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 .