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Not only does this fire chief resemble a Civil War general in many ways, his fire crew resembles the general’s troops.
Even in the most convincing cases of children talking about past-life memories, some will find a grain of doubt. What do psychologists say about these children’s statements?
A 3-year-old seemed to know in detail about a confrontation his father’s acquaintance once had with a snake—but how he knew these details remains a mystery.
A theoretical physicist who worked with some of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, Henry Stapp says the existence of the soul fits within the laws of physics.
Many survivors of China’s Tangshan earthquake reported their bodies felt light and well and they felt happy among other interesting sensations as they neared death.
Epoch Times visited the University of Virginia to see reincarnation researcher Dr. Jim Tucker, who has 2,000 cases of children reporting past-life memories.
“Consciousness is part of our universe, so any physical theory which makes no proper place for it falls ... short of providing a genuine description of the world.”
Encounters with the dead are reported by as many as 25 percent of Western Europeans and 30 percent of Americans.
Though science has made some progress in understanding how we store and access memories, much about memory remains a mystery.
Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson, professor emeritus at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, has examined cases of children who seem to remember their past lives.
What would you do if you seemed to get a phone call from someone who is dead?
Ruprecht Schultz had a strange habit as a child of forming his fingers into the shape of a gun, and pointing at his head, saying “I shoot myself,” when he was unhappy. As an adult, it became clearer where this habit may have come from.
Nazih Al-Danaf used words his parents didn’t expect him to know at a very young age, showed an unusual interest in cigarettes and whisky, talked of a mute friend who had only one hand, said he had a red car, and said he died when people came to shoot at him.
