For many years, the American physician, professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia, MD, Ian Stevenson, has been researching the phenomenon of reincarnation. Children who became his patients often stated that before their parents and close relatives were completely different people. In a number of cases, it was possible to establish the identity of these people, as well as to confirm the details of their own previous life mentioned by the children.
In the 70s of the XX century such a sensation swept the world: 12-year-old Elena Marquard from West Berlin, after recovering from a serious injury, suddenly spoke in perfect Italian, which she did not know before. At the same time, the girl claimed that her name was Rosetta Castellani, that she was from Italy and was born in 1887. When the girl was taken to the address indicated by her, the door was opened by Rosetta's daughter, who died in 1917. 12-year-old (!) Elena recognized her and exclaimed: "Here is my daughter Fransa!.."
In the process of studying reincarnation, Professor Stevenson has repeatedly come across the fact that birthmarks and even scars at the site of wounds received by them in a past life were found on the body of newborn children. In a number of cases, the professor was able to trace the history of successive incarnations of the same person, or rather, her soul, and make sure of the regularity of the appearance of the mentioned marks on the body of babies and, as a consequence, material confirmation of the existence of the phenomenon of reincarnation.
Stevenson wrote the 1997 Praeger Publishers Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect from his many years of research. Here are some examples taken from this book.
1. Kemal realized that this time he was caught. Armed Turkish police surrounded it from all sides. The last hope was a skylight overlooking the roof, but, carefully looking out of it, he saw the tops of uniform boots very close. It was the end. Then he slowly put the barrel of a pistol to his chin and, having read the last prayer in his life, pulled the trigger … If the famous bandit Kemal Hayik had lived a little longer, he could have taken part in the celebration on the occasion of the birth of a son in the family of his relatives, the Fakhritsii. Moreover, the baby was named after him Kemal. And it is no coincidence: the newly-made father, on the night before the birth of the child, saw Hayik in a dream, who came to visit them. The baby's parents considered this dream a sign - in their opinion, it meant that Hayik would be reborn in their firstborn.
The parents, to their surprise, found confirmation of their assumption immediately after the baby was born. Two marks were clearly visible on his body: one on the neck under the chin, very similar to the scar from the entrance hole of the bullet, and the other on the crown, in the very place where the bullet from Hayik's pistol, piercing through his skull, flew out.
But the parents of young Kemal were even more amazed when he began to speak: the baby described in detail the life and circumstances of Hayik's death. And he immediately disliked all the "siloviks" and would often throw stones at the police and soldiers. All these oddities become completely understandable if we assume that Hayik's soul has really entered the child's body …
2. Ravi Shankar was born in the Indian city of Kan Nauj (Uttar Pradesh) in 1951. From an early age he claimed that his father was actually a man named Jageshwar, a hairdresser who lived in the next block. He also claimed to have been killed. His real father did not take this "baby talk" seriously, he was offended when he heard such statements from his own son, and even began to punish the boy in order to discourage him from such fantasies. However, this did not help, and as Ravi grew, his confidence in his previous incarnation increased. Moreover, there was, as he believed, incontestable evidence of his innocence. On his neck under his chin, Rasi had a strange, twisting-shaped birthmark about 5 centimeters long, reminiscent of a stab wound.
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In the end, it was established that on July 19, 1951, 6 months before the birth of Ravi, the young son of Jageshwar Prasad, a local hairdresser, was killed and beheaded.
The murder was committed by two of Prasad's relatives. They decided to take possession of his property and in this way got rid of a competitor in the person of his son.
When Jageshwar Prasad learned of Ravi's strange statements, he decided to visit the Shankara family to hear about everything from himself. A lengthy conversation took place between them, during which Ravi recognized Jageshwar as his former father. He also told him details of “his” murder that only Jageshwar and the police knew.
Shocked, Jageshwar had to admit that he had no reason not to believe Ravi's story and that, apparently, the soul of his late son had really taken over this young man …
It happens that a person is able to foresee in which of the relatives he will be reborn again after his death. This is confirmed, for example, by the story of William George Jr., who was born in Alaska in 1950. His mother gave birth under anesthesia and during childbirth had a dream that researchers of reincarnation would classify as "prophetic": her late father-in-law, William George Sr., who had recently died in a boat accident, appeared to her. Once he told his son and daughter-in-law that if all these arguments about reincarnation have at least some basis, then after death he will definitely be reborn in one of his descendants. And at the same time he predicted that the two marks he had: on the left shoulder and on the arm - would necessarily be in the same places on the body of that descendant.
3. William George Sr. died a few weeks after that conversation. And when William George Jr. was born 9 months later, everyone saw two spots on his body. Moreover, in the same places where they were at his grandfather.
Sometimes the future mother sees the previous owner of the newborn's soul in a dream. And the "identification mark" that confirms such continuity is often the shape and location of the birthmark on the baby's body.
4. Hanumant Saxena was born in an Indian village in 1955. Shortly before his conception, his mother saw in a dream a man named Maha Ram, a resident of the same village, who was shot several weeks ago, Hanumant was born with a large spot on his chest, in the same place where there was a gunshot wound on Maha's body Frame. Barely learning how to speak, Hanumant announced that he was Maha Ram, and subsequently described the people and places that were known to the deceased with amazing accuracy.
5. Alan Gamble was born in 1945 in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Based on the "prophetic dream" of the mother, preceding childbirth, and two birthmarks, it was established that the soul of Walter Wilson, a close relative, who died of gangrene that arose after a gunshot wound to his left arm, entered into him. The "signs" on the baby's body were exactly where the bullet entered and came out, shooting through Wilson's arm.
6. Ma Htwe Win is from Burma. She was born in 1973 with a deep annular groove on her left thigh just above the knee. Parents were lost in conjecture about the cause of such an injury until the girl learned to speak fluently. Then Ma Htwe Vin informed her stunned parents that she remembered her previous life when she was a man named U Nga Tan, who was barbarously killed by three bandits. In an effort to hide the crime, they tightly tied the legs of their victim so that they were bent at the knees, and in this form threw the corpse into the well.
It happens that under the influence of hypnosis, people recall their previous incarnations, which seem completely incredible. In a conversation with a UFO Magazine correspondent about such cases, Helen Billings, a certified hypnotherapist, who has been practicing since 1991 in the American city of Mill Valley (California), spoke about such cases in 1998. “One of my clients suffered from severe bronchial asthma, which is mainly an allergic disease. She and I decided to try to find the cause of this allergy in her past. Twice I plunged her into deep regression, she "visited" in her youth and childhood, right up to infancy, but there was no source of allergy.
For the third time, we agreed that we would try to infiltrate the nearest of her past lives. And then she saw herself inside an interstellar ship, she was wearing an exotic-looking space jumpsuit, She had blond hair and golden eyes, I asked her if we were really in the past. She confirmed, I asked if she was an inhabitant of the Earth. She replied: "No." Now she is a doctor of an extraterrestrial space expedition, her husband is also a member of the ship's crew. Suddenly an accident occurs on the ship, it begins to collapse. The compartment is depressurized, she suffocates … It was here that the cause of asthma lay. the client began to feel better every day, and soon her asthma was almost completely gone.”The journalist was interested in this episode of the past incarnation of the current earth woman into an alien, and he asked Helen,whether there are other similar cases in her practice.
Here's what he heard: “Two of my clients remembered that each of them, aquatic from their past lives, belonged to a race of intelligent reptiles. Now both of them are sweet, cuddly "human beings". One of them, let's call him Abe, being in a state of deep hypnotic regression, described his appearance as follows: “My legs are covered with scales, have a gray-green color and end with two big toes. My whole body is like the body of a reptile. But my physiognomy does not look like an animal's face, it rather resembles a flat human face."
In response to the question of what internal sensations he experiences, being in this guise, Abe replied that he was in a great mood and that he was a very happy creature. He is overwhelmed with music, which he can either listen to or perform within himself, choosing melodies to his taste. Music and other pleasant sounds are an organic part of the existence of creatures like him, of which the society around him consists. The purpose of life for these beings is to rejoice and to bring joy to others.
During the next regression session, Abe reported that it was difficult for him to be human, that it was very difficult to live among people. Probably, he suggested. this is due to the loss of “cordiality” by people, a feeling of great and unselfish love for their neighbor. Living in human incarnation, Abe constantly feels like a stranger among people. He says that he feels himself alien, who came to Earth from some other world."
At the end of the conversation, Ellen Billings noted that Abe is not an exception, she has other patients who, in a state of hypnotic regression, declare that they are confident in their extraterrestrial origin and destiny, and that they are only "passing through" on Earth.
7. The case of Bishem Chadn. We are talking there about the two cities of Philbecht and Bareilly. The distance between the two cities is about fifty kilometers. These are Indian cities. And in the Chand family - a rather poor family, a boy Bishem Chand was born. From childhood, he was outraged in general by the place in which he was born. Poor family. At the age of one and a half, he began to declare that they did not feed like that in his house, demanded luxurious food, took off his cotton clothes, demanded silk ones. When he was eight years old, they began to notice that brandy was disappearing from the sideboard. Everyone was amazed at what was happening until someone in the house caught a toddler drinking brandy. He said that the brandy is very bad, they don't use that in his house. Sometimes he lyrically offered his father to get himself, besides his mother, someone else. Here. And he did other similar tricks, when he saw his father's watch, he said that the clock was very bad,you need to contact his Muslim agent, he will buy a much better watch. But although the boy's behavior worried the public, several articles were published, and no one was seriously investigating the cases. Until one day the boy said: “I remember that I had a woman, her name was Padma, and when I saw her with another young man, I took a gun and killed this bastard.” The local prosecutor, his name was Sahay, in another transcription is Sahei. He is immediately interested. He says: "This murder must be investigated." He wastes his precious time and travels from Philbecht to Bareilly. And here it turns out that the whole Bareilly has heard, heard about the dissolute, dissolute life of a rich man, the son of a rich man from the Narayan family. Well, Narayan is generally the name of the goddess of fertility and wealth. This is the title and surname of the wealthy families of India. And just one of the brightest episodes was that he, he had a mistress Padma, and he shot another young man of hers, and with great difficulty the family managed to hush up this scandal, using money and connections. And as soon as the boy was brought to that house, he immediately showed where everything was and also demonstrated the art of playing the tabla. These are the kind of drums that they knock on, you still need to learn to play them, and he showed it right away.
8. A woman from America came to him as a patient, he is a psychiatrist himself. And she, as a patient, underwent a course of treatment with him, and he brought her into a state of hypnotic regression, i.e. he put her into a state of hypnosis, into a state of the past. And in this state of the past, she suddenly spoke in some such unusual language, which was recorded and then demonstrated to linguists. It turned out that this was some kind of Swedish dialect, with which she had nothing to do in this life. She had never been to Sweden, had not studied this language, and had no relatives. Nevertheless, it was clearly a phenomenon that somehow needed to be explained, and there is no material explanation for it. However, if we accept the idea that there is a living being, a soul that once lived, suppose, in this Sweden knew this language, then according to the law of reincarnation, karma,she received her next birth in America. Now she does not need this Swedish language, her parents, the environment, taught her new English. This language has gone into her subconsciousness, but under certain circumstances, with this hypnotic regression, this experience of the past can be activated.
9. Another example, when the daughter of a Bengali railroad worker. Little girl, she was playing with her pillow like it's a doll and she called her Mina. This girl's name was Shukla, and she called her pillow Mina. She was asked: "Why do you call your pillow that?", She says: "That is my daughter's name." He says: “Which daughter? You are still little yourself. What kind of daughter can you have? " She says: “In a past life I had a daughter,” and began to talk about the fact that she lived in such a city of Baam Banpur. She began to describe her relatives, began to describe the name of her husband, etc … She described all this so vaguely that they decided to check if it was so. And when we went to this city, we found out that it was really not a big town, that indeed a few years ago, a woman who had left, a young daughter, named Minu, died. So when they decided to conduct a complete experiment, they decided to bring this girl Shukla to this city, she had never been there. She confidently led everyone to this house, in which she used to live, of several dozen people, such as a control group. She unmistakably recognized her husband, his brother, her husband's brother and, naturally, her last daughter. Now the daughter was older than herself, such was an amazing meeting, and she even showed where they had family jewels in this house, a box with family jewels. Those. the experience was so totally vivid. She unmistakably recognized her husband, his brother, her husband's brother and, naturally, her last daughter. Now the daughter was older than herself, such was an amazing meeting, and she even showed where they had family jewels in this house, a box with family jewels. Those. the experience was so totally vivid. She unmistakably recognized her husband, his brother, her husband's brother and, naturally, her last daughter. Now the daughter was older than herself, such was an amazing meeting, and she even showed where they had family jewels in this house, a box with family jewels. Those. the experience was so totally vivid.