…Criticisms Case Features Announcing Dreams and Related Experiences Behavioural Memories in Reincarnation Cases Birthmarks Experimental Birthmarks and Birth Defects Physical Signs in Reincarnation Cases Reincarnation and Phobias Reincarnation Intermission Memories Xenoglossy in Reincarnation Cases Case Types Famous Past Life Claims International Reincarnation Cases Past Life Memories of the Holocaust People…
…if reincarnation occurs, the process must be the same for everyone. However, as Matlock observes, there is a lack of uniformity in every department of life; he wonders why one should expect reincarnation to be otherwise. Keith Augustine and David Lester also are concerned with variations in reincarnation case patterns,…
…‘possession’ as ‘the occupation of a body by a spirit’, which would allow all reincarnation to be considered possession, albeit a relatively long-term or permanent possession. When a reincarnation is terminated and superseded by another reincarnation in the same body, we may appropriately speak of ‘replacement reincarnation’. In the majority…
…allows African and other metaphysical systems to be counted as embracing reincarnation.4Matlock (1993, 2019). Anthropologists have noted the connection between reincarnation and social practices, particularly naming and mortuary practices. For instance, it may be important to identify a child as the reincarnation of a specific ancestor so that he or…
…were released in 2017 and 2018 on Mishlove’s ‘New Thinking Allowed’ YouTube channel: How Researchers Approach Reincarnation Patterns Found in Reincarnation Cases Alternative Explanations for Reincarnation Evidence Behavioral Signs of Reincarnation Birthmarks and Physical Signs of Reincarnation The Interval between Death and Rebirth Reincarnation and Possession The Psychology of Past…
…Reincarnation and other publications. Ian Stevenson’s Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation distilled cross-cultural patterns he observed in field investigations across Asia, the Middle East and beyond. His two-volume Reincarnation and Biology assembled 225 cases linking birthmarks and congenital anomalies with remembered previous lives. He also studied xenoglossy, spontaneous ESP, apparitions…
…(1974), 183-203. William George Jr Stevenson studied 46 reincarnation cases in the strongly reincarnationist Tlingit Native American culture of the Pacific Northwest. Of these, 10 (22%), featured planned reincarnations declared prior to death.6Stevenson (2001), 98. One case concerned William George Sr, an Alaskan fisherman who was sceptical about reincarnation. Several…
…(2009). Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot. New York: Grand Central Publishing. Lönnerstrand, S. (1998). I Have Lived Before: The True Story of the Reincarnation of Shanti Devi. Huntsville, AR: Ozark Mountain Publishers. Matlock, J.G. (2019). Signs of Reincarnation: Exploring Beliefs, Cases, and Theory. Lanham,…
The question of whether personality survives bodily death sits at the heart of psychical research. Investigators have looked to mediumship, reincarnation-type cases, near-death experiences, apparitions and related phenomena, asking whether the strongest evidence points beyond ordinary explanation to some persistence of mind after death. Mediumship, reincarnation-type cases and near-death experiences…