…Angeles Times, Science and Nature, and wrote a monthly column entitled Skeptic for Scientific American from April 2001 to January 2019. Shermer has also appeared on TV shows including 20/20, Dateline, Charlie Rose, Oprah, and Larry King Live, and been interviewed in many documentaries aired on educational TV channels and…
Reincarnation cases with intervals between lives (intermissions) of under nine months mean that the returning soul or consciousness has joined the body during its gestation period. This raises the questions of when exactly reincarnation occurs and whether such cases are better classified as possession than as reincarnation. Interestingly, cases with…
In replacement reincarnation, a person recalls being someone who died after he or she was born. These cases have been called anomalous-date cases, possession, and parakaya pravesh, a Sanskrit term indicating a wandering spirit that takes possession of a living body. Unlike the New Age concept of walk-ins, replacement reincarnation…
…work published by Lange and Houran2Lange & Houran (2001). in 2001, providing a non-systematic but comprehensive overview and synthesis of research over two decades. Only 66 studies were found, fewer than expected. The following anomalous experiences were extracted: apparition demon ego-alien intrusions encounter experiences ghost ghost-hunting haunt haunting metachoric experience…
…and naturalist, recounted in a letter having an accurate premonition of encountering an unexpected friend in a valley.161Prince (1928). Gardner Murphy (1895–1979), president of the American Psychological Association and of the Society for Psychical Research,162See here. wrote extensively on human potentials and on psi.163Murphy (1961). (See article) Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich…
…‘Before’ Cases Without Past-Life Documentation Dilukshi Nissanka (Sri Lanka)* Dilukshi Nissanka’s claim to remember having died by drowning when she fell into a stream was documented initially in a letter to the abbot of a rock temple, who tried to verify the memories. When he encountered difficulties, he contacted a…
…due to Ryan’s late talking, which allowed them to remain in his mind with minimal competition from present life activities. Rylann O’Bannion This is another extraordinary case, investigated by James Matlock and reported in Signs of Reincarnation in 2019. Rylann appeared in an episode of the television programme Ghost Inside…
…sense of time); changes in affective processes (such as intense feelings of peace and joy); paranormal processes (such as a sense of leaving the physical body and being aware of events at a distance from the body); and experiences of transcendence (such as encounters with divine entities and with some…
…Matlock (2024). Entrance into Parapsychology Stevenson read widely and at the end of 1954 encountered New World of the Mind, by JB Rhine, which mentioned a Medical Section of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR). He joined the ASPR in February 1955 but had little time for parapsychology until…
