My daughter is the reason I found Newton
One of the experiences that eventually led me to Michael Newton’s books happened when my daughter was about 2½ years old.
To be clear, this wasn’t the first unusual thing she had ever said. She had already talked about speaking with people who had passed away and had shared other stories that made me wonder where these ideas were coming from. What stood out about this particular conversation was that I had never heard anyone describe choosing their parents or watching their future life on a “TV” before.
We were outside one day when she casually told me that before she picked me to be her mom, she watched my life on a big TV. She said she watched my mother get shot and then told me, “You didn’t even cry.”
That immediately caught my attention because my mother was killed when I was 4 months old, and it wasn’t something my daughter should have known anything about.
She went on to tell me that one of my aunts took me to my grandmother’s room afterward. She used a name that wasn’t actually any of my aunts’ names, so I started questioning her. But as she continued describing this person, I realized she was describing my mom’s oldest sister, who lived several states away.
My daughter then said that after my aunt took me into my grandmother’s room, my mom came and played with me while I was in my grandmother’s bedroom.
Afterward, I called my aunt and asked if she had been there when my mother died. She said yes. Then without me telling her anything… she told me essentially the same story my daughter had just told me. She confirmed that she had taken me to my grandmother’s room and even said that she believed my mother’s spirit had come to play with me before moving on.
I also called my dad and asked whether I cried when everything happened. He told me I didn’t. According to him, I stayed asleep and he never heard me cry during the chaos.
What made this experience even stranger to me was that later that same year… I discovered Michael Newton’s books. The way he describes the afterlife, choosing parents, reviewing lives before birth, and souls appearing as lights was very similar to the way my daughter had already been talking. She had also told other stories about talking to people who were “lights,” long before I had ever read anything by Newton.
This is just one story but I have so many… but also it slowed when she turned 3 … even she noticed. A few months after her 3rd birthday she asked “mom how long ago did I turn three?” And I said a few months why? She said yeah that’s probably right… I asked what she meant? She said since I turned 3 years old I can’t talk to the people in the lights anymore…
I’m not claiming this proves anything. I know there are many ways people interpret experiences like this. But it remains ONE of the most compelling and unsettling conversations I’ve ever had.
Has anyone else had a child describe choosing their parents, watching lives before birth, or talking to people they described as lights?