…(2005),177-78. Xenoglossy and glossophobia may appear together in the same case. Xenoglossy has been reported in relation to mediumship as well as reincarnation, but this article is restricted to reincarnation. The following cases demonstrate the varieties of xenoglossy in spontaneous and regression reincarnation cases, some of them ‘solved’, with identified…
In some reincarnation cases, a child has apparently reincarnated into a different culture, religion, language, ethnic group or social caste. Such cases can be seen as strong evidence for reincarnation, as the subjects often display behavioural characteristics reflective of their previous milieu that are striking by contrast with their current…
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The quantity of evidence for reincarnation collected by researchers raises some questions about past-life memories: why, if reincarnation is a genuine phenomenon and everyone is capable of it, do so few people apparently remember past lives? If it is for some reason common to forget past lives, why do any…
…of one of the four children involved, Minamiyama Kazuya,21Minamiyama (2014). and in a paper by reincarnation researcher Ohkado Masayuki on the reincarnation case of Kazuya.22Ohkado (2016). All information in this section is drawn from this paper. Ohkado’s conclusion, based on some typical reincarnation signs (remembering his former name, referring to…
…Felix (d. 260) argued against reincarnation Tertullian’s arguments have been referenced by modern-day sceptics such as Paul Edwards4Edwards (1996), 226-33. and Michael Shermer,5Shermer (2018), 98-99. who assert that reincarnation requires a fixed population number. Counterarguments Ian Stevenson, the pioneer of reincarnation research, tackled the population problem in a 1974 paper,…
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