纪录片
《The Boy Who Lived Before》
概要
2006年 由 Channel 5 制作的纪录片，长约 47 分钟，聚焦于一个案例小男孩 Cameron Macauley，他从两岁半起就开始谈论自己的前世。摄制组邀请了 Jim Tucker 教授一起跟随小男孩来到巴拉岛上，探寻和求证他关于前世的记忆。
内容
男孩 Cameron Macauley 生活在苏格兰的格拉斯哥（Glasgow），5 岁之前一直和母亲说着自己的前世记忆，是一名生活在巴拉岛（Barra）的男性，她母亲回忆说他从两岁半就开始谈论他的巴拉家族，并且一直表示想去巴拉寻找另一个家，他的母亲联系到了节目制作组后，制作组邀请了研究转世轮回案例多年的 Jim Tucker 博士，一起去巴拉岛寻找答案。
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后记
Jim Tucker 博士在《Return To Life》 一书的第三章（The Boy From Barra）专门介绍了这个案例，包括了不少记录片之外的内容，比如：
- 电视制作组是如何找到这个家庭的
- 孩子的母亲曾经很犹豫，还退出过节目制作
- 在纪录片上映之后收到了观众提供的额外线索
此外他还对搜寻过程进行了反思和总结，可与纪录片内容互为补充，这里做一些摘要以供参考：
Another three months went by because Cameron’s mother pulled out of the project. The producers were ultimately able to get her back on board and were ready to proceed. In the hurry-up-and-wait fashion that seems to be the norm in television, they contacted me to plan a trip to Scotland as soon as possible. I would meet Cameron and his family in Glasgow, and we would then go together to Barra.
另外三个月过去了，因为卡梅伦的母亲退出了这个项目。制片人最终成功地让她重新参与，并准备继续进行。按照电视行业中常见的匆忙和等待的方式，他们联系我尽快计划一次去苏格兰的旅行。我将在格拉斯哥与卡梅伦和他的家人会面，然后一起去巴拉岛。
Several people contacted me about the name Shane after the documentary aired. Seanapparently means “old” in Gaelic, and the term for grandfather is seanair or seanathair. One woman wrote from the UK to say that her husband was from the Outer Hebrides, and his family referred to his father as Sean even though his actual name was something completely different. I’m not sure Sean would be pronounced there exactly like Shane, but it is evidently quite close.
在纪录片播出后，有几个人联系我，询问肖恩这个名字。肖恩在盖尔语中显然意味着“老”，而祖父的称呼是肖纳尔或肖纳泰尔。一位来自英国的女士写信给我，说她的丈夫来自外赫布里底群岛，他的家人称他的父亲为肖恩，尽管他的真实名字完全不同。我不确定那里的 Sean 的发音是否完全像 Shane，但显然非常接近。
The first name hardly matters, though, if the last name doesn’t match. In this case, the only Robertson family we could find, though their life on Barra matched Cameron’s statements in a general way, did not experience the specific events he had described. I was concerned we had latched onto the name too quickly. Cameron began by describing people and events he said he remembered, and it was only later that he gave the name Shane Robertson. He may have mistakenly put that name into his memories. In retrospect, perhaps we should have searched more intensely for a family whose father had been hit by a car and who had lost a child at an early age. Calum the historian had not heard of such a family, but he knew the southern part of the island better than the north, which is where Cameron’s memories of watching planes landing on the beach would have taken place. We went with the name because it offered the potential of a definite verification, but that may have been a mistake. If Cameron was in fact remembering another family, that would mean his reaction at the Robertson house was perhaps from seeing a house similar enough to the one from his past life that he mistook it for that one.
如果姓氏不匹配，名字几乎无关紧要。在这种情况下，我们只找到了一个罗伯逊家庭，尽管他们在巴拉岛的生活与卡梅伦的陈述在一般情况下是相符的，但并没有经历他所描述的具体事件。我担心我们过于迅速地抓住了这个名字。卡梅伦开始描述他所记得的人和事件，直到后来才提到了 Shane Robertson 这个名字。他可能错误地将这个名字放入了他的记忆中。回想起来，也许我们应该更加努力地寻找一个父亲被车撞伤并且在早年失去了一个孩子的家庭。历史学家卡勒姆没有听说过这样一个家庭，但他对岛的南部比北部更熟悉，而卡梅伦在回忆中看飞机降落在海滩上的地方应该是在北部。我们选择了这个名字，因为它提供了明确验证的可能性，但这可能是一个错误。如果卡梅伦实际上是在记忆另一个家庭，那就意味着他在罗伯逊家的反应可能是因为看到了一个与他前世记忆里相似的房子，让他误以为就是这个房子。