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Originally Posted by GGG
Do you have links to peer reviewed published research and experimentation that shows people have memories of past lives? I’d be very surprised if any of the evidence available can be considered as high quality.
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Here's a survey document of the research.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...50830721000951
Start with the work of
Dr. Jim B. Tucker, Division of Perceptual Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia (Charlottesville) who followed in the footsteps of Canadian Dr. Ian Stevenson. Tucker has been studying this phenomena for 20+ years and Stevenson for 50 years, until his death in 2007. Tucker has a number of publications as does Stevenson.
I'd recommend you start with this article first.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com...y-just-cynics/
It speaks more to the closed mind nature of people rather that the open mind we're supposed to have when we approach research. Very similar to something I said in another thread about there being skeptics and cynics, and where most people fall.
If that isn't enough reading on the cynic behavior then maybe this book is better primer.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...5083072100183X
On to some of Dr. Tucker's work. Here's his books.
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en...%20Jim&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en...%20Jim&f=false
Here are some of his articles.
https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-...26tucker-1.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...50830716000331
http://ecite.utas.edu.au/36418/
https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-...JSE-2014-2.pdf
https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-...36Tucker-1.pdf
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/...1.2018.1523266
And an anthology.
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en...%20Jim&f=false
Follow the citations and references for more information. He's not alone in this research and this is a phenomena studied around the globe.
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Essentially the statement that people would have no other way of knowing the details is false. Any detail of the past requires a person or artifact that has been found by a person. This means that a source of the information from the past life exists in the present day. This means that the best we can say is that it is unlikely that a person would have known about the event.
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This is wrong, and if you read Stevenson's, Tucker's, and others work, you will begin to understand how and why your perceptions are wrong. If you go into all topics with the idea you know all there is to know about the brain/mind, the world we live in, and the universe we exist in, you're never likely to learn anything or be open to possibilities.
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So then we have a few scenarios to compare likelihood of does the person have this information in advance or did they experience a past life or did they guess or were given the detail.
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I'll let the author of the Scientific American article answer this.
"Stevenson was able to confirm that there was, indeed, a flower vendor in Kataragama who ran a stall near the Buddhist stupa whose two-year-old daughter had drowned in the river while the girl played with her mentally challenged brother. The man lived in a house where the neighbors threw meat to dogs tied up in their backyard, and it was adjacent to the main temple where devotees practiced a religious ritual of smashing coconuts on the ground. The little girl did get a few items wrong, however. For instance, the dead girl’s dad wasn’t bald (but her grandfather and uncle were) and his name wasn’t “Herath”—that was the name, rather, of the dead girl’s cousin. Otherwise, 27 of the 30 idiosyncratic, verifiable statements she made panned out. The two families never met, nor did they have any friends, coworkers, or other acquaintances in common, so if you take it all at face value, the details couldn’t have been acquired in any obvious way."
"This Sri Lankan case is one of Stevenson’s approximately 3000 such “past life” case reports from all over the world, and these accounts are in an entirely different kind of parapsychological ballpark than tales featuring a middle-aged divorcée in a tie-dyed tunic who claims to be the reincarnation of Pocahantas. More often than not, Stevenson could identify an actual figure that once lived based solely on the statements given by the child. Some cases were much stronger than others, but I must say, when you actually read them firsthand, many are exceedingly difficult to explain away by rational, non-paranormal means. Much of this is due to Stevenson’s own exhaustive efforts to disconfirm the paranormal account. “We can strive toward objectivity by exposing as fully as possible all observations that tend to weaken our preferred interpretation of the data,” he wrote. “If adversaries fire at us, let them use ammunition that we have given them.” And if truth be told, he excelled at debunking the debunkers."