There are two ways people remember past lives. One is by induced regression. The other is as naturally occurring memories. The latter have been noticed in some children and documented and researched academically for more than 50 years.
Childhood Memories
For over 60 years the University of Virginia has studied instances of children who remember past lives. The University of Virginia School of Medicine Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) has over 2500 cases globally that they have investigated. Started by Dr. Ian Stevenson, the division is now headed by Dr. Jim Tucker.
Here is an example of such childhood memories of a past life. The YouTube channel, Circle of Lifetimes, has taken the hard facts and created a video presentation of them (47:05 minutes).
Here is a second example (1:16:41 minutes).
More on DOPS
Below are a couple of videos of Dr. Jim Tucker explaining the DOPS program and its research. The first is below (51:45 minutes).
The second is below (55:02 minutes).
Granted that one might posit some other mechanism than reincarnation for generating memories of a past life of some soul, the evidence to date should be enough and by Occam’s Razor, point to reincarnation since another mechanism must still be supernatural.
Resources
- Circle of Lifetimes. YouTube videos.
- UVA Division of Perceptual Studies.
Comment
This works extends the scientific research into NDEs to conclude that reincarnation is possible. After all, if you accept that you exist in some state after the body dies, you are faced with your existence before your current incarnation. This begs the question of how many incarnations have you then had?
The position of our Christian religions is that you get only one. Further, you come with “original sin” although you are God’s perfect creation. The circumstances of your life are the luck of the draw. You come with a preordained purpose of which you are not informed. And you still can’t get it right because anything that you do is not enough. Try and make sense of the one-shot theory.
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