Recently, I was doing computer work with my television on in the background. Suddenly, my attention was focused on a voice that was singing through the televison. Instantly, I thought: “That is Nate King Cole.” I looked up from my laptop and saw that the performer on the television was actually John Legend.
There was an uncanny similarity in their voices and when I viewed images of these two gifted musicians, I saw a physical resemblances in certain photos.
In a session with Kevin Ryerson, Ahtun Re affirmed that John Legend is the reincarnation of Nate King Cole.
One of the most culturally significant reincarnation cases involves Barbro Karlen, who I have had he honor of doing joint presentations with since 2001. I first met Barbro in 2000 and I now consider her a very good friend. I would like to share her experiences with you. At the end of this article, a video may be viewed in which Barbro tells her story in her own words. Enlarge images by clicking on them.
A Toddler’s Past Life Memories of being Anne Frank
Anne Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Less than ten years later, in 1954, Barbro Karlen was born to Christian parents in Sweden. When she was less than three years old, Barbro told her parents that her name was not Barbro, but “Anne Frank.” Barbro’s parents had no idea of who Anne Frank was, as they were unaware of the book, Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl, also known as The Diary of Anne Frank.
During her childhood, Barbro told her parents details of her life as Anne, which her parents thought were fantasies. In addition, Barbro had nightmares in which men ran up the stairs and kicked in the door to her family’s attic hiding place. An image of the exterior of the Frank family’s attic hiding place, which has the red tile roof, is provided below and to the right.
Barbro is evaluated by a Psychiatrist
Attic Hiding Place of Frank Family
Barbro’s past life memories worried her parents and at one point, when she was a child, they had her evaluated by a psychiatrist. Barbro, though, by this time, had learned that it was not wise to talk about the other world she lived in, the world of Anne Frank, as she noticed that everyone “got tense” when she described her memories to them. When she saw the psychiatrist, she made no mention of her memories of being Anne and was deemed a perfectly normal little girl.
Barbro’s Elementary School Teacher Discusses Anne Frank
When Barbro was seven or eight years of age, she became confused when her schoolteacher began talking about Anne Frank in class. Barbro thought to herself, “How could my teacher know about Anne Frank?” Barbro knew that she was Anne Frank. Barbro began to realize that Anne Frank was a famous person. “How could that be,” she thought? Describing her confusion as a child, Barbro has related “all this didn’t work for me.”
Imagine how hard it must have been for Barbro to have spontaneous memories of a past lifetime and to have no one to talk to, no one who could help her with her confusion, traumatic memories and nightmares.
Barbro’s Past Life Phobias Related to Anne Frank’s Holocaust Experience
Since childhood, Barbro has had a fear of men in uniforms. Even as an adult, if stopped for a traffic violation by a police officer, Barbro would have such anxiety that she would consider fleeing. In order to get over her phobia of uniforms, as well as to work with horses, Barbro in adulthood, decided to become a mounted Swedish police officer. After completing her training with the Swedish Police Authority, Barbro did become a mounted police officer and she worked with police horses for over a decade.
In addition, Barbro has had an aversion to eating beans since childhood, which the Frank family existed on for nearly two years. Barbro would also only take baths, not showers. In concentration camps, Nazi’s would bring prisoners into large rooms telling the prisoners that they would be given showers. Instead of water, poison gas was piped into the room to kill the prisoners. Anne was first taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where such gas chambers were used to kill those too feeble to perform forced labor. Later, she was transferred to the Bergen-Belsen camp, where she died.
Aerial View of Amsterdam
Barbro also resisted having her hair cut. In concentration camps, new arrivals were stripped naked and heads were shaved, followed by a process of disinfection.
At 10 Years of Age, Barbro’s Geographic Past Life Memory Leads her Parents to the Anne Frank House
Barbro received her first validation of being Anne Frank when she was ten years old, when she was able to find her way directly to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam without directions.
The graphic to the right, which can be enlarged, shows how circular the streets of Amsterdam are. It is easy to get lost wandering the streets of this city, yet Barbro’s past life memories of the streets of Amsterdam were clear. I will now describe the scene, utilizing excerpts from And the Wolves Howled.
When she was ten, Barbro’s parents took her on a tour of the major cities in Europe, including Amsterdam, the city where the Frank family lived. During World War II, Otto Frank and his family had to go into hiding in the attic of the building where Otto had his business, for the Nazi’s had invaded the Netherlands and were persecuting Jews. The Frank family hid in this attic for about two years, until they were discovered by the Nazis, arrested and sent to concentration camps.
The only survivor was the father, Otto Frank, who subsequently was given Anne’s diary, which he later had published. After the war, the hiding place was made into a museum, which is called The Anne Frank House.
Anne Frank House
By the time Barbro was ten, the Diary of Anne Frank had been published and distributed in Sweden and her parents had become aware of who the historical Anne Frank was. While in Amsterdam, her father wanted to visit the Anne Frank House. At their hotel, he took the phone off the hook and asked for a taxi to take them there.
Barbro suddenly exclaimed: “We don’t need a taxi, it’s not far to walk from here.” Barbro was so certain that it didn’t occur to her parents to object, they just meekly followed her as she walked off.
“We’ll soon be there, it’s just round the next corner,” Barbro told her parents. She herself wasn’t at all surprised when they arrived at the Anne Frank House after a ten minute walk through the twisting streets of the city. An image of the Anne Frank House is provided to the right. Upon their arrival, her parents stood there speechless and just looked at one another.
Past Life Memories: Barbro Knows Where Anne Frank’s Pictures should have been Found
“That’s strange,” Barbro said, when they stood in front of the steps up to the house. “It didn’t look like this before.” She looked wonderingly and her parents didn’t know what to say. They entered the house and went up the long narrow staircase. Barbro, who had been so carefree when showing them the way, suddenly went white in the face. She broke out in a cold sweat and reached for her mother’s hand. Her mother was horrified when she felt Barbro’s hand, which was as cold as ice.
When they entered the hiding place, the same terrors overcame Barbro that she had experienced so many times in her dreams. She found it hard to breathe and panic spread through her body. When they went into one of the smaller rooms, she suddenly stood still and brightened up a little.
Barbro looked at the wall in front of her and exclaimed, “Look, the pictures of the film stars are still there!” The pictures of the movie stars that Anne had clipped and affixed to the wall, which Barbro saw at that moment, made her feel happy, almost as if she had come home.
Pictures Affixed by Anne Frank
Her mother stared at the blank wall and couldn’t understand this at all. “What pictures? The wall is bare?” Barbro looked again and she saw that this was true. The wall was bare! Her mother was so confounded that she felt driven to ask one of the guides whether there had been pictures on the wall at one time.
“Oh yes,” the guide replied, “they had only been taken down temporarily to be mounted under glass so that they wouldn’t be destroyed or stolen.” Barbro’s mother didn’t know what to say.
“How in the world could you find your way here first of all, then insist that the steps outside were different and then see the pictures on the wall when they weren’t there?”
Barbro’s mother was full of questions, but Barbro was quite incapable of saying even a single word. She just wanted to get out of there; she couldn’t stand it a moment longer.
Her legs felt like jelly as she went down the stairs. She had never before in her life felt so wretched. The tears ran unrestrained down her face, and her legs would not carry her. When she reached the bottom step her legs folded under her and she fell.
Barbro’s Parents Accept that She had a Past Life as Anne Frank
Barbro relates that these incidents in Amsterdam finally made her parents believe that she is the reincarnation of Anne Frank. After all, how else could she know how to get to the Anne Frank House on the family’s first trip to Amsterdam, and without directions? How could she know that the stairs had been modified? How did she know that pictures of movie stars, which Anne Frank had clipped from magazines, should be found on a specific wall inside the house, when these pictures had been removed so that they could be mounted behind glass?
In time, Barbro’s mother responded by becoming very spiritual and a believer in reincarnation. Barbro’s father, on the other hand, seemed annoyed. Barbro relates that her father responded by saying: “I can’t deny that you have somehow been here before. Perhaps you have lived before and have reincarnated, but you are the only one!”
Barbro understood that by being faced with the reality of reincarnation, her father’s Christian world view, where “everything was set right,” was threatened. Barbro was much happier, though, as from this point on as she could talk to her mother about her past lifetime as Anne Frank. She had her mother’s support.
Past Life Talent: Barbro Karlen is a Childhood Writing Prodigy, like Anne Frank
Anne Frank was a childhood writing prodigy. She is not the most famous victim of the Holocaust because she had the worst death. Rather, she become the most famous victim because as a teenager she wrote a book, a diary, that was readable and addressed universal themes, such as the nature of man and man’s tendency to be good or evil. Children around the world have been instructed to read The Diary of Anne Frank to learn about prejudice, which has made Anne’s diary the second most read book in the world, next to the Bible.
Like Anne Frank, Barbro Karlen was a childhood writing prodigy. Barbro relates that learning to write was a great gift. As a child, she could not speak to anyone about her past life memories, but once she learned to write, she could have discourses on her writing tablet.
One day, when she was eleven or so, a family friend read a few of her compositions and realized that this was worthy prose. Barbro was asked if her casual writings could be sent to a publisher, which she agreed to.
Published when Barbro was 12 years of age
At the age of twelve, her first book of prose was published. This book, Man on Earth, became the best-selling prose/poetry book in Swedish history. Barbro became a child celebrity, debating theology with ministers and theologians on television programs. In her teenage years, she had a total of nine books published. These books, written in her youth, have been translated into multiple languages, much like the Diary of Anne Frank.
Barbro’s Past Life Memories Recede, then Reemerge when She encounters Reincarnated Nazi Guards
After her adolescence passed, Barbro’s past life memories began to fade, which was a relief to Barbro, as now she could finally lead a normal life. As she pursued her career with the Swedish Police Service, Barbro thought that she never would be public regarding her memories of being Anne Frank. As Barbro wistfully states in her video interview, though, “never say never.”
It was not until she was in her forties that past life memories began to emerge again. Barbro began having negative interactions with another mounted police officer, who seemed to be persecuting her. It was these interactions that triggered the rekindling of her memories of being Anne Frank and in particular, she recalled scenes from a concentration camp. Barbro realized that this police officer was a reincarnated Nazi guard from the Bergen-Belsen concentration.
Though these past life memories were painful, they gave Barbro the will to write her book, And the Wolves Howled. Barbro relates that she wanted to show that though these guards, these wolves, participated in her persecution in the Anne Frank lifetime, she would not allow them to hurt her again in contemporary times. She wanted to share with others that the soul perseveres and in this way, to provide comfort to others.
Barbro Meets her Past Life Cousin, Buddy Elias, President of the Anne Frank Foundation
As she prepared her book, And the Wolves Howled, for publication, Buddy Elias, President of the Anne Frank Foundation and at the time, the last living relative of Anne Frank, heard about Barbro’s claim to be the reincarnation of his cousin, Anne Frank. Through her publisher, Buddy invited Barbro to his home for dinner, though he asked Barbro’s publisher not to reveal who he was in relation to Anne Frank or the Anne Frank Foundation. Buddy advised the publisher to tell Barbro that their dinner host was a fan of the books she wrote as a child and adolescent. Though he did not believe in reincarnation, Buddy wanted to meet this person who claimed to be the reincarnation of Anne. Buddy and Anne Frank, as cousins, played together in their youth.
Barbro describes her first face to face meeting with Buddy, which occurred in 1995, in the Barbro Karlen: Reincarnation of Anne Frank video, which is provided at the bottom of this web page.
Barbro relates that when they first saw each other, she and Buddy fell into each others arms and cried together. Barbro says she had instant recognition that Buddy was someone she knew and loved from the Frank lifetime. They spoke for two hours at the time of this first meeting and they continued to be very good friends for 20 years, until Buddy’s death in 2015. Barbro would stay at Buddy’s home in Switzerland when she visited Europe and Buddy had stayed in Barbro’s home when he visited her in the United States.
Buddy Elias Speaks at Barbro Karlen’s And the Wolves Howled Book Event
An article from the leading German magazine, Zeitspiegel, was published regarding this event on May 19, 1998:
“Buddy Elias, actor in Basel, is the cousin of Anne Frank and the President of the Anne Frank Foundation. Buddy Elias met with Anne Frank the last time just before the war broke out. She mentions him as “Bernd” in her Diary many times.
Anne’s father, Otto Frank, returned to Amsterdam after his liberation from Aushwitz. He then lived with his nephew, Buddy Elias, in Basel until his death.
Two years ago, Buddy Elias and Barbro Karlen met for the first time. At the presentation of the autobiography by Barbro Karlen, Buddy Elias read parts of it for the audience.
Bruckenbauer: “Buddy Elias, what memories do you have of your cousin, Anne Frank?”
Buddy Elias: “She was a very pleasant person, a lively child with her head full of ideas how to live. We loved each other very much, when the war began, we corresponded with each other.”
“Do you believe in reincarnation?”
Buddy Elias: “Yes, I do.”
“So how is it for you when a woman claims she is the reincarnation of your cousin? Barbro Karlen is not the only one!”
“I have been very skeptical, but Barbro is different from everybody else.”
“How was the first meeting with Barbro?”
“It was very emotional. First time I saw her, I had heard about her. I had a very strange feeling, a very positive impression. It felt like we had a soul connection. Barbro seemed absolutely trustworthy to me. I could very well imagine she was Anne. More than that I can not say. I have Anne too close in my memory to say anything more.”
“Do you see any similarities between Anne and Barbro?”
“The black hair is obvious!”
“Will you stay in touch with Barbro?”
“Of course, I have developed a very deep friendship with her.”
To view a video of Buddy Elias talking about his relationshp with Anne Frank, please go to:
Barbro Moves to California, where Walter Semkiw, MD observes that Anne Frank and Barbro Karlen have the Same Facial Features
Barbro and a female friend of hers took a vacation to experience California’s coastal Highway 1. While on that trip, based on an intuition, Barbro decided to open a Swedish import shop in Carmel, even though she had no prior experience in business or retail sales. Barbro moved from Sweden to Northern California, where I met her. When I first received the phone call in 2000, in which I was told about a woman who claimed to be the reincarnation of Anne Frank, I was very skeptical. When I met her and listened to her story, I came to believe that she is genuine and that I had truly met the reincarnation of Anne Frank.
In her book, Barbro never mentions that she has the same appearance as Anne Frank, as her memories are what are most meaningful to her, not appearance. Upon meeting her, I realized that Barbro has the same facial features as Anne.
In the image comparison featured on this website, Barbro as a seven year old girl is featured on the left side, Anne Frank as a teenager is in the center and Barbro as an adult is on the right side. It appears that we are looking at images of one person in three stages of life. In actuality, we are looking at one soul in two different lifetimes.
Anne Frank & Barbro Karlen: Reincarnation & Similarities in Personality
In addition to facial features, there are many character similarities between Barbro and Anne. These include:
“Spiritual insight rarely falls from the lips of a thirteen or fourteen year old girl. Indeed, as many of the new entries in the diary will show, Anne Frank was essentially a physical being, a lover of nature, intrigued with her own sexuality.”
These traits are reflected in Barbro Karlen, who at sixteen years of age used her book earnings to purchase a cottage in the woods. She soon populated her property with her horse, two dogs, two cats, a sheep and a flock of hens and chicks. Barbro especially loved her horse and horseback riding, which eventually led her to pursue a career as a mounted policewoman.
Her sexuality is evidenced by an early marriage and her pregnancy at the age of 18. Indeed, many of Anne’s desires seem to have come to fruition early in the life of Barbro Karlen.
B. Natural literary skills
Anne Frank had natural gifts as a writer. Similarly, Barbro Karlen was a childhood literary prodigy. Her first book, Man on Earth, which was published when she was 12 years of age and became the all time best-selling poetry book in Sweden. Between ages 12 to 17, nine books written by Barbro, including When the Storm Comes and a Moment in the Blossom Kingdom, were published.
It is interesting to note that Anne Frank always hoped to be a published writer. On May 11, 1944, Anne wrote that her “greatest wish” was to become a journalist, “and later on, a famous writer.” Once again, it appears that Anne’s desires were fulfilled early in the life of Barbro Karlen.
C. Similar Writing Themes
Similar themes are found in the writings of Frank and Karlen. Though one may argue that these similarities are intentional, Barbro Karlen maintains that she has not studied Anne Frank’s works.
Anne Frank, due to the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis, reflected extensively on issues of good and evil. Anne also had a tendency to personify human qualities, as seen in the quotation cited below regarding “Lies.” Anne’s legacy is based on her ability to maintain hope in the face of dismal circumstances. Anne Frank’s most famous quote affirms the basic goodness of man.
Barbro Karlen also writes of good and evil in her book, And the Wolves Howled, in part due to her memories of the Frank lifetime and in part due to persecution experienced in this lifetime while working for the Swedish Police Service. Barbro also has a tendency to personify human qualities, like Anne. Let us compare passages written by Frank and Karlen regarding evil:
Anne Frank-On Evil
“There’s in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage.”
“I get frightened myself when I think of close friends who are now at the mercy of the cruelest monsters ever to stalk the earth. And all because we are Jews.”
“Yesterday evening, before I fell asleep, who should suddenly appear before my eyes but Lies! I saw her in front of me, clothed in rags…Her eyes were very big and she looked so sadly and reproachfully at me that I could read in her eyes: Oh Anne, why have you deserted me? Help, oh help me, rescue me from this hell!”
Barbro Karlen-On Evil
“If only she could write about how important, even vital it is never to give up in the face of evil, regardless of how dark and wretched everything may seem. Evil was present on the earth and would probably always be there. It would always try to conquer Good.”
Anne Frank-On Good
“In spite of everything, I still really believe that people are really good at heart.”
Barbro Karlen-On Good
“But the more people there were who believed in Good, and in the Good Force within themselves, the greater the possibility of keeping evil under control. If only they could believe in Good, and in the presence of the inner Force, many unhappy people would be able to fight their way up from the darkness.”
“Most people on earth were not yet aware that they could find the Good Force within themselves and that it could help them if they only sought it out.”
Annette Lantos meets Barbro Karlen & Invites Barbro & Me to Washington, DC
Annette Lantos is the wife of the late Tom Lantos, who served in the United States Congress for 27 years. Tom, whose picture is featured to the right, was the only Holocaust survivor to be elected to the US Congress. When President George W. Bush traveled to Germany for a Holocaust memorial, he took Tom with him. U2 singer Bono was a close friend, as he admired Tom’s dedication to bringing justice to the darkest corners of the world.
It was Annette and Tom who nominated the 14th Dalai Lama for a Nobel Prize, which he won.
When Annette heard about Barbro’s case, she wanted to meet Barbro, as Annette is also is a Holocaust survivor. Annette, Barbro and I spent almost 3 hours in Tom’s Congressional office in San Mateo, California. Tom and Annette were very much in love and while we were in a conference room, Tom repeatedly poked his head into the room to ask his beloved wife whether she was finished. Annette, fascinated with Barbro’s story, kept sending Tom away.
Barbro and Walter Meet Condolezza Rice & Charity Sunshine
By the end of our meeting, Annette was intrigued enough by the proposal that Barbro is the reincarnation of Anne Frank that she asked us to attend a “by invitation only” benefit concert at the Kennedy Center, in Washington DC. At this event, Tom and Annette’s granddaughter, Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick, would sing and Condoleezza Rice would accompany Charity on the piano. We did attend, sat in the front row and later met Dr. Rice at a reception.
Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice and the Tom Lantos Tunnels
Annette now serves as the Chairman of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice. In honor of Tom, recently constructed tunnels along Highway 1 between San Francisco and Half Moon Bay have been named the Tom Lantos Tunnels. Every time I traverse these tunnels, I fondly reflect on Tom, Annette and Charity, and our experiences in Washington, DC.
Children’s Past Life Author Carol Bowman supports the Anne Frank | Barbro Karlen Reincarnation Case
A person who supports Barbro’s case is Carol Bowman, who is a pioneer in studying children who spontaneously recall past lives. In 2006, Carol and Barbro attended a reincarnation conference in Colorado Springs. In addition to Carol learning about Barbro’s case, Carol and Barbro had the opportunity to spend an afternoon together horseback riding. Carol has stated that she judges Barbro’s reincarnation case to be a strong one.
Carol shared an amusing anecdote regarding the time they spent together. To go horseback riding, Carol and Barbro had to take a taxi from the hotel to the stables. Carol was raised Jewish and both women were taken aback when their taxi driver turned out to be a bearded Hasidic Jew wearing the traditional black hat and clothing. Carol reflected, “What are the odds of getting a taxi driver who is a Hasidic Jew in Colorado Springs?”
Anne Frank & Possible Reincarnation Prophecy: God Will Raise Us Up Again
I will cite one last quotation from Anne Frank’s diary, which refers to the perseverance of the Jewish faith and people. It also has a poetic ring of truth regarding reincarnation, perhaps not intended by Anne, yet beautiful all the same.
“Who has inflicted this upon us?
Who has made us Jews different from all other people?
Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now?
It is God who had made us who we are,
but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again.”
Past Life Physical Resemblance: Anne Frank and Barbro Karlen have the same facial features. It is of interest that Barbro never mentions this physical resemblance to Anne in her book And the Wolves Howled, though others had told her that she looks like Anne Frank. The physical resemblance between Anne and Barbro was first published in 2006 in my book: Born Again
Past Life Talent: Barbro Karlen was a childhood writing prodigy, as was Anne Frank.
Phobias from a Past Lifetime: Barbro had an irrational fear of men in police uniforms, which seems to stem from Anne’s experience with Nazi soldiers and concentration camp guards. Barbro also had an aversion to showers, did not want to eat beans and resisted having her hair cut, which also reflect incidents in Anne Frank’s life, as described above.
Geographic Memory: On her first visit to Amsterdam at the age of ten, Barbro was able to spontaneously lead her parents from their hotel to the Anne Frank House, without directions.
If the Nazi’s during World War II knew that one could be born Jewish in one lifetime and Christian in another, the Holocaust could never have happened. Similarly, when Muslim Palestinians realize that then can be reborn as Israeli Jews, when Sunni’s know they can reincarnate as Shiites, Christians understand they can be reborn into an Islamic culture and vice versa, then conflict based on these cultural differences of identity will be mitigated.
Barbro Karlen’s case dramatically demonstrates how reincarnation research and evidence of reincarnation can transform the world in a positive way.
Anne Frank | Barbro Karlen Video Full Length-35 Minutes
Spirit Being Ahtun Re Won’t Reveal Contemporary Identities of Laurel & Hardy
I have worked with trance medium Kevin Ryerson, who has been made famous through his collaboration with Shirley MacLaine, since 2001. Since that time, a spirit being that Kevin channels named Ahtun Re has demonstrated to me that he has the ability to make past life matches with a high degree of accuracy. Cases that dramatically demonstrate Ahtun Re’s abilities can be reviewed at:
A set of cases which dramatically demonstrate Ahtun Re’s ability to make valid past life matches involves the reincarnation cases of Laurel & Hardy. After working with Kevin Ryerson for a period of a few months in late 2001 and early 2002 and realizing that Ahtun Re was able to make what appeared to be accurate past life matches, I began asking about well-known people across time. For contemporary figures I asked about past lives, for historical figures, I inquired whether they had reincarnated in contemporary times.
Starting in 2003, I asked Ahtun Re whether Laurel and Hardy had reincarnated in contemporary times. Ahtun Re told me that they had, but he would not reveal to me who they were, which peeved me. When I inquired why he could not divulge their identities to me, Ahtun Re simply replied, “We cannot tell you at this time.”
Over the next year, I tried to circumvent his decree by hypothesizing matches. I would inquire whether various slim contemporary comedians may be the reincarnation of Stan Laurel and whether various chubby comedians may be Oliver Hardy reincarnated. To all my hypothesized matches, Ahtun Re would tell me that the proposed match was incorrect, but he still refused to tell me who Laurel and Hardy were in contemporary times. Having exhausted all the possibilities for matches that I could think of, I gave up and forgot about the issue for about a year.
Spirit Guide Ahtun Re does not Rubber Stamp Proposed Reincarnation Cases
At this juncture, I would like to point out that one of the reasons I have grown to trust Ahtun Re’s ability to make past life matches is that he does not “rubber stamp” proposed reincarnation cases.
On the contrary, most matches that people propose are deemed inaccurate by Ahtun Re. When I myself try to derive a past life match, many times Ahtun Re will tell me that I am inaccurate, but when the true match is found and then confirmed by Ahtun Re, it uniformly turns out to be a very compelling case. It is my experience with Ahtun Re, through monthly sessions that have taken place since 2001, and a database of over a thousand reincarnation cases, that gives me perspective on his ability to make accurate past life matches.
The Reincarnations of Laurel and Hardy: A Best New Comedy Team
Let us now return to the cases of Laurel and Hardy. As mentioned, since Ahtun Re would not reveal the contemporary identities of Stan and Ollie and he refuted my numerous hypotheses, I gave up on finding them. A year or two passed when my interest was suddenly rekindled by seeing a cover of an old Rolling Stone magazine that was placed in one of my exam rooms, which had on it a small headline on it, “Best New Comedy Team.” Despite going through every page of this magazine, I couldn’t find anything in it about a new comedy team, but I had the feeling that I should search the Internet for new comedy teams.
Not only were these two brothers naturally funny looking, they were funny looking like Laurel and Hardy were funny looking. I intuitively and deeply knew that I had found them. Josh, the older brother, was the skinny Stan Laurel character and Danny was the chubby Oliver Hardy. In fact, the only major difference in appearance between Stan and Ollie and Josh and Danny is that Oliver Hardy was much heavier than Danny is.
Spirit Being Ahtun Re Affirms Josh & Danny as Laurel & Hardy Reincarnated
In my next session with Kevin Ryerson, after refuting all my previous proposed matches that I had made for Laurel and Hardy, Ahtun Re confirmed that Josh and Danny Bacher are the reincarnated comedy team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
It is important for me to share that on Josh and Danny’s personal website, as well as the website of the theater they were performing at, there was absolutely no mention of Josh and Danny having any affinity for Laurel and Hardy.
Other than the title of their show, there was no description of what their show would contain. In other words, when I was about to contact the Bacher boys regarding their past life cases, I had no idea of how they would respond to being told that they are the reincarnations of Laurel and Hardy. As we will learn below, Josh and Danny had been reliving the lives of Laurel & Hardy ever since they were children.
Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy Life Stories
Stan Laurel was born in 1890, in Ulverston, England, while Oliver Hardy was born in Harlem, Georgia, in the United States. Stan worked as a comedian in Glasgow and eventually came to the US, where he joined a touring group that included Charlie Chaplin, which eventually led him to Los Angeles. Stan, by the way, believed in reincarnation and this theme was featured in Laurel & Hardy’s classic movie, The Flying Deuces.
Oliver started performing as a singer in a minstrel show and as an adult, migrated to California and signed with the producer, Hal Roach. Leo McCarey, a director working for Roach, wanted to create a comedy team for film shorts made up of a skinny guy with a fat guy. McCarey brought Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy together for the project and the comedy team that would last over 20 years was born.
Ian Stevenson, MD Twin Study Supports Souls Plan Lifetimes
With the belief that I had found the reincarnations of Laurel and Hardy as two brothers, I wondered at the mechanism of how reincarnation and life works. If the cases of Stan and Ollie | Josh and Danny are valid, then a comedy team that came together from across the Atlantic Ocean in 1926 was now reunited as two brothers, who were performing comedy once again in New York City, 80 years later.
Ian Stevenson studied 31 cases of twins whose past lives had been objectively validated. In all 31 cases, the twins had close relationships in their past incarnations. The most common type of past life relationship was that of siblings, which represented 11/31 or 35% of cases.
In 9/31 or 29% of twin cases, the twins were friends, acquaintances or business associates. Other family relationships, such as being cousins, made up 6/31 or 19% of twin cases. In 5/31 or 16% of twin cases, the twins were married in the past incarnation. (1)
In the reincarnation cases of Burmese twins that were part of this analysis, photographs are available showing that physical appearance remained consistent from one lifetime to another. In the images provided above, Phyu reincarnated as San and Saipai reincarnated as Nyunt. Phyu and Saipai were sisters who were very close. They died as elderly women and reincarnated as the twins, San and Nyunt. To learn more, go to:
Ian Stevenson’s twin study dramatically shows that souls, including relatives, friends and business partners, can plan future lifetimes and be born together within families, as demonstrated in the Laurel & Hardy | Bacher Boys cases.
The Reincarnations of Laurel & Hardy were Raised Jewish: Change in Religion
Though I was living in San Francisco, I called the Theater for the New City, in Manhattan, where the Josh and Danny would be performing, and purchased tickets for their show. I also asked that the Bacher brothers contact me, indicating that I could make some connections for them in Hollywood.
As noted above, I had no idea how Josh and Danny would react when I would advise them that according to my work with Kevin and Ahtun Re, they are the reincarnation of Laurel & Hardy. Nothing on their website or the theater’s web site mentioned that they had any affinity for Laurel & Hardy. For me, the fact that there was no knowledge in advance regarding these matters made me especially impressed of Ahtun Re’s confirmation of these reincarnation cases.
Affinity Case: The Reincarnations of Oliver Hardy Reveal the Great Influence that Laurel & Hardy have Been on the Brother’s Lives
Danny Bacher telephoned me within a couple days. After discussing ways I could possibly help them in their careers, I told Danny about my book, Return of the Revolutionaries, and then carefully explained to Danny the principles of reincarnation that were emerging from cases researched by Ian Stevenson, MD of the University of Virgina, as well as cases solved through my work with Kevin Ryerson.
I asked Danny if he had any particular spiritual leanings and he replied, “We were raised Jewish.” I could tell that Danny was starting to wonder where this was going and what all this had to do with their comedy work. I then blurted out, “You and Josh have been confirmed to be the reincarnations of Laurel and Hardy by Ahtun Re, an Egyptian spirit guide channeled through Kevin Ryerson.”
After a moment, Danny replied, “I don’t know about this reincarnation stuff, but what you say is very interesting because by far, the biggest influences on our lives, in terms of our comedic development, have been Laurel and Hardy.”
The Reincarnation of Oliver Hardy owns Ollie’s Pants & Suit–Astronomical Odds
What I learned next caused even me to be dumbfounded. Danny shared that he is one of the most extensive collectors of Laurel and Hardy memorabilia in the world. Danny has the actual pair of pants that Oliver Hardy wore in the famous dance sequence filmed in Way Out West. As pictured above, Danny has this pair of pants framed and behind glass on his bedroom wall.
Danny also has a full suit that Oliver Hardy wore, which is fitted on a manikin that stands in a corner of Danny’s bedroom. The boys have also acquired a jacket that Stanley Laurel wore, which is situated next to Ollie’s suit. This apparel, owned by Laurel & Hardy and now possessed by the reincarnations of Laurel & Hardy, are featured to the right. In addition, Josh and Danny lived together for many years in a townhouse with thousands of Laurel and Hardy artifacts on display.
What are the odds that I would call two unknown aspiring comedians, who nobody had heard of, who I was calling to inform that they are the reincarnations of Laurel and Hardy, based on the affirmation of an Egyptian spirit guide who has been dead for over 3000 years, and who turn out to have the actual clothing of Laurel and Hardy in their home as prized possessions?
A physician friend of mine assessed that the odds of this occurring by chance are astronomical.
Past Life Behavior & Music: Josh and Danny Drive around New York with Laurel & Hardy Theme Music
Another example of Josh and Danny’s extreme identification with Laurel and Hardy goes back to 1991, when the boys purchased their first car utilizing savings from their newspaper routes. Josh and Danny had created a cassette tape featuring music compiled from Laurel and Hardy’s movies. They would drive together around New York City and New Jersey in their Plymouth while playing music from Laurel and Hardy movies. The only thing that would be more suiting would be if they were driving a Ford Model T down Broadway.
Reflect on how unusual it is to make a custom tape of Laurel and Hardy theme music and play it while driving in one’s car. Note that Josh and Danny did this almost 15 years before I contacted them to inform them that they are the reincarnations of Laurel and Hardy. Again, what are the odds of this happening by chance?
Metaphysical Center of New Jersey: A Synchronistic Connection
Following our initial conversation, I sent Josh and Danny a copy of my book, Return of the Revolutionaries, and a videotape of Barbro Karlen telling her story of being the reincarnation of Anne Frank, which for me, is one of the most important of past life cases. I made plans to attend their show in New York because one, I wanted to meet the reincarnations of Laurel and Hardy, and two, I wanted to see if Josh and Danny could make people laugh like Laurel and Hardy did.
I then worked on arranging a reincarnation presentation while in New York, as a way to maximize the usefulness of my trip to the East Coast. I had recently presented at the New Life Expo in New York City in October 2005, where I was approached by Harriet Wagniere, the Director of the Metaphysical Center of New Jersey, who asked if I would consider speaking at their center in Wayne, New Jersey. At the time, I told her that I would love to, but I had no idea of when I would be back in the area, since I lived in California.
Now, since I would be in New York to see the Bacher Boys, I called Harriet to inquire whether if could speak at their center on that same weekend in January 2006. Though I had told Danny that I would keep the Laurel and Hardy match quiet until the brothers had time to digest it, I couldn’t resist sharing the secret with Harriet. I told her that I was coming to New York to meet the reincarnations of Laurel and Hardy. Harriet was surprised and asked, “Can I know who they are?”
After a fleeting moment of attempting to keep the matches confidential, I advised Harriet that I would tell her only if she would not divulge the information to anyone. Harriet agreed and so I let out the identities of the reincarnated Laurel and Hardy. Harriet then exclaimed, “I know Josh and Danny Bacher, I used to teach high school in Wayne and they were my students!”
When Harriet said that, I was a bit flabbergasted at the coincidence, yet at the same time, I have come to expect synchronistic events to occur as part of reincarnation research. In the end, this opportune coincidence resulted in the Metaphysical Center of New Jersey hosting my presentation at a venue in Wayne, New Jersey, located five minutes from where the parents of Josh and Danny live, which is about a 40 minute drive from New York City.
How do these synchronistic connections occur? One way is that our souls are aware of much more that we are aware of in our limited human consciousness. In the case involving Harriet, it may be that Ahtun Re knew that eventually I would discover the reincarnations of Laurel & Hardy, who Harriet knew as she was their schoolteacher in their contemporary incarnations. Communication between the Ahtun Re’s soul, my soul and Harriet’s soul regarding the upcoming identifications of Laurel & Hardy could have facilitated Harriet inviting me to speak at her metaphysical center.
Past Life Behavior: Josh & Danny Replicate the Relationship of Laurel & Hardy
I saw Josh and Danny perform on January 14, 2006 and I found myself laughing out loud, much as I had laughed at the antics of Stan and Ollie. Though they are of a different generation, they are just as funny and they relate to each other just as Stan and Ollie did. Josh, the skinny brother, plays the role of the innocent, sometimes confused one, who can break down whimpering when a plan goes wrong, while Danny, the slightly chubby brother, plays the role of the more sophisticated, intelligent and worldly one, who inevitably gets tripped up by Josh’s antics.
Reincarnation & Past life Talent: Josh & Danny Create a Silent Movie
The highlight for me was a silent movie that Josh and Danny created for their performance. It was as humorous as any silent movie that Hal Roach ever created, filled with slapstick, a gorilla on the loose, a Keystone cop and a blind girl who evokes empathy and at the same time, accidentally gives Danny a nasty whack to his private parts with her white cane. In that silent film and indeed, in the entire show, Josh and Danny reenacted the comedic development of Laurel and Hardy, much as Peter Teekamp replicated the artistic development of Paul Gauguin and Alexandra Nechita replicated the work of Picasso.
Reflect on the fact that not many modern-day comics create a 1920’s style slapstick silent movie as part of their act. I myself had never seen a modern-day silent movie, until I saw the one that Josh and Danny created. To view a version of their film adapted for the Internet, please go to:
I was honored to have Josh and Danny, as well as their parents, Joel and Jane, attend my presentation on reincarnation research the day following the Bacher Boys’ New York City show. This presentation took place in Wayne, New Jersey. One can view the bringing of us together by Harriet Wagniere as a coincidence, but as discussed above, it also can be perceived as the work of spiritual guidance.
Consider the case of Captain Robert Snow and how he was brought to New Orleans by his wife, where he found the portrait of the hunchback woman, as well as his past lifetime as Carroll Beckwith. Though Captain Snow’s wife and Harriet Wagniere may not have had a telepathic voice tell them what to do, intuitions and desires can be just as effectively in coordinating events.
Affinity Reincarnation Cases: As Kids, Josh and Danny are Obsessed with Laurel & Hardy Dolls
The Bacher Boys and their parents found the proposal that Josh and Danny are the reincarnation of Laurel and Hardy intriguing and they noted correspondences. Josh was born on August 22, 1976, eleven years after Stan Laurel died. When Josh was born, he was given a set of Laurel and Hardy dolls by his cousin Sally. Joel and Jane Bacher relate that their son, Josh, loved the Laurel and Hardy dolls and they became his very favorite toys.
Danny was born on January 15, 1978, about 2 years after Josh and about twenty years after Oliver Hardy had died. Over the preceding years, Josh had played with the Laurel and Hardy dolls so intensely that when Danny was born, only the rubber heads still survived. Throughout their childhoods, Josh and Danny continued to play with the Stan and Ollie heads and they still have them, decades later.
As young children, Josh and Danny would often imitate Laurel and Hardy. Josh was always Stan and Dan was always Ollie. Danny would draw Oliver like mustaches on his toys and he himself would wear an Ollie mustache made out of black felt, which he would affix to his upper lip with transparent tape. While Danny wore his Ollie mustache, Josh would imitate Stanley, scratching the top of his head.
Josh and Danny acted like Stan and Ollie whenever they could and Joel and Jane Bacher, their parents, reflect that it was challenging, though entertaining, going out into the world, doing shopping and chores, along with little Laurel and Hardy (hopefully not too much property, such as pianos and automobiles, were destroyed in the process).
Further, Mr. Bacher, a trial attorney, relates that at their birthdays, the boys would always insist on showing Laurel and Hardy silent films, which were borrowed from the local library. As they grew up, Josh and Danny would develop comedy routines based on Laurel and Hardy, as well as other comedians old and new, which culminated in their January 2006, New York, Off-Broadway debut. Their self-proclaimed mission is to: “Bring joy and laughter to a world in need of a good laugh.”
View the Reincarnations of Laurel and Hardy Performing Again
View the The Bacher Boys silent movie, The Wrong Arm of the Law, in which Josh & Danny have created their own slapstick comedy. The Bacher Boys made this movie before Walter Semkiw contacted them regarding their past lives as Laurel & Hardy.
In addition, view the Reincarnation Exploration television pilot, created by Josh and Danny, which features Josh & Danny’s reaction to being told of their proposed past lives. In addition, archival footage provided by their parents shows how Josh and Danny created slapstick movies as children, replicating the comedic development of Stan & Ollie.
In Reincarnation Exploration, Josh & Danny’s parents are interviewed, who relate that their sons extensively pretended that they were Laurel & Hardy when they were young. In addition, the Bacher Boys’ huge Laurel & Hardy memorabilia collection is shown, including genuine clothing worn by Laurel & Hardy.
Spirit Being Ahtun Re’s Ability to Make Accurate Reincarnation Identifications
Josh & Danny began replicating the behavior, abilities and talent of Laurel & Hardy, as well as collecting Laurel & Hardy memorabilia, years before Walter contacted them regarding their being the reincarnations of Stan & Ollie. Further, before Walter contacted the Bacher Boys about their past lives in 2005, he had no knowledge of Josh and Danny’s childhood Laurel & Hardy behavior, including making slapstick movies, nor did he know of their Laurel & Hardy collection. Lack of this knowledge prior to Walter contacting Josh and Danny makes Ahtun Re’s confirmation that the Bacher Boys are the reincarnations of Laurel & Hardy impressive.
These compelling reincarnation cases demonstrate the following features:
Physical Resemblance in Past Life Cases: Josh and Danny exibit uncanny resemblances to Laurel and Hardy. One difference is that Oliver Hardy was much heavier than Danny Bacher is.
Past Life Innate Talent: The Bacher Boys have replicated the comedic development of Laurel and Hardy, as demonstrated in their performances in The Funniest Show in the World About the History of Comedy, Performed by Two Brothers, in Less Than Two Hours, For Under Twenty Bucks, and in their videos featured on this page.
Planning Lifetimes and Relationships Renewed through Reincarnation: The comedy team of Laurel and Hardy have reincarnated as two brothers. These cases dramatically demonstrate how souls can plan lifetimes, as Laurel and Hardy engineered incarnations within the same family.
Spirit Being Involvement: The Laurel and Hardy reincarnation cases were derived through the assistance of Ahtun Re, a spirit being channeled through Kevin Ryerson.
In addition, it is possible that guidance by spirit beings caused Harriet Wagniere, the Director of the Metaphysical Center of New Jersey, to ask me to speak at her center when we met at the New Life Expo in New York City in October 2005, before I had identified Josh and Danny as the reincarnations of Laurel and Hardy.
Her invitation allowed me to present evidence of reincarnation to the Bacher Boys, as well as their family and friends, which I believe helped enlist the support of these individuals. Please note that Harriet’s request occurred just before the matches involving Josh and Danny were made. As such, if Harriet’s request was truly guided, it may be that my association with the Bacher Boys was predestined.
Change in Religion: Laurel and Hardy were both Christian, whereas Josh and Danny were raised Jewish. Joel Bacher, their father, is Jewish while their mother, Jane, was born into a Christian family.
Affinity Cases: Josh and Danny were obsessed with Laurel and Hardy since they were toddlers. As such, they appear to have been innately attracted to their own past life personas. Though Josh was given a set of Laurel and Hardy dolls as a child, which could have stimulated interest, this does not explain their obsession with Laurel and Hardy in adulthood, as evidenced by Danny becoming a world-class collector of memorabilia involving Stan and Ollie, or their decision to become professional comedians and performers.
Recall that Danny has a genuine suit and pair of pants that were worn by Oliver Hardy in his bedroom, which he obtained at substantial cost. Also, back in 1991, the boys created a cassette tape featuring music from Laurel and Hardy movies, which they would play as they drove around in their car. At the time that I contacted Danny in 2005 to advise him that he was identified as the reincarnation of Oliver Hardy, I had no knowledge of Josh and Danny’s obsession with Laurel and Hardy. The odds of this occurring by chance are extremely small.
I term these types of cases “affinity cases,” where individuals are naturally attracted to their own past lives.
It was Kevin Ryerson who first formulated the hypothesis that John Kerry is the reincarnation of Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States. In a subsequent session with Kevin, Ahtun Re, the spirit guide channeled by Kevin, who has a track record of making accurate past life matches, agreed that Kerry is the reincarnation of Jackson.
Andrew Jackson was born in 1767, in the border area between North and South Carolina, and died in 1845. John Kerry was born 98 years later, in 1943. There are a significant number of parallels in the lives and careers of Jackson and Kerry
Volunteering for Military Service Early in Life & Demonstrating Courage and Leadership in Military Service.
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 and when the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, Andrew was but nine years old. Four years later, at age 13, Andrew volunteered to serve in the Revolutionary War as a courier. After the war, Andrew studied law and began a distinguished career as a prosecutor and later as a judge.
Jackson continued to participate in military affairs and in 1802 was elected Major General of the Tennessee militia, a rank that was later also given to him in the regular army. Jackson is most remembered for his military service in the Battle of New Orleans, in the War of 1812. Due to his leadership and bravery in that battle, Jackson soon became a hero in the psyche of Americans.
John Kerry
John Kerry also volunteered for armed service early in his life. Just as he was about to graduate from Yale, Kerry volunteered to serve in Vietnam. In his second tour of duty, Kerry volunteered to command a Swift Boat, patrolling river deltas, one of the most dangerous of assignments. In the course of his career in the military, Kerry was awarded a Silver Star, a Bronze Star with Combat V and three Purple Hearts. After the war, Kerry co-founded Vietnam Veterans of America and later became Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. In was in this capacity, working on the behalf of Prisoners of War and those Missing In Action, that Kerry became friends with John McCain.
Trait of Disobeying/Protesting Orders when Orders were Perceived to be Wrong
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson demonstrated defiance of authority when he felt the position of those in authority was wrong. This trait is illustrated in the following examples:
When Andrew served in the Revolutionary War as a courier, at age 13, he was taken prisoner by the British for a period of time. When a British officer demanded that Andrew shine the officer’s shoes, Andrew refused. The British officer responded by striking him on the hand with his sword, which resulted in a deep laceration of Andrew’s hand.
During the War of 1812, Major General Andrew Jackson was ordered to march his Tennessee troops to Natchez, Mississippi. When they arrived, Jackson was told that his men were not needed and that he should disband his group of soldiers. Jackson thought the orders were wrong and he defied them. Instead, he led his troops back home to Tennessee. In was in this march that Jackson earned the nickname “Old Hickory.” Due to the strict discipline maintained on the march, Jackson was perceived by his men as being “tough as hickory.”
John Kerry
John Kerry also has demonstrated the trait of going against the military establishment, when he thought military leaders were making bad decisions, or when standing orders were not in the best interest of his men.
One example involves his service as a Swift Boat commander. At one point, Kerry’s boat came under attack. Instead of returning fire with his vessel broadside to the enemy, which is standard operating procedure, Kerry ordered that the boat be turned directly toward the shore in the vicinity of fire, and he ordered his vessel to be beached. An enemy soldier who was about to fire a B-40 rocket launcher was surprised by the maneuver, did not have time to fire the rocket again and retreated into the jungle. Kerry jumped off the boat and chased the soldier into the jungle, killed him and in follow up action, his soldiers killed nine other of the enemy. For this action, Kerry was awarded the Silver Star.
After his second tour of duty in Vietnam, Kerry came to the conclusion that the war was a mistake. He became a spokesman for Vietnam Veterans Against the War. In this role, at 27 years of age, he testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in April, 1971, where he made the statement, “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”
By understanding John Kerry’s past lifetime as Andrew Jackson, the accusations that Kerry “flip flopped” on the Vietnam War can be better understood. In both lifetimes, Jackson/Kerry showed an early and passionate willingness to serve his country though military service. In both lifetimes, he also demonstrated the trait of not following orders blindly and without thinking. When Jackson | Kerry determined that marching orders were wrong, he challenged military authority and did what he felt was the right thing to do in the given circumstances. This is not a trait of “flip flopping,” rather, it reflects intelligence, discrimination and the courage to stand up for what is just.
Trait of Optimism
Andrew Jackson was known for his optimism, a trait shared by John Kerry.
Involved in National Affairs at a time that the United States was attacked on its own Soil
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was a military leader who helped expel the British, who had attacked the US in the War of 1812 and burned the White House in 1814.
John Kerry
John Kerry ran for US President at time when the destruction of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon represents the first time the US has been significantly attacked on its own soil since the War of 1812.
Studied Law & Became Prosecuting Attorneys at an Early Age
Andrew Jackson
Following the Revolutionary War, Andrew Jackson studied law and was admitted to the Tennessee Bar in 1787, when he was 20 years old. Within a year, he became a prosecuting attorney in the Superior Court of Nashville, Tennessee. Jackson later served as a judge on the Supreme Court of Tennessee for a period of six years.
John Kerry
John Kerry graduated from Boston College Law School in 1976, two hundred years after the Declaration of Independence was signed. Kerry, mirroring the path of Jackson, became a prosecuting attorney as the First Assistant District Attorney of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. In this role, he helped place the number two organized crime figure in Massachusetts behind bars.
Parallel Congressional Careers
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson ran for US Representative in 1796 and became the first Congressman from Tennessee, a state that had just been admitted to the Union. Jackson was subsequently elected as a US Senator from Tennessee.
John Kerry
John Kerry ran for US Representative from Massachusetts, though he failed to be elected. He later served as Lt. Governor for that state and subsequently was elected as a US Senator from Massachusetts.
Participated in Presidential Elections Following a “Stolen Election”
Andrew Jackson
In the election of 1824, Andrew Jackson ran for President of the United States and won the popular vote, but he did not have enough Electoral College votes to win the Presidency. The contest had to be decided in the House of Representatives. When Henry Clay, who has been identified as being reincarnated in the persona of John McCain, sided with John Quincy Adams (the son of John Adams), Adams prevailed in the House vote and became President. Since Jackson had won the popular vote but lost the presidential election, his supporters called the election of 1824 the “Stolen Election.” In the election of 1828, Jackson defeated John Quincy Adams and assumed the Presidency.
John Kerry
In the election of 2000, Al Gore was thought to have won the popular vote, but lost the election in the Electoral College, much like Andrew Jackson did in 1824. With this outcome, along with the controversy regarding the Florida vote, some have referred to the election of 2000 as a “Stolen Election.” If John Kerry had won the US Presidential election the of 2004, he would have repeated the pattern of assuming the Presidency following a “Stolen Election.” In contemporary times, the pattern was not repeated, as Kerry was not victorious.
Participated in Presidential Elections Involving Sons of Presidents
Andrew Jackson
In the election of 1824, Andrew Jackson ran against John Quincy Adams, the son of John Adams, the second President of the United States. When John Quincy defeated Jackson in the election of 1824, John Adams and John Quincy Adams became the first father and son to both serve as President of the United States. Jackson then ran for President against John Quincy Adams in 1828 and won.
John Kerry
George W. Bush’s election in 2000 represented the second time that the son of a President became a President himself. In the Presidential election of 2004, John Kerry ran against George W. Bush, much as Andrew Jackson against ran against John Quincy Adams.
Marriage to the Same Woman
Andrew Jackson’s wife, Rachel Jackson, has been affirmed by Ahtun Re to be have reincarnated as John Kerry’s wife, Teresa Heinz.
Innate Past Life Talent: As described above, Andrew Jackson’s abilities and career path is replicated in the life of John Kerry.
Relationships Renewed through Reincarnation: Andrew and Rachel Jackson have been reunited in the personas of John Kerry and Teresa Heinz. Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay were in the same political arena, as are John Kerry and John McCain.
The way in which I became involved in reincarnation research is that in 1984, on a lark, I went to a medium, much like the one that Penney Peirce went to see. It was a time when I was in my medical training in Chicago, Illinois. A friend called me and suggested that I have a session with a medium who was working out of a local metaphysical bookstore.
Being a skeptic by nature, I had never even considered going to a psychic before. It had been a dreary winter, though, with little to do but study, and I reasoned that a session with a medium could be, if nothing else, entertaining.
During the session, the medium went into a meditative state and in doing so, allowed spirit guides to talk through him. These guides told me about family issues with surprising accuracy.
The guides then told me about two past lives, one of which was during the American Revolution. In short, they told me that I was John Adams, an American Revolutionary who eventually became the first Vice President, under George Washington, then the second President of the United States. I had heard that psychics often tell people that they were someone famous in a past lifetime, as that is what their clients want to hear. I did not find it plausible that I was Adams, so in 1984, I dismissed the information as ridiculous and did not pursue the Adams connection for about 12 years.
A Booming Telepathic Message
At the end of 1995, I was fully engaged in my medical career and was on a business trip in Hawaii. I was working as a medical director of an oil company called Unocal 76, whose slogan happened to be, “The Spirit of 1776,” a reference to the spirit of the American Revolution. It was about lunch time and I was standing at one Unocal’s facilities in Honolulu waiting for some colleagues. Out of the blue, out of nowhere, I received an internal command like I had never experienced before. A booming voice inside my head commanded:
“Study the Lifetime of Adams”
I had never heard a booming internal voice like that before, nor have I since. The message conveyed by this voice was firm and undeniable, and powerful enough to make me go to a bookstore in Honolulu that evening, where I purchased books on the American Revolution and John Adams.
In the session in 1984, the spirit guides told me that if I researched John Adams, I would see myself in physical attributes, personality and habits. As I read about Adams over the course of 1996, that is exactly what I found. I had the same personality, the same strengths and weaknesses, and in certain portraits, such as the one done for the Paris peace conference after the Revolutionary War, I had the very same face as Adams. Place your cursor on image comparisons to enlarge the image and your arrow keys to scroll up and down on the image.
Past Life Relationships
Over time, I identified 60 people who where affiliated with Adams, who seemed to be reincarnated around me in my life. For example, my brother George appeared to be the reincarnation of Peter Adams, the brother of John Adams. Facial features, as well as personality traits, were consistent.
I hypothesized that my other brother, Leo, who is an orthopedic surgeon, is the reincarnation of Cotton Tufts, who was also a physician and a close friend of the Adams family, who managed the Adams’s finances when they traveled overseas. Leo managed my mother’s finances prior to her death.
John Adams, US President, Reincarnation Case
Over a period of two years, I slowly and reluctantly started to consider that I might be the reincarnation of John Adams.
One reason was the many synchronistic and unusual events that were occurring to me in relation to Adams. One such unusual event involved accidentally discovering a case of xenoglossy.
This involves a Russian friend of mine named Igor, who was also living in San Francisco. In my study of Adams, I had a hunch that Igor was a Frenchman that John Adams knew, when Adams served as an American ambassador to France. When Igor and I first met, we became instant friends, typical of what happens when one encounters a compatriot from a past incarnation. Igor physically resembled the Frenchman and they shared personality traits. Igor and the Frenchman both loved music and played instruments. Igor was trained as a concert pianist in Russia and after immigrating to the United States, he played for the major ballet companies in New York. Igor and the Frenchman were also both adept at finance. Igor, in fact, makes his living on the stock market.
A Telepathic Message Reveals a Case of Xenoglossy: Unlearned Language
Though Igor is a close friend, I didn’t tell him about his hypothesized French past life identity for over a year, as Igor was an atheist and I knew that he did not believe in reincarnation. One evening, I was at Igor’s apartment, sitting in the kitchen with Igor and his new girlfriend, Holly. Igor and Holly had been dating for about six months, but she lived in Seattle, so this was my first opportunity to meet her. Out of the blue, I received a distinct intuition, which seemed like a telepathic message. In fact, the best way that I can describe it is that I experienced a “voiceless voice,” a term used by Neale Donald Walsh in his book series, Conversations with God. Though I have no idea where the voiceless voice came from, it made the following statement:
“Tell them now, tell them now.”
I immediately knew that the voiceless voice wanted me to tell Igor and Holly about Igor’s past lifetime as a Frenchman, though I didn’t understand why I should tell Igor at this point in time. I argued with this unexpected voice, thinking to myself, “Why should I tell them now? I could have told Igor a year ago. Besides, he’s never going to believe it anyway.” None the less, I complied with the voiceless voice’s instruction. I reluctantly told Igor and his girlfriend about my feeling that I knew Igor in the Revolutionary Era and that he was French. An image comparison featuring Igor and his proposed past life match is provided to the right.
Xenoglossy: Igor Speaks French in his Sleep
His girlfriend, Holly, then replied, “Boy that’s strange, because Igor speaks French in his sleep.” Igor confirmed that this was true. Igor related that he has been told many times that he speaks French in his sleep and he admitted that he has never studied French. Igor cannot speak French in his waking consciousness. Of course, Igor being the atheist that he is, didn’t care about this phenomenon or how it possibly could occur.
I was thunderstruck! This represented a case of xenoglossy, in which a person can speak a language that was never learned. The amazing thing was that it supported my hypothesis about Igor and the Adams past life research in general. It appears that the voiceless voice prompted me to tell Igor about his French lifetime in the presence of his girlfriend, so that she could report his nocturnal language skills to me. Otherwise, I may never have learned about Igor’s xenoglossy.
In addition, many other strange events and coincidences occurred to me that seemed to relate to a past lifetime as Adams, which are recounted in detail in the last chapter of my book Return of the Revolutionaries, which is entitled, A Science of Spirit and the New Reformation. If my hypothesized reincarnation case was true, I reasoned that the information might be valuable in understanding how reincarnation works, but I didn’t know what to do with the information. Prior to the year 2000, I certainly wasn’t ready to go public. After all, I was a physician making a good salary. I didn’t want to lose my job by running around saying that I was John Adams, if I was not. I needed some type of validation or confirmation.
A Tour of Psychics: Introduction to Kevin Ryerson & the Spirit Being or Spirit Guide Ahtun Re
Not knowing what else to do, I started going to psychics in the San Francisco area, where I was living, who had good reputations, to see what they would say. For example, I visited Michael Tamura, who directed the Berkeley Psychic Center for almost 20 years. In this position, he trained other clairvoyants, so I though he might be a reliable resource. In my session with Michael he stated, “Yes, you were John Adams and you are here to bring the Founding Fathers back.” That was nice, but I still wasn’t convinced. I went to several other psychics and they all told me the same thing, that I was reincarnation of John Adams. I still questioned their accuracy and suspected they may just be telling me something they thought I wanted to hear.
In my continuing tour, I eventually was referred to Kevin Ryerson, the medium who has worked with Shirley MacLaine for 30 years or so and who is featured in four of her books.
I learned that Kevin is a trance channel, which means that when he works, he goes into a meditative state or trance and allows spirit beings to speak through him.
The Spirit Guide or Spirit Being Ahtun Re
The spirit being that I began to work with through Kevin is named Ahtun Re, who identifies himself as an Egyptian of Nubian origin. Ahtun Re explained that he had evolved through a series of human lifetimes and then ascended, like Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed and other spiritual masters. Ahtun Re’s last incarnation, he told me, was in Egypt, during the reign of the Pharaoh Akhenaton (1379-1362 BC), who was known as the “Father of Monotheism.” Ahtun Re served as a High Priest and advisor to Akhenaton and as such, Ahtun Re’s last incarnation occurred approximately 3350 years ago.
Speaking to an Egyptian spirit guide that has been dead for over 3000 years was a novel experience for me. I was open-minded, but skeptical, and in the beginning I did not assume that Ahtun Re was accurate. Like any reasonable person, and especially since my background is in science, I needed evidence to be convinced that Ahtun Re produced valid information.
A Review of Past Life Cases from the American Revolution
First of all, Ahtun Re also confirmed that I am the reincarnation of John Adams. I then reviewed the list of almost 60 past life matches that I had hypothesized regarding the group that was incarnate around John Adams, who I thought I had identified in contemporary times. As we went through each match, Ahtun Re told me whether I was right or wrong. In total, he validated about 85 percent of the matches that I had hypothesized and he indicated that 15 percent or so were inaccurate. A number of American Revolution past life cases validated by Ahtun Re are found on the Reincarnation Research web site. To learn more:
Obscurity of Past Life Matches Convinces Walter Ahtun Re is a Spirit Being separate from Kevin Ryerson
Still, I wasn’t sure whether there was any reason to place trust in Ahtun Re. How did I know that his determinations were valid?
A breakthrough occurred when I started to ask about matches in which I had no hypothesized matches and I asked Ahtun Re to tell me who a person was in a past lifetime, or who a person from history is in contemporary times. What I found was that Ahtun Re could make past life identifications, which when researched, appeared to be valid and accurate. The matches he made, when investigated, demonstrated similar facial features, personality traits, talents and appropriate karmic groupings.
Further, at times the matches involved individuals in history that were so obscure and so hard to get information on, that there was no way that Ahtun Re (or Kevin Ryerson for that matter) could have made the matches without accessing some spiritual source of accurate data. Some might call this source of information the Akashic Record, some may call it Universal Mind.
Core Cases that Demonstrate the Ability of Spirit Being Ahtun Re to Read the Akashic Record or Universal Mind
A sample of cases which clearly demonstrate Ahtun Re’s ability to make accurate past life matches include those of the 2000 American Green Party Candidate for President, Ralph Nader, the astronomer Carl Sagan, Neale Donald Walsch, author of the Conversations with God book series, and the reincarnations of Laurel and Hardy. The Laurel & Hardy | Bacher Boys reincarnation cases are also very powerful. These cases are presented in the section: Core Cases that Demonstrate Ahtun Re’s Ability
Spirit Being Ahtun Re’s Encyclopedic Fund of Knowledge: Precedes Google
One must keep in mind that when I started to work with Kevin in 2001, search engines, such as Google, were primitive and were not used routinely. When Ahtun Re gave me information to research, I had to do it the old-fashioned way by going to the library and reading books. Because of the limited access to information at that time, I came to realize that Ahtun Re’s fund of knowledge was beyond what was possible for Kevin Ryerson. As noted in the reincarnation cases involving Penney Peirce, a medium named Bobby Jo seemed to have access to information in an encyclopedic scope. In a similar way, Ahtun Re seemed to have knowledge there was beyond the capacity of a single human being.
The Spirit Guide MacPherson Observes Walter Shirley MacLaine & Walter from the Spirit Realm
Before I proceed with presenting cases solved through Ahtun Re, I would like to share an anecdote which demonstrates that the spirit guides that Kevin channels can monitor events on Earth. In my book, Return of the Revolutionaries, Shirley MacLaine is identified as James Wilson, an American Revolutionary and signer of the Declaration of Independence, a match that Ahtun Re revealed. Ms. MacLaine was gracious enough to agree to be in my book, though she herself had not had an opportunity to have a session with Kevin prior to my book’s publication to have this past lifetime confirmed directly.
The Robert Morris | Shirley MacLaine Reincarnation Case
A few months after publication of Return of the Revolutionaries, Ms. MacLaine was conducting a series of workshops in October 2003 at the Academy of Art College, in San Francisco. It was an opportunity for me to meet Ms. MacLaine for the first time. In the interim months, I understood from Kevin that Shirley did have a session with him and Ahtun Re. Subsquently, Shirley cited the Robert Morris | Shirley MacLaine reincarnation case in her book I’m Over All That: And Other Confessions.
Spirit Being Ahtun Re Suggests a Present for Shirley MacLaine
I myself happened to have a telephone session with Kevin Ryerson scheduled on the day before Shirley’s event. Kevin conducted the session from Portland, Oregon, which is where he was living at the time. In the session, I asked Ahtun Re whether I should bring a gift to Shirley. Ahtun Re, speaking through Kevin in his deep bass voice, told me to have a T Shirt manufactured that had an image of Shirley’s revolutionary persona on the front, with a caption underneath that states:
“In my next lifetime, I want to be Shirley MacLaine.”
On the back of the T Shirt, Ahtun Re told me that I should emboss the following line,
“One hundred lifetimes and all I get is this crummy T Shirt.”
Ahtun Re not only can make accurate past life matches, he also has a sense of humor. Well, almost miraculously, I was able to get the T Shirt manufactured within a day and I had it with me when I went to see Shirley speak. After the morning session, I introduced myself to Shirley at the lunch break. I was not prepared for what happened next. At the start of the afternoon session, Shirley invited me to join her on stage.
Walter get Nervous On Stage with Shirley MacLaine and Passes the Microphone like a Baton
For almost two hours, a three-way conversation ensued between Shirley, her audience of two to three hundred people and me, regarding reincarnation, my book and her past life as Robert Morris. Though I was having the time of my life, I was nervous about being on stage with one of the most famous celebrities on the planet. My anxiety was channeled into my right hand, which was holding the microphone. My hand grasped the microphone with greater and greater force until it started to cramp. At that point, perhaps forty minutes into our discussion, I passed the microphone to my left hand. After a while, my left hand started to cramp and I had to pass the microphone back to my right hand. This passing of the microphone baton continued throughout the duration of my stage appearance with Shirley, which as noted, lasted almost two hours.
Spirit Being MacPherson Observes Shirley & Walter from the Spirit Realm
What is remarkable about this incident with Shirley is that Kevin Ryerson’s spirit guides were watching the proceedings from the spirit world. Recall that Kevin was in Portland while the event with Shirley took place in San Francisco. Several months after Shirley’s Academy of Art College engagement, Kevin Ryerson came to San Francisco to do a lecture and a public demonstration of channeling. In the session, another spirit guide channeled through Kevin, Tom MacPherson, came through. MacPherson often came through in sessions for Shirley MacLaine, as Tom was last incarnate as an actor in Shakespeare’s troupe, so he and Shirley have a common interest in drama. Tom, through Kevin, addressed the audience in his Irish accent and he called me out. Tom inquired, “So, Laddy, did you have a nice time with the redhead?”
The redhead that Tom was referring to, of course, was Shirley MacLaine. I responded that I had a wonderful time on stage with Shirley. Tom then noted:
“You were a wee bit nervous, though, passing the microphone to and fro from one hand to another.”
I was shocked when Tom made that statement, as I had not told Kevin of the microphone incident. Later upon questioning, Kevin confirmed that he had no knowledge of my problem with the microphone when I was on stage with Shirley. This made me realize that Kevin’s guides could monitor events on Earth, regardless of where Kevin himself was physically located.
Dear Friends in Kevin Ryerson & Spirit Being Ahtun Re
Over the years that I have worked with Kevin regularly since we first met in October 2001 and we have become good friends. In addition, since I have had monthly sessions with Kevin since 2001, I also feel that Ahtun Re is a friend of mine. In the sessions, Ahtun Re is as warm and human as anyone else that you might speak to over the telephone. The only difference is that with Ahtun Re, the telephone is Kevin Ryerson. MacPherson has also come through a handful of times, but it has been Ahtun Re who has been the dominant spirit guide that I have worked with. Ahtun Re and MacPherson have distinct personalities, which are quite different from Kevin’s personality.
I would also like to mention that I am not the only one who has had extremely positive experiences with information gained through Kevin Ryerson. For example, William H. Kautz received a Doctorate of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and served as a staff scientist at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) for 35 years. Dr. Kautz has written several books on the topic of intuition and he regards Kevin Ryerson as one of the most accurate intuitives he has studied. With this introduction, let us review cases solved through Ahtun Re:
Proposed by: Walter Semkiw, MD
In time, Barbro’s mother responded by becoming very spiritual and a believer in reincarnation. Barbro’s father, on the other hand, seemed annoyed. Barbro relates that her father responded by saying: “I can’t deny that you have somehow been here before. Perhaps you have lived before and have reincarnated, but you are the only one!”
