Case of a Burmese girl whose statements and behaviours suggested she was remembering the life of a Japanese soldier stationed in her country during World War II. The case was investigated by the pioneering reincarnation researcher Ian Stevenson and shows many features of a typical case of sex change across…
…A review and analysis of “unsolved” cases of the reincarnation type. I: Introduction and illustrative case reports. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 77, 45-62. Cook, E.W., Pasricha, S., Samararatne, G., Maung, W., & Stevenson, I. (1983b). A review and analysis of “unsolved” cases of the reincarnation type….
…to make a reincarnation documentary contacted the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) at the University of Virginia, where Ian Stevenson, the pioneer of reincarnation studies, was based. Stevenson’s colleague Jim B Tucker agreed to participate. The company advertised for reincarnation cases in Scotland and was contacted by Norma Macauley. A…
…volume of his Cases of the Reincarnation Type series, published in 1983.1Stevenson (1983). Living just ten kilometres apart, the two families might have crossed paths. However, each denied any knowledge of the other prior to the development of the case. Bongkuch’s family did not know of the murder of Chamrat,…
…by this time had lost nearly all the memories of the previous life.) Stevenson wrote about the case in the first volume of his Cases of the Reincarnation Type series, published in 1975.1Stevenson (1975). Darbhanga is a large city near India’s northern border with Nepal. Sundari’s family lived in the…
The nineteenth-century Japanese case of Katsugoro is one of the best documented classical cases of the reincarnation type. When he was eight, Katsugoro started to tell his family about having lived before in a nearby village as a boy named Tozo who had died five years before he was born….
…had stood where the school now did (the store had been razed to allow the building of the school). Shanta’s family became entirely convinced that Sunita was her reincarnation, and she began a permanent relationship with them. Sunita became something of a local celebrity in Belgaon. At one point she…
…being pushed by a cousin was unverified, but considered doubtful. Shakuntala’s family were much impressed by Sunita and quickly accepted her as the reincarnation of their daughter and sister. They invited her to visit them, which Sunita did several times over the ensuing years. Stevenson’s Investigation Sunita’s case came to…
…not uncommon in children who claim past-life memories. The children usually explain such marks as wounds they were afflicted with and from which they died. Sex-Change The prevalence in reincarnation cases of a change of sex between lives varies cross-culturally.3Haraldsson & Matlock (2016), 225-26. Only four of the 64 cases…
