James G Matlock received his PhD in anthropology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He has had a longstanding engagement in parapsychology and has written on the history of parapsychology, the anthropology of religion, postmortem survival, and reincarnation in both anthropology and parapsychology. He has worked at the American Society for Psychical Research and the Rhine Research Center and is currently Research Fellow with the Parapsychology Foundation. He teaches a course on reincarnation online through the Alvarado Zingrone Institute for Research and Education. He is co-author, with Erlendur Haraldsson, of I Saw a Light and Came Here: Children’s Experiences of Reincarnation (2016) and the author of Signs of Reincarnation: Exploring Beliefs, Cases, and Theory (2019). The latter received a Best Book of the Year award from the Parapsychological Association.

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