This bookprovides a systematic, inter-disciplinary examination of beliefs in as well as evidence for reincarnation that will appeal to students of anthropology, religious studies, philosophy, and the psychology of consciousness and memory, as well as parapsychology.
This bookprovides a systematic, inter-disciplinary examination of beliefs in as well as evidence for reincarnation that will appeal to students of anthropology, religious studies, philosophy, and the psychology of consciousness and memory, as well as parapsychology.
James G. Matlock, Ph.D., is a research fellow with the Parapsychology Foundation in New York. He has worked at the American Society for Psychical Research in New York and the Rhine Research Center in Durham, North Carolina. Matlock has published widely on reincarnation and related issues and is co-author, with Erlendur Haraldsson, of I Saw a Light and Came Here: Children's Experiences of Reincarnation. He has contributed articles on reincarnation to the online Psi Encyclopedia. Since 2013, he has taught a courses on reincarnation research and theory through the Alvarado Zingrone Institute for Research and Education.He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword: A Tale of Two Theories, by Jeffrey Mishlove Preface Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Reincarnation Signs What is Reincarnation? Challenge to Materialism Chapter 2: The Belief in Reincarnation Signs, Beliefs, and Customs in Animistic Cultures A Brief History of the Belief in Rebirth, West and East Karma, God, and the Individual in Rebirth Theory Chapter 3: Research Methods and Interpretative Frames Accounts of Past-Life Memory Recorded Before 1960 Ian Stevenson's Field Research and Its Critics Interpretive Frames for Reincarnation Cases Chapter 4: Child Studies: The Principal Signs of Reincarnation Involuntary Memory of Previous Lives Behavioral Identification with the Previous Person Birthmarks and Other Physical Signs Chapter 5: Child Studies: Secondary Signs of Reincarnation Signs of Discarnate Agency Universal, Near-Universal, and Culture-Linked Patterns The Psychological Impacts of Past-Life Memory Chapter 6: Past-Life Recall in Adulthood and Third-Party Reports Developmental Factors in Past-Life Memory Retrieval Fantasy and Fact in Past Life Regression under Hypnosis The Contributions of Shamans, Psychics, and Mediums Chapter 7: The Process of Reincarnation Beyond Materialism Personal Identity and Postmortem Survival Reincarnation and Life Afterword: Implications of Reincarnation Cases for Biology, by Michael Nahm References Glossary of Specialized and Technical Terms Index
Foreword: A Tale of Two Theories, by Jeffrey Mishlove Preface Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Reincarnation Signs What is Reincarnation? Challenge to Materialism Chapter 2: The Belief in Reincarnation Signs, Beliefs, and Customs in Animistic Cultures A Brief History of the Belief in Rebirth, West and East Karma, God, and the Individual in Rebirth Theory Chapter 3: Research Methods and Interpretative Frames Accounts of Past-Life Memory Recorded Before 1960 Ian Stevenson's Field Research and Its Critics Interpretive Frames for Reincarnation Cases Chapter 4: Child Studies: The Principal Signs of Reincarnation Involuntary Memory of Previous Lives Behavioral Identification with the Previous Person Birthmarks and Other Physical Signs Chapter 5: Child Studies: Secondary Signs of Reincarnation Signs of Discarnate Agency Universal, Near-Universal, and Culture-Linked Patterns The Psychological Impacts of Past-Life Memory Chapter 6: Past-Life Recall in Adulthood and Third-Party Reports Developmental Factors in Past-Life Memory Retrieval Fantasy and Fact in Past Life Regression under Hypnosis The Contributions of Shamans, Psychics, and Mediums Chapter 7: The Process of Reincarnation Beyond Materialism Personal Identity and Postmortem Survival Reincarnation and Life Afterword: Implications of Reincarnation Cases for Biology, by Michael Nahm References Glossary of Specialized and Technical Terms Index
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