Oct 14, 2026 · 54 min · 14 segments
Carol Bowman, a mother turned researcher of children’s past-life memories, begins with a question she can’t shake: if children are carrying memories from another life, could talking about them help…
Ky DickensHostCarol BowmanGuestColleen HockenGuestI wrote a few articles, and I had that ad in Mothering magazine that And the cases were trickling in.
I just felt I need the background in counseling to be able to be taken seriously, too.

She was doing all the research on the side while also going to school and raising her kids.

Carol was trying to bring children's past life memories into the mainstream in the 90s with no roadmap, no cultural permission, no internet or social media to find her people, and very little reason to believe that anyone would take her seriously.
I didn't know how I was going to jump from not being a writer to being a writer.

Even people who consider themselves writers find that authoring a book is daunting.

And for Carol, whose time was being consumed with this mission, she needed to figure out how to make the work financially viable.

Who'd want to read this? However, when you're pushing against an accepted worldview or paradigm, there's often one person or moment that makes turning back impossible.

And unlike many of the cases we'll explore this season that are filled with evidential names and places, dates and hobbies and details that can actually be checked against the life of a real person who lived...

This case was more ambiguous, but it was more reflective of the kinds of cases that Carol was actually hearing from parents all over the country.

Confusing and emotional, difficult to prove, but deeply real and distressing to the people living through it.

And so this family enters our story not because the case was easy to validate against a real life, but because Carol's work with them would not just end up changing the child's life, but the course of Carol's.
I wrote a few articles, and I had that ad in Mothering magazine that And the cases were trickling in.
I just felt I need the background in counseling to be able to be taken seriously, too.

She was doing all the research on the side while also going to school and raising her kids.

Carol was trying to bring children's past life memories into the mainstream in the 90s with no roadmap, no cultural permission, no internet or social media to find her people, and very little reason to believe that anyone would take her seriously.
I didn't know how I was going to jump from not being a writer to being a writer.

Even people who consider themselves writers find that authoring a book is daunting.

And for Carol, whose time was being consumed with this mission, she needed to figure out how to make the work financially viable.

Who'd want to read this? However, when you're pushing against an accepted worldview or paradigm, there's often one person or moment that makes turning back impossible.

And unlike many of the cases we'll explore this season that are filled with evidential names and places, dates and hobbies and details that can actually be checked against the life of a real person who lived...

This case was more ambiguous, but it was more reflective of the kinds of cases that Carol was actually hearing from parents all over the country.

Confusing and emotional, difficult to prove, but deeply real and distressing to the people living through it.

And so this family enters our story not because the case was easy to validate against a real life, but because Carol's work with them would not just end up changing the child's life, but the course of Carol's.
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