It was Jim Tucker, MD, who took over Dr Stevenson’ s research. At the University of Virginia, Dr Tucker is currently Medical Director of the Child and Family Psychiatry Clinic as well as Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences. His book Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children’ s Memories of Previous Lives( 2005) summarises the 40 years of investigation of reincarnation which Dr Stevenson performed during his career. In August 2011, we conducted an email interview with Dr Tucker about the scientific evidence for life after death. He responded:“ As to your questions, the most important evidence for life after death, other than neardeath experiences, includes controlled mediumship studies, carefully studied reports of apparitions, and verified claims by children of past-life memories. The most important evidence of reincarnation is this last phenomenon: children’ s reports of past-life memories. Ian Stevenson spent 40 years studying such cases, documenting them as carefully as he could. Most of his cases came from cultures with a belief in reincarnation. I’ ve been focusing on western cases, and I’ m finding that the phenomenon is essentially the same here as it is in Asia. At this point, we certainly don’ t have as many really strong cases here as Ian found in Asia, but we do have some interesting ones.”
THE SCIENCE OF THE AFTERLIFE
Australian lawyer turned full-time researcher / writer Victor Zammit has investigated the afterlife from the judicial point of view. He thinks that the evidence he has gathered for the existence of life after death is strong enough to be accepted in any court of law( http:// www. victorzammit. com). In his book A Lawyer Presents the Case for the Afterlife( 2006, 4th ed.), Zammit showed 23 different areas that demonstrate the existence of life after death. He has put out a challenge to scientists to provide evidence that there is no life after death, promising to pay $ 1,000,000 if they do.
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It was Jim Tucker, MD, who took over Dr Stevenson’ s research. At the University of Virginia, Dr Tucker is currently Medical Director of the Child and Family Psychiatry Clinic as well as Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences. His book Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children’ s Memories of Previous Lives( 2005) summarises the 40 years of investigation of reincarnation which Dr Stevenson performed during his career. In August 2011, we conducted an email interview with Dr Tucker about the scientific evidence for life after death. He responded:“ As to your questions, the most important evidence for life after death, other than neardeath experiences, includes controlled mediumship studies, carefully studied reports of apparitions, and verified claims by children of past-life memories. The most important evidence of reincarnation is this last phenomenon: children’ s reports of past-life memories. Ian Stevenson spent 40 years studying such cases, documenting them as carefully as he could. Most of his cases came from cultures with a belief in reincarnation. I’ ve been focusing on western cases, and I’ m finding that the phenomenon is essentially the same here as it is in Asia. At this point, we certainly don’ t have as many really strong cases here as Ian found in Asia, but we do have some interesting ones.”
THE SCIENCE OF THE AFTERLIFE
Australian lawyer turned full-time researcher / writer Victor Zammit has investigated the afterlife from the judicial point of view. He thinks that the evidence he has gathered for the existence of life after death is strong enough to be accepted in any court of law( http:// www. victorzammit. com). In his book A Lawyer Presents the Case for the Afterlife( 2006, 4th ed.), Zammit showed 23 different areas that demonstrate the existence of life after death. He has put out a challenge to scientists to provide evidence that there is no life after death, promising to pay $ 1,000,000 if they do.