…in which alien beings appear to have made contact with the witness in other epochs encounters with aliens during out-of-body experiences There are several points of intersection between traditional UFO/alien encounters and other types of paranormal experiences. UFO experiencers often claim to have acquired paranormal abilities as a direct consequence…
…Barbara, California, USA: Praeger. Video The Psychology of Belief with James E. Alcock. New Thinking Allowed, 7 January 2019. A Skeptical Look at Parapsychology with James Alcock. New Thinking Allowed, 1 March 2019. Believe It or Not: Can We Always Make a Choice? Center for Inquiry, lecture given at CSICon…
…investigated and adding other new material, and published it in June 2019 under the title Signs of Reincarnation: Exploring Beliefs, Cases, and Theory. He considers this the culmination of his work so far.15Matlock, personal communication, 10 May 2019. Processual Soul Theory Matlock retains the goal of many others in parapsychology:…
…cases, memories were prompted by a piece of music or other creative work, or an object the person might have come across in the past life; in others the trigger was a visit to a place reminiscent of the past life. The most common stimulus was an encounter with a…
…cases she found, the previous incarnations had been devout Buddhists and dedicated meditators.38Cited in Matlock (2019), 208. Cuing and Triggers James Matlock notes that, as in the present life, a past-life memory can be triggered by chance encounters with people, places, sounds, smells, emotions and so forth. James Leininger’s visit…
Many people consider the notion of karma to be an inherent element of reincarnation, or even its main purpose. However, not all reincarnationist cultures believe that our actions in one life are punished or rewarded in another, while analysis of credible reincarnation cases shows no convincing evidence for karma. Terminology…
…& Coyle (2012); Barbato (1999). It is less clear how many of these encounters constitute crisis impressions. An Icelandic study determined that 86% of encounters constituted the first intimation that a death had occurred.20Haraldsson (2012). In Germany, ‘Crisis ESP’ was found to be among the most commonly reported types of…
…therapeutic contacts. He described these experiments and the results in his 1993 book Reunions: Visionary Encounters With Departed Loved Ones. Background and History From his research of near-death experiences (NDEs), Moody observed a powerful therapeutic effect following seeming encounters with deceased loved-ones. He was also aware that spontaneous encounters are…
…A. (1994). Making a scientific investigation of ethnographic cases suggestive of reincarnation. In Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters: The Anthropology of Extraordinary Experience, ed. by D. E. Young & J.-G. Goulet, 237-69. Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Mills, A. (2010). Understanding the conundrum of rebirth experience of the Beaver, Gitxsan, and Witsuwit’en….
