2018 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 13-
In recent years, it has been proposed that we should focus on common properties of various life changing experiences such as near-death experiences, death-bed vision experiences, shared near-death experiences, enlightening, meeting with deceased people, mystical experiences, and the recall of past lives, and record, investigate, and analyze them within the same theoretical framework. In this new trend, these various life-changing experiences are referred to as "spiritually transformative experience (STE)." In this paper, I would like to report an intriguing case of two Japanese children who talked about their prenatal memories: One talked about "life-between-life&quto; and "past-life memories,&quto; and the other about &quto;womb&quto; and &quto;life-between-life memories&quto;. Their words were life changing for the mother and hearing the children talk about these memories can be regarded as an instance of spiritually transformative experiences. This paper also considers the possibility of utilizing the Life Changes Inventory-Revised developed by Bruce Greyson and Kenneth Ring to assess the effect of the experience.
