Reincarnation?

I don't have anything very deep to add, just wanted to let you know that I read this and wow.  

If you haven't read the books by Brian Weiss, I'd recommend them, particularly Through Time Into Healing--I think you'll find a lot in there to help you process this.   For other scholarly works, you can check out the stuff by the late Dr. Ian Stevenson from UVA who studied children that remembered past lives. Another guy at UVA has picked up his work and is still writing about it, but I can't think of the guy's name off the top of my head.  :-)

ETA: When our DD was about the same age (under 2 years), she had a musical toy that played a few tunes and she'd flip through all the songs until she came to the William Tell Overture and play that one over and over again.  She told us that her brother used to play that song.  She's our only child so we always wondered if she was remembering another life. 

Most materials published on reincarnation centers around adults, people whose memories are often related through dreams or hypnosis.  There is very little out there that is specific to children, but Carol Bowman has done an excellent job at compiling research she has found in her book "Child Past Lives: How Past Life Memories Affect Your Child".  Her interest began with her own children, but she also relates research done by psychiatrist Ian Stevenson, who has published many papers on case studies of past life memories in children around the world.  The primary focus of her book though, is helping kids work through past life memories.

http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Past-Lives-Memories-Affect/dp/055357485X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326283979&sr=8-1

You can also check out this forum:

http://www.childpastlives.org/vBulletin/

These folks take past life memories in children seriously, and may be able to give you more feedback on your son's experiences.

You are not crazy. Reincarnation is very real. Yes, I totally recommend all Brian Weiss's books. I just read "Only Love Is Real" the other day. Loved it. Was sobbing throughout it. Lol. I actually have quite the collection on reincarnation books and lives in between lives books. Look into Michael Newton's books "Journey of Souls" and "Destiny of Souls". Must reads! My old chiropractor let me borrow those books when I took my daughter in for N.E.T. for some chronic eczema that she was having and the original stuck emotion that was causing the eczema was originating from a past life of hers. After he performed the N.E.T. on her, her eczema was all gone that night. I loved those books so much, that I bought my own copies. Also, from my experience, any good psychic actually acknowledges reincarnation, even Jamie from the "Ask An Intuitive" forum here on mothering.com who did a reading on my daughter (I see that the forum is now close tho). I also have a very good psychic friend who is able to tell me 30+ details about myself and my whole family that she couldn't have otherwise known and she told me about a past life that I had with my current boyfriend. 

I was raised Catholic all my life and here living in the U.S. this is predominantly a Christian nation which rejects reincarnation. But honestly I never felt comfortable with it. I finally found comfort and assurance when I researched into reincarnation. You have to look to the Eastern religions for actual acknowledgement that reincarnation exists, or discover your own path of spirituality. But based on all my research, I can try to summarize right now what this is all about. We are all spiritual immortal beings (souls) who reincarnate over and over again here on earth (or other planets!) taking on  a physical body and a mind that merges with our souls, for the purposes of having different experiences. This is how we learn. Our primary goal is to learn how to love everyone. We all have our own "soul groups" which are other souls that we tend to reincarnate with over and over again, in different lives. We have to reincarnate in all kinds of different social statuses, cultures and backgrounds, because this is how we gain the full experience of learning to love. We can't just learn everything in one life. We incur karma in our lives, both good and bad karma, and again this is all about experiences...what we do effects others, so what we intentionally caused them, we have to now experience for ourselves if not in this life, in another life. So hopefully we grow and don't make the same mistakes again and just learn to always love.

We are all supposed to be born with "amnesia" so we actually don't remember our past lives. Because this is a new life, we aren't really supposed to remember the past lives we had. We are supposed to live in the present moment. But once in a while, children don't have the full amnesia. They just came from the spiritual world, so they can still remember what happened more easily than adults can.