…268-91. Haraldsson, E., & Matlock, J.G. (2016). I Saw a Light and Came Here: Children´s Experiences of Reincarnation. Hove, UK: White Crow Books. 53 Endnotes 1 Haraldsson & Samararatne (1999); Haraldsson & Matlock (2016). 2 The documentary was produced by Jeffrey Iverson, in collaboration with the American CBS television network….
…with the living, or by trance impersonations that too dimly resemble the individuals they purport to be. Reincarnation cases often lack early-bird testimony – that is, testimony collected before the previous personality was identified1See Braude (2003). – or from a shortage of idiosyncratically specific ‘hits’ or demonstrated skills uniquely linked…
…a possible source. As Braude wrote, ‘The challenge then, as always, will be to judge—or guess, really—which [hypothesis] accords more neatly both with our aesthetic instincts concerning explanatory simplicity and with many (usually very abstract) background assumptions, which themselves do not enjoy absolute certainty’.38Braude (2020), 161. Mediumship, Reincarnation, and Possession…
…in English. The sessions were recorded on tape, though some were lost before the case was investigated. Reincarnation research pioneer Ian Stevenson heard about the case in the summer of 1971, and visited the Jays at their home in Mount Orab, Ohio, USA in early September. While Dolores Jay was…
Reincarnation researchers agree on the need for caution when evaluating past life claims based on hypnotic regression. However, a few such cases are especially rich in accurate historical detail that cannot easily be explained in terms of cryptomnesia or living-agent psi, and which may therefore plausibly be considered evidence of…
…of the reincarnation type in terms of the ‘psychons’ theory proposed by British psychical researcher Walter Whately Carington.19See Murphy (1973) and Stevenson’s response (1973). Murphy was steadfast in his insistence that mainstream psychology, and science in general, should pay appropriate attention to rigorous parapsychological science instead of dismissing it. ‘How…
…instance the Teton Dam collapse in the US, and the Aberfan coal-spoil disaster in Wales, rather than ordinary life events. Reincarnation In their book Past Lives (2001), the Fenwicks quoted cases sent by readers in response to a newspaper article, providing a fairly comprehensive discussion of reincarnation issues. They acknowledged…
…to confirm the lore of ancient yogic practice.37Rao (2011). Harendra Nath Banerjee Harendra Banerjee is best-known for his collaboration with Ian Stevenson38Stevenson (1966). on cases of the reincarnation type in children. He established the department of parapsychology at the University of Rajastan, concerned mainly with researching spontaneous psi cases. He…
…USA: Prentice-Hall. Our Psychic Potentials (1984). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. (Reprinted 2005 by Anomalist Books.) The Search for Yesterday: A Critical Examination of the Evidence for Reincarnation (1985). Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA: Prentice-Hall. Life After Death: The Case for Survival of Bodily Death (1986). Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, UK: Aquarian Press….
