It can be assumed that the idea of believers is accepted by about a third of people on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. And as for the 1940s, then only 3% of those living in the West took it seriously. For what reason has there been such a surge in the popularity of this idea?
Finding Bridie Murphy
This is because there are now many examples of people under hypnosis remembering their past lives. The potential for hypnosis to lift the lid on the mysteries of the past first came to attention after the famous Bridget (Bridie) Murphy case of 1952. Virginia Tye, a 29-year-old businessman's wife and mother of three from Pueblo, Colorado, was able to recall a previous life in the 19th century. in Ireland, under the hypnosis of Maury Bernstein. The experienced hypnotist was an acquaintance of hers; he had already gone on trips to the past with his subjects more than once, but he found the case with Virginia the most interesting, as he received new information.
Bernstein acted as all hypnotists who access past lives usually do; he first returned Tai to her childhood, and then convinced her to go into the more distant past, to another place and time. The 29-year-old housewife answered questions in a rough provincial Irish dialect, her speech was sprinkled with colloquial expressions, some of which Bernstein did not understand smog. She described her childhood years in detail, saying that she was the youngest daughter in the family of a lawyer who lived in the Irish town of Cox.
She was born in 1799, lived 66 years and died after a fall when she broke her hip. During the session, Bernstein learned more and more about the woman's past, including such specific details that it is impossible to invent - names, dates, specific places, locations of shops and businesses that existed in her hometown.
She even spoke about songs, poems and local customs in the ancient dialect. Bridie said she married at age 20 to Sean Brian Joseph McCarthy, also the son of a trial lawyer. They then moved to Belfast, where McCarthy studied at Queen's University. Although they were married in a Protestant church in Cork, the couple unexpectedly decided to undergo a Catholic ceremony at St Teresa's Church in Belfast, the woman even remembered the name of the priest who conducted the service - Father John Joseph Herman.
1952 - Bernstein recorded his hypnosis sessions, and these curious conversations were published in newspapers two years later. They immediately became a sensation, and the topic of reincarnation was discussed for the first time on the front pages of the main Western newspapers. Bernstein's book "Searching for Bridie Murphy" was published later, which became a bestseller and was published in 30 countries. For readers, the most surprising and plausible were the numerous everyday details and the mention of specific facts and events...
It’s a shame that the registration papers for 1864 have not survived. But certain names of local shops in remote areas, unknown to the American housewife, turned out to be correct and served as indisputable proof of the theory of reincarnation. The cottage in Dooley Road, Belfast, where Bridie ended her days is famous, as are the family's grocers, Farr and Carrigan.
Four decades after Maury Bernstein conducted his famous experiment, controversy continues over this story, which holds the key to understanding nature.
Once again about reincarnation
Experts continue to speculate about the possibility of hypnosis. Passionate opponents of the theory of reincarnation said that the so-called memories of past lives were rigged by the hypnotist himself. Pointing to the fact that hypnotists who perform in front of an audience can make a person behave in completely unpredictable ways, imitating almost any person, thing or animal, these skeptics suggested that under deep hypnosis more serious changes could occur in the human mind, perhaps , opening the channels of the unconscious ability to produce such memories.
People hypnotized in this way are able to subconsciously move away from events and information received in their current life. Moreover, it has long been noticed that the human brain is capable of storing in certain secluded corners almost every impression that it has received. This hidden memory, known as cryptomencia, is taken, according to skeptics, for what is called the phenomenon of past lives.
Proponents of the theory of reincarnation, however, quickly parried the blow, responding that in the most amazing cases, dramatic changes occur in the subjects, such as changes in appearance and tone of voice.
To the amazement of many witnesses, the faces of people who relived periods of a past life when they were older than at the time of the experiment became haggard and haggard, and conversely, the faces of people who returned to the days of their youth seemed to smooth out their wrinkles. There have been more dramatic physical metamorphoses: some researchers have cited examples of people under hypnosis exhibiting medical symptoms of illnesses they suffered from in past lives, for example, facial muscle spasms due to paralysis. One Briton even had a bluish rope mark on his neck when he was hanged again, and another man who died from a beating had numerous bruises on his body.
However, in all cases of past life memories, there are specific details that prove the existence of this phenomenon.
1983, March - Australian television organized a program on the topic of reincarnation, which captivated viewers across the continent and shocked everyone who had previously been distrustful of this phenomenon. In "Experiments on Reincarnation", four ordinary housewives from Sydney, chosen at random, traveled many centuries back in time under the hypnosis of Peter Roser.
One of them, Cynthia Henderson, recalled her past life as a French aristocrat, and she used expressions that had not been used in France for several centuries. She said that the castle where she lived was located near the small village of Fleur. Although the woman had never been to Europe, she easily led the film crew to the place where the ruins of the castle were still preserved.
Another woman, Helen Pickering, under hypnosis remembered that she had previously been James Boris, born in the city of Dunbar (Scotland) in 1801, while information was preserved that such a person existed. As proof, she drew a plan of Marshall College in Aberdeen, where - and this is absolutely true - Burns studied; although the building which now stands on the site differs from that drawn by Mrs. Pickering, her plan bears an unmistakable resemblance to those which were discovered in the archives of the Scottish college.
As stated in the broadcast, it was impossible that Mrs. Pickering was familiar with the archival data, just as it is extremely unlikely that she studied life path a Scotsman who lived in the 19th century.
It so happened that in 1983, the theory of reincarnation received yet another strong piece of evidence, which came this time from England. Liverpool hypnotist Joe Keaton had already conducted several hundred experiments on returning to past lives when London journalist Ray Bryant met him. The newspaper where he worked, the Evening Post, commissioned him to write a series of articles, one of which he devoted to reincarnation. To make everything look more authentic, he invited the hypnotist to return him to a past life so that he could describe his own sensations. Although Bryant had never been hypnotized before, Keaton decided to grant his request.
This case was the most surprising of Keaton's practice.
While under hypnosis, Bryant remembered several of his past lives, including the one when he fought as soldier Robin Stafford in the Crimean War and then returned to England and became a boatman on the Thames. As Bryant recalled, Stafford was born in 1822 in Bridehelmston (Brighton) and drowned in 1879 in the East End of London.
During this experiment, the London journalist began to speak in a deeper voice with a Lancastrian accent, which could indicate that Stafford had spent most of his life in the north of England. Although all this was stunning, I wanted to find real evidence, so Keaton’s team members Andrew and Margaret Selby, who were present at the experiment, decided to find documentary evidence of the existence of this man.
And they were lucky: in the Guildhall Library, London, they found a list of those wounded and killed in the Crimean War. Among the others was Sergeant Robin Stafford, then serving in the 47th Lancaster Regiment of Foot, who was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Carris, in a minor skirmish that took place during the siege of Sevastopol. There was also information about the future career of Sergeant Stafford, he was awarded medals for bravery and was discharged for health reasons. At the next session, Ray Bryant himself explained all these details.
The date, place and name of the Battle of Carris, as given by "Stafford", as well as other facts of his life, were entirely correct.
Thus, the search for the Selbies was drawing to a close. After spending several days at the General Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, they finally found the death certificate of Robin Stafford, which stated that he had actually drowned (whether it was an accident or a set-up is not established) and was buried in the pauper's cemetery in East Ham. The date of death and burial was also accurately stated by Ray Bryant during the session.
Could the journalist know these facts if we exclude the possibility of reincarnation? In this case, the possibility of krillomensia is practically excluded, since the details about the life of this soldier were unknown to the general public. Unless we assume that Keaton and his associates fabricated all this material, a return to the life of a veteran Crimean War in the body of a journalist from the 20th century will seem extremely incredible!
Falling under the influence of hypnosis, a huge mass of people, unexpectedly for themselves and for those around them, suddenly remember their previous (or supposedly previous) lives. And these memories of the subjects are sometimes so bright and clear that the patients of the hypnotists switch to a previously unknown foreign language, an archaic dialect, and perceive themselves as a completely different person, the existence of which they did not even suspect.
We know a great many such stories and cases and more. You can treat them differently - skeptically, cautiously, you can simply brush them aside, but it cannot be denied that they arouse our keen curiosity with their unusualness and mystery.
In 1824, a 9-year-old boy named Katsugoro, the son of a wealthy Japanese peasant, told his older sister that he was absolutely sure that he had another “past” life. This case is one of the first that was officially recorded from the words of eyewitnesses, witnesses and painstakingly documented.
Doctors, historians, police and even local healers worked with Katsugoro for a long time and meticulously. The boy captivated everyone with his vivid and picturesque memories of his previous life, replete with the smallest details and a mass of small details that could not be known to a child of such a young age.
First of all, Katsugoro said that in his previous life he was the son of another peasant and lived in a completely different village, located on the island of Okinawa. In adulthood he became seriously ill and died of smallpox in 1810.
Little Katsugoro came under cross-examination by the police, which took place under the direct supervision of a psychologist and doctors. The boy told investigators more than 50 different stories and incidents from the life of a village from the island of Okinawa. In addition, the boy revealed the secrets of his previous family, which only a person close and trusted to that same family could know. It should be noted that Katsugoro himself never left his village and never visited the islands of Okinawa.
The boy’s memories of his own funeral, which he described in great detail, looked very interesting. The boy named the exact date of “his” death and the date of the funeral.
Investigators checked and compared all the facts that the little “storyteller” told them about. All of them received precise confirmation. It is worth especially noting: Katsugoro told the investigation the pet names of his “past” relatives, as well as the names of their pets: dogs, cats, cows and sheep.
In Britain, people often remember the story that took place with the intelligent and well-mannered swimming instructor Graham Huxtable and the psychotherapist-hypnotist Eimall Bloxham, which took place in the second half of the 20th century. In any case, the British consider it, if not proof of the transmigration of souls, then proof of the possibility of flight and travel of the human soul through time.
One day, Graham Huxtable volunteered to participate in a hypnosis session conducted by psychotherapist Eimall Bloxham at the University of Cornwall (Wells).
Plunging into a hypnotic sleep, Huxtable not only began to remember his previous life, but, as it seemed to numerous scientific witnesses to the experiment, he moved into the body of a certain man named Ben. Even with superficial testing, it turned out that Mr. Ben lived in the 18th century. He served as a gunner on the royal frigate Aggie.
Having moved into the body of the cheerful and brave gunner Ben, Mr. Huxtable, for the duration of the session, philologically rearmed himself with a purely naval vocabulary, in which obscene expressions and purely military orders of a naval orientation predominated. At the same time, the university professor, who recorded the entire session on a video camera, very quickly admitted that Mr. Ban’s vocabulary was fully consistent with the speech of a commoner of the British Isles of the 18th century.
This language was not used in England even in the 19th century. Philologists, having studied the audio recording, recognized that Mr. Ben's speech was fully consistent with the vocabulary, lexicon and slang of 18th-century sailors, which are not used today | even the actors of the Shakespeare Theater. Judging by Huxtable's speeches, during the period of the experiment he got on board the frigate "Aggie" at a time when the sailors were fighting with a certain enemy. According to Huxtail's cries and groans, in this battle he was wounded in the left leg.
The psychologist Bloxham had some difficulties in bringing the patient out of trance and into living reality. Ben did not want to “leave the battle and leave his combat number at the gun.”
When the hypnosis finally stopped affecting the patient, the first thing Huxtable said was: “Somehow my left leg is numb.” Later, Huxtable was allowed to watch and listen to a recording of his session. He was shocked and claimed that he did not remember anything.
Historians tried to find in the archives a mention of the frigate "Aggie" and the name of its captain, which Hucktable repeatedly called during a hypnosis session. Alas, neither such a ship nor a captain with the same name was listed in the archives.
Memories of a past life are one of the most amazing and amazing areas of human phenomenon. Modern science is not yet able to prove or disprove the essence of such a phenomenon. Even experienced researchers in the field of “past life memories” are not sure how this phenomenon should be interpreted and explained. Are such memories reliable historical memories due to the fact of possible reincarnation, or are these associations (memories) and reconstructions possible due to information received during the life of an individual and in a certain situation, processed in his subconscious.
Both options are possible, and scientists are carefully studying them. In this area of paranormal phenomena there is an opportunity both for cheap forgery (forgery, deception) and for serious study of such amazing facts and phenomena.
It is important for us to be a little skeptical when considering examples of “past life memories,” but this does not make the stories known to mankind any less intriguing.
“Memories of a past life” mainly arise spontaneously in a person. They occur in children and adults. But still much more often in children. Adherents of the theory of reincarnation explain this fact by the fact that children are much “closer” to their past lives, hence the predominance of those memories that are lost in the mind of an adult due to the load on the brain of a mature individual with new information from his present life.
They say that the minds and consciousness of adults are overloaded with unnecessary information, their memory is occupied with petty everyday questions and problems in order to abstract themselves from the fuss and look into their past. By the way, adults who experience past life memory syndrome do so as a result of an extraordinary experience or incident. For some, memories come only during a hypnosis session, others receive such information after severe stress or serious head and brain injuries.
The case of Sujit Brummie seems no less interesting to us. He was born on the island of Ceylon in the middle of the 20th century. At the age of 33, Sutjit began to have visions and dreams about his past life. For a long time he hid this so that he would not be considered crazy, but then he told his wife about them.
Frightened by the strange stories, Sujita's wife insisted on visiting a psychotherapist. A thorough examination of the man did not reveal any pathological changes in his health or mental abilities. The doctor stated: “Everything is normal, the patient is completely healthy.” However, Sujita continued to have unusual visions and dreams. Then he himself returned to the psychologist and began to tell him his story in detail.
One day Sujit dreamed that he had already lived on this earth, but in a completely different guise. In a previous life, his name was Sammy Fernando, he lived in the small coastal village of Gorakana, eight miles south of the large city of Galle (Ceylon).
Sammy worked as a laborer at the local railway station. The workers were paid very little, and Sammy had a large family. So he entered into a risky enterprise: he began to engage in bootlegging - smuggling ara-coy (homemade rice vodka).
One day Maggie (Sammy’s wife) started a scandal at home due to her husband’s frequent absences due to damn smuggling. Sammy was offended and left home for a local tavern, where he indulged in drunkenness. While returning home along a narrow mountain highway, Sammy did not pay attention to a truck that was moving towards him at high speed. As a result, Sammy died.
The psychologist to whom Sujit told all this became seriously interested in this story. The doctor decided to talk to his parents and, to his surprise, found out the following curious facts, which would have been more suited to the smuggler Sammy than to the law-abiding citizen and devout family man Sujit.
While still very young, Sujit repeatedly asked his parents to take him to the village of Gorakana, unknown to them and far from their homeland. Explain how he knows about the existence of such settlement, Sujeet couldn't. And from early childhood he showed considerable interest in tobacco and alcohol, which no one in their family ever used. However, being Buddhists, no one in Sujit’s family was surprised at the child’s knowledge of a family that was alien to them, living in a distant village by the sea.
The psychiatrist decided to involve two psychologists from the University of Virginia in the investigation of this story. First of all, the Americans discovered the village of Gorakana, where they found the family of Fernando’s widow. For $20, she told them everything about herself and her dead husband Sammy. When the Americans compared the revelations of Sujit and Sammy’s widow, they were involuntarily taken aback. They counted only 60 absolutely exact matches.
The doctors then decided to introduce Sujin and Sammy's widow. Ex-Sammy amazed “his former relatives” with stories from the life of Sammy and his family. He even knew the comic names of all family members, the names of pets that had not been alive for a long time.
Sujit also showed the widow Sammy’s old hiding place, where he kept money and gold. When they looked into it, everyone gasped. They actually found money and an old revolver that belonged to Sammy.
Among supporters of the theory of reincarnation, the story of Sujita-Sammy Fernando is considered indisputable evidence of the transmigration of the human soul after death into a new body. And decide for yourself whether to believe in it or not...
Alexander Volkov
UFO No. 34-35 2009
Reincarnation is a philosophical concept according to which, after death, a person’s soul passes into another body, continuing its path. This is the view held by religions such as Hinduism. Today there is no way to prove the theory of reincarnation of souls, but still all over the world you can hear stories that confirm its existence. Attempts to study the process of transmigration of souls were made in ancient times, but all existing theories are only assumptions.
Does soul reincarnation exist?
Scientists, parapsychologists and esotericists have been studying this topic for decades, which has made it possible to put forward several theories. There are people who believe that it is not the soul that is reincarnated, but the spirit of a person. According to this theory, the soul has a connection only with a specific incarnation, but the spirit consists of a huge number of souls formed after numerous reincarnations.
Theories about reincarnation and transmigration of souls:
- It is believed that souls move into the body of the opposite sex. It is believed that this is necessary to maintain balance in gaining spiritual experience, without which development is impossible.
- If the soul from a previous reincarnation was closed incorrectly, then this can cause various problems that will be reminiscent of the previous life. For example, this may manifest itself in the form of excessive manifestation of the qualities of the opposite sex, etc.
- The reincarnation of the human soul occurs according to the law of increasing vitality. In simple words the spirit of a person cannot move into an animal or insect in the next incarnation. Few people agree with this theory, since there are people who claim that reincarnation can occur in any living creature.
Is there evidence of soul reincarnation?
As for the evidence about the reincarnation of the soul, it is largely based on the stories of people who remember some fragments of a previous life. More than half of humanity has no memories of previous incarnations, but over the years, many testimonies have accumulated from children talking about events that they simply could not know. There is a phenomenon called false memories. The surveys were mainly conducted among preschool children, who are less likely to have false memories. There were cases when the data obtained could be documented and then the information was considered reliable. Most of the facts were obtained from children aged two to six years. After this, memories of the past disappeared. According to studies, more than half of the children spoke in great detail about their death, which in more than half of the cases was violent and occurred about a couple of years before the birth of the child. All this forces scientists not to stop there, still trying to uncover the secret of the rebirth of the soul.
Scientists who study reincarnation have noticed another unusual phenomenon. There are many people who have had birthmarks, scars and various types of defects on their bodies, and they have to do with the person's memories of past lives. For example, if a person in a previous incarnation was shot, a scar could appear on his new body. By the way, studies have shown that birthmarks on the body were left precisely from mortal wounds received in a past life.
Analyzing all of the above, it is impossible to give one exact answer about how the reincarnation of the soul occurs. All this allows each person to independently determine which theory is closer to his beliefs and concepts.
Finding evidence of reincarnation is surprisingly easy: there are thousands of documented and well-researched cases around the world, collected by scientists over the last century, that prove the reality of past lives and reincarnation.
Cases of reincarnation
There is evidence that at least some, and perhaps all, people already existed in another body and lived another life.
When they appear abnormal “memories” of events, i.e. those who did not experience them in their present life tend to believe that these memories come from their own previous lives.
However, the memories that flash into consciousness may not be past life memories. Instead, they appear to be “cases classified as reincarnation.” The latter are widespread.
There are an unlimited number of stories suggesting the possibility of reincarnation, both geographically and culturally: they can be found in all corners of the planet and among people of all cultures.
Of course, there are more memories from past lives than from the present, because there were a great many past lives.
For reincarnation to actually take place, the consciousness of someone else's personality must enter the body of a certain subject. In esoteric literature this is known as transmigration of spirit or soul.
Typically, this process occurs in the womb, perhaps as early as the moment of conception or shortly thereafter, when rhythmic impulses begin what then develops in the heart of the embryo.
The spirit or soul of a person does not necessarily migrate to another person.
Buddhist teachings, for example, tell us that the soul or spirit does not always incarnate on the earthly plane and in human form.
She may not reincarnate at all, developing in the spiritual realm, from where she either does not return or returns only to complete a task that she should have completed in her previous incarnation.
But what interests us here is the possibility that reincarnation can actually happen. Can a consciousness that was the consciousness of a living person be reborn in the consciousness of another?
In his book The Power Within, British psychiatrist Alexander Cannon wrote that the evidence on this subject was too much to ignore: “For many years the theory of reincarnation was a nightmare to me, and I did everything possible to disprove it, and even argued with my clients after the trance that they were talking nonsense.
But as the years passed, client after client told me the same story, despite their different and changing conscious beliefs. More than a thousand cases have been studied, so far I have agreed to accept that reincarnation exists."
Options and Variables in Cases Classified as Reincarnation
Perhaps the main variable is the age of the person who has the reincarnation memories. These are mainly children aged two to six.
After eight years, as a rule, experiences fade and, with rare exceptions, disappear completely during adolescence.
The manner in which the reincarnated person died is another variable. Those who experience violent death seem to reincarnate more quickly than those who die naturally.
Reincarnation stories are usually are clear and distinct in children, whereas in adults, they appear predominantly vague, having the character of unclear premonitions and impressions.
The most common among them are déjà vu: recognizing places one encounters for the first time as familiar. Or the feeling of déjà conju—meeting a person for the first time with the feeling that have you known him or her before, also happens, but less often.
Do stories about reincarnation provide reliable information? Testimonies and evidence about places, people and events were verified by reference to eyewitness accounts and birth and residence certificates.
Stories often turn out to be confirmed by witnesses, as well as documents. Often even the smallest details correspond to real events, people and places. Vivid stories of reincarnation are accompanied by a corresponding model of behavior.
The persistence of these patterns suggests that a reincarnated personality appears even when that personality was from a different generation or a different gender.
In a small child they may manifest values and behavior of an older person of the opposite sex from a past life.
Pioneering research into recent reincarnation stories is the work of Ian Stevenson, a Canadian-American psychiatrist who headed the Department of Perceptual Research at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
For more than four decades Stevenson studied the reincarnation experiences of thousands of children, both in the West and in the East.
Some of the memories of past lives reported by the children were tested, and the events described by the children were found in a person who had lived previously and whose death coincided in detail with that reported by the child.
Sometimes the child had birthmarks associated with the death of the person with whom he or she was identified, perhaps some markings or discoloration of the skin on the part of the body where the fatal bullet entered, or a malformation on the hand or foot that the deceased lost.
In a groundbreaking paper published in 1958, “Evidence for the Viability of Claimed Memories of Previous Incarnations,” Stevenson analyzed the evidence for child reincarnation stories, presenting accounts of seven cases.
These cases of past life memories could be identified with events, which children talked about, and often published in little-known local magazines and articles.
Evidence of Reincarnation: First-Hand Stories
Reincarnation Story 1: The Case of Ma Tin Ong Myo
Stevenson reports the case of a Burmese girl named Ma Tin Ong Myo. She claimed to be the reincarnation of a Japanese soldier who died during World War II.
In this case, huge cultural differences between the person who reports such an experience and the person whose experience it conveys.
In 1942, Burma was under Japanese occupation. The Allies (the Anti-Hitler Coalition, or the Allies of the Second World War - an association of states and peoples who fought in the Second World War of 1939-1945 against the countries of the Nazi bloc) regularly bombed Japanese supply lines, in particular, railways.
The village of Na Thul was no exception, being close to an important railway station near Puang. Regular attacks- a very difficult life for residents who tried their best to survive. Indeed, survival meant getting along with the Japanese occupiers.
For Daw Aye Tin (a villager who later became the mother of Ma Tin Ong Myo), this meant debating the relative merits of Burmese and Japanese cuisine with the stocky, regularly shirtless cook of the Japanese army stationed in the village.
The war ended and life returned to some semblance of normality. In early 1953, Do found herself pregnant with her fourth child.
The pregnancy was normal, with one exception: she I had the same dream, in which a Japanese chef, with whom she had long since lost contact, stalked her and informed her that he was going to come and stay with her family.
On December 26, 1953, Do gave birth to a daughter and named her Ma Tin Ong Myo. She was a wonderful child with one small peculiarity: she had birthmark the size of a thumb in the groin area.
As the child grew older, it was noted that she had a great fear of airplanes. Every time a plane flew over her head, she began to worry and cry.
Her father, U Ayi Mong, was intrigued by this since the war had ended many years ago and planes were now just transportation machines, not weapons of war. So it was strange that Ma I was afraid the plane was dangerous and will shoot at her.
The child became more and more sullen, declaring that he wanted to “go home.” Later, “home” became more specific: she wanted to return to Japan.
When asked why she suddenly wanted this, she stated that she remembered that she was a Japanese soldier, and their unit was based in Na-Tul. She remembered that she had been killed by machine gun fire from an airplane, and that was why she was so afraid of airplanes.
Ma Tin Ong Myo grew older and remembered more and more about her past life and her previous identity.
She told Ian Stevenson that her previous personality was from Northern Japan, the family had five children, the eldest was a boy who was a cook in the army. Gradually memories of past lives became more accurate.
She remembered that she (more precisely, he, as a Japanese soldier) was near a pile of firewood stacked next to an acacia tree. She described herself as wearing shorts and no shirt. Allied aircraft spotted him and strafed the area around him.
He ran for cover, but at that moment he was wounded by a bullet in the groin area and died instantly. She described airplane as having two tails.
It was later established that the Allies used a Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft in Burma, which had exactly this design, and this is important evidence of reincarnation, because the little girl Ma Tin Ong Myo could not have known anything about such an aircraft design.
As a teenager, Ma Tin Ong Myo showed distinct masculine traits. She cut her hair short and refused to wear women's clothing.
Between 1972 and 1975 Ma Tin Ong Myo was interviewed three times about her reincarnation memories by Dr. Ian Stevenson. She explained that this Japanese soldier wanted to get married and had a steady girlfriend.
He did not like either the hot climate of Burma or the spicy food of this country. He preferred heavily sweetened curries.
When Ma Tin Ong Myo was younger, she liked to eat half-raw fish, a preference that only went away after a fish bone got stuck in her throat one day.
Reincarnation Story 2: Tragedy in the Rice Fields
Stevenson describes the case of the reincarnation of a Sri Lankan girl. She remembered a past life in which she drowned in a flooded rice field. She said the bus drove past her and splashed her with water before she died.
Subsequent research in search evidence of this reincarnation discovered that a girl in a nearby village had drowned after she stepped off a narrow road to avoid a moving bus.
The road went over flooded rice fields. Having slipped, she lost her balance, fell into deep water and drowned.
The girl who remembers this event had, from a very early age, irrational fear of buses; she also became hysterical if she found herself near deep water. She loved bread and sweet-tasting dishes.
This was unusual because such food was not accepted in her family. On the other hand, the former personality was characterized by such preferences.
Reincarnation Story 3: The Case of Swanlata Mishra
Another typical case was studied by Stevenson with Swanlata Mishra, who was born in a small village in Madhya Pradesh in 1948.
When she was three years old, she started having spontaneous memories of a past life, as about a girl named Biya Pathak, who lived in another village more than a hundred miles away.
She said that the house where Biya lived had four rooms and was painted white. She tried to sing songs that she claimed she knew before, along with complex dances that were unknown among her current family and friends.
Six years later, she recognized some people who were her friends in a past life. In this she was supported by her father, who began to write down what she was saying and looking for evidence of her past incarnation.
This story aroused interest beyond the village. One researcher who visited the city discovered that a woman who fit the description given by Swanlata had died nine years ago.
Research subsequently confirmed that a young girl named Biya lived in such a house in this city. Swanlata's father decided to take his daughter to the city to introduce her to members of the Biya family and to check if she really was this reincarnated person.
People who had no connection with this child were specifically introduced to the family for verification. Svanlata immediately identified these people as strangers.
Indeed, some of the details of her past life described to her were so accurate that everyone was amazed.
Reincarnation Case 4: Patrick Christensen and his brother
Another case offers significant evidence of reincarnation is that of Patrick Christensen, who was born by Caesarean section in Michigan in March 1991.
His older brother, Kevin, died of cancer twelve years ago at the age of two. Kevin's first signs of cancer began to appear six months before his death, when he began to walk with a noticeable limp.
One day he fell and broke his leg. After an examination and biopsy of a small nodule on his head, just above his right ear, it was discovered that little Kevin had metastatic cancer.
Soon, growing tumors were discovered in other places on his body. One of them was an eye tumor, and eventually she led to blindness in that eye.
Kevin received chemotherapy, which was administered through a vein on the right side of his neck. He eventually died from his illness three weeks after his second birthday.
Patrick was born with an oblique birthmark resembling a small incision on the right side of his neck, in the same place where Kevin's chemotherapy vein was punctured, indicating stunning evidence of reincarnation.
He also had a nodule on his head just above his right ear and a cloudiness in his left eye that was diagnosed as a corneal thorn. When he began to walk, he limped noticeably, again, further evidence of reincarnation.
When he was almost four and a half years old, he told his mother that he wanted
Every person, regardless of religion, at least once in his life thought about what awaits him after death. Someone does not believe in the existence of a parallel reality, someone is convinced that they will go to heaven or hell, and someone is looking for all kinds of evidence of the reincarnation of the soul, hoping for rebirth in a new body. The latest version is gaining more and more popularity. Many people believe that a person can be reborn, and even films about reincarnation are made, after watching which the hypothesis looks more than convincing.
Where did the theory come from?
Representatives of Judaism and Buddhism were the first to believe in the transmigration of souls after death. It is these beliefs that formed the basis of religions that contain love for the world, the wisdom of the ages, as well as faith in infinity. Eastern sages have always been confident that immortality. Despite the fact that our body ages and then completely dies, the spiritual personality remains.
Each of us has moments when we are forced to say goodbye to loved ones, realizing that we will never see them again. However, if you believe the Eastern sages who know the laws of reincarnation, the deceased can be met, but only in a completely different image. The soul is able to move into another body, which does not have to be human. It could be any animal, for example a dog.
There are a colossal number of stories that relatives of deceased people perceive as evidence of the reincarnation of the soul. Perhaps there are some in your family too. Try to remember. Maybe the same bird often sits on your fence and is not afraid of you or even behaves strangely, trying to attract attention. Some people regard such manifestations as a wild fantasy, an ordinary coincidence, but there are also those who listen to their inner voice and see in this a certain sign.
From a scientific point of view
Scientists, philosophers and esotericists have been trying for centuries to unravel this mystery, to find convincing evidence of the reincarnation of souls. Many years of work on a version that suggests the possibility of transmigration of spiritual matter from one body to another has given rise to a variety of hypotheses.
One theory is that human soul performs a certain function, namely, maintains natural balance. In each life she receives the necessary experience, and after the death of her physical body, she moves to another, but always of the opposite sex.
If the deceased was not buried according to the rules or his tombstone was violated by vandals, then the person into whom the soul will move will experience serious problems with mental health. He may develop illnesses such as schizophrenia, multiple personality disorder, or persecution delusions. If you believe this hypothesis, then all people with mental disorders ended their past lives unsuccessfully.
The transmigration of souls after death can leave a mark on the body, for example, in the form of moles. One of the theories that arose in the process of studying this phenomenon indicates that large birthmarks are marks from the past. To be more precise, these are the places where there were scars on your “old” body. Perhaps a large birthmark indicates a mortal wound that killed the person whose soul now lives in you.
Some sources claim that the souls of people who led an incorrect lifestyle continue to exist in the body of animals. However, this version causes a lot of controversy among those who professionally deal with this issue. Most are convinced that the human soul is not capable of taking root in the body of an animal.
Eastern religion has its own views on this matter. The sages believe that the soul of a person who has sinned greatly during life is doomed to a long and painful existence in the body of, for example, a dung beetle. It is also believed that energy matter that has left a person who has done a lot of troubles during his life can be imprisoned in a stone or some household item.
Some people tell incredible stories, assuring others that from time to time images and memories appear in their minds that are in no way connected with real life. They are convinced that these are “pre-reincarnation” fragments reproduced at the level of cellular memory.
Most likely, among those who are now reading this article, there will be people who know firsthand about déjà vu. There are a huge number of explanations for this phenomenon, but no one has come to a consensus that would completely reveal the secret of this strange feeling.
Some believe that this occurs due to the closure of intracerebral impulses, while others are confident that this is a layering of intertemporal periods on top of each other. When experiencing a state of déjà vu, people begin to think that everything that is happening around them has already happened before. It’s as if they were at exactly this time and in this place, they absolutely clearly predict the further development of events and even know what their interlocutor will say next. It is unlikely that so many coincidences can happen at one time.
Several documented cases
Experiments aimed at establishing the facts of reincarnation were carried out long before various equipment and scientific laboratories appeared. Thus, in eastern countries there were unique burial traditions. A puncture was made to a deceased person in a certain part of the body, and when a newborn was born, they looked for a mole on it in a similar place. Have you ever wondered what your birthmarks are? Perhaps their appearance is not accidental.
Many years later, researcher Jim Tucker became interested in this custom and documented the most interesting cases of reincarnation. Thus, one of his texts says that a year after the death of his grandfather, a baby was born. There was a strange mole on his arm, exactly in the place where a mark had been left before the funeral of the deceased.
But the weirdness didn't end there. A few years later, when the boy began to talk, he suddenly addressed his grandmother in a diminutive form, just as his grandfather liked to do. After the death of her husband, no one called the elderly widow that. Everyone was in deep shock, and the boy’s mother admitted that she saw her father in a dream, who did not want to part with his family and was looking for a way to return home.
Crescent
In the same book about reincarnation there is another case that makes people think about the likelihood of the existence of this phenomenon. A woman named Diana worked at a public hospital located in Miami her entire adult life. In the hospital she met her soulmate. The man Diana married and then married had a birthmark that resembled a crescent moon.
The couple lived for many years in love and joy, but the most interesting thing happened at an appointment with a psychotherapist. A woman shared a story that supposedly happened in her previous life. She claimed that she was in the body of an Indian woman who was forced to hide from the European colonialists who occupied America. Once, in order not to give away herself and the crying child she was holding in her arms, the woman had to cover his mouth. Inadvertently, she strangled the baby, who had a crescent-shaped mole on the back of his head.
Fatal wound
Modern scientists also had to deal with the example of reincarnation. A boy was born in a Turkish town. Over time, he began to claim that he remembered numerous fragments from a past life in which he was a soldier. The boy said that when he was a soldier, he was shot with a large-caliber gun. The wound turned out to be fatal. He first began talking about his memories at a very young age, having absolutely no idea what reincarnation was. Later it became known that a file with a medical history of a soldier who was admitted for treatment with a wound to the right area of his face was found in the archives of a local clinic. A week later he died. Is it worth saying that the boy was born with multiple congenital defects on the right side of his face?
Evidence of Soul Reincarnation
Modern psychotherapists and psychologists often use a technique known as regression of past years. Using it together with hypnosis, you can restore memories that are deep in the subconscious.
Most likely, everyone has heard or seen in films how a patient is immersed in a state of hypnosis, after which it is possible to remember not only facts, for example, from early childhood, but even from a past life. When a person is brought to his senses, he remembers absolutely nothing of what he said to the doctor while in hypnosis. This practice makes it possible to understand all the subtleties of the human worldview. There are several cases that describe clear facts that confirm the existence of reincarnation after death.
In medicine, there is such a thing as false memories. Researchers conducted a survey among children of different ages. To their surprise, most of the guys vividly described the last minutes of their previous lives. As a rule, death occurred as a result of violent acts, and the events themselves occurred several years before the children interviewed were born. The most realistic and believable stories were from children aged 2 to 6 years.
Twilight Zone
And here is one of the situations that Brian Weiss, a psychoanalyst with many years of experience, described in his works. During the next session, to which a girl patient came, the doctor put her into a trance state. Katherine (that was the patient's name) began to say that she felt the presence of Brian's father, as well as his son, who died due to heart problems. It is worth noting the fact that the girl knew absolutely nothing about the doctor’s personal life and could not guess what tragedy Weiss experienced. A similar phenomenon, when someone sees the deceased relatives of their interlocutor, is usually called the “twilight zone.”
A story about two brothers
An even stranger story happened in the seventies of the last century. The young woman had a son named Kevin. At the age of two, the boy died from blood cancer caused by a complex fracture of his leg, which did not heal properly. They desperately tried to save the young patient and administered a course of chemotherapy. A catheter was inserted through his neck on the right side, and a scar appeared in the area of his left ear due to deformation of the eye. The baby died in terrible pain.
Ten years later, the woman who lost her son gave birth to another child, but from a different man. The newborn boy developed a birthmark in the exact place where the deceased baby’s scar was. It later turned out that the second son had congenital problems with his left eye, and also limped on the leg that was broken in his older brother, although no pathologies were found.
Having become an adult, the guy told incredible stories, revealing the whole essence of reincarnation. He claimed that the soul of his elder brother was reborn in his image. He accurately recounted the entire medication course, and also accurately indicated the location of the catheter. In addition to memories associated with pain and suffering, the guy remembered his old place of residence, describing in detail a house that, in fact, he had never been to.
Burmese girl with Japanese background
The world learned about this story thanks to the work of psychiatrist Ian Stevenson, who described an amazing case in his teachings on reincarnation. In the sixties of the last century, a girl was born in Burma, who, at the age of three, began to talk about how she had been a Japanese soldier in a past life. According to her, local residents burned him alive, tying him tightly to a tree.
In addition to the fact that the girl was overcome by terrible memories, she was radically different from her peers in her behavior. She did not recognize Buddhism, did not wear long hair, and slapped the children with whom she periodically walked on the playground in the same way as the Japanese soldiers who attacked Burma did.
It is worth noting the fact that she was an unusual child from birth. An obvious defect was noticeable on the girl’s right hand: the ring and middle fingers were fused, resembling the membrane of waterfowl. A few days later, doctors amputated some of the phalanges, and the child's mother claims that on her daughter's right arm there was a mark that resembled a burn, as well as stripes that looked very similar to marks from ropes.
30 rupees
To the question of whether reincarnation exists, you will be given a positive answer by the residents of the village of Alluna Miana, which is located in India. This is where a boy named Taranjit Singh lived. At the age of two, he stated that in his previous life he was an ordinary student named Satnam Singh, who lived sixty kilometers from his home village of Taranjita.
The boy told his parents that his previous life was cut short as a result of a ridiculous accident, namely after a scooter flew into a student. The boy also said that he remembers the last seconds of his former existence, as if he was lying in a pool of blood, with notes and textbooks lying around. Taranjit remembered that at the time of the accident he had exactly thirty rupees in his pocket.
The boy’s words were not taken seriously for a long time, because in the village, where the population is poorly educated, no one knows what reincarnation is. However, the father, tired of his child’s constant stories, decided to understand the situation and get to the bottom of the truth. He learned that a guy with that name really lived and then died under the wheels of a scooter. Having gone with their son to a neighboring village, they found the house where Satnam lived. His parents were shocked by what facts from their son’s life were being operated on by someone else’s child. They confirmed that Satnam was dying in a pool of blood, with textbooks scattered around, and that he had thirty rupees in his pocket at the time of his death.
Rumors about the incredible rebirth of the soul quickly spread throughout the province. Local authorities turned to experts who were asked to conduct an examination. Taranjit was asked to write a few sentences, after which forensic handwriting was done. Everyone was truly bewildered when it turned out that the handwriting of both guys was almost identical.
Xenoglossy
In medicine, there are often cases when people begin to speak foreign languages, sometimes the most exotic ones. Most often, this phenomenon becomes a consequence of clinical death, severe traumatic brain injury or stress. In parapsychology, this condition has its own name - xenoglossy.
For example, a person living in Russia can suddenly speak Turkish, without any accent. The only explanation that comes to mind is that in a past life he was a Turk.
For clarity, we can cite real example which took place in medical practice. So one American woman, born into a family of immigrants from Eastern Europe who spoke Czech, Russian and Polish, began to surprise those around her. At an appointment with a psychoanalyst, while under hypnosis, a woman suddenly spoke in Swedish, introducing herself as a peasant who once lived in Sweden. Despite the fact that the people who followed the test did not believe the woman at all, the polygraph showed that she was telling the truth. There is not a single person in her family who knows Swedish, and she has never been interested in learning it. However, this did not stop the woman from speaking it without an accent.
Films about reincarnation
Famous directors working with the “Mysticism” genre could not ignore such a phenomenon. The best films based on real stories about the transmigration of souls can be called: “Birth”, “Little Buddha”, “Restless Anna”.
