…a rich case. Reincarnation Belief in Brazil Pioneering reincarnation researcher Ian Stevenson observes that Brazil probably holds the strongest belief in reincarnation of all western nations, thanks to the dual influence of African animism and French Spiritism, founded by Allan Kardec in the nineteenth century. In this climate, he notes,…
…of Reincarnation. (rev. ed.) Charlottesville, Virginia, USA: University Press of Virginia. Stevenson, I. (1977a). The explanatory value of the idea of reincarnation. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 164/5, 305-26. Stevenson I. (1977b). Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Vol II: Ten Cases in Sri Lanka. Charlottesville, Virginia, USA: University Press…
…that can be described in language that is not meaningless or self-contradictory and that does not violate well established laws. As his book was published before Reincarnation and Biology, he did not address the psychosomatic phenomena, described above, that Stevenson described in his book. Leonard Angel Leonard Angel criticized Reincarnation…
…nurture’ question. Ian Stevenson and other reincarnation researchers argue for past-life influence as a third factor. Stevenson addresses the issue in detail in Volume Two of Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects,9Stevenson (1997), 1931-2062. and in a more summary way in a later…
…the case later and included it in Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. Investigations HSS Nissanka, a scholar and journalist in Sri Lanka, published a series of articles in Silumina, a national newspaper, on the subject of reincarnation. When readers wrote to ask him why, if reincarnation were real, there were…
…House. Melton, J.G. (1994). Edgar Cayce and reincarnation: Past life readings as religious symbology. Syzygy: Journal of Alternative Religion and Culture, 3/1-2, 39-50. Nennius. Historia Brittonum, 50 & 56. Norsic, D. (1997). To Save Russia: The Reincarnation of Nicholas II. Fairfield, Iowa, U.S.A: Sunstar. Phelan, L. (1997). Guinevere. New York:…
…a book by parapsychology critic and amateur magician Martin Gardner,17Gardner (1989). to which Keil and others rejoindered vigorously.18Keil (1990). Reincarnation Keil was one of three researchers who were persuaded by reincarnation researcher Ian Stevenson, the director of DOPS, to investigate spontaneous cases of childhood memories of a previous life in…
…case was concocted, even while admitting this to be wholly conjectural: The following scenario seems to me a far better explanation of events than any reincarnationist assumption. At the age of three Jagdish made some innocent remarks which the father twisted into reincarnation memories. The cousin and her husband who…
…in the case of Rakesh Gaur. European Journal of Parapsychology 5, 77-85. [Reprinted 2008 in Can the Mind Survive Beyond Death? In Pursuit of Scientific Evidence, Vol. I: Reincarnation Research, 271-81.New Delhi: Harman Publishing House.] Pasricha, S.K., & Barker, D.R. (1981). A case of the reincarnation type in India: The…
