And apparently, the doctors found out it actually turned in the womb and it cut off the blood supply in the umbilical cord. And she didn't know that, five days before - ultrasound - everything was going perfectly, and stillborn. So I did the funeral for them, just up the road here. And I always remember that funeral, because the baby was fully formed. They gave it a name, Charlie. I better not say too much. Charlie was his name, and they dressed it up, and they had the family photograph. And I was in the family photograph, and Charlie was as well. I was almost like honoured to be included in that family photograph, at the birth of Charlie who died at birth. But then, what I didn't see them doing - I know it's common in Thailand to do this, but what I didn't see - they took a pen, a biro pen, when no one was watching, and on the heel of Charlie, they drew a line. With a ballpoint pen. Just a line. And then of course, the baby was cremated. She was a healthy woman. So, few months later, she became pregnant again. When she became pregnant again, this time the doctors really gave her a VIP treatment, because they didn't want a tragedy to happen again. She's a healthy woman, she gave birth - this time - to a girl. And that girl has a birthmark on its heel, a line - exactly where they'd written the line on there. And they all knew Charlie came back. Didn't quite make it the first time, but had another go. Next time, got through. And they told me that story. And of course, you probably would be interested, how did the new kid turn out. First of all, it was a girl, and it was called Annie. And I was watching it - used to be like many kids, they play here, running around there, the kids are offering food to the monks or the nuns, and the kid is running around all over the place. But this Annie would always run with the boys and would beat up the girls. It was really a tomboy, little Annie. And of course, you understand why. She was a boy before. But anyway. That was a wonderful story, that when people have these emotional problems - just give a bigger picture. The kid didn't get there the first time, well have another go. And - a lot of times I’ve seen this - they don't make it the first time, they get an upgrade. [laughter] Become a girl. Is that an upgrade? [chuckles] But anyway. That was the story of Charlie and Annie.

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