"H. Beam Piper - Paratime" - читать интересную книгу автора (Piper H Beam)

There may be an explanation: At a science fiction convention in Seattle in the
early sixties, Jerry Pournelle asked Piper whether he believed in reincarnation or
not. Beam's answer was yes, and he added that the story "He Walked Around the
Horses" was one that had occurred in a past life. Well aware of Piper's wry sense
of humor, Jerry questioned him further, but could elicite no more information.
Jerry left convinced that Piper was serious.

A little over five years ago, I rode an RTD bus into Los Angeles and sat next to a
bearded man in his late twenties. It was a long ride and after a while we fell into
conversation; the talk turned to reincarnation. This man, a former Vietnam
soldier, claimed that he was the reincarnation of a World War II lieutenant who
had died somewhere in Normandy. All his life he had been fascinated by war
toys and games of war, and had sometimes dreamed of battles and long marches.

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No one, including himself, had thought his interests unusual as they were quite
common among his peers. It wasn't until he joined the Marines that he began to
have actual flashbacks of World War Two battlefields and firefights.

They continued, predominately in dreams, throughout his tour of 'Nam. He had
thought they would stop when he returned to the United States, but they didn't.
They intensified.

When I talked with him, he was working in a carwash, living at home with his
parents, and saving every cent he could towards a pilgrimage to Normandy. His
free time was spent in the library researching World War Two and trying to
identify that young lieutenant. He was certain that once he found the young
officer's name he would be able to lay his ghost to rest, or possibly find his real
identity. He wasn't sure. He admitted that with every passing year his own life
grew more faint and the young lieutenant's grew stronger. He was even
beginning to relive his youth in the Midwest. I left the bus convinced that he
believed every word of what he'd told me, and certain that I wouldn't want to be
in his place.

David Chamberlain, a San Diego psychologist who completed a study on birth
memories under hypnosis, claims that people can remember their own births in
great detail. A large number of his subjects, during hypnotic age regression,
remembered their painful birth experiences, complaining bitterly about harsh
treatment by their doctors and separation from their mothers. Some of these
memories had led to lifelong traumas; psychological maladaption brought on by
chance remarks, headaches resulting from rough handling with forceps, digestive
problems caused by the mother's refusal to breastfeed, and asthma provoked by
the panic of delivery. In nine out often cases, Dr. Chamberlain found that these

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