轮回新证--二战飞行员转生为路易斯安那州小男孩（附英文原版）

　　转贴者按: 这可能是世界上最近的一个例子。由美国ABC NEWS报导，绝对没有虚假的成分。原文英语版本和网址附后。

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　　万维读者网 据美国广播公司16日报道，大约60年前，一名叫做詹姆斯·M·小胡斯顿的21岁美国海军飞行员在太平洋上执行任务时，飞机被日军炮火击中而坠毁；如果不是一个名叫詹姆斯·雷宁格的六岁小男孩，他的名字可能早就忘记了。

　　包括那些认识詹姆斯·M·小胡斯顿之内的相当一部分人相信，詹姆斯·雷宁格的“前生”很可能正是那名在太平洋战场上牺牲的二战飞行员。

　　詹姆斯的父母，安德丽和布鲁斯，都是受过高等教育的现代人。他们认为自己绝对不是那些生活中会发生这样稀奇古怪事情的人。 但是，随着时间的流失，他们确信他们的小儿子有一个前世。

　　当小詹姆斯·雷宁格6年前诞生后，除了飞机玩具外，不喜欢其它任何玩具。大约两岁时起，詹姆斯喜欢的飞机玩具开始给他带来频频不断的梦魇。安德丽对美国广播公司记者克里斯·库莫道∶“他总是在梦中尖叫，我不得不将他摇醒。当我问他梦到了什么时，他总是说∶‘飞机着火坠毁了，没有人逃得出去！’”

　　安德丽的妈妈是最先想到她的小外孙是在回忆前世的事情。但是安德丽并不相信。詹姆斯平时看电视时只看孩子看的卡通秀节目，从来没看过二战纪录片或有关军事方面的节目，然而詹姆斯却对飞机结构具有惊人的了解。在一盘詹姆斯3岁时拍的录像带上，可以看到他一本正经地检查着一只玩具飞机，就好像起飞前的例行检查一样；安德丽称，另外还有一次，当她给儿子买了一只新玩具飞机、并指出它的下腹部有一枚炸弹时，詹姆斯立即纠正了她的错误，称那不是炸弹，而是一个可分离式燃料槽。安德丽道∶“我以前从来没有听说过可分离式燃料槽，我更不知道这是什么东西。”

　　自称曾驾二战战机

　　安德丽对记者道∶“我问他，你的飞机怎么了?他说∶‘被击落了。’我问掉在哪里，他说∶‘掉在水里。’我问飞机是被谁击落的，他说∶‘日本人。’他还称，他驾驶的是一架海盗号舰载战斗机，他还告诉父亲布鲁斯飞机是从‘纳托马号’上起飞的，当时他还认识一个叫杰克·拉森的战友。”

　　老兵证实小孩话

　　布鲁斯开始上网查找一切与“纳托马湾号”相关的资料，并约见一些曾在该航母上服役的幸存二战老兵。据报道，一名叫做拉夫·克拉波尔的二战战斗机投炮手证实了詹姆斯的说法。克拉波尔接受访谈时称，1945年3月3日，他也正好在“纳托马湾号”航母上，他的飞机紧跟着詹姆斯·M·胡斯顿的那架起飞。“我亲眼看到小胡斯顿的飞机被一枚反航行器炮弹击中，这枚炮弹迎面击中飞机，正好击中它的引擎。”　

　　专家点评：父母“自我欺骗”

　　不过，位于布法罗的纽约州立大学教授保罗·库茨在听说詹姆斯的神奇故事后，却表示了他的怀疑，保罗·库茨教授是一个“超正常现象”研究组织的负责人，他认为是种种巧合和小男孩父母的“自我欺骗”才引出了这个看似匪夷所思的故事。

　　保罗·库茨道∶“他们可能自己被这其中的一些神秘所蛊惑，然后自我欺骗臆想出了整个神话般的故事。”

　　然而雷宁格夫妇却并不这么认为，并称不管如何，他们仍然深爱自己的儿子。布鲁斯·雷宁格道∶“所发生的一切并没有改变我们对詹姆斯的爱，我不会看着他说∶‘哦，那不是我的孩子。’事实上，无论如何，他都是我们的孩子。”

　　April 15 — Nearly six decades ago, a 21-year-old Navy fighter pilot on a mission over the Pacific was shot down by Japanese artillery. His name might have been forgotten, were it not for 6-year-old James Leininger.

　　Quite a few people — including those who knew the fighter pilot — think James is the pilot, reincarnated.

　　James' parents, Andrea and Bruce, a highly educated, modern couple, say they are "probably the people least likely to have a scenario like this pop up in their lives."

　　But over time, they have become convinced their little son has had a former life.

　　From an early age, James would play with nothing else but planes, his parents say. But when he was 2, they said the planes their son loved began to give him regular nightmares.

　　"I'd wake him up and he'd be screaming," Andrea told ABCNEWS' Chris Cuomo. She said when she asked her son what he was dreaming about, he would say, "Airplane crash on fire, little man can't get out."

　　Reality Check

　　Andrea says her mom was the first to suggest James was remembering a past life.

　　At first, Andrea says she was doubtful. James was only watching kids' shows, his parents say, and they weren't watching World War II documentaries or conversing about military history.

　　But as time went by, Andrea began to wonder what to believe. In one video of James at age 3, he goes over a plane as if he's doing a preflight check.

　　Another time, Andrea said, she bought him a toy plane, and pointed out what appeared to be a bomb on its underside. She says James corrected her, and told her it was a drop tank. "I'd never heard of a drop tank," she said. "I didn't know what a drop tank was."

　　Then James' violent nightmares got worse, occurring three and four times a week. Andrea's mother suggested she look into the work of counselor and therapist Carol Bowman, who believes that the dead sometimes can be reborn.

　　With guidance from Bowman, they began to encourage James to share his memories — and immediately, Andrea says, the nightmares started become less frequent. James was also becoming more articulate about his apparent past, she said.

　　Bowman said James was at the age when former lives are most easily recalled. "They haven't had the cultural conditioning, the layering over the experience in this life so the memories can percolate up more easily," she said.

　　Trail of Mysteries

　　Over time, James' parents say he revealed extraordinary details about the life of a former fighter pilot — mostly at bedtime, when he was drowsy.

　　They say James told them his plane had been hit by the Japanese and crashed. Andrea says James told his father he flew a Corsair, and then told her, "They used to get flat tires all the time."

　　In fact, historians and pilots agree that the plane's tires took a lot of punishment on landing. But that's a fact that could easily be found in books or on television.

　　Andrea says James also told his father the name of the boat he took off from — Natoma — and the name of someone he flew with — "Jack Larson."

　　After some research, Bruce discovered both the Natoma and Jack Larson were real. The Natoma Bay was a small aircraft carrier in the Pacific. And Larson is living in Arkansas.

　　"It was like, holy mackerel," Bruce said. "You could have poured my brains out of my ears. I just couldn't believe it.

　　James 2 = James M. Huston Jr.?

　　Bruce became obsessed, searching the Internet, combing through military records and interviewing men who served aboard the Natoma Bay.

　　He said James told him he had been shot down at Iwo Jima. James had also begun signing his crayon drawings "James 3." Bruce soon learned that the only pilot from the squadron killed at Iwo Jima was James M. Huston Jr.

　　Bruce says James also told him his plane had sustained a direct hit on the engine.

　　Ralph Clarbour, a rear gunner on a U.S. airplane that flew off the Natoma Bay, says his plane was right next to one flown by James M. Huston Jr. during a raid near Iwo Jima on March 3, 1945.

　　Clarbour said he saw Huston's plane struck by anti-aircraft fire. "I would say he was hit head on, right in the middle of the engine," he said.

　　Treasured Mementos

　　Bruce says he now believes his son had a past life in which he was James M. Huston Jr. "He came back because he wasn't finished with something."

　　The Leiningers wrote a letter to Huston's sister, Anne Barron, about their little boy. And now she believes it as well.

　　"The child was so convincing in coming up with all the things that there is no way on the world he could know," she said.

　　But Professor Paul Kurtz of the State University of New York at Buffalo, who heads an organization that investigates claims of the paranormal, says he thinks the parents are "self-deceived."

　　"They're fascinated by the mysterious and they built up a fairy tale," he said.

　　James' vivid, alleged recollections are starting to fade as he gets older — but among his prized possessions remain two haunting presents sent to him by Barron: a bust of George Washington and a model of a Corsair aircraft.

　　They were among the personal effects of James Huston sent home after the war.

　　"He appears to have experienced something that I don't think is unique, but the way it's been revealed is quite astounding," Bruce said.

　　Asked if the idea that James may have been someone else changes his or his wife's feeling about their son, Bruce said: "It doesn't change how we think. I don't look at him and say, 'That's not my boy.' That's my boy."

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