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Whats the deal with reincarnation? Is it just a crazy idea? Can anyone prove it? Ill let you decide. Below is some of the available evidence, gathered by researchers, scientists and doctors, and then cut, pasted, and rephrased by me. So this is what I've gathered, tell me what you think.
What is reincarnation? Reincarnation is the idea that your soul lives many life times. That it passes to a new host when "you"die (or your body dies?). This is a concept that has been apart of many cultures. Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and Aztecs believed in the "transmigration of souls" from one body to another after death. It's a fundamental precept of Hinduism. It even comes up in Christianity. Jesus, it is believed, was reincarnated three days after his crucifixion. Which Brings me to the Big Question; is there any evidence to support these beliefs?
HANDWRITING
Can past lives be proved by comparing the handwriting of a living person and the deceased person he or she claims to have been? Indian researcher Vikram Raj Singh Chauhan believes so. Chauhan has undertaken a study of this possibility, and his findings have been received favorably at the National Conference of Forensic Scientists at Bundelkhand University, Jhansi.
A six-year-old boy named Taranjit Singh from the village of Alluna Miana, India, claimed since he was two that he had been a person named Satnam Singh. This other boy had lived in the village of Chakkchela, Taranjit insisted, and even knew Satnam's father's name. He had been killed while riding his bike home from school. An investigation verified the many details Taranjit knew of his previous life as Satnam. But the clincher was that their handwriting, a trait experts know is as distinct as fingerprints, was virtually identical.
XENOGLOSSY
The .paranormal phenomenon in which a person is able to speak or write a language he or she could not have acquired by natural means. In Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery, Cranston and Head relate the story of Dr. Marshall McDuffie, a prominent New York physician, and his wife Wilhelmina whose twin baby boys were found to be conversing among themselves in some unknown vernacular. The children were eventually taken to the foreign language department of Columbia University, but none of the professors present could identify their speech. However, a professor of ancient languages happened to pass by and was amazed to discover that the babies were speaking Aramaic, a language current at the time of Christ.
PAST LIFE REGRESSION HYPNOSIS
The practice of reaching past lives through hypnosis is controversial, primarily because hypnosis is not a reliable tool. Hypnosis can certainly help reach the unconscious mind, but the information found there is not reliable as truth. It has been shown that the practice can create false memories. That doesn't mean, however, that regression hypnosis should be dismissed out of hand.
If the past life information can be verified through research, the case for reincarnation can be considered more seriously.
The most famous case of past life regression through hypnosis is that of Ruth Simmons. In 1952, her therapist, Morey Bernstein, took her back past the point of her birth. Suddenly, Ruth began to speak with an Irish accent and claimed that her name was Bridey Murphy, who lived in 19th century Belfast, Ireland.
Ruth recalled many details of her life as Bridey, but, unfortunately, attempts to find out if Ms. Murphy really existed were unsuccessful. There was, however, some indirect evidence for the truth of her story. Under hypnosis, Bridey mentioned the names of two grocers in Belfast from whom she bought food, Mr. Farr, and John Carrigan. A Belfast librarian found a city directory for 1865-1866 that listed both men as grocers. Her story was told both in a book by Bernstein and in a 1956 movie, The Search for Bridey Murphy.
BIRTH MARKS & BIRTH DEFECTS
Dr Ian Stevenson, former Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, dedicated the majority of his career to finding evidence of reincarnation. He claims to have found over 3,000 examples of reincarnation.
In a study titled ‘Birthmarks and Birth Defects Corresponding to Wounds on Deceased Persons’, Dr Stevenson used facial recognition to analyse similarities between people and their alleged prior incarnation, while also studying birth marks.
Among 895 cases of children who claimed to remember a previous life (or were thought by adults to have had a previous life), Stevenson found, birthmarks and/or birth defects attributed to the previous life, were reported in 309 of the subjects. The birthmark or birth defect of the child was said to correspond to a wound (usually fatal) or other mark on the deceased person whose life the child said it remembered.
35 per cent of children who claim to remember previous lives have birthmarks and/or birth defects that they (or adult informants) attribute to wounds on a person whose life the child remembers.
The cases of 210 such children have been investigated.
The birth defects were nearly always of rare types. In cases in which a deceased person was identified the details of whose life unmistakably matched the child’s statements, a close correspondence was nearly always found between the birthmarks and/or birth defects on the child and the wounds on the deceased person.
In 43 of 49 cases in which a medical document (usually a postmortem report) was obtained, it confirmed the correspondence between wounds and birthmarks (or birth defects).
In a separate study, Dr Stevenson interviewed three children who claimed to remember aspects of their previous lives.
The children made 30-40 statements each regarding memories that they themselves had not experienced, and through verification, he found that up to 92 per cent of the statements were correct.
The article, published on Scientific Exploration, Dr Stevenson wrote: “It was possible in each case to find a family that had lost a member whose life corresponded to the subject’s statements.
The statements of the subject, taken as a group, were sufficiently specific so that they could not have corresponded to the life of any other person."
Could any of this be verified?
In one fascinating case, an Indian boy claimed to remember the life of a man named Maha Ram, who was killed with a shotgun fired at close range. This boy had an array of birthmarks in the center of his chest that looked like they could possibly correspond to a shotgun blast. So the story was checked out. Indeed, there was a man named Maha Ram who was killed by a shotgun blast to the chest. An autopsy report recorded the man's chest wounds, which corresponded directly with the boy's birthmarks.
A man from Thailand claimed that when he was a child he had distinct memories of a past life as his own paternal uncle. This man had a large scar-like birthmark on the back of his head. His uncle, it turns out, died from a severe knife wound to that very part of his head.
Dr. Stevenson has documented many other such cases, many of which he could verify through medical records.
CHILD PRODOGIES
Over time, a number of child prodigies have demonstrated amazing abilities in mathematics, music, and other fields. Some have displayed virtuoso musical abilities despite little or no practice at that instrument. Mozart, for example, composed a concerto at age four. In How To Know God, Deepak Chopra, M.D., states: People who spend time with geniuses and prodigies often find them unearthly, somehow preternatural, as if a very old soul has been confined to a new body and yet brings in experience far beyond what that body could have known. It is easy to credit that some kind of former life is casting its influence on the present.
Dr Jim Tucker has spent the past ten-years documenting children who claim to have lived past-lives. He has encountered many examples of American children who claim to have been anything from a World War II fighter pilot to legendary golfer Bobby Jones. Through his research Dr Tucker has come to believe that the children are speaking the truth and that they have indeed been reincarnated.He bases the science for his theories in advanced quantum physics, arguing that human consciousness can move in time and space
Dr Tucker's explanation for his belief in reincarnation may be mind-boggling but it is far from outlandish.
He bases it in the ever-developing field of quantum mechanics, pioneered by scientific luminaries such as Albert Einstein.
Dr Tucker believes that because quantum physics demonstrates that conscious observation can be critical in determining physical events, he argues that consciousness might actually be separate from the brain and exists apart from our physical bodies.
He believes that the brain might in fact simply be a conduit for consciousness to inhabit our bodies but is transient through time and space.
He provides the analogy of a television set and the television transmission; the television is required to decode the signal, but it does not create the signal. In a similar way the brain may be required for consciousness to express itself, but may not be the source of consciousness.
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What he has found is that each child reveals their past life at an extremely young age - at usually two or three - and the memories manifest themselves as unusual episodes of streams of consciousness, recollections and sometimes as intense, thrashing nightmares.
Using strict scientific methods to match the children's statements with as much detail of the deceased person they claim to be, Dr Tucker has traveled as far as the remote islands of Scotland in his quest to prove that reincarnation is a fact of our existence - even if that proof is intangible for now.
One particular case which stood apart for Dr Tucker was that of Hunter, a three-year-old golfing prodigy – who said he was the reincarnation of 13-time major winner Bobby Jones.
Gifted a set of plastic clubs at the age of two, Hunter, who lives with his parents in California was watching the Golf Channel one day with his father when he saw a clip of Jones, the dominant force in the sport in the 1930s who helped establish the Augusta National course, home of the Masters.
Hunter told his parents he had been Bobby Jones when he was ‘big’ and demanded to be known from that moment on as Bobby.
His parents initially laughed off his behavior.
However, his father decided to test his son one day and showed him six pictures of golfers from the 1930s and asked which one was Jones.
Correctly picking out the golfer's image, Hunter replied: 'This me.'
Taking this further, Hunter's dad printed off pictures of several different houses, including Jones' childhood house and showed them to his son.
He called five of them simply 'house', but called the property where Jones grew up 'home'.
Meanwhile, his golfing ability increased exponentially and his parents bought him a real set of clubs and their local club in California accepted him aged three, even though five was their youngest starting age.
Indeed, several older golfers there made the innocent observation to Hunter's father that his son's swing, even at an early age reminded them of Bobby Jones's.
Hunter is now seven and has won 41 out of the 50 junior tournaments he has entered, including 21 in a row and is seen as potentially the next Tiger Woods by those who know him.
Think about it- Our bodies are only temporary and our souls are eternal? Souls are our collective consciousness, the unseen power that drives our brain. Is it so strange that we had previous lives that we can’t remember? Is it so hard to believe? What happens to a person who has a brain injury in the hippocampus (maybe due to a stroke). He looses his long-term memory. So if we can’t maintain our memories due to an injury, is it so hard to believe we can’t maintain our previous lives, memories, after re-birth?
Dr. Mark Pitstick Soul Proof Sean martin Express.com/uk /REVEALED James Nye Daily Mail
