This is one of a handful of reincarnation cases in which written records were made of a child’s statements about a previous life before an investigation was attempted. Before she was two years old, Dilukshi Nissanka began to speak about a life in a village about eighty miles distant from…
…proof is on proponents of reincarnation to provide evidence. He pointed to lack of corroboration as a major weakness: It is striking how many of the supposed corroboratory stories and anecdotes flow through Dorothy Eady herself – in her diaries, and in her stories told to Egyptologists, journalists, and friends….
…become reincarnated in the wrong family there. James G Matlock Literature Sahay, K.K.N. [1927]. Reincarnation: Verified Cases of Rebirth after Death. Bareilly, India: Gupta. Stevenson, I. (1997). Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects. Vol. 2: Birth Defects and Other Anomalies. Westport, Connecticut, USA:…
…about reincarnation and gathered that they were past-life memories. The first he still recalls, at about six, was an unbearable smell he knew at the time was ‘the smell of death’, and which he associated with the ‘skeleton people’, meaning extremely emaciated people he saw in his nightmares. Investigation Reincarnation…
…Haraldsson, E., & Matlock, J.G. (2016). I Saw a Light and Came Here: Children´s Experiences of Reincarnation. Hove, UK: White Crow Books. Stevenson, I. (1980). Cases of the Reincarnation type. Vol. III: Twelve Cases in Lebanon and Turkey. Charlottesville, Virginia, USA: University Press of Virginia. 53 Endnotes 1 Haralddson &…
…It seems that Swedenborg had in mind what Whiteman termed loose reincarnation. The treatment of undesirable consequences of this kind of association has been discussed by Palmer as spirit release therapy. Whether such occurrences are termed ‘association’, ‘possession’ or ‘loose reincarnation’ is a moot point. Strict reincarnation would not have…
In this 1960 Lebanese reincarnation case investigated by Ian Stevenson, the child experienced most of his memories of the previous life between the ages of eleven and thirteen, not as a preschool child, as is more typical. Abdallah Abu Hamdan Abdallah Abu Hamdan was born around 1877 and lived his…
…notes that Cayce’s past-life readings and teachings have had a profound impact on New Age ideas about reincarnation, including cementing a strong association of reincarnation with karma, and promoting the concept of the Akashic Records, as Cayce claimed to have derived all information on his clients’ past lives from them.17Matlock…
…reincarnation. In his 1981 book Reincarnation. Ancient Beliefs and Modern Evidence, he assessed evidence and theories, considering religious views, the recollections of both adults and children, the activities of mediums in séances, déjà vu experiences, and past-life hypnotic regression. His idea of the ‘essential me’ combined the ideas of Roger…
