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At the beginning of this presentation, Dr. Tucker speaks about the work of the late Dr. Ian Stevenson. Ian Stevenson's magnum opus, published in 1997, was a 2,268-page, two-volume work called 'Reincarnation & Biology'. Many of his subjects had unusual birthmarks and birth defects, such as finger deformities, underdeveloped ears, or being born without a lower leg. There were scar-like, hypopigmented birthmarks and port-wine stains, and some awfully strange-looking moles in areas where you almost never find moles, like on the soles of the feet. Reincarnation and Biology contained 225 case reports of children who remembered previous lives and who also had physical anomalies that matched those previous lives, details that could in some cases be confirmed by the dead person's autopsy record and photos.
Here's an excerpt from an article about Dr. Ian Stevenson's research, which was published in Scientific American's former blog network:
More often than not, Stevenson could identify an actual figure that once lived based solely on the statements given by the child. Some cases were much stronger than others, but I must say, when you actually read them firsthand, many are exceedingly difficult to explain away by rational, non-paranormal means. Much of this is due to Stevenson’s own exhaustive efforts to disconfirm the paranormal account. "We can strive toward objectivity by exposing as fully as possible all observations that tend to weaken our preferred interpretation of the data" he wrote. "If adversaries fire at us, let them use ammunition that we have given them." And if truth be told, he excelled at debunking the debunkers.
I'd be happy to say it’s all complete and utter nonsense - a mouldering cesspool of irredeemable, anti-scientific drivel. The trouble is, it’s not entirely apparent to me that it is. So why aren’t scientists taking Stevenson’s data more seriously? The data don’t 'fit' our working model of materialistic brain science, surely. But does our refusal to even look at his findings, let alone to debate them, come down to our fear of being wrong? "The wish not to believe," Stevenson once said, "can influence as strongly as the wish to believe."
See also this presentation given by Dr. Jim Tucker about the birthmarks and birth defects:
Dr Jim Tucker & Dr Bruce Greyson: Birthmarks And Birth Defects Resulting from Wounds in Past Lives
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