Possession & Past Lives

Reincarnation case notable for being reported from South India (most are in the north of the country).

Brazilian reincarnation case in which a child recalled the life of a person who committed suicide, having pledged to return as the daughter of a close friend, who was in fact the child’s mother.

Describes how 'spirit mediumship' and 'spirit possession' overlap, especially as experienced in non-Western contexts.

Canadian anthropologist and reincarnation researcher, who specializes in reincarnation beliefs and experiences of indigenous peoples of the north-west region of North America.

Collection of cases of the reincarnation type among Tlingit and other native North American cultures. 

Lebanese case of a child's past life memories notable for the large volume of detail later verified as accurate.  

Detailed and historically accurate 'memories of previous lives' are routinely elicited during  past life regression hypnotherapy. They are attributed by some to reincarnation and by others to unconscious recall (cryptomnesia).  

Early accounts of past life memories show similar features to more recent investigated cases, suggesting that this is a natural phenomenon, not one based on religious or cultural beliefs. 

Children who have memories of past lives sometimes make drawings of their recollections, to express them or as therapy for past-life traumas.

Some eleven million people were killed in the Nazi death camps during World War II, so it is not surprising that camp experiences are sometimes recalled by people who remember a past life. Two...