…rapsychology. One place I visited was the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) in New York City, and after I received my M.L.S. in 1985, I was invited to join the staff as Librarian and Archivist. I was at the ASPR in 1987 and 1988, during which time I wrote articles on the history of parapsychology and on reincarnation for journals in the field (Matlock, 1987b, 1988, 1989). I also wrote a comprehensive review of reincarnation research f…
…dren. Sources Personal communication from Jim Tucker http://www.jimbtucker.com/ http://www.medicine.virginia.edu/clinical/departments/psychiatry/sections/cspp/dops/ Publications on Reincarnation Keil, [H. H.] J., & Tucker, J. B. (2000). An unusual birthmark case linked to a person who had previously died. Psychological Reports, 87, 1067-1074. Keil, H. H. J., & Tucker, J. B. (2005). Children who claim to remember previous lives: Cases with written…
…essful. It includes notes with references but there is no index. Other reviews For other reviews of this book online, see: Mail Online (2013, Dec. 24). The reincarnated children. News.com.au (2013, Nov. 26). Jim B Tucker tells stories of children who believe they are reincarnated in new book ‘Return to Life’….
…r father had predicted in the dream. Instead of looking at the face of the newly born she immediately looked at the knee. There was clearly a dark mark near the right knee.” This case has several features typical of experimental birthmark cases. The mark was made on the body after death and then appeared on the body of a child born into the same family. Often the mother is aware of the experimental mark; sometimes she saw it being made, and occasi…
…died. Also called parakaya pravesh, possession, replacement reincarnation. apparition A ghost. Apparitions are usually visual but may be auditory, olfactory, tactile, or sensed in some other way. assisted reincarnation Help in deciding where to be reborn by a spirit, such as a man in white, encountered during the intermission. astral body A shadow body aligned with the physical body during life which parts from it at death and continues to exist i…
…appraised in a scientific manner. At first he concentrated on mediumistic communications and poltergeist phenomena, the latter unusually common in his part of Brazil. He learned about children’s reincarnation claims in the early 1960s from Ian Stevenson, who visited São Paulo to investigate cases for Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. He began a search for similar cases, investigating them with Stevenson’s methods. In 1988, Andrade publish…
…t may be better to think of it as a conclusion drawn from observations and experiences and thus have an empirical basis, really more of a scientific conclusion than a belief. However, it is striking that there are comparatively few African cases with past-life memory and that on the whole, African cases are less well-developed than those reported from Asia and other world areas, with the exception of those from other native societies. As I show in…
…der hypnosis. You will learn to assess reincarnation claims critically and come to appreciate the relation of beliefs to cases. You will learn how cases are investigated and analyzed and will be prepared to make your own contributions to the field. The picture above is of an American girl with past-life memories at about the age she began to relate them. Unit 1: Introduction to the Study of Reincarnation Signs Reading 1.1: The Case of Rylann O’Ban…
…alf_end] [ezcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=”width:20%”] [/ezcol_1half] The Search for Bridey Murphy is comprised of transcripts from age regressions to an apparent previous life. It caused a sensation when it was first published in 1956 because some of its arcane details were verified. A tabloid newspaper sought to debunk the case and succeeded in having the public turn away from it, but in fact, the regression includes facts whose source has neve…
…rips to Lebanon, India and the southeastern United States, documenting his experiences in Old Souls: Compelling Evidence from Children Who Remember Past Lives . This book not only describes some interesting cases, it provides a rare portrait of Stevenson at work. [ezcol_1half_end id=”” class=”” style=””][/ezcol_1half_end] [ezcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=”width:20%”] [/ezcol_1half] Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation is a classic collection…
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…ety for Psychical Research (ASPR) from early 1972 to the end of 1973 and accompanied Karlis Osis, Research Director at the ASPR, to India for a survey of deathbed visions reported to doctors and nurses. He and Osis wrote about their study in At the Hour of Death: A New Look at Evidence for Life After Death , which has been translated into several languages and reprinted in twenty editions. He began teaching at the University of Iceland in 1973, ad…