thank you so much for sharing these pics @archana.singh.gupta, truly breathtaking to see that the research we had read about is come true right in front of our eyes.
By stalwarts such as Dr. Ian Stevenson
Enjoying a successful mainstream career with some
60 publications in the medical and psychiatric literature to his credit, he had
become chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at the
University of Virginia in 1957. The following year, the American Society for
Psychical Research announced a contest in honor of William James for the best
essay on‘‘the topic of paranormal mental phenomena and their relationship to
the problem of survival of the human personality after bodily death.’’ Ian, who
had said when he interviewed for the chairman position that he had an interest in
parapsychology, had been intrigued by the concept of reincarnation and in his
readings had come across reports of individuals claiming to have memories of
previous lives, or‘‘apparent memories of former incarnations,’’ as he called
them. The reports came from a number of sources, such as books, magazines,
and newspapers. Ian analyzed 44 of them as a group in a paper that won the
contest and was subsequently published in 1960 (Stevenson, 1960a,b).
He was impressed with the similarities in cases from different countries and
different kinds of sources. As he told Tom Shroder years later,‘‘these forty-four
cases, when you put them together, it just seemed inescapable to me that there
must be something there. . . . I couldn’t see how they could all be faked or they
could all be a deception’’ (Shroder, 1999: 103). At the end of the paper, he wrote
that more study of the reincarnation hypothesis was justified and he asked peo-
ple who knew of additional cases of apparent past-life memories to contact him.
At the time, however, he was not planning to investigate cases himself; he was
too busy running his department, treating patients, and conducting other
research. After the paper was published in 1960, his plans changed when he
received a telephone call from Eileen Garrett, the head of the Parapsychology
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just curious to know if there have been any changes in these marks after the PLRSession?
