There is no doubt that thousands claimed to experience past lives. Reincarnation is one of those paranormal issues. Reincarnation should be examined with reference to other paranormal events, especially ghost and visionary sightings, and even spirit seances by mediums. Thousands of such claims of experience of past lives have been scientifically analysed and the scientific conclusions will be startling.

People who claim scientific proof for reincarnation would refer to one of the so-called scientific research into reincarnation involving Dr Ian Stevenson, former Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology. He dedicated the majority of his career to finding evidence of reincarnation, until his death in 2007. Dr Stevenson claimed to find over 3,000 examples of reincarnation.

We accept his claims that over 3,000 subjects had "reincarnation experience". Only, there is a real very different interpretation of what had occurred. No, we are not going to apply the stupid argument of many Christians that it is all demonic.

• Instead of relying on hypnosis to verify that an individual has had a previous life, he instead chose to collect thousands of cases of children who spontaneously (without hypnosis) remember a past life. Dr. Ian Stevenson uses this approach because spontaneous past life memories in a child can be investigated using strict scientific protocols. Hypnosis, while useful in researching into past lives, is less reliable from a purely scientific perspective. In order to collect his data, Dr. Stevenson methodically documents the child's statements of a previous life. Then he identifies the deceased person the child remembers being, and verifies the facts of the deceased person's life that match the child's memory. He even matches birthmarks and birth defects to wounds and scars on the deceased, verified by medical records. His strict methods systematically rule out all possible "normal" explanations for the child's memories. (Carol Bowman and Steve Bowman. 1997. Scientific Proof of Reincarnation: Dr. Ian Stevenson. reluctant-messenger.com/reincarnation-proof.htm)

  Omni: Yet there are some cases that might argue in its favor. You seem persuaded by the evidence for Bridey Murphy. [In 1952 a Colorado housewife claimed that under hypnosis she relived memories of a previous life as an Irish girl, Bridey Murphy, living in 1806.] Stevenson: Yes, I think it is one of the few. We've discussed cases of children and adults who have been able to speak a tongue they could not possibly have learned; the term for this is xenoglossy. Although rare, they do occur. One that I published concerns the wife of a Methodist minister who, after having been hypnotized by her husband, began to speak German--not very well, but German nonetheless--and described the life of a teenage girl who may have lived in Germany in the late nineteenth century. So I'm not saying that hypnosis is never a useful tool, but I do deplore the commercial exploitation and misleading claims that are often made. A large part of what emerges under hypnosis is pure fantasy. Some of these "previous lives" have been traced back to historical novels. (Carol Bowman and Steve Bowman. 1997. Scientific Proof of Reincarnation: Dr. Ian Stevenson. reluctant-messenger.com/reincarnation-proof.htm)

Adults hardly have reincarnation experience except under hypnosis. These cases are questionable as they are prone to "cuing" effects.

One significant factor is that there is a link between violence in the so-called previous life:

• Omni: What would predispose someone to remember a previous life? Stevenson: Violent death is a factor in our cases. In more than seven hundred cases in six different cultures, sixty-one percent remembered having died violently. But are these cases actually representative? Those involving accidents, murders, and suicides are bound to get more attention than others in which the child remembers a quiet life. Children also tend to remember the final years or a previous life. Almost seventy five percent of our children appear to recall the way they died, and if death was violent, they remember it in vivid detail. (Carol Bowman and Steve Bowman. 1997. Scientific Proof of Reincarnation: Dr. Ian Stevenson. reluctant-messenger.com/reincarnation-proof.htm)

Why Do Children Have More "Reincarnation Images" Than Adults?t

• Consider why there is a ratio of 1700:10 for children to adult having reincarnation experience. Similarly, children tend to see ghosts much more often than adults. There is a same scientific mechanism for why children see ghosts as they having "reincarnation" experience.

One glaring but significant ill-understood fact is that while Dr Ian Stevenson could document some 3,000 cases of children having "reincarnation images", such "reincarnation images" were rarely seen in adults:

• There are about 1700 solved children's cases in the collection at the University of Virginia and several hundred have been published. In contrast, I know of only 10 solved adult cases that like the children's cases occurred spontaneously (that is, unprompted) in waking, dream, or meditative states. (James G. (Jim) Matlock. November 15, 2016. Signs of Reincarnation jamesgmatlock.net/2016/11/15/past-life-memories-of-adults)

You see, children have "reincarnation images" much more common than adults. But it is also known that children see ghosts better. Is there not a scientific link?

• Ghost experts believe that children are more susceptible to seeing apparitions. Sally Morgan, Psychic Medium, told The Sun: "I do believe that children can be more open to seeing ghosts than adults. "This is because children have a purer energy - they have not been tainted by an adults perspective or opinion. "They have simply more open to the world around them without prejudice or scepticism. (CHARLOTTE BURNS. 28th October 2016, 12:14 pm'My nine-year-old sees murdered people' Mums reveal chilling tales of having kids who claim to see GHOSTS. https://www.thesun.co.uk/.../mums-reveal-chilling-tales-of-having-kids-who-claim-to-se)

  We do not really know why children end up seeing more ghosts than adults but there are different theories about this. The main ones are going to be presented here. (Dzhingarov. April 18, 2016. Why Do Children Tend To See Ghosts More Than Adults?. dzhingarov.com › Spiritual)

  The visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum is generally from 380/400nm to about 760nm. UV or IR differs only in that there are some specialized cells in the retinas of our eyes that contain a pigment that gets excited when it encounters these wavelengths. Cats, for example, have a pigment that gets excited at shorter wavelengths, so they see a little bit into the UV-A range. Could this be a possible reason why cats sometimes act strangely in a reported haunted house? ... Here is the important part; very young children can see 380nm (which puts them into the UV range), where elderly people cannot see 400nm; so the 'visible range' changes even for humans....

  • "There is a thin band around the outer edge of the cornea that is sensitive to some degree of infrared light. That outer ring constitutes our peripheral vision, so if ghosts inhabit the infrared range, it would make sense that they would best be seen peripherally, that is, from the corner of our eye." (Gene Lafferty. undated, downloaded November 2017. Can Children See Ghosts Better Than Adults? michigansotherside.com/can-children-see-ghosts)

Adult reincarnation is far less impressive, and even reincarnation researcher Ian Stevenson is skeptical of these stories. Information about these past lives is often retrieved through regressive hypnosis, which is known for generating false recovered memories. How else do you explain 1,500 women all claiming to be the reincarnated Cleopatra?

• Years ago I had a GF who went to a psychic with about 10 other girls from her college sorority, to have their past lives read. It turned out 3 of them were Cleopatra, 2 were Empress Josephine, 1 was Katherine the Great, and the other 4 were Vestal Virgins.

  No one ever claims to be an reincarnation of a privy cleaner!

Are you aware that 1,500 claimed to be reincarnations of Cleopatra? Figure 2c. Cleopatra .

Hey, do not look down on me. In my previous life, I was Cleopatra Figure 2b. Toilet Cleaner .

Why Children also see Ghosts Better than Adults

The same scientific mechanism which allows children to see ghosts better than adults also may explain why children have more "reincarnation images" than adults. The tendency of children to see such images gradually disappeared on transition into the adulthood. This appears to be related to maturity at adolescent age, where skull formation especially matured.

• It is generally assumed that intracranial volume (ICV) remains constant after peaking in early adulthood.... Head size is strongly influenced by brain growth in childhood and reaches maximum size by early adulthood. (N.A. Royle,a,b,c M.C. Valdés Hernández,a,b,c S. Muñoz Maniega,a,b,c B.S. Arabisala,a,b,c M.E. Bastin,a,b,c I.J. Deary,b,d and J.M. Wardlawa.. 2013. Influence of thickening of the inner skull table on intracranial volume measurement in older people. Magn Reson Imaging. 2013 Jul; 31(6): 918–922.)

  There is an acceleration of growth in the facial skeleton at the onset of the adolescent growth spurt without any change in growth of the braincase; the head rapidly attains its adult proportions of 2.5:1 and the facial features become more strongly emphasized... Facial appearance changes less rapidly in adult life. (Pocket Dentistry. January 3, 2015. 33 Development and growth of the skull and age changes. https://pocketdentistry.com/33-development-and-growth-of-the-skull-and-age-changes)

  Despite the attainment of several adult cranial dimensions relatively early in childhood, skeletal maturity and, by consequence, adult form are typically defined by the eruption of the third molars around 17 years of age. This in turn serves as the division between subadults and adults, which is then applied to population studies of biological variation. Specifically, comparative data sets of adult measurements are not directly applied to individuals who do not have complete skeletal growth, as it is believed that the confounding effects of allometry may skew the results. The present study uses geometric morphometrics techniques to investigate the appropriateness of this division with respect to three-dimensional anatomical landmarks. Twenty-six landmarks were collected from a single population of 24 crania partitioned into 4 age groups spanning late adolescence to midadulthood. Generalized Procrustes and multivariate statistical analyses were performed on the landmark data. Results showed no significant morphological differences between the teen and young adult age groups, whereas significant shape and size differences were found in older adults relative to their younger cohorts. Moreover, no growth-related shape variation (ie, allometry) was detected within the sample. These findings suggest that adult form is attained several years earlier than commonly thought and corroborate other research that suggest that subtle changes in cranial morphology continue throughout adulthood. (Ross AH1, Williams SE. 2010. Craniofacial growth, maturation, and change: teens to midadulthood. J Craniofac Surg. 2010 Mar;21(2):458-61. doi: 10.1097/SCS.0b013e3181cfea34)

  The part of our skull that encases our brain already achieves 63% of its mature size by the time we are born. When a person reaches his/her first birthday, the skull has taken on 88% of its mature size. And by the time you turn 10 years old, the skull has achieved 95% of its full size. From then on, it grows at a very slow rate and it reaches its full size by your mid 20's. So by the age of 17, you ought not expect much more skull growth. (Sarah Verschueren. Thu May 12 16:50:07 2005 Re: Does skull growth slow down rapidly after puberty? www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2005-05/1115948007.Me.r.html)

The scientific medical evidence is that the skull especially facial skull features matured around 17 years old, i.e. adolescent age. Before this age, the skull has not reach optimal development, and the brain components like especially the pineal gland and pituitary gland (dubbed as the "Third Eye") are more sensitive to electromagnetic waves from outside. Thus, before this age, sensitive children could better see "ghosts" etc. But once the skull matured, the pineal gland and pituitary gland are shielded from the outside electromagnetic waves. Hence, after adolescent, those children who could see ghosts would lose their ability to see ghosts.

Likewise, children who see "reincarnation images" would also lose their ability to see them. This is why children who reported "reincarnation images" will tell you that they would see less and less until no more when they grew up.

The scientific mechanism composes of the pineal gland and pituitary gland reacting to external electromagnetism.

• Briefly, medical evidence indicated that the ghosts and "reincarnation images" were created by the brain hormone dimethyltryptamine produced by the pineal gland. In normal conditions, dimethyltryptamine is the "dream hormone". Under abnormal conditions, dimethyltryptamine would lead to abnormal hallucinations and visions.

  Yes, in most cases, these ghosts and "reincarnation images" were created by abnormal interactions between the pineal gland and pituitary gland and external electromagnetism.

There is a "Photon" Floating Memory Out There!

One analyst postulated that "reincarnation images" are due to tapping some form of "Floating Memory". There is the well known case of a child named James, who seems to remember a past life as a WWII pilot. Videos telling James' story are popular on the internet. Culadasa answer these references as follows:

• Yes, I've seen it before. Other than being on video, its not much different from hundreds of others I've reviewed. And it has not been nearly as thoroughly investigated as the others in order to rule out possible sources of information contamination. But my point is the same. Yes, people can definitely tap into the minds and memories of other people, both living and dead. It happens far more than most people realize. But why assume that it is anything other than that? Especially, why jump to the conclusion that it must be reincarnation? There is absolutely no evidence to support the idea that the boy James is the same "person" as the pilot whose last name was James. Only that he has retrieved some (a very, very small part actually) of the information in the dead pilot's mind. Dharma Treasure. January 16th, 2012. Is Reincarnation Real? www.dharmatreasure.org