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Past Life Experience Through Children's Spontaneous Recall...

This is a presentation made at the Closer To Reality Conference on Death & Beyond on 27th December, 2008. It's about children's spontaneous recall of their past life or lives, and the period between two human lives (inter-human life). For powerpoint slides, please click on the above picture, and for full paper presentation, you may click on full. For those who are interested to read journal papers related to the topic, kindly click on more.

Transplant, Cellular Memory & Reincarnation

Transplant, Cellular Memory & Reincarnation

by Dr. Larry Dossey (MD)

i carry your heart with me . . .
. . . and whatever is done
by only me is your doing . . . .
—E.E. Cummings
“i carry your heart with me”

Transplanting Memories - Video Clip

Children With Spontaneous Past Life Recall

A Dhamma talk delivered at Ti Ratana Buddhist Society,

Klang on 27th June, 2008

Lessons from Tirokudda Sutta

Tirokudda Sutta is one of the Buddhist scriptures that talks about the realm of spirits and how we can effectively help our friends and relatives who happen to be born in this realm of existence...

More Than One Life: REBIRTH

More Than One Life: REBIRTH

A Dhamma talk delivered at Brickfields Maha Vihara on 5th April, 2008

Children with spontaneous life between life recall

Buddhist cosmology talks about the 31 realms of existence: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sagga/loka.html

This is a paper from the Journal of Near Death Studies that suggests the existence of different realms of existence:

By Poonam Sharma & Jim B Tucker

ABSTRACT: For the last 40 years, researchers have collected cases of children who claim to remember previous lives. In a minority of these cases, the subjects also claim to remember events that took place during the intermission between the end of their previous life and their birth in the current life. Subjects in these cases tend to make more verified statements about the previous life they claim to remember than do other subjects of reincarnation type cases, and they tend to recall more names from that life. Analysis of reports from 35 Burmese subjects indicates that the intermission memories can be broken down into three parts: a transitional stage, a stable stage in a particular location, and a return stage involving choosing parents or conception. A comparison of these reports to reports of near-death experiences (NDEs) indicates that they show features similar to the transcendental component of Western NDEs and have significant areas of overlap with Asian NDEs. http://www.survival-research.net/downloads/2004_Sharma_Tucker_Intermission_memories_JNDS.pdf

How is it possible to remember past life?

By Dr. Roger J. Woolger

http://www.rogerwoolger.com/pages/septics.html

Expert interview on Reincarnation

Link to the INTERVIEWS

Including:

Dr. Jim Tucker - child psychiatrist

Dr. Roger Woolger - psychotherapist

Dr. Robert Almeder - professor in philosophy

Dr. Charles Skillas - hypnotherapist

Potential DANGER of Past Life Hypnotic Regression Therapy

Past life regression therapy is gaining a lot of popularity lately in the local Buddhist circle due to the availability of therapist. Though there is a lot of scientific research to support the validity of reincarnation, there is very little or no scientific studies to support the validity of PLRT to access past life memories and facilitate healing. This blog is posted to highlight the potential danger of PLRT using hypnotic regression as of Professor Dr. Ian Stevenson's personal opinion. Professor Dr. Ian Stevenson from University of Virginia is also the pioneer in scientific research on reincarnation. Personally, i'm bloging this neither to discourage people from going for PLRT nor disparage the work of past life regression therapist. It's just an effort to educate people on PLRT so that they can make a well informed decision before going for PLRT.

"If the subject has been instructed by the hypnotist--explicitly or implicitly--to "go back to another place and time" or given some similar guidance, the new "personality" may appear to be one of another period of history...Experiments by Baker and by Nicholas Spanos and his colleagues have shown how easily different suggestions given by a hypnotist can influence the features of the "previous personality" in conformity with suggestions".

"In fact, however, nearly all such hypnotically evoked "previous personalities" are entirely imaginary just as are the contents of most dreams. They may include some accurate historical details, but these are usually derived from information the subject has acquired normally through reading, radio and television programs, or other sources".

"A marked emotional experience during the hypnotic regression provides no assurance that memories of a real previous life were recovered. The subjective experience of reliving a previous life may be impressive to the person having the experience, and yet the "previous life" may be a fantasy, like most of our dreams. Also, benefit (even dramatic improvement) in some physical or psychological symptom does not provide evidence that a real previous life has been remembered. Persons with psychosomatic symptoms and psychoneuroses recover following a wide variety of psychotherapeutic measures. There are many general effects of any psychotherapeutic measure".

"The procedure of hypnotic regression to "previous lives" is not without some hazards. Instances have occurred in which the "previous personality" has not "gone away" when instructed to do so and the subject in such cases has been left in an altered state of personality for several days or more before restoration of his normal personality"

"I am not now engaging in experiments with hypnotic regression to "previous lives." I do not recommend hypnotists to persons who wish to have this experience. I do not approve of any hypnotist who makes promises to clients that suggest they will certainly return to a real previous life under his direction. I do not approve of anyone who charges fees for acting as a hypnotist in such experiments".

- Professor Dr. Ian Stevenson

For complete article: http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/personalitystudies/regression.cfm

Remembering Dangerously Recovered Memory

http://cogprints.org/598/0/199802008.html

A Case of the Psychotherapists' Fallacy: Hypnotic Regression to Previous Lives

http://www.4shared.com/file/40124386/c8b20a79/Past_life_hypnotic_regression_A_case_of_the_psychotherapist_fallacy.html

Life Before Life

Life Before Life is a book written by psychiatrist Dr. Jim Tucker, which is a very readable overview of more than 40 years of research at the University of Virginia Division of Personality Studies into past life recall by children. The foreword to the book is written by Professor Dr. Ian Stevenson. The book discusses:

1. British twins whose birthmarks and behavior closely resembled that of their deceased older sisters.
2. A boy from Africa who knows the names and personal details of people from another village, without having ever been there.
3. An American boy who believes he is the reincarnation of his own grandfather.
4. A child who dies of a gunshot in a previous life and carries a birthmark of the same size, shape and placement in this life.
5. The book also discusses objections to reincarnation: the paucity of persons who actually claim to remember a past life, the fragility of memories, the population explosion, the mind-body problem, fraud, and others.

Book review in Journal of Scientific Exploration: http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/v19/n4/bookReview-Life-Before-Life.html

Example of case studies: http://lifebeforelife.com/casestudies.htm

Hypnotherapy & Past Life Regression Therapy

If you are interested to go for hypnotherapy or past life regression therapy, I would like to recommend to you a friend of mine, Dr. Selina Chew who is a certified hypnotherapist and past life regression therapist. For further information: http://life-inspirations.com/Index.htm

The Last Lecture...

"It's now about how you achieve our dreams, it's about how you live your lives. If you live you life the right way, the KAMMA will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you"

Reincarnation, Medicine & Psychiatry

Professor Dr. Ian Stevenson

Division of Personality Studies,
Department of Pychiatric Medicine,

University of Virginia, USA

The phenomena of claimed memories of previous lives: possible interpretations and importance - Medical Hypothesis, 2000 54(4): 652-659

Summary: Several disorders or abnormalities observed in medicine and psychology are not explicable (or not fully explicable) by genetics and environmental influences, either alone or together. These include phobias and philias observed in early infancy, unusual play in childhood, homosexuality, gender identity disorder, a child’s idea of having parents other than its own, differences in temperament manifested soon after birth, unusual birthmarks and their correspondence with wounds on a deceased person, unusual birth defects, and differences (physical and behavioral) between monozygotic twins. The hypothesis of previous lives can contribute to the further understanding of these phenomena. For full text journal paper, click on 'Professor Dr. Ian Stevenson"

Dr. Ian Stevenson's research homepage:

http://www.near-death.com/experiences/reincarnation01.html