Theos-Talk Archives (July 2005 Message tt00024)

OLD SOULS : Compelling Evidence from Children 
Who Remember Past Lives 
by Thomas Shroder

See:

http://tinyurl.com/7egw7

>From Publishers Weekly:
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While it is easy for Western science to dismiss as fantasy or wish 
fulfillment the recollections of individuals who "remember" being 
Cleopatra or Napoleon, how is one to explain a young boy's 
insistence that he is really a nondescript auto mechanic who died in 
a car crash a few years before? American psychiatrist Ian Stevenson 
has spent more than 30 years studying the cases of some 2000 
children who spontaneously remember concrete details about dead 
strangers whose experiences can be documented. On his two final 
field trips, to Lebanon and India, he was accompanied by journalist 
Shroder, Sunday Style editor of the Washington Post. Shroder's 
account of these expeditions emphasizes physical detail over in-
depth analysis but nevertheless makes for engrossing reading. In 
many cases, the subjects exhibit birthmarks or extreme phobias 
corresponding to injuries or traumatic events in their "past lives." 
They recognize the deceased's relatives and friends; in one case, a 
Lebanese boy asked the deceased's mother if she had finished 
knitting the sweater she was making for him when he died. That the 
compelling questions raised by such cases are ignored by the 
scientific establishment causes Stevenson great disappointment. "For 
me," he claims, "everything now believed by scientists is open to 
question, and I am always dismayed to find that many scientists 
accept current knowledge as forever fixed." The journalistic 
objectivity Shroder brings to his material makes this an 
exceptionally valuable treatment of an often disparaged subject.
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http://tinyurl.com/7egw7

Daniel
http://hpb.cc