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How Subjectivity Prevents Us From Being Open-Minded Individuals

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 “If everyone prefaced their religious beliefs with, “in my opinion,” perhaps it would be less of an argument point. “In my opinion, there is no one God.””  T Schomburg

TheTruthIsI have come to realize that Truth is a subjective term. I think that my Truth is different from your Truth. And no one Truth is right, because all of our beliefs are right in a way that makes sense to us.

Two individuals can hear, watch, smell, taste, and feel the same experience and yet come out with different recollections and sentiments. This is commonly understood and respected. And yet, we still cannot seem to find agreement in having a difference in opinion.

A different set of belief systems that don’t align with our own subjective Truths are perceived as opposing views; they seem foreign and dangerous.

We trick our minds into thinking that ‘different’ is equal to ‘opposing’ — a toxic mindset which stems from our acquired taste for the dramatic and our lust for fabricated truths.

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Reincarnation: Dr. Ian Stevenson’s Life Work

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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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