…biblical support from Old Testament images like Jacob’s ladder and Paul’s New Testament reference to being “caught up to the third heaven.” Include as well the aboriginal dream narratives and the Inuit intermingling of human spirits across lives. And then, finally, we hear the common-place voices of children, relating and recalling past-life memories. What I read in the reincarnation class, and what I’ve researched over the past decade, confirms…

…ernal Impressions,” “Possession,” and “Xenoglossy.” Kelly’s selections and comments seem to me appropriate and well-founded. Collectively they give a good sense of the range of Stevenson’s engagement with the survival problem. Section 5, “Implications,” is considerably weaker than the sections that have preceded it, as if Kelly has become concerned about the length of the book and wishes to bring it quickly to a close. One of Stevenson’s most impo…

…irst lessons I would like to get across is that it is not necessary to find 100% accuracy for a claim to be accepted. Past-life memory is no different from this-life memory in the way it works, and few of us have memories that are 100% accurate. We all get things wrong sometimes, forget things, merge together different events, think we remember things that did not actually happen, etc. So it should be no surprise to find these same defects with pa…

…? Journal of Scientific Exploration, 15, 211-221. Pasricha, S. K. (2001b). Experience in rebirth research in India. In N. Senanayake (Ed.), Trends in rebirth research: Proceedings of an international seminar. Ratmalana, Sri Lanka: Sarvodaya Vishva Lekha. Pasricha, S. K. (2008). Can the Mind Survive Beyond Death? In Pursuit of Scientific Evidence (2 Vols). New Delhi: Harman Publishing House. Pasricha, S. K. (2011a). Do attitudes of families concern…

…n 1988 Mills relocated to Charlottesville, Virginia, where she held a dual appointment as Research Assistant Professor in Stevenson’s Division of Personality Studies (now Division of Perceptual Studies, DOPS) of the University of Virginia Medical Center and as Lecturer in the UVA Department of Anthropology. She remained with Stevenson until accepting the post at UNBC in 1994. During this period she returned to India to study cases of Hindu childre…

…with personality survival. Published online: http://www-physics.lbl.gov/~stapp/Compatibility.pdf. Stapp, H. P. (2015). A quantum-mechanical theory of the mind/brain connection. In E. F. Kelly, A. Crabtree & P. Marshall (Eds.), Beyond physicalism: Toward reconciliation of science and spirituality (pp. 157-193). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Stevenson, I. (1997). Reincarnation and biology: A contribution to the etiology of birthmarks and birth…

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