Jim B. Tucker
Jim B. Tucker, M.D., born in North Carolina, is a child psychiatrist and reincarnation researcher at the University of Virginia. Educated at UNC-Chapel Hill and UVA, he succeeded Ian Stevenson in studying children’s past-life memories. Tucker’s work emphasizes cases where children recall unnatural deaths, often with birthmarks matching fatal wounds, and rebirth intervals averaging sixteen months. Author of Life Before Life and Return to Life, he has presented findings worldwide, balancing skepticism with openness to non-material explanations of consciousness. Raised Southern Baptist yet unaffiliated religiously, Tucker views reincarnation as the most compelling framework for certain phenomena, bridging psychiatry, science, and spirituality.
Consciousness is the core of reality that the physical world grows out of, not the other way around.