…onal Identity and Survival.” Philosopher C. D. Broad explains his idea of Ψ-components, or minds, and how personal identity might survive bodily death. Reading 14.4: “Compatibility of Contemporary Physics with Personality Survival.” Henry Stapp argues that quantum physics is not incompatible with personal survival after death. Unit 15: The Process of Reincarnation Reading 15.1: Reincarnation and Life (Signs of Reincarnation pp. 259-271). An adequa…
…ifferences from Hindu (and Buddhist) ideas also. Although reincarnation is associated with Greeks before Pythagoras, it was a major teaching of the school he founded. Pythagoras believed he remembered his last life as a Trojan warrior and claimed to have recognized his shield when he saw it in a temple, the earliest examples of the reincarnation signs we study today known from Western cultural sources. Pythagoras’s follower Empedocles believed tha…
…I continued to work on it and began to teach it online through the Alvarado-Zingrone Institute for Research and Education in 2014. My course lectures are the subject of 12 conversations with Jeffrey Mishlove I recorded in November, 2017, for his New Thinking Allowed video series on YouTube. My course lectures also form the basis of my book, Signs of Reincarnation: Exploring Beliefs, Cases, and Theory, to be published by Rowman and Littlefield in J…
…ion of Burma during the Second World War. In one of these cases, the mother-to-be dreamed repeatedly of an army cook she had known and befriended. The cook told her that he was coming to be reborn to her, but did not ask her permission. Intermission memories in the cases of the Japanese soldiers killed in Burma differ from the Burmese cultural norm in another respect. In Burma, announcing dreams tend to precede the pregnancy rather than coming dur…
…nother post. This post is slightly modified from one I wrote originally for my Signs of Reincarnation Facebook group on April 2, 1015. See https://www.facebook.com/groups/965923533422836/permalink/1081701878511667/…
…e have all had previous lives, whether we remember them or not. This post appeared previously in my Signs of Reincarnation Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/965923533422836/permalink/1220370054644848/…
…(2013), edited by Adam J. Rock. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 2015, 79(1), 45-47. Reincarnation: A Critical Examination (1996) by Paul Edwards. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 1997, 11(4), 570-573. The Search for Yesterday: A Critical Examination of the Evidence for Reincarnation (1985, reprinted 2005) by D. Scott Rogo. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 1986, 53(802), 229-232. …
…late Hernani Andrade–one involving poltergeist phenomena, the second a drop-in mediumistic communicator, the third a girl named Jacira who remembered the life of her elder brother, who had committed suicide. [ezcol_1half_end id=” “=”” class=”” style=”” ][/ezcol_1half_end] [ezcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=”width:20%”] [/ezcol_1half]Psychotherapist Carol Bowman became interested in children’s past-life memories after her five-year old son had a…
…(2000). Twins who claimed to remember previous lives. NIMHANS Journal, 18(1-2), 39-51. *Pasricha, S. K. (2001a). Cases of the reincarnation type in South India: Why so few reports? 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. (…
…onal survival.” Chapters 3 through 5 are data-centered. Chapter 3 is on out-of-body and near-death experiences, Chapter 4 is on mediumistic communications, and Chapter 5 is on past-life memories. Chapter 6 analyzes “classical explanatory arguments for survival.” Chapter 7 tackles “Bayesian explanatory arguments,” which Sudduth associates with Broad and E. R. Dodds. Chapter 8 continues with “Bayesian defenses of the survival hypothesis,” especially…
Research Organizations http://www.medicine.virginia.edu/clinical/departments/psychiatry/sections/cspp/dops/ The foremost place for reincarnation research is the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) formerly the Division of Personality Studies, at the University of Virginia. This is the organization associated with the late Ian Stevenson. Although this is within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, they do not treat th…
…at happened before their births, in the womb or earlier, with or without accompanying past-life memories, but also unusual experiences of pregnant women that relate to their unborn children. The latter include dreams and other experiences that connect mother (or father) and a child yet to be born or conceived. Reincarnation Experiences of Adults Reincarnation experiences of adults have been much less well studied than the experiences of children….