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.
THE SCIENCE
AFTERLIFE
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
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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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.”
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