Reincarnation research: Brian Weiss, Carol Bowman, Dolores Cannon, European Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Ian Lawton, Ian Stevenson, Jim B. Tucker, ... and Biology, Roger Woolger, Satwant Pasricha

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 19. Chapters: Brian Weiss, Carol Bowman, Dolores Cannon, European Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Ian Lawton, Ian Stevenson, Jim B. Tucker, Life Before Life, Old Souls, Reincarnation and Biology, Roger Woolger, Satwant Pasricha, Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation, Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect, Xenoglossy. Excerpt: Reincarnation research is a branch of parapsychology concerning reincarnation, specifically the study of "cases of the reincarnation type", that is, cases in which a young child "spontaneously makes remarks about a previous life he would have led before his birth", about a person with whom the child identifies himself. Psychiatrist Ian Stevenson, from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, investigated many reports of young children who claimed to remember a past life. He conducted more than 2,500 case studies over a period of 40 years and published twelve books, including Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation and Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect. Stevenson retired in 2002, and psychiatrist Jim B. Tucker took over his work and wrote Life Before Life. Other people who have undertaken research on reincarnation include Satwant Pasricha, Godwin Samararatne, Antonia Mills, and Erlendur Haraldsson. Research methods have involved analysis of childhood memories, corresponding birthmarks, and psychological/cultural characteristics. No line of research has conclusively demonstrated the existence of reincarnation. Skeptics and the scientific community in general consider reincarnation research to be pseudoscientific. Some parapsychologists advocate developing protocols to guide, sort, compare, and evaluate cases studies. Reincarnation is the religious or philosophical concept that the soul or spirit, after biological death, begins a new life in a new body that may be human, animal or...