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Here are the 29 top essays from the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies contest (pdfs): https://bigelowinstitute.org/contest_winners3.php

Regarding the addition of the two battalion chiefs to the list of possible candidates for UKmom's son's past life personality, how likely is it that either one of them worked closely with FF Dan Potter during his time as one of the Ladder 5 chauffeurs (1995 - end of June 2001)? Well, I asked...

UKmom (28 Oct 2006, post # 16): "During role playing as well as names and giving his sisters orders . . ." Giving his sisters orders? He must have been a fire officer -- Lieutenant, Captain, or Chief. This shortens the list to two: Ladder 5 – 9/11 Fallen Firefighters Lt. Vincent ("Vinny")...

UKmom's original thread was titled "My son and numbers". Apparently UKmom's son, already at age 2, was very familiar with numbers. But why? UKmom (26 Oct 2006, post # 1): “I have previously been a member of this forum but haven't visited for a few years. I mentioned at the time that my son...

Thanks Speedwell. The mysterywire.com link was especially informative. There were 1200 applicants from 40 different countries. The list was culled down to 200 by August 1, 2021, and the winners chosen by November 1st, 2021. The essays were so good additional prize money was given out to the...

How many of you forum members knew that there was a life-after-death essay contest sponsored by the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies. Top prize was half-million US dollars. Top three prize winners collected nearly one million dollars. Essay submission period closed at the end of...

FF Dan Potter was briefly a member of Ladder 31 in the Engine 82 - Ladder 31 firehouse from early July 2001 to Sept 7, 2001. No one from this firehouse in the south Bronx was lost on 9/11. However, a former member of Engine 82, a Lieutenant Geoffrey G., was lost on 9/11. He had been working...

UK mom: “From around the age 3 he began giving us names. He especially talked lots about Lou and even gave us a surname.” “I had taken Lou to be a first name he was referring to but recently became aware that in America they have fire Lieutenants. Would someone in the fire service refer to...

The Captain of Ladder 6 on 9/11 gives a succinct recounting of what transpired that day from the perspective of a FDNY fire officer attempting to complete his assignment at the World Trade Center on the worst day in US firefighting history. He takes us from the moment he got to work that...

The Captain of Ladder 6 on 9/11 gives a succinct recounting of what transpired that day from the perspective of a FDNY fire officer attempting to complete his assignment at the World Trade Center on the worst day in US firefighting history. He takes us from the moment he got to work that...

FF Dan Potter started his Ladder 10 "detail" (short temporary assignment) at the 10&10 ("Ten House") firehouse on September 8, 2001 -- just 3 days before 9/11. (I originally thought late August or early Sept, 2001) The two candidates from Engine 10 (quartered with Ladder 10 at "Ten House" on...

FF Thomas H., 36, assigned to Ladder Company 5, was a member of the Fire Department's Emerald Society and the department's basketball team which competed in the Indianapolis [police and firefighters athletic] games. At 6’ 3” tall, he was a high school and college basketball star, and later with...

Apparently a British English dialect in the Northwest of England can refer to pickup/ pick-up trucks as "trucks", which defeats my argument should UK mom happen to have been from the Northwest of England: Madseavets (2017) reply to Jaxcat: “Even later reply.. I can also confirm that "wagon" is...

I was thinking about UK mom's son's use of the word "truck". What did he mean by "truck"? I will try to make the case that he indeed meant either pickup truck or possibly fire truck, and that this case has to be a genuine instance of reincarnation rather than a case of some young British boy...

I found another oddity or strange coincidence if you will. From Lt. Mike W.'s obituary this little tidbit: “When Lt. Michael W[.] was a child in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, his grandmother brought British tabloid newspapers into the house. Paging through the tales of three-headed babies and...

Ladder 5's FF Paul K., a 38-year-old bachelor and 6 year FDNY veteran, was off duty and sleeping in on the morning of 9/11. He lived on Cedar Street, right behind FDNY's Ten House, and about a block south and east of 2 WTC, the South Tower. The impact of AA Flight 11 slicing and exploding into...

Here is an example showing that "pickup truck" "pickup" and "truck" are used interchangeably in American English (story is told by FDNY Ladder 5 Craig M. about his Chevy pickup truck. Both survived 9/11: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40730/000095012402000691/k67909e425.htm "In the...

Here is an example of American slang (or at least New York slang) "dog(s)" for "hot dog(s)". Dan Potter (writing under the alias Johnny Gage) tells the story of an FDNY Chief's desire to join Lt. Mike W. and Dan's (prank) "Hot Dog Club"...

UK mom (post #1 this thread): "I have previously been a member of this forum but haven't visited for a few years. I mentioned at the time that my son then around 2 appeared to have prior knowledge of numbers. Now at age 5 he is still very good with numbers and he could also fluently read by the...

The yellow house with the blue pickup truck in front seen in post #47 above (with Denise O.) is 427 Miles Avenue, Staten Island, New York. It is right next door to 423 Miles Avenue, Staten Island, which is listed as a former address of FF Jeff O.'s older brother Neil O. (423 Miles Ave is the...