…reside in some generic parameter, such as memory or powers of concentration’, and that to explain ‘the narrowness’ of such talents it is important to ‘appeal to learning’. Some parapsychologists, by contrast, have considered such cases as possible evidence of reincarnation and past life memories.19Tayo (2011), 24. Roberto R. Narváez…
…Case studies (for instance, spontaneous remission, stigmata, cases of reincarnation type). Informal eyewitness accounts by specialists (for instance, a meteorologist observing unusual ball-lightning). Informal eyewitness accounts by non-specialists (for instance, a layperson observing an alleged UFO). Typically, the only anomalies that will rank serious discussion within many mainstream sciences are…
…news reporter and editor. In 1971 he emigrated to Canada, working as an investigative crime writer for newspapers. He left in 1981 to pursue personal writing projects, publishing books on travel, reincarnation, precognition and mediumistic channelling. His books have sold more than a million copies in 22 languages.1Coleman (n.d.). Fisher…
Allan Kardec of France (1804–1869) was an educator and pedagogue who became interested in mediumship later in life. His work with mediums led to the development of Spiritism, a doctrine that embraces after-death communication and reincarnation within a Christian context. Spiritism and its derivatives today have millions of adherents worldwide,…
…has left their body and travelled to a distant location where their apparition is seen or heard. Some reciprocal apparitions result from intentional efforts to project one’s consciousness to the distant place. Reciprocal apparitions may have deceased agents and have been reported in intermission memories, where a reincarnation case subject…
…possession. With regard to past-life regression and what she calls ‘depossession’ Fiore is quick to express her own scepticism pertaining to the reality of non-corporeal existence and reincarnation and acknowledges that she has a natural inclination towards rejection of these ideas due to the fact that she had no conceptual…
…to the left. At the mouths of other tunnels people were preparing for reincarnation on Earth. From above, happy souls reported visions of beauty; from below came the sounds of wailing, as souls bemoaned thousands of years of dreadful sufferings. A pillar of light resembling a rainbow extended from heaven…
…was more cautious. When he wrote his books Nature, Mind, and Death and A Philosophical Scrutiny of Religion,7Ducasse (1951a; 1953). he contended that we have only a right, but not an obligation, to believe in survival and reincarnation. A decade later, however, Ducasse was more confident, although still not as…
…data. Datasets received so far encompass a wide range of parapsychological inquiry, including anomalous cognition, presentiment, psychokinesis, reincarnation and survival research.7Ryan (2019). https://open-data.spr.ac.uk/ They are available to be used, modified and shared by anyone. Literature Ryan, A. (2008). New insights into the links between ESP and geomagnetic activity. Journal of…
