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Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect 1st Paperback Ed Edition

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Children who claim to remember a previous life have been found in many parts of the world, particularly in the Buddhist and Hindu countries of South Asia, among the Shiite peoples of Lebanon and Turkey, the tribes of West Africa, and the American northwest. Stevenson has collected over 2,600 reported cases of past-life memories of which 65 detailed reports have been published. Specific information from the children's memories has been collected and matched with the data of their claimed former identity, family, residence, and manner of death. Birthmarks or other physiological manifestations have been found to relate to experiences of the remembered past life, particularly violent death. Writing as a specialist in psychiatry and as a world-renowned scientific investigator of reported paranormal events, Stevenson asks us to suspend our Western tendencies to disbelieve in reincarnation and consider the reality of the burgeoning record of cases now available. This book summarizes Stevenson's findings which are presented in full in the multi-volume work entitled Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects, also published by Praeger.
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?Dr Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia, US, has run a thorough investigation into the umerous claims of babies born bearing the scars received in former lives. Mnay of his findings are documented in the 1997 book Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect.?-Religious Studies Review

?Dr. Ian Stevenson, a distinguished scholar and professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia has written a highly intriguing book about his experiences around the world that support the idea that birth marks and other skin lesions and abnormalities may provide evidence of cutaneous injuries sustained in a previous life, thus supporting the notion of reincarnation.?-Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science

?Ian Stevenson is the foremost researcher on reincarnation in this country and, indeed, the world....No one who studies his work can fail to be impressed with the carefulness of his fact-finding and evidence gathering and with the honesty and candor of his conclusions....If you are interested in the evidence for reincarnation, buy this book. For those cases which particularly fascinate you, you will want to examine their details in Reincarnation and Biology.?-Spiritual Frontiers

?This amazing book provides a synopsis of the multivolume series of books that Stevenson published over a course of nearly four decades....This book is of general interest and useful for undergraduate and public library collections.?-The X Factor

"Dr Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia, US, has run a thorough investigation into the umerous claims of babies born bearing the scars received in former lives. Mnay of his findings are documented in the 1997 book Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect."-Religious Studies Review

"Dr. Ian Stevenson, a distinguished scholar and professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia has written a highly intriguing book about his experiences around the world that support the idea that birth marks and other skin lesions and abnormalities may provide evidence of cutaneous injuries sustained in a previous life, thus supporting the notion of reincarnation."-Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science

"This amazing book provides a synopsis of the multivolume series of books that Stevenson published over a course of nearly four decades....This book is of general interest and useful for undergraduate and public library collections."-The X Factor

"Ian Stevenson is the foremost researcher on reincarnation in this country and, indeed, the world....No one who studies his work can fail to be impressed with the carefulness of his fact-finding and evidence gathering and with the honesty and candor of his conclusions....If you are interested in the evidence for reincarnation, buy this book. For those cases which particularly fascinate you, you will want to examine their details in Reincarnation and Biology."-Spiritual Frontiers

About the Author

IAN STEVENSON is Carlson Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Personality Studies at the Health Sciences Center, University of Virginia. He has published nine books on his research since 1966, two of which have been translated into French, German, and Japanese.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Praeger; 1st Paperback Ed edition (May 21, 1997)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 248 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0275951898
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0275951894
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.52 x 9.21 inches
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Alan C.
5.0 out of 5 stars schrodingers cat on steroids
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2014
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There are to aspects to science, one is empirical experiment, the other ,unfortunately ignored by QUASI COMMUNIST PROGRESSIVES, AND, MATERIALISTIC CONSERVATISM , in short POLITICS! IsTHE SCIENTIFIC METHOD. Both types of politics consider themselves very important,Narcissistic personality disorder, and will not accept ANY evidence that contrdicts their personal pre judgement.we save mother earth(although we are told there is no God ,but its perfectly believable that the earth is some divine supernatural entity, who only as humans we have to save,politically of cource)and we must save it by buying over priced light bulbs that have mercury which poisons "mother earth",but is very good for profits.I ask you, is that SCIENCE? The same STATISTICAL analysis used on life after death is ignored. Because"there's no scientific evidence....",as Descartes pointed out ,these people with their sophistry are not skeptics at all, they accept only their BELIEF SYSTEM and never doubt that.no pretence of objectivity what so ever. I showed my neighbour the photos in this book, and being young they had never even heard of such a thing. Energy cant be created ,energy cant be destroyed ,when one is flat line theirs no energy at all. Where does it go? Conservation of energy ,laws of physics. I will stick to real science ,like this book ,and let the sophistic pseudo scientist goabout being oh, so ,god like on their own.thank you
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D. C. Collin
5.0 out of 5 stars Ian Stevenson is the author to read on reincarnation
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2023
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I advise ALL Stevenson's books...all of them. They are scientific, well written, clear and indisputable .
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Tri Geek
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting book
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2014
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This book is basically a series of summaries of detailed reincarnation investigations in various parts of the world. I think the author did a good job of applying an analytical interviewing process to a somewhat abstract concept. The summaries were about right in length and detail, as more information for each situation would have made the book drag a bit, and less information would have hurt credibility. It would have been beneficial to have more data points in the United States, but the book also articulates the lack of reported situations in this area. Regardless, for me, it was still a book worth reading. If you are interested or like this book, it may also be beneficial to read Many Lives Many Masters, which does provide some examples from the US. Note that these two books are written quite differently, as this book is much more clinical with many more examples in a summarized format, while Many Lives Many Masters looks at fewer examples in more detail.
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Anne Preciado
5.0 out of 5 stars A Study Hard to Ignore
Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2009
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Very Impressive work! This book is essentially a summation of Ian Stevenson's larger, more thorough volumes of case studies that make a very strong case for reincarnation from a medical doctor's perspective. As such, his beginning remarks can be a little tedious, but this is simply an example of how thorough he was in considering all the possibilities of the appearance of particular birthmarks in children-- birthmarks that correspond remarkably with the manner of another individual's death in a previous lifetime. If you are a skeptic or not quite sure what to believe about the existent of reincarnation, this book will definitely give you cause to reconsider. Dr. Stevenson has done us all a great service by helping us to better understand a reality that has been all too easily overlooked by western religions and culture.
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Richard Law
1.0 out of 5 stars Finally a good, skeptical look at a fascinating phenomena -- NOT
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2021
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The idea of reincarnation, especially as it has apparently evidenced itself in young children having seemingly impossible memories of past lives, has always intrigued me. I'm fully a skeptic of such claims, but these particular cases seemed to possibly hold compelling evidence that could at least put the idea of reincarnation somewhere on the spectrum of scientific interest, however this book was a great disappointment. The cases cited were entirely anecdotal with very slim similarities in "memories" held by the children interviewed and the supposed "past life" cases as detailed by the author. While it is admittedly a difficult undertaking to apply serious scientific scrutiny to such claims, this book, as well as others by this author, were lauded here on Amazon as being skeptic-worthy. They are, sadly, not. Are there truly supernatural or other as-yet unexplained phenomena out there around near death experiences and/or past life memories / reincarnation narratives? It would be fascinating to see a hard scientific examination of such, but at present we are left only with hopeful anecdotes that fall far too much within the realm of wishful thinking.
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Dave G
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2013
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If you are pondering over reincarnation, this is a good book to buy. Stevenson has done a great deal of ground breaking research that is difficult to refute. This is highly recommended reading for anyone that is searching for how the spiritual world works.
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sarah elizabeth gunther
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating material!
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2017
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Such an interesting and thoughtful read. I hope to get his larger volume someday too!
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D. E. W. Turner
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but . . .
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2002
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This is an interesting book. Much of it dove-tails with what Rabbi Yonassan Gershom has written about those who died during the Holocaust and have been reborn as blond haired-blue eyed Gentiles. Except that Dr. Stevenson's cases seem to lose their memories of the events in their previous lives at about age 7 or 8 and Rabbi Gershom's cases seem to be forever haunted by their experiences. One other thing I found disturbing about Dr. Stevenson's work is that the majority of his cases are from India, Burma, and Thailand, where reincarnation has been acceptable many centuries longer than it has been acceptable in our Western culture. It makes it much easier to doubt his cases than if the majority of his cases were from a culture that was less accedpting of the theory.
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Roger Gagnon
5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly what I needed.
Reviewed in Canada on February 7, 2013
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Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect is the best suite to Twenty Cases from the same author. I warmly recommend both, but not for the faint-hearted. They are deep and serius.
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Non-Materialist
5.0 out of 5 stars Why is the idea of reincarnation still seen skeptical despite such a huge weight of evidence?
Reviewed in Japan on October 1, 2011
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In his book 'Reincarnation'A Critical Examination (1996/2002),' the late Paul Edwards quoted Charles Darwin, together with other three well-known scholars, saying 'To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.' Hence, Edwards tried to kill his supposed an error, i.e., the idea of reincarnation, in particular, the scientific lifework on 'Reincarnation' by the late Professor Ian Stevenson. In the last pages he quoted Stevenson's testimony in a BBC program (in 1976); let me quote the part:
Professors Cohen and Taylor regarded the notion of extra-cerebral memories as totally absurd. Professor Stevenson vehemently disagreed. 'Memories may exist in the brain,' he said, 'and exist elsewhere also.' The best evidence that they may exist elsewhere, Stevenson continued, comes from his own reincarnation research. On the question of the 'storage' of memories he remarked that there 'might be a nonphysical process of storage.' The memories 'might be in some dimension'which cannot be understood in terms of current physical concepts.'

In the last chapter of his book Stevenson wrote 'In saying this I declare myself an adherent of interactionist dualism.' And Cartesian dualism is a notorious idea from the viewpoint of mainstream science as well as mainstream philosophy because the idea supposes the mind exists in a nonphysical dimension (probably, as well as in physical dimension during life, if not detectable physically). The nonphysical dimension for the mind is the problem because it 'cannot be understood in terms of current physical concepts,' as Stevenson stated. The supposed interaction between the mind and body may violate the cherished 'empirical' physical law of conservation of energy. This violation is one of the bases of Daniel Dennett's rejection of Cartesian dualism. Why hasn't any dualist tried to demonstrate the violation to justify his/her being a dualist?? Even the late parapsychologist John Beloff tried to explain a PK (psychokinesis), the table-levitation performed by the medium D.D. Home, without violating the law of conservation of energy! This weak attitude of researches of paranormal phenomena has been one of the reasons to keep skeptics saying what they want to say against any paranormal phenomena claimed by parapsychologists.
And, in my opinion, the cherished law was violated a long time ago in 1907 in the weighing the soul experiment conducted by Dr. Duncan MacDougall. One may say: the 21 g of the soul MacDougall reported in his paper is a result of his wishful thinking, as the physics professor Robert L. Park criticized in his book 'Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science (2008).' As a matter of fact no scientists, including Stevenson or any parapsychologists, have ever referred to MacDougall's paper in their relevant research papers or books (though if I should be more precise, there are a few).
It is true that MacDougall's paper has been ignored for the past 100 years in scientific community. But this does not mean that his experiment is wrong; it simply means that no other scientist has conducted an independent experiment to verify or refute MacDougall's result, and this simply shows the negligence of scientists' obligation! If they believe MacDougall being wrong, they should show it by conducting an independent experiment. An irritated author, Dan Brown, fictionalizes in his recent book, 'Lost Symbol,' a noetic experiment of weighing the soul, though his writing in the book (in chap. 107) is scientifically completely wrong.
Hence, I would like to refer to a scientific paper recently published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration in the 2010 Spring Issue, Vol.24/No.1/pp.5-39: 'Rebuttal to Claimed Refutations of Duncan MacDougall's Experiment on Human Weight Change at the Moment of Death.' (This Vol.24/No.1 is available from amazon.com.) This paper's conclusion is that (1) MacDougall's experimental results (of the four cases) are scientifically very much sound (this is confirmed based on theoretical computational simulations of the experiment to rebut existing scientific criticisms), (2) however, his result must be confirmed by some independent experiments by other scientists to eliminate any possible systematic errors, (3) if confirmed, this means that the cherished law of physics, the conservation of energy, is violated in human's Life-to-Death transitions if we confine ourselves in physical dimension and Stevenson's claim of 'nonphysical process of memory storage' shall be justified, and (4) this type of the law's violation will not be rare but rather common in some psychological transition events (such as in OBE, dreams, trance channeling, alternating of personalities in MPD/DID patients), which most physicists are reluctant to consider seriously because of the involvement of human beings, who sometimes cannot be trusted in scientific experiments as a participant.
Finally I would like to say because of my being a non-materialist that I do not subscribe to Cartesian dualism, because modern dualism presupposes the Big Bang theory & the Darwinian theory of evolution in the physical dimension, even if it accepts the mind in the nonphysical dimension. I rather subscribe to the mental monism: Consciousness comes first, not the last as current science supposes!
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In the final chapter (on p. 182), Stevenson wrote about how a rebirthing personality to select his/her parents. He wrote, for example, “In addition, we have seen in many cases that a previous personality had strong ties of affection to the subject’s parents.” Stevenson, naturally, never speculated about such a case that no previous personality selected an embryo prepared by a pair of parents.
According to Wikipedia for the entry “Stillbirth”: “The causes of a large percentage of human stillbirths remain unknown….” “The mean stillbirth rate in the United States is approximately 1 in 115 births,…Many stillbirths occur at full-term to apparently healthy mothers, and a postmortem evaluation reveals a cause of death in only about 40% of autopsied cases.” Certain psychical knowledge (which is referred to in the abovementioned paper in the Journal of Scientific Exploration) tells that if no soul/personality enters into the embryo until full-term, then results in a stillbirth.
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Mrs. K. Chatfield
4.0 out of 5 stars Companion to 20 Cases suggestive of Reincarnation.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 3, 2014
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Fascinating read, for Buddhists, Hindus, and others wondering whether to take the concept of reincarnation literally I would suggest that this is essential reading. For those that ridicule the idea of reincarnation, or those that entertain the idea, but fear ridicule, this book may answer questions in unexpected ways, as well as raising a few more. For those dogmatically opposed to the ideas, you had better bone up on your arguments.
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M B
2.0 out of 5 stars You could drive a train through the holes in these investigations...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 15, 2011
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I've read Ian's other book,  European Cases of the Reincarnation Type , which contains research that in my opinion doesn't support the idea of reincarnation, but does support a more plausible telepathic explanation for this type of phenomena.

The evidence provided in this book, which attempts to connect childhood memories of past experiences containing strong emotional content with actual wounds and injuries suffered by the deceased is very very weak...

The other book I mentioned is at least useful, insofar as it closes the door to a `reincarnation' explanation of this type of phenomena for me. This book however take the reincarnation idea a step too far... turning it into a work of pure fantasy, and self-delusion by the author.
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