HumansAreFree October 31 2013 (Thanks, Richard P.)
The following article can be seen as “Part Three” of my “Reincarnation is Fact” series of articles. While in the first two I have gathered an interesting collection of well documented cases, in the present article you will read a summary of Dr. Ian Stevenson’s life work.
He documented and analyzed from a pure scientific perspective, thousands of cases of children who spontaneously remembered a past life. Enjoy!
Reincarnation is Fact: Documented Cases (Part One);
Reincarnation is Fact: Documented Cases (Part Two);
“Either Dr. Stevenson is making a colossal mistake, or he will be known as the Galileo of the 20th century.” — Dr. Harold Lief in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Probably the best known, if not most respected, collection of scientific data that appears to provide scientific proof that reincarnation is real, is the life’s work of Dr. Ian Stevenson. Instead of relying on hypnosis to verify that an individual has had a previous life, he instead chose to collect thousands of cases of children who spontaneously (without hypnosis) remember a past life.
Dr. Ian Stevenson uses this approach because spontaneous past life memories in a child can be investigated using strict scientific protocols. Hypnosis, while useful in researching into past lives, is less reliable from a purely scientific perspective.
In order to collect his data, Dr. Stevenson methodically documents the child’s statements of a previous life. Then he identifies the deceased person the child remembers being, and verifies the facts of the deceased person’s life that match the child’s memory. He even matches birthmarks and birth defects to wounds and scars on the deceased, verified by medical records. His strict methods systematically rule out all possible “normal” explanations for the child’s memories.
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Dr. Stevenson has devoted the last forty years to the scientific documentation of past life memories of children from all over the world. He has over 3000 cases in his files. Many people, including skeptics and scholars, agree that these cases offer the best evidence yet for reincarnation.
Dr. Stevenson’s credentials are impeccable. He is a medical doctor and had many scholarly papers to his credit before he began paranormal research. He is the former head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, and now is Director of the Division of Personality Studies at the University of Virginia.
In order to help the reader become familiar with Dr. Stevenson’s work, a 1988 Omni Magazine Interview is reprinted below. Following the interview is a summary of one of Dr. Stevenson’s most famous cases.
Omni Magazine’s Interview with Dr. Ian Stevenson
Oddly, I just finished reading about a seven year old who has perfect recall of his past life and a perfect connection to a friend living on another planet. This child knows far too much about the origin of life on Earth and relates how his planet experienced the same changes that Earth has experienced. He explains that he volunteered along with others, to incarnate on Earth at this time to help raise Earths vibration into the 5th dimension. That Earth is not a three dimensional planet but a 4th dimension because of the element of time , which is usually overlooked.
I’ll send it to you.
Thanks, Dale. Science seems to be finally catching up with metaphysics. It’s about time. Hugs, G