In the article, he describes a typical reincarnation case, where subjects start reporting a past life experience. One great example comes from University of Virginia psychiatrist Jim Tucker, who in 2008 published a review of cases suggestive of reincarnation in the journal Explore.( source) This topic has been studied by numerous scientists who belong to various academic institutions from all over the world. “There are claims in the parapsychology field which, in my opinion, deserve serious study, that young children sometimes report details of a previous life, which upon checking turn out to be accurate and which they could not have known about in any other way than reincarnation.” – Carl Sagan We can learn that it’s okay to take topics like this seriously, because there is a wealth of very compelling statistical data and observation that has many scientists interested in it… and perplexed. So what can we learn from this information? To keep an open mind, to know that not everything we believe to be true, is, and that maybe there are components of our reality that we have yet to understand. A lot of new science is revealing how many, and how diverse, are the factors are which influence the so-called ‘physical material world that we see around us’. The examination of these types of phenomena is vital to increasing our understanding about the nature of our reality. These events are so common that they cannot be viewed as anomalous nor as exceptions to natural laws, but as indications of the need for a broader explanatory framework that cannot be predicated exclusively on materialism.” ( source) – Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science the correlations between distant minds are hypothesized to be unmediated (they are not linked to any known energetic signal), unmitigated (they do not degrade with increasing distance), and immediate (they appear to be simultaneous). Psi research also shows that distant minds may behave in ways that are nonlocally correlated, i.e.

Furthermore, psi research demonstrates that we can mentally influence-at a distance-physical devices and living organisms (including other human beings). “Studies of the so-called ‘psi phenomena’ indicate that we can sometimes receive meaningful information without the use of ordinary senses, and in ways that transcend the habitual space and time constraints.

Another example would be the University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies, in which they explore such phenomena as reincarnation, near death experiences (NDEs), and out of body experiences (OBEs). Highly significant statistical deviation, far beyond what one could expect from chance, was seen there. The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) project is a great example of this comprehensive approach to the subject - a project that ran from 1979 until 2007, it aimed to examine if there was factual basis for theories in mind/matter interaction, or extrasensory perception (ESP). As the University of Calgary points out, parapsychology is an interdisciplinary field which has attracted physicists, engineers, biologists, psychologists, and researchers in other sciences as well. This includes the study of paranormal activity and extended human human capacities like precognition and telepathy, among other things. This is unfortunate, because it distracts the reader from realizing that psychical research, also known as ‘psi’ (or parapsychology), is practiced by various scientists and reputable institutions all over the world. If you google “parapsychology,” the first thing that will probably pop up is a Wikipedia entry loosely (and, in my opinion, rather offensively) defining it as a “pseudoscience.” “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” – Nikola Tesla

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