The phenomenon of reincarnation: cases from life. Evidence of Reincarnation

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Helena Blavatsky, who is considered an unsurpassed occultist and theosophist, argued that the main metaphysical principle of any religious teaching is reincarnation, that is, the recognition of the transmigration of the soul from one physical body to another. (website)

And the fact that reincarnation is rejected by Christianity, Elena Petrovna emphasized, does not mean that it was not in the teachings of Jesus Christ himself. Indeed, until 553 this idea was present in early Christianity, but at the Fifth Ecumenical Council it was condemned and erased from all written sources.

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Even the fact that the idea of ​​reincarnation is inherent in almost all religions, that is, known since ancient times, proves its reality, not to mention the fact that cases of reincarnation(transmigrations of the soul) have been traced, documented and comprehensively studied more than once or twice. The miracles of the rebirth of the Dalai Lama alone are worth it! But his case is only one of many...

A real case of reincarnation, confirmed through a prophetic dream

A unique case of reincarnation occurred in Palermo in 1910. In the family of the Italian doctor Samoya, five-year-old baby Alexandrina dies of tuberculosis. Some time after the death of her daughter, the unfortunate mother sees an amazing dream in which her beloved girl comes to her and tells her that she is returning. After this, Adele learns that she is pregnant, although doctors long ago gave her a terrible diagnosis: she will never be able to have children.

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In due time, Samoya’s wife gave birth to two twin girls, and one of them turned out to have the same birthmark that the deceased Alexandrina had. Naturally, this girl was named by the same name. Alexandrina turned out to be a copy of her deceased sister, even left-handed, she adored the same food, clothes, and games. When the twins grew up, their mother took them to Montreal, and then Alexandrina stated that she was already in this city with her mother and a woman with a scar on her forehead, and they saw priests in red clothes here. Adele recalled that she actually came to Montreal with her deceased daughter and a friend who has a scar on her forehead, and that time they remembered Greek priests in bright red robes. This means that her daughter actually returned, and that dream was prophetic...

Reincarnation: other interesting cases

In 1995, a five-year-old girl named Eleanor fell to her death on a swing, after which her parents’ family life somehow didn’t work out, and they separated. The father had a son in his new family, but what’s surprising is that outwardly, and in all his habits, he was a copy of the deceased Eleanor.

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Knowing the tragic story of her husband's daughter, the boy's mother never allowed him to ride on a swing - for some reason she was terrified of a repetition of the tragedy. But one warm spring day, without knowing why, she put the boy on a swing in the children's park and began to swing him. A five-year-old kid suddenly tells his mother that he has already skated like this and then flew into the sky. And then the woman remembers that today is April 17 - the day of Eleanor’s death.

Another case of reincarnation

In 1945, a certain Victor Vincent, who lived in Alaska, came to Mrs. Chatkin, who was a good friend of his, and told the woman that he would soon die. And in 1947, they say, she will give birth to a boy who will have the same scars as he does, though not like marks from operations, but simply birthmarks. And this is all because he will be this boy...

And so it happened, the man soon dies, and two years later Mrs. Chatkin gives birth to a boy, on whose body there were birthmarks in the form of amazing “surgical scars”, one could even see holes from medical needles. When the boy grew up and one day met the adopted daughter of Victor Vincent, he suddenly shouted joyfully and ran to her, calling the woman Susie, that is, by a name used by only one person in the world - her father...

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Reincarnation: Some Conclusions and Surprising Facts

Researchers have found that souls most often migrate within a very limited circle of relatives and close friends. Although not necessarily, there are cases when even the souls of inhabitants of other worlds come to Earth.

As a rule, children up to the age of five or seven remember their past lives, but then all this is completely forgotten. However, under hypnosis, almost all people remember their past life path, and can even go deeper into more than one life. Here it suddenly turns out that man lived not only on Earth, but also on other planets or, possibly, in parallel worlds.

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People under hypnosis remember their afterlife. For example, Mile Newton, a hypnotherapist of the highest category in the USA, based on his extensive practice, wrote a number of books about. And one of them - “The Purpose of the Soul” describes precisely the experience of the birth and existence of the soul between its life in the physical shell of a person. The book, of course, looks like a fairy tale, but what is a fairy tale if not a reality that we simply cannot understand yet? After all, no person is simply capable of inventing anything that is not already in the information field of the Universe - he simply reads the data. It is no coincidence that the great Indian philosopher and father of integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo, noted that if a person could come up with even one thought on his own, he would be God...

Jim Tucker from Charlottesville (USA) is the only academic scientist in the world who has been studying children's stories about past lives for 15 years. Now Tucker has collected selected cases from the United States in a new book and presents in it his own hypotheses about the scientific aspects that may be hidden behind the phenomenon of reincarnation.

Below is a translation of the article "The Science of Reincarnation", first published in the University of Virginia Journal.

Spontaneous memories and childhood games

When Ryan Hammons was four years old, he started playing movie director, with commands like "Action" constantly blaring from his childhood room. But these games soon became a cause for concern for Ryan's parents, especially after he woke up screaming one night, grabbed his chest, and began telling him that he dreamed that his heart exploded while he was in Hollywood one day. His mother Cindy went to the doctor, but the doctor explained it as nightmares and that the boy would soon outgrow this age. One evening, when Cindy was putting her son to bed, he suddenly took her hand and said: " Mom, I think I was once someone else".

Ryan explained that he could remember a big white house and a swimming pool. This house was located in Hollywood, many miles from their home in Oklahoma. Ryan said he had three sons, but he couldn't remember their names. He began to cry and kept asking his mother why he couldn't remember their names.

"I really didn't know what to do"," recalls Cindy. " I was very scared. He was so insistent on this matter. After that night, he tried again and again to remember their names and each time he was disappointed that he could not. I started looking for information about reincarnation on the Internet. I even checked out some library books about Hollywood in the hopes that the pictures might help him. I didn't tell anyone about this for months".

One day, while Ryan and Cindy were looking at one of the books about Hollywood, Ryan stopped at one page of a black and white photograph from the 1930s film Night After Night. The picture showed two men threatening a third man. They were surrounded by four other men. Cindy didn't recognize these faces, but Ryan pointed to one of the men in the middle and said, " Hey mom, it's George. We made a film together".

Then his fingers slid to the man in the jacket on the right side of the picture, who looked sullenly: " This guy is ME, I found myself!".

Although rare, Ryan's claim is not unique and is one of a total of more than 2,500 cases that psychiatrist Jim Tucker has collected in his archives at the University of Virginia Medical Center for Perceptual Studies.

At two years old, children remember their past life

For nearly 15 years, Tucker has been researching the stories of children who, usually between the ages of two and six, claim that they lived once before. Sometimes these children can even describe quite detailed details of these former lives. Very rarely are these previously deceased individuals famous or popular, and are often completely unknown to the families of these children.

Tucker, one of two scientists in the world studying this phenomenon, explains that the complexity of such experiences varies. Some of them can be easily identified, for example, when it is clear that children's harmless stories occur in families where they have lost a close relative.

Other times, like Ryan's, the logical explanation is a scientific one, says Tucker, that is both simple and surprising: " One way or another, the child remembers memories from another life".

"I understand that it is a big step to understand and accept that there is something beyond what we can see and touch" explains Tucker, who served for nearly a decade as the medical director of the University Children's Hospital (Child and Family Psychiatric Clinic). " However, this is evidence that such incidents need to be looked into, and if we look closely at such cases, the explanation that makes the most sense is thatmemory transfer occurs ".

The key to the existence of reincarnation

In his latest book, Return to Live, Tucker recounts some of the most compelling cases he has studied in the United States and presents his argument that the latest discoveries in quantum mechanics, the science of the behavior of the smallest particles in nature, are the key to the existence of reincarnation.

"Quantum physics suggests that our physical world arises from our consciousness, Tucker reports. — This point of view is represented not only by me, but also by a large number of other scientists".

While Tucker's work is leading to heated debate in the scientific community, his research is based in part on cases studied by his predecessor, who died in 2007, Ian Stevenson, who collected cases from around the world that were equally misleading.

For Michael Levin, director of the Center for Restorative and Regenerative Developmental Biology at Tufts University and the author of an academic review of Tucker's first book, which he describes as "first-rate research," the controversy stems from models of science currently in use that can neither disprove nor prove Tucker's opening: " When you fish with a net with big holes, you will never catch fish that are smaller than those holes. What you find is always limited by what you are looking for. Current methods and concepts simply cannot handle this data".

Tucker, whose research is funded entirely by the foundation, began researching reincarnation in late 1990 after he read an article in the Charlottesville Daily Progress about Ian Stevenson's research fellowship on near-death experiences: " I was interested in the idea of ​​life after death and the question of whether the scientific method could be used to study this area".

After initially volunteering in Stevenson's department for several years, he became a permanent member of the team and handed over Stevenson's notes, which date in part to the early 1960s. " This job, says Tucker, gave me amazing insight".

Tucker's research results in numbers

Approximately 70 percent of the children studied died (in their previous life) from a violent or unexpected death. About a third of these cases are recalled by boys. This corresponds almost exactly to the proportion of men with unnatural causes of death in the normal population.

Although such cases are reported more frequently in countries where reincarnation is part of the religious culture, according to Tucker, there is no correspondence between the frequency of cases and the religious beliefs of families who have experienced reincarnation.

One in five children who report a previous life They also talk about the transition period between lives - between birth and death. However, it is almost impossible to find any correspondence in these stories about how this transition is experienced. Some of the children claimed that they were in the "House of God", while others stated that they waited at the scene of their death before they "entered" their (new) mothers.

In cases where the children's histories could be attributed to some other personality, the duration of this transition period was typically between about 16 months.

What are the characteristics of such children?

Further research by Tucker and others showed that children affected by this phenomenon generally have an IQ above average, but they do not have higher than average mental disorders and behavioral problems. None of the children studied tried to free themselves from painful situations in the family through descriptions of such stories.

About 20 percent of the children examined had scar-like birthmarks or malformations that were similar to the marks and wounds of the people whose lives they recalled and who they received shortly or at the time of death.

Most of these statements in children decline by the age of six, which corresponds to the time, according to Tucker, when a child's brain is preparing for a new phase of development.

Despite the transcendental nature of their stories, almost none of the children studied and documented showed other signs of “supernatural” abilities or “enlightenment,” Tucker wrote. " My impression is that although some children make philosophical remarks, for the most part they are completely normal children. One could compare this to a situation where a child on his first day of school is actually no smarter than on his last day of kindergarten".

Raised as a Southern Baptist in North Carolina, Tucker considers other, more down-to-earth explanations, and also examines cases of deception due to financial interests and fame. " But in most cases, this information does not bring film contracts, says Tucker, and many families, especially in the Western world, are embarrassed to talk about their child’s unusual behavior".

Of course, Tucker does not rule out even simple childhood fantasy as an explanation, but this cannot explain the richness of detail with which some children remember a previous person: " This defies all logic that this could all just be a coincidence.".

In many cases, the researcher goes on to say, false memories of witnesses are revealed, but there were dozens of examples where parents carefully documented their children's stories from the very beginning.

"None of the rational explanations put forward so far can yet account for another pattern in which children, as in Ryan's case, associate strong emotions with their memories.", Tucker wrote.

Tucker believes that the relatively small number of cases he and Stevenson have been able to collect in America over the past 50 years can be explained by the fact that many parents simply ignore their children's stories or misinterpret them: " When children are given the impression that they are not being listened to or believed, they simply stop talking about it. They understand that they are not supported. Most children want to please their parents".

A look at consciousness from the point of view of quantum physics

How exactly consciousness, or at least memories, can be transferred from one person to another is still a mystery. But Tucker believes the answer may be found in the foundations of quantum physics: Scientists have long known that matter, like electrons and protons, creates events when they are observed.

A simplified example is the so-called double-slit experiment: if light is allowed to fall through a hole with two small gaps, behind one of which there is a photoreaction plate, and this process is not observed, then the light passes through both slits. If you observe the process, the light falls, as the plate shows, only through one of the two holes. The behavior of light, particles of light, is thus changed, although the only difference is that the process has been observed.

In fact, there is also a controversial and powerful debate surrounding this experiment and its results. Tucker, however, believes, like the founder of quantum physics Max Planck, that the physical world can be changed by non-physical consciousness, and may even have evolved from it.

If this were true, then consciousness would not need a brain to exist. For Tucker, therefore, there is no reason to believe that brain death also ends consciousness: " It is quite possible that consciousness manifests itself in a new life".

Robert Pollock, director of the Center for the Study of Science and Religion at Columbia University, notes that scientists have long puzzled over what role observation might have in the physical world. However, the hypotheses put forward are not necessarily scientific: " Such debates among physicists usually focus on the clarity and beauty of such an idea, rather than on the circumstances that they simply cannot be proven. In my opinion, this is anything but a scientific debate. I think that Planck and his followers observed and observed this behavior of small particles, on the basis of which they drew conclusions about consciousness and thereby expressed hope. Although I hope they are right, there is no way to prove these ideas or disprove them".

Tucker, in turn, explains that his hypothesis is based on more than just wishful thinking. This is much more than just hope. " If you have direct positive evidence for a theory, it matters even when there is negative evidence against it".

Ryan meeting his daughter in a past life

Cindy Hamons wasn't interested in the debate when her preschool-aged son recognized himself in a photo from more than 80 years ago. She just wanted to know who this man was.

There was no information about this in the book itself. But Cindy soon discovered that the man in the photo, whom Ryan called "George," was the now largely forgotten movie star George Raft. Who the person Ryan recognized himself was was still unclear to Cindy. Cindy wrote to Tucker, whose address she also found on the Internet.

Through him, the photo ended up in the film archive, where after several weeks of searching it turned out that the gloomy-looking man was still a little-known actor Martin Martyn, who was not mentioned in the credits of the film “Night after Night.”

Tucker did not tell the Hamons family about his discovery when he came to visit them a few weeks later. Instead, he placed four black-and-white photographs of women on the kitchen table, three of which were random. Tucker asked Ryan if he recognized one of the women. Ryan looked at the photos and pointed to a photo of a woman he knew. It was Martin Martyn's wife.

Some time later, the Hamons and Tucker traveled to California to meet Martyn's daughter, who had been found by the editors of a television documentary about Tucker.

Before meeting Ryan, Tucker spoke with a woman. The lady was reluctant to talk at first, but during the conversation she was able to tell more and more details about her father, which confirmed Ryan's stories.

Ryan said that "he" danced in New York. Martin was a dancer on Broadway. Ryan said that he was also an "agent" and that the people he worked for had changed their names. In fact, Martyn worked for many years after his career as a dancer for a well-known Hollywood talent agency that created creative aliases. Ryan also explained that his old address had the word "rock" in the name.

Martyn lived at 825 North Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills. Ryan also revealed that he knew a man named Senator Five. Martin's daughter confirmed that she has a photo of her father with Senator Irving Ives of New York, who served in the US Senate from 1947 to 1959. And yes, Martyn had three sons, whose names the daughter, of course, knew.

But her meeting with Ryan didn't go well. Ryan, although he extended his hand to her, hid behind his mother for the rest of the conversation. He later explained to his mother that the woman's energy had changed, after which his mother explained to him that people change as they grow up. " I don't want to go back (to Hollywood), Ryan explained. — I only want to leave this (my) family.”

Over the next weeks, Ryan spoke less and less about Hollywood.

Tucker explains that this often happens when children meet the families of people they believe they once were. " This seems to confirm their memories, which then lose their intensity. I think they then realize that no one from the past is waiting for them anymore. This makes some kids sad. But eventually they accept it and turn their attention completely to the present. They pay attention to the fact that they should live here and now - and of course, this is exactly what they should do ".

Translation by Alena Ivanova, 2nd year student at the Institute of Reincarnation.

Copying of materials strictly with the indication of the journal Reincarnationika.

Indians have a calm attitude towards death. The reason is simple. Here they believe in reincarnation and the laws of karma. In the East, even children know about the endless journeys of the soul from one world to another. In Europe the traditions are different. But in recent decades, people here have also become interested in the cultural heritage of eastern countries. Along with yoga and meditation, knowledge about karma and reincarnation came to the West.

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Evidence of Soul Reincarnation

The concept came from Eastern religions. Literally this term means "". We are talking about the Soul, the Higher Self, or Atman. The immortal substance of the spiritual plane comes to Earth (Indian teachings talk about the planets of our Universe) several times to gain experience and become wiser. When earthly lessons are learned, it moves to another level of existence and continues its evolution there.

Representatives of science are skeptical about the theory of transmigration of souls. However, we cannot ignore the inexplicable facts, of which there are plenty. It's about children who remember their previous lives. And it is difficult to reduce this to a game of imagination or fantasy. When talking about their past incarnations, children name precise details that are easy to verify and difficult to invent.

The memory of a past life is retained in children up to the age of five, then these memories are erased. At this age, the child fits into society, and the left, rational, hemisphere of the brain begins to dominate. In addition, parents do not take “baby talk” about their previous stay on Earth too seriously.

Karma determines who we will be in the next life: a human or an animal

This law was discovered in ancient times as a result of life observations. Every action affects the future fate of a person. Karma will definitely manifest itself, although not immediately, but only after accumulating a critical mass.

It is naive to think that some actions will remain without consequences. It’s just that a person does not always understand that the misfortunes and suffering that haunt him are the fruits of karma. However, karma can also be good. Pious deeds are followed by encouragement, but to receive a gift from fate, sometimes you have to wait for the next incarnation.

Our current existence: financial situation, health, environment and even the climate in the place of residence - which we have developed in previous incarnations.

Karma should not be perceived as punishment. It's just a law like the law of gravity. If you jump from a skyscraper and fall to your death, there will be no trial or punishment. You just took the wrong step, which was logically followed by a fall.

Ordinary people can also act as instruments of karma. The Old Testament principle of “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” is also based on the karmic law, only more obvious. By offending a person, you aroused anger in him and, possibly, a desire for revenge. But if you behave more carefully, you can avoid a negative attitude, and life will become calmer.

The first part of the documentary “Karma and Reincarnation”:

How to look into your past incarnation

Intelligence will not help in this regard.

Dreams often paint pictures of past lives

Access to deep memory can be opened during a hypnosis session. Regressive trance turns back time. Pictures of youth, then childhood appear before the mind's eye. Moreover, the past appears in the smallest details, down to sounds and smells. The subconscious mind remembers everything, it can even reproduce the page of a book that you looked at for no more than two seconds. Under hypnosis, people remember the prenatal period and the events of the previous incarnation.

The famous expert on out-of-body experiences, Raymond Moody, practiced such sessions with his patients. Dr. Paul Hansen from Colorado, during regressive hypnosis, was transported to France in the 17th century to his own estate near the Vichy resort. He was a nobleman with a wife and two children, and his name was Antoine de Poirot. Paul Hansen clearly saw himself and his “French wife” during a horseback ride. At the same time, he could tell what color her dress was.

During a night's rest, our subconscious is active, therefore, even more so if they are regularly repeated. A woman named Anna said that from the age of 12 to 40 she often had the same dream.

In that world, she was a young aristocrat and lived in an ancient luxurious castle. In the next episode of the dream, the young man came to a secret meeting, where unknown people grabbed him and threw him into a stone dungeon. The executioners tried to find out something, but the young nobleman proudly remained silent. Then Anna dreamed that she was thrown into a well onto a rotating shaft with sharp spikes that tormented her body until she bled. And at that moment the dream ended.

A few years later, Anna read about secret femic courts in the Middle Ages. The description of one of the methods of execution literally coincided with Anna’s dreams. The woman came to the conclusion that the trial and subsequent execution were real episodes of her past life.

There are many different techniques to access the memory of previous incarnations: numerology, meditative practices, using a crystal ball or a water surface. Even a simple analysis of your own cultural, culinary and geographical preferences will shed light on your past life.

It's all about determination and the amount of effort put in.

Scientific evidence for the existence of life after death

A conscientious scientist, even if he is an atheist, cannot ignore obvious facts that contradict the established picture of the world. Faced with an unexplained phenomenon, he will begin to carefully study it, collecting objective data and conducting laboratory experiments. Sometimes this path leads to the destruction of dogmas and a new look at reality.

Consciousness continues after death

Intensive care unit doctors can confirm that consciousness lives on after a person’s physical death

Professor Parnia heads a program that studies resuscitation processes, and he is familiar with many cases of near-death experiences. In his opinion, the data collected indicates that . In this case, the heart does not work and does not supply the brain with blood, and the devices do not record electrical impulses.

Sam Parnia decided to systematize all the near-death experiences he has recorded since 2008. The result of his research was the book “Erasing Death: The Science that Redraws the Boundaries between Life and Death.”

Out of body experience

People who have experienced clinical death often talk about how they... Pam Reynolds, a singer from the USA, had a similar experience. When the woman was 35 years old, she needed surgery to remove a large aneurysm in her brain. The defect was difficult to reach, and neurosurgeons decided to resort to cardiac arrest surgery. To do this, Pam's body was cooled to 16 degrees, breathing and heart function were suspended so that blood did not temporarily enter the head area. The patient's eyes were protected from light with special tape, and special earplugs were inserted into her ears. The doctors ensured that the encephalogram was flat and began the operation.

According to the woman's recollections, she felt the sound vibration force her to leave her body. Consciousness floated to the ceiling, and Pam saw doctors performing surgery. She noted that consciousness was clear and vision was sharp. She saw a drill that looked like an electric toothbrush, which the surgeon used to open the skull. The patient also heard a female voice talking about narrow arteries.

At a certain moment there was a feeling that the woman was attracted to a distant source of light

With each passing moment the light became brighter, and Pam saw the figures of dead relatives, including her grandmother and uncle.

A feeling of peace and bliss filled my soul. But my uncle reminded me that I needed to return to the world of the living. He led the woman to the operating table where her body lay. But Pam had no desire to return. Apparently, at that moment the surgeons used a defibrillator, and the soul ended up inside the body. It felt like a sudden plunge into icy water.

Meeting with the dead

One of the phenomena that people who look beyond the boundaries of the physical world often encounter.

Bruce Grayson, MD, director of the Department of Perception Science at the University of Virginia, is a recognized expert on near-death experiences. The researcher does not consider them vivid hallucinations. He is sure that these events take place in a special, but really existing space.

Grayson drew attention to the fact that people mainly met “on the other side” with deceased relatives and extremely rarely with living people.

The most interesting thing is this. Dr. Grayson has recorded several cases where, while in a state of clinical death, patients met one of their relatives, in their opinion, alive. But later it turned out that in fact these people had already passed away.

Visions of the Blind

Psychologists Kenneth Ring and Sharon Cooper studied the post-mortem experiences of patients deprived of the ability to see. Through communities that unite blind people, these authors decided to find those who had experienced clinical death or going beyond the body. The testimonies of 31 people formed the basis of their work, The Conscious Eye, which was published in 1991.

24 respondents stated that, . They were able to “see” their own body from the outside, the doctors standing nearby, as well as the environment of the room. Others talked about images of relatives and spiritual teachers who had passed away.

What was surprising was that many of the storytellers were blind from birth. Even their dreams were not accompanied by visual images, but contained only auditory and tactile perception. But at the moment of clinical death, a person acquired the ability to see the world around him.

According to a man named Brad, he flew out into the street and hovered at a height where he could clearly see the snow, a passing bus and the playground. For others, the picture was not so clear, but still had a stunning effect on the psyche.

During clinical death, Brad, blind from birth, clearly saw a bus coming down the street

One way or another, these people perceived reality not with physical organs, but with a part of consciousness that does not depend on the state of physiology: the eyes, optic nerves and brain.

Similarity of impressions

Later, his ideas were repeatedly confirmed by other scientists. For example, researchers at the University of Liege (Belgium) conducted their study by interviewing patients who had been on the verge of death. Belgian scientists noted the individuality of near-death experiences, which concerned particulars. However, their statistics indicate the similarity of feelings experienced. 80% of respondents experienced joy and peace. 69% said they saw a bright light. 64% talked about meeting other people on their travels.

Most near-death patients describe a bright light at the end of the tunnel

Positive Personality Changes

Dutch researcher Pim van Lommel has worked in the field of cardiology for more than a quarter of a century and has come into contact with cases of clinical death more than once. His book, Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of Near-Death Experiences, is based entirely on facts.

Pim van Lommel said that patients who went through the experience of clinical death experienced a radical transformation of personality for the better. First of all, they lost the fear of death - the main fear of modern man. This made them much freer and happier. Stress disappeared from life, my outlook on things became positive. Many people's personalities changed and they became more sociable and friendly.

People who have had out-of-body experiences become more sociable and friendly

Almost all of the respondents perceive clinical death as a useful experience, the impact of which was not immediate, but spread throughout the rest of their lives.

Children can remember their past life

Dr. Ian Stevenson has devoted more than one year to studying the phenomenon of reincarnation. In particular, he worked with children to document their memories of their former lives. He was able to identify more than three thousand cases where children under the age of five were able to recall the events of a previous incarnation.

Children as young as 5 still remember their past lives

A girl from Sri Lanka spoke about her life in another city. She gave a detailed description of the house where she lived with her former relatives. Dr. Stevenson contacted the family to verify the girl's story, and most of the facts in the story were confirmed. Meanwhile, none of her relatives and friends had ever been to that city and could not talk about it, especially about the house of an unknown family.

Ian Stevenson also came to the conclusion that many childhood phobias have origins in previous life. Tragic death in a previous incarnation could cause birth defects indicating the exact manner in which they lost their lives. The doctor's archive also documents cases in which children, upon seeing photographs of their “killers,” experienced real rage.

Transfer of birthmarks

In a number of Asian countries there is a ritual that involves marking the body of a deceased person. According to ancient belief, this will help the soul of the deceased. And the marks applied to the skin of the deceased will appear on the body of born children in the form of birthmarks.

Birthmarks can come from a past life

On the Indochina Peninsula, in the state of Myanmar (formerly Burma), a boy was born into one family. His parents were overjoyed when they discovered he had a birthmark in the exact place where his late grandfather's skin had been marked.

Revived handwriting

The incident took place in India, where a two-year-old boy, Taranjit Sinngh, suddenly announced that he had a different name and that he had previously lived in another village. They didn’t pay much attention to his words, although they were surprised that the child correctly named a settlement that he had never even heard of.

Four years later, Taranjit remembered exactly how he left this world. He was on his way to school and on the way became the victim of a traffic accident: he was hit by a man on a scooter. The memory of the tragedy was filled with details: the deceased young man was in the ninth grade, 30 rupees were in his pocket.

Taranjit Sinngha's parents decided to check whether there was a similar case in the village indicated by their son. The memories were fully confirmed, down to the 30 rupees that were found on the deceased.

By the way, the most curious thing in this case is that when comparing the handwriting samples of the two boys, they completely matched the letterforms.

Innate knowledge of a foreign language

A curious story is connected with a resident of the American city of Philadelphia. At the age of 37, she was treated by a hypnotherapist. During one session, the timbre of her voice changed to a man’s, and she spoke in an incomprehensible language. Later it turned out that this was a dialect of Swedish, which the patient had never studied, and she had never been to Sweden itself in her life.

This case was described by Dr. Ian Stevenson in the book Xenoglossy. This is the name of the phenomenon when a person who has never studied a foreign language suddenly begins to speak it coherently. This can be explained by the fact that this language is familiar from a past life. In the case described by Dr. Stevenson, the 37-year-old American woman was a Swedish peasant and this memory was activated in a trance state.

Continuation of the documentary “Karma and Reincarnation”:

Resurrection of Christ

Now many scientists believe Jesus was a real historical figure.

He spread his teachings among the Jews, which displeased the official religious leaders, whom Jesus called “Pharisees and scribes.” The high priests ensured that Christ was condemned and executed by crucifixion.

On Friday, after the physical death of Christ, his body was placed in a cave, next to which, by order of the Pharisees, a guard was posted. On the third day, an earthquake occurred and the body of Christ mysteriously disappeared from the tomb.

Soon Jesus, in the form of a luminous body, appeared before the weeping Mary Magdalene and announced that he would soon go to the Kingdom of Heaven, to God the Father. At first the apostles did not believe Mary’s story, but later they saw the risen Messiah with their own eyes. For 40 days, Christ appeared to his disciples and provided them with support, after which he ascended to heaven.

Jesus' resurrection from the dead gives believers hope for life after death

Considering that Jesus was a person and at the same time highly developed spiritually, all these events do not seem fantastic. Christ could consciously and, if necessary, communicate with his disciples after physical death.

Conclusion

Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda's teacher, said that death is the only wise adviser. An ancient Roman proverb says: “Memento mori” - “remember death.” In light of the teachings of karma and reincarnation, the importance of the idea of ​​death becomes obvious. The realization that the life of the physical body is finite makes a person think about the meaning of its existence. And the law of karma makes him more responsible in his actions.

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When a disaster occurred, the old people always said that it was a punishment for the misdeeds of their ancestors. If, on the contrary, something good happened, it meant that the great-grandfathers had accumulated virtue.

Chinese literature contains descriptions of this aspect of life, ranging from “Dream in the Red Chamber” to “Three Words and Two Strikes.” With the spread of atheism, which permeated each of my textbooks, it turned out that I stopped taking reincarnation and retribution seriously. As I matured and became more independent, I realized that many of my ideas and knowledge were false. I started thinking about reincarnation again. Here are some examples:

1. Two lives of a boy from Hainan Province

The seventh issue of Oriental Women magazine, 2002, tells the story of a boy who remembered his past life. His name is Tang Jiangshan. He lived in the Gancheng suburb of Dongfang City, Hainan Province. According to his parents and elderly villagers, at the age of 3 (this was in 1979), he suddenly told his parents: “I am not your child. In my previous life, my name was Chen Mingdao, and my father was called Sande. We lived in Danzhou, near the coast."

The place he named was more than 160 km from Dongfang. The boy also said that he died during the Cultural Revolution from saber blows and gunshots. On his stomach there were traces of saber wounds that were preserved from his previous life. What was especially strange was that the boy could speak well the Danzhou dialect, which was very different from that spoken in his hometown.

When he was 6 years old, he persuaded his parents to bring him to the place where he lived in his former life, Huangyu Village in the suburbs of Danzhou. When they arrived there, the boy went straight to the house of an old man named Chen Zaning. He called the old man "Sande" in the local dialect and told him that he was his son named Chen Mingdao. After his death, he was born again in Gancheng Village near Dongfang City. He said that he came to see his parents from a past life. He also recognized his two younger and two older sisters and other relatives from the village. What was especially interesting was that he even recognized his girlfriend from a past life.

Although Tang Jiangshan, such Chen Mingdao chose the name for his son, was only six years old, what he said about his past life convinced Chen Mingdao's family and relatives. Chen Zanying was very touched and cried with Tang Jiangshan. He believed that this was indeed the reincarnation of his son Chen Mingdao.

From then on, Tang Jiangshan had two families. Every year he traveled to Dongfang from Danzhou. Chen Zaning, his relatives and the villagers considered him Chen Mingdao. Since Chen Zaning no longer had a son, he took care of him until his death in 1998.

The editors of Oriental Women magazine did not believe Tang Jiangshan's story at first. But after detailed investigations, the veracity of Tan's experiences was confirmed.

2. British boy remembers his past life

There is evidence of reincarnation not only in traditional Eastern culture; many Western researchers have also studied the phenomenon of reincarnation. For example, Ian Stevenson wrote the book “Children Who Remembered Their Past Lives,” Brian Weiss wrote “Many Lives, Many Teachers.” These books contain various incidents in which people remember their past existence.

The British newspaper The Sun Online reported on September 8, 2006 about a boy who remembered his past life. At the time, the 6-year-old boy's name was Cameron Macaulay. He looked no different from other boys his age. He willingly talks about his “former” mother, his family and the white house located near the sea bay. But none of this happened in his real life. He had never visited the place he was talking about. This is the Isle of Barra, which is 257 km from their home on the Scottish coast.

Norma, Cameron's 42-year-old mother, said Cameron was eager to tell stories about his childhood on the Isle of Barra. Cameron talked about his former parents, how his father died, and about his brothers and sisters. He also explained that the “former mother” he was talking about was from that past life. Cameron firmly believed that he had already lived and was worried that his family from his old life was missing him.

The kindergarten teacher told Norma that he constantly talked about Barr. He missed his mother and brothers and sisters from there. Cameron also complained that the current house only had one bathroom, while the previous one on Barre had three. He often cried for his mother. He said she missed him and he wanted to let them know that he was doing well. He didn't want to stop talking about Barra, where they went there, what they did, and how he watched planes land on the seashore from his room.

Cameron constantly begged Norma to take him to Barra. As a result, Norma decided to take this trip, accompanied by psychologist Dr. Jim Tucker from the University of Virginia in the USA. Dr. Jim Tucker is an expert on reincarnation, especially in children. When Cameron learned about the upcoming trip to Barra, he jumped for joy.

The plane on Barra landed exactly in the place Cameron spoke about - on the seashore. However, it was soon discovered that the Robertson family that Cameron had talked about was not on the island. After some difficulties, they finally found the former house of the Robertson family near the bay, which they planned to visit the next day. Norma said nothing to her son about this. She wanted to see what would happen when they got there. Cameron immediately recognized this white house and was very happy.

As they approached the door, Cameron became quiet. Norma believed he was thinking about his Barra mother waiting for him inside, just as he remembered. But it turned out that there was no one in the house. He was very sad. The previous owner of the house has already died. They were let inside by the man who kept the key to the house. Cameron was familiar with the house and knew all the corners. As he said, there were three bathrooms, and from the window of his room you could see the sea.

After the family returned to Glasgow, Cameron calmed down. Norma thinks it was the best thing for him to go to Barra. After this trip, Cameron became happier and no longer talked about wanting to fly to Barra. Cameron now knows that his mother and brother no longer think he's making things up. Many issues have been resolved. With age, such memories usually weaken.

A British television channel made a documentary about Cameron's story, The Boy Who Lived Before.

3. Reincarnation of President Lincoln

The following case is about one of the most famous presidents in the history of the United States - Abraham Lincoln. A PRWeb report dated February 1, 2006 describes how yogi Paramahansa Yogananda claimed that President Lincoln (1809 - 1865) was reborn as the famous American pilot and writer Charles Lindbergh (1902 - 1974). Shortly before this, a woman priest and writer Richard Salva published the book “Soul Journey from Lincoln to Lindbergh”, in which they talk about the reincarnation of Lincoln.

In his book, the author describes the similarities in the characters of Lincoln and Lindbergh, their personalities and hundreds of details of their life environment, as well as their physical and spiritual condition. Lincoln's life and language characteristics gave the author the opportunity to explain the situations that arose in Lindbergh's life. This has helped historians answer obscure questions, such as why Lindbergh, as a pilot, was so opposed to the United States getting involved in World War II.

The book also reveals that a fifth of Americans believe in reincarnation, but only a few notice the specific impact that a past life has on the present. In the book, the author compares Lincoln and Linberg, and explains exactly what effect the accumulated karma of a past life has on subsequent existence. For example, both Paramahansa Yogananda and Richard Salva think that Lincoln was a yogi in his past life. Salva analyzes that the experience of life as a yogi influenced Lincoln, just as Lincoln's experience imprinted itself on Linberg's life.

Epilogue

It seems that the phenomenon of reincarnation has existed in both Eastern and Western cultures since ancient times. One example from Ancient China tells of Emperor Wu, called Xiao Yan, during the Nanbeichao period. He reigned for 48 years and died at the age of 86. Since the time of the first Emperor Qin Shi Huang, he has been the longest-lived emperor of China. Only Jianlong lived even longer. From historical records, it appears that Emperor Wu was a monk in his former life.

In Eastern religion, it is believed that if a person with a good intention does good deeds, he will definitely be rewarded. Reincarnation is also believed to embody the justice of heavenly principles. Based on this, good deeds are rewarded with blessings, and people who do evil will have to suffer later.

In the process of improvement, a monk constantly eliminates bad thoughts and turns to goodness with all his heart. Therefore, it can be understood that Emperor Wu in his previous life as a monk, although he could not achieve perfection, but deserved a happy next life.

Maybe we will learn about such phenomena in order to reflect and take responsibility for all our affairs. If we are all, as Eastern religions teach, constantly in cycles of rebirth, many of the good or bad experiences in our present life may actually be caused by our deeds in past lives. Therefore, it is better for us to consciously monitor our thoughts, words and deeds.

While many doubt whether reincarnation exists and are skeptical about the existence of past lives, there are scientists who research stories of reincarnation.

And they find facts confirming the eternity of life. And also that the soul strives for incarnation in its former family. Most often, it is children who become those independent helpers on this path.

After all, they are not biased in this regard, they say what they feel and know.

It is in the stories of children that scientists find evidence of the existence of past lives.

Professor Jim Tucker believes that past lives are possible.

* the names of the boys and their relatives have been changed.

“When I was the same age as you, I dressed you up as a little boy,” a dark-haired boy once said to his father. Ron turned and looked at his son, who was not yet two. He thought it was strange to hear such a remark from a kid, but decided that he simply did not understand him correctly.

Little Sam has been making similar statements for months. Ron and his wife Katie came to the conclusion that Sam was his deceased grandfather, his father Ron's dad, who had returned to the family. More intrigued than scared, Ron and Katie asked Sam:

“How did you get back?”

“I just flew out of the portal with a whistle very quickly,” Sam answered.

Even though Sam was precocious, he had been speaking in complete, coherent sentences since he was one and a half years old. His parents were amazed that he knew the word portal, so they asked more.

They asked if he had brothers and sisters. Sam replied that he had a sister who turned into a fish.

“Who turned her into a fish?”

“Some bad people. She died".

Long before that, Grandpa Sam had a sister who was murdered and her body was found in the San Francisco Bay. Ron and Katie also carefully asked Sam if he knew how he died?

Sam jerked back and hit the top of his head as if there was a ball of pain there. A year before Sam was born, his grandfather died of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Is reincarnation possible?

According to a survey of one of the American forums, today 24% of Americans - or more than 75 million people of all religions - believe in reincarnation. According to another source, approximately one in ten people can remember their past life.

Last October, reincarnation was discussed on one of the very popular television shows in America - Dr. Oz. There are currently two special shows on American television dedicated to reincarnation:

• "Alien Spirit Inside My Child" is about children who remember their previous life,
• “Reincarnation: Past Lives,” where people talk live under hypnosis about their previous incarnations.

Why is it so popular? Reincarnation is attractive because it gives us hope that we can be better and fix everything in the next life.

« Reincarnation provides another opportunity to set things right. The universe has become much more merciful. This is much better than teachings about eternal hell,” explains Betty Stafford, a professor of religious studies at California State University.

Despite its popularity, few scientists agree with the idea of ​​reincarnation. They believe that there are many charlatans and deceivers in this area who talk about how in a past life they were historically important or high-ranking persons.

Reincarnation is an “intriguing psychological phenomenon,” said psychology professor Christopher French, who chairs paranormal studies in London.

"But I think such memories are more likely to be false than actual memories of past life events."

For more than 45 years, a team of University of Virginia scientists has been collecting stories from people who remember their past lives. If these stories are sufficiently studied and appreciated, this will once again confirm that the life of mankind does not end after death.

Mommy, I really miss my home

Among the stories from the University of Virginia is the story of a boy from Oklahoma named Ryan.

Several years ago, when he was four years old, he would wake up crying from nightmares. For months, he begged his embarrassed mother, Cindy, to take him back to the house where he had lived.

In tears, he begged to be returned to the flamboyant life of Hollywood with a big house, a swimming pool and sports cars. Once he even said: “I cannot live in such conditions.” My previous house was much better."

That same night, when Cindy came to Ryan’s room and tried to rock him to sleep, he tirelessly repeated: “Mommy, I really want to go home!”

“He was like a little old man who was remembering specific details of his life. He was very irritated and upset,” Cindy said.

The next morning she went to the library and took out a stack of books about Hollywood. At home, with Ryan on her lap, Cindy began looking at them, flipping through the pages. She looked at the pictures in the hope that it would calm him down.

And suddenly Ryan stopped her on a page with an episode from the 1932 film “Night after Night” and pointed to a photograph of one of the actors in a cameo role.

“Mom,” he said, “that person is me!” This is who I was!”

“I was in shock,” Cindy said, “I never thought we would find a photo of the person Ryan thought he was.” At the same time, she calmed down a little, as she had found a clue.

Although neither Cindy nor her husband believed in reincarnation, they found a book in the library about children who remember their past lives. At the end of this book, the author, Dr. Jim Tucker, asked parents whose children had shared similar stories with them to contact him. Cindy immediately wrote him a letter.

Ghostbusters

Dr. Tucker was a psychotherapist in a private clinic when he learned about research into reincarnation led by Ian Stevenson.

Y. Stevenson was the director of the department for the study of human perception of reality at the University of Virginia. Dr Tucker was intrigued by the scientists' work and began working with Ian Stevenson in 1996.

Six years later, after Stevenson retired, he took his place and continued the business.

Scientists from this department have collected more than 2,500 documented stories of children from all over the world in which they talked about memories of their past lives, for example:

1. A two-year-old boy from California, a prodigious golfer who says he was legendary athlete Bobie Jones in a previous life.

2. Memoirs of a five-year-old boy who was blind in his left eye, had a birthmark on his neck and limped like his long-dead brother.

3. A girl from India who woke up one day and spoke fluently in a language she had never heard before.

Dr. Tucker recounts these cases in his book, "Bringing Back to Life: The Amazing Cases of Children Who Remember Their Past Lives."

Such children generally begin to talk about their past lives at two or three years old and finish at about six or seven.

“This happens around the same time that we forget about our early childhood,” says Dr. Tucker.

The doctor is very scrupulous about checking data about the family and the child’s health in order to exclude any fraud.

It also checks whether the information could have been obtained from television or the Internet. Once the assessment is complete, Dr. Tucker and his staff begin interviewing the family and child to obtain detailed information about the past life events that the child is willing to talk about.

Researchers then try to find a deceased person whose life matches the memories. This is done so that children’s stories do not look like just their fantasies, but are confirmed by real facts.

About three-quarters of these stories found a parallel with the lives of real people in the distant and not-so-distant past.

One boy who remembered being shot in a previous life had two moles - a large one above his left eye and a small one parallel to the first, but on the back of his head, which looked like the entry and exit of a bullet through a wound.

Burning plane

Dr. Tucker learned about one of the most famous recent cases of reincarnation in 2002 while filming a television show that never aired.

Four-year-old boy James Leininger from Louisiana remembered that he was a pilot in World War II and died in the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Bruce and Andrea Leininger first realized that James actually had memories of the war when, as a two-year-old child, he woke up from a nightmare screaming, “The plane crashed! He's on fire! The little man can’t get out!”

He also knew the diagram of one of the World War II aircraft designs in detail, which is impossible for a two-year-old boy.

For example, Andrea said that there was a bomb on the belly of the toy plane, and James immediately corrected her that it was an external fuel tank.

When his parents were watching the History Channel on TV and the announcer said that American soldiers called Japanese planes "Zero", James was sure that they were called "Tony". And in both cases he was right.

The boy also stated that his name was James in a previous life. He flew from Natoma's ship. Andrea and Bruce tracked down reliable evidence that such a pilot actually existed.

James Houston, who flew a plane called Natoma Bay during World War II. He died in a battle over the Pacific Ocean.

James talked about the plane crash all the time and woke up from nightmares almost every night. His worried mother found Dr. Carl Boyman, who specialized in the study of past lives.

Dr. Boyman insisted that Andrea not ignore her son's stories, but, on the contrary, talk to him about it and convince him that everything happened in his past life and in another body. He's safe now. James' nightmares were over.

Professor French, who is familiar with Dr Tucker's work, said:

“The main problem is that research and study of each specific story and child begins only when when the family realized and believed that this child had gone through reincarnation and turned to professionals.”

French questions James Leininger's memories. Despite his parents' claims that they had never watched documentaries about World War II, James took them to a history museum at the age of one and a half years.

There he was hit by World War II planes. This fact casts doubt on the reality of his memories as memories of a past life.

Dr. Tucker claims to have ample documentation to prove the truth of the memories, which were collected before the Lehninger family even heard of the existence of James Huston and Natoma Bay.

Professor French countered that children often interpret what they see and hear in their own way.
Bruce Lehninger, James' father, understands Professor French's position:

“I’m also a skeptic by nature, but all the information we received from James was not unexpected. If anyone wants to verify the authenticity of all the facts we have collected, they can do so at any time.”

The idea that he and Andrea implanted his memories in their son seems completely insane to him.

“You can teach a two-year-old to believe in something, but you can never make him feel and live it.”

Hope of life

Dr. Tucker does not argue that for many scientists, reincarnation is still just an unproven part of life, no matter how much evidence there is. For him, the main thing is not to convince non-believers, but the main thing is to push others to think about reincarnation as such.

“I believe in the possibility of reincarnation, which is not the same as saying that I believe in reincarnation. I don’t think there’s any point in doubting the authenticity of all these cases, but it’s also worth remembering that, unfortunately, not everyone reincarnates.”

Does Dr. Tucker believe that one day a child will be born who will remember his own life?

“Past life memories are still quite rare, so I'm not sure that will happen. But I hope that there is still some kind of continuation after death for me and for you.”

Story by Stacy Horne