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Reasons for reincarnation

1. Conscious past life memories in children

Perhaps the strongest and best documented evidence in support of reincarnation comes from the work of the late Dr. Ian Stevenson (1918-2007), a Virginia psychiatrist of impeccable credentials, who began studying cases of conscious past life memories in children in the late fifties. Studying almost 3,000 cases of children—most of them between four and ten years of age—who were able to recall having lived past lives, he was impressed with their ability to remember not only their previous life names, but even the date they died and details about the villages in which they previously lived. Many were even able to accurately identify members of their “former” family and were often able to recount “pet names” and intricate details of their previous lives with uncanny accuracy. Additionally, many of the children Stevenson studied could remember how they had died in their previous life, providing details of their demise with a degree of certainty and knowledge inexplicable for a child. So strong were these impressions that in a few cases, the children identified so completely with their past life that they insisted on being called by their former name and even felt alienated from their present family, preferring—and, in some instances, becoming clearly upset—when not permitted to spend more time with their “previous” family. What’s most impressive about these memories is that these children had not been hypnotized or otherwise ‘regressed’ into remembering previous lives, but had exhibited conscious memories of past lives spontaneously from a very early age. (In fact, Dr. Stevenson specifically made it a point to ignore past life memories acquired through hypnosis precisely because he considered them unreliable and fantasy prone.) While these memories and inclinations tended to fade after a few years and disappear almost completely by adolescence, they remain among the best evidence for reincarnation to date.

2. Corresponding birthmarks

One of the more interesting and, potentially, solid evidences suggestive of reincarnation, also came from Dr. Stevenson’s research. During the course of his travels he noticed that occasionally some of the children he studied revealed marks on their bodies that precisely corresponded with the fatal wounds they claim their previous personality had suffered at the time of their death. For instance, one of Dr. Stevenson’s subjects, an eleven year old Turkish boy, recounted having been accidentally shot in the head with a shotgun by a neighbor in a previous incarnation. Remarkably, the boy was born with a badly deformed right ear that closely mimicked the wounds the deceased man had received, a fact later confirmed by medical records and photographs Dr. Stevenson was able to obtain from local authorities during his investigation. And this was by no means an unusual case; Dr. Stevenson recounted scores of similar examples, some in which toes and fingers—and in a few cases, even entire limbs—that had been lost in a previous incarnation were missing in the current incarnation, as well as even more startling instances in which there were multiple birthmarks that closely resembled the precise wounds received by the past life subject. In one case, he found matching entrance and exit wounds in a subject that closely corresponded to those of the previous personality, who had died from a gunshot wound to the head. Of course, the chances of such perfectly matching marks occurring naturally even once are astronomical, and Dr. Stevenson had a number of such cases on record.

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Årsager til reinkarnation

1. Bevidste tidligere livsminder hos børn De måske stærkeste og bedst dokumenterede beviser til støtte for reinkarnation stammer fra arbejdet i slutningen af ??doktor Ian Stevenson (1918-2007), en Virginia-psykiater af upåklagelige legitimationsoplysninger, der begyndte at studere tilfælde af bevidste tidligere livsminder hos børn i slutningen af ??halvtredserne. Efter at have studeret næsten 3.000 tilfælde af børn - de fleste af dem mellem fire og ti år, der var i stand til at huske at have levet tidligere liv - var han imponeret over deres evne til at huske, ikke kun deres tidligere livsnavne, men også den dato, de døde, og oplysninger om de landsbyer, hvor de tidligere levede. Mange var endda i stand til præcist at identificere medlemmer af deres "tidligere" familie og var ofte i stand til at fortælle "kælenavne" og indviklede detaljer i deres tidligere liv med uhyggelig præcision. Derudover kunne mange af børnene, Stevenson undersøgte, huske, hvordan de var døde i deres tidligere liv. De gav oplysninger om deres død med en vis sikkerhed og viden, som var uforklarligt for et barn. Disse indtryk var så stærke, at i nogle få tilfælde, hvor børnene blev identificeret helt med deres tidligere liv, insisterede de på at blive kaldt ved deres tidligere navn, og de følte sig selv fremmedgjorte fra deres nuværende familie og blev i nogle tilfælde ophidsede, når det ikke var tilladt at tilbringe mere tid sammen med deres "tidligere" familie. Det mest imponerende ved disse minder er, at disse børn ikke var blevet hypnotiseret eller på anden måde "tvunget" til at huske tidligere liv, men havde udstillet bevidste erindringer om tidligere liv spontant fra en meget tidlig alder. (Faktisk gjorde doktor Stevenson det specifikt til et punkt at ignorere tidligere livserindringer erhvervet gennem hypnose, netop fordi han anså dem for at være upålidelige og fantasyudsatte). Selv om disse erindringer og tilbøjeligheder havde en tendens til at falme efter nogle år og forsvandt næsten helt fra ungdomsårene, forbliver de blandt de bedste beviser for reinkarnation til dato.

2. Tilsvarende modermærker

Et af de mere interessante og potentielt solide beviser, der tyder på reinkarnation, kom også fra doktor Stevensons forskning. I løbet af sine rejser bemærkede han, at lejlighedsvis nogle af de børn, han studerede, afslørede mærker på deres kroppe, og at de netop svarede til de dødelige sår, de hævder deres tidligere personlighed havde lidt på tidspunktet for deres død. For eksempel fortalte en af ??doktor Stevensons undersåtter, en elleve år gammel tyrkisk dreng, ved et uheld var blevet skudt i hovedet med et haglgevær af en nabo i en tidligere inkarnation. Bemærkelsesværdigt blev drengen født med et dårligt deformt højre øre, der nøje efterlignede de sår, den afdøde mand havde modtaget - en kendsgerning, som senere blev bekræftet af de medicinske journaler og fotografier, doktor Stevenson var i stand til at indhente fra de lokale myndigheder under sin undersøgelse. Og det var på ingen måde en usædvanlig sag, for doktor Stevenson fortalte snesevis af lignende eksempler - nogle i hvilke tæer og fingre, og i nogle få tilfælde var det endda hele lemmer, der var blevet tabt i en tidligere inkarnation. Endnu mere opsigtsvækkende tilfælde var, hvor der var flere modermærker, der lignede de præcise sår modtaget i et tidligere liv. I et tilfælde fandt han matchende indgangs- og udgangssår hos en person, der nøje svarede til dem af den tidligere personlighed, der var døde af et skudsår i hovedet. Selvfølgelig er chancerne for, at sådanne perfekt matchende mærker forekommer astronomiske, og doktor Stevenson havde en række af disse sager registreret.