The return

The Return is the courageous story of a couple who, without measuring efforts to decipher the mysterious situations experienced by their son in early childhood, come across what for them, until then, was an absurd idea: reincarnation.

James Leininger was only two years old when he began having nightmares almost every night. He was a child much like any other: happy, playful, and still learning to speak. As time went on, the dreams became more intense, and James would struggle and scream, waking his parents.

Bruce and Andrea Leininger were distraught, unable to understand why their son was experiencing such violent dreams, experiencing them with such intensity and expressing them with a clarity only someone older could. Determined to find out what was happening, the couple began to observe James's behavior more closely and tried to understand what he was screaming during his nightmares. These were phrases like, "The plane is on fire! The boy can't get out!"

From then on, little James began to convey detailed and strangely well-articulated information not only in his nightmares, which gradually became rare, but also while awake, while playing and drawing, in the family's daily life. James displayed a knowledge of airplanes that had never been imparted to him. He began to reveal first and last names, geographic data, and even what Bruce later discovered to be the designation of a World War II aircraft carrier.

How could James know all this if he wasn't yet of school age? The TV programs he watched were carefully selected by his mother, and none of them addressed those topics. Where did such knowledge come from? Was the boy remembering situations he'd experienced that his parents hadn't known about? Were they memories of a past life? Was reincarnation a possibility to consider?

The evidence of a true and shocking story is exposed in The Return , a book that will lead even the most skeptical to consider the possibility of a child harboring the soul of a war hero.