published several books where he describes his investigations of past lives. In Many Lives, Many Masters( 1988), Dr Weiss explains the reality of reincarnation and the spirit world from the psychiatric perspective. Ian Stevenson, MD, who died in 2007, was one of the most well known researchers to have provided strong evidence for the reality of reincarnation. From 1957, at the University of Virginia, he headed the Department of Psychiatry and later the Division of Perceptual Studies until his 2002 retirement. He did not use the method of hypnosis to verify whether a person had a recollection of a previous life; instead, he studied thousands of cases in children in the USA, England, Thailand, Burma, Turkey, Lebanon, Canada, India and other countries who had spontaneous memories about their previous lives. First, he verified all the information from a child about their previous life. Next, he identified the deceased person whom that child claimed to be in their previous life. Later, he verified the facts of the past life of the deceased person that coincided with the memories of the child.
He also compared and verified body marks and birth defects with wounds and scars of thedeceased, all of them confirmed by medical records. A good example of a birthmark case involved Ravi Shankar. This child remembered being decapitated in his previous childhood by a family member who was hoping for a patrimony from the child’ s father. Ravi Shankar had a birthmark around his neck. When Dr Stevenson investigated this case, he was able to confirm that the child whom Shankar told him about from his past life had in fact been decapitated.
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published several books where he describes his investigations of past lives. In Many Lives, Many Masters( 1988), Dr Weiss explains the reality of reincarnation and the spirit world from the psychiatric perspective. Ian Stevenson, MD, who died in 2007, was one of the most well known researchers to have provided strong evidence for the reality of reincarnation. From 1957, at the University of Virginia, he headed the Department of Psychiatry and later the Division of Perceptual Studies until his 2002 retirement. He did not use the method of hypnosis to verify whether a person had a recollection of a previous life; instead, he studied thousands of cases in children in the USA, England, Thailand, Burma, Turkey, Lebanon, Canada, India and other countries who had spontaneous memories about their previous lives. First, he verified all the information from a child about their previous life. Next, he identified the deceased person whom that child claimed to be in their previous life. Later, he verified the facts of the past life of the deceased person that coincided with the memories of the child.
He also compared and verified body marks and birth defects with wounds and scars of thedeceased, all of them confirmed by medical records. A good example of a birthmark case involved Ravi Shankar. This child remembered being decapitated in his previous childhood by a family member who was hoping for a patrimony from the child’ s father. Ravi Shankar had a birthmark around his neck. When Dr Stevenson investigated this case, he was able to confirm that the child whom Shankar told him about from his past life had in fact been decapitated.