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<< Back to Published Articles list Hard Evidence for Reincarnation by Pamela J. Evans as published in Open Road (a publication of Edgar Cayce Canada, Fall 2003 “This entity was once a monk,” concluded a reading for Edgar Cayce’s friend, Arthur Lammers. That startling remark sparked a new direction in Cayce’s readings that had previously specialized in health issues. At Lammers’ coaxing, Cayce began giving past life readings, which eventually added up to about a third of his 14,000 documented readings. Although Cayce’s past life information reached thousands, North Americans needed more evidence to convince them that reincarnation is a fact. Dr. Ian Stevenson and his research team have scientifically provided the hardest evidence we have today: conscious memories and birthmark evidence of children. Dr. Stevenson, now in his eighties, was a Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Personality Studies at the Health Sciences Center, University of Virginia. Sometimes called the Galileo of the 20th century, he has studied mostly children who consciously remembered details of past lives, providing detailed and accurate information about people who died before they (the children) were born—people they say they once were. He chose children because they can’t control the subconscious influence of a lifetime of information. There are nearly 3,000 cases on file at the University of Virginia. Dr. Stevenson’s first book, 20 Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation (U. of Virginia Press), details children’s memories of their immediate past lives. His second book, Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect (Praeger Publishing), is even more impressive, listing cases where the birthmarks of the children match the autopsy reports of wounds that killed the people the children say they were in past lives. Each case has details that are astonishing. The book summarizes 112 cases of birthmark evidence. The Journal of the American Medical Association supported Stevenson’s research in a 1975 article, saying that reincarnation is the most logical conclusion based on the evidence he’s presented. Naturally, there are many skeptics, and Dr. Stevenson has answered the most common questions: 1. "Are these cases fraudulent?"
Stevenson’s second book contains a picture of this child and many other fascinating color photos of birth defects and unusual marks. Some look like actual scars; other deformities include missing fingers, hands or toes. Dr. Stevenson feels that there is a direct connection between the number of years between lives and the presence or absence of birthmarks. The interviewed children all had returned within a few years of their former lives. He suggests that something non-physical might convey the scars from one body to another. Other research indicates a duplicate energy body that carries our mind, soul and spirit into the spirit world after our physical body returns to the earth. Impressive as it is that medical documents of the deceased correspond to the living child’s birthmarks—or in some cases a missing limb or other marks—it’s also hard to come up with other more feasible explanations than reincarnation. People’s birthmarks or deformities are more understandable when we know there’s a reason. To repeat, the above evidence is by far the hardest, most objective, and most compelling evidence we have so far in support of reincarnation. Keeping this in mind, I recommend two recent books by Carol Bowman, Children’s Past Lives, and Return from Heaven. They stress that children can be healed if parents understand that past life memories might be the source of the problem. Dr. Stevenson says, “There is an impressive body of evidence (for reincarnation), and it is getting stronger all the time. I think a rational person, if he wants, can believe in reincarnation on the basis of evidence.” (c) Copyright 2003, Pamela J. Evans. All rights reserved. |
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