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. Ancient…
…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. Anthropology and Humanism 35, 172-91. Mills,…
…nearby airfield. It was raining and there were thunderstorms over the airfield’s eastern end, where the departure runway was situated. At no more than 150 feet of altitude, the aeroplane encountered a microburst; this introduced a wind shear, which in turn imposed a downdraft and decreasing headwind. The plane struck…
…systematic phenomenological classification. Here, ExE typically appear as deviations in an individual’s reality model, classified according to two pairs of phenomena.10Fach (2011); Atmanspacher & Fach (2013, 2019). One pair refers to experiences that appear to contradict the individual’s sense of self and of the external world. The other refers to…
…the internet.21Biddle (2019); Johnson (1977); Martain (2008). In 2018, Cooper was a runner-up for the Ockham’s Razor Award for Skeptical Activism sponsored by The Skeptic magazine. (See here.) In 2019, a student of Cooper researched the impact and process of dogmatic scepticism.22Wright & Cooper (2019). In 2020 at the University…
Many children who claim previous lives say they remember not only their death but the interval before rebirth. These accounts differ with culture, yet recurring themes remain: continued awareness, movement through another realm, encounters with beings, selection of parents, and occasional veridical perceptions of the living world. In one survey,…
…by the time Stevenson met her, when she was nine, she had forgotten her childhood language. When Stevenson introduced her to a native speaker of Hindi and Punjabi, she showed no signs of understanding either.14Stevenson (1974b),17. Simone Nawal Daw encountered native speakers of the language she recalled and was able…
Psi research in the twenty-first century increasingly overlaps with mainstream cognitive neuroscience, where controversial questions can be tested with familiar tools. Jacob Jolij exemplifies this approach, combining EEG, randomisation methods and large collaborations to examine presentiment, random processes and belief-laden perception in experimental settings. Jolij’s laboratory reported small but statistically…
…Palace, O’Keeffe helped test whether belief, suggestion and magnetic fields contributed to reports of haunting experiences. in a study of ghostly encounters, he identified possible roles for static cues, lighting, air quality, temperature, infrasound and electromagnetic fields. In a double-blind mediumship test, sitters’ ratings did not reach statistical significance after…
