Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect - by Ian Stevenson

About the Book

Children who claim to remember a previous life have been found in many parts of the world, particularly in the Buddhist and Hindu countries of South Asia, among the Shiite peoples of Lebanon and Turkey, the tribes of West Africa, and the American northwest. Stevenson has collected over 2,600 reported cases of past-life memories of which 65 detailed reports have been published. Specific information from the children's memories has been collected and matched with the data of their claimed former identity, family, residence, and manner of death. Birthmarks or other physiological manifestations have been found to relate to experiences of the remembered past life, particularly violent death. Writing as a specialist in psychiatry and as a world-renowned scientific investigator of reported paranormal events, Stevenson asks us to suspend our Western tendencies to disbelieve in reincarnation and consider the reality of the burgeoning record of cases now available. This book summarizes Stevenson's findings which are presented in full in the multi-volume work entitled Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects, also published by Praeger.

Book Synopsis

Children who claim to remember a previous life have been found in many parts of the world, particularly in the Buddhist and Hindu countries of South Asia, among the Shiite peoples of Lebanon and Turkey, the tribes of West Africa, and the American northwest. Stevenson has collected over 2,600 reported cases of past-life memories of which 65 detailed reports have been published. Specific information from the children's memories has been collected and matched with the data of their claimed former identity, family, residence, and manner of death. Birthmarks or other physiological manifestations have been found to relate to experiences of the remembered past life, particularly violent death. Writing as a specialist in psychiatry and as a world-renowned scientific investigator of reported paranormal events, Stevenson asks us to suspend our Western tendencies to disbelieve in reincarnation and consider the reality of the burgeoning record of cases now available. This book summarizes Stevenson's findings which are presented in full in the multi-volume work entitled Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects, also published by Praeger.

Review Quotes

?Br Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia, US, has run a throrough investigation into the numerous claims of babies born bearing the scars receives in former lives. Many of his findings are documented in the 1997 book Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect.?-The X Factor

?Dr. Ian Stevenson, a distinguished scholar and professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia has written a highly intriguing book about his experiences around the world that support the idea that birth marks and other skin lesions and abnormalities may provide evidence of cutaneous injurines sustained in a previous life, thus supporting the notion of reincarnation....Ian Stevenson' well written book, modest in its claims, is an interesting read with an intriguing challenge.?-Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science

?Ian Stevenson is the foremost researcher on reincarnation in this country and, indeed, the world. No one who studies his work can fail to be impressed with the carefulness of his fact-finding and evidence-gathering and with the honesty and candor of his conclusions. If you are interested in the evidence for reincarnation, buy this book. For those cases which particularly fascinate you, you will want to examine their details in Reincarnation and Biology.?-Spiritual Frontiers

?This amazing book provides a synopsis of the multivolume series of books that Stevenson published over a course of nearly four decades....This book is of general interest and useful for undergraduate and public library collections.?-Religious Studies Review

"Br Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia, US, has run a throrough investigation into the numerous claims of babies born bearing the scars receives in former lives. Many of his findings are documented in the 1997 book Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect."-The X Factor

"Ian Stevenson is the foremost researcher on reincarnation in this country and, indeed, the world. No one who studies his work can fail to be impressed with the carefulness of his fact-finding and evidence-gathering and with the honesty and candor of his conclusions. If you are interested in the evidence for reincarnation, buy this book. For those cases which particularly fascinate you, you will want to examine their details in Reincarnation and Biology."-Spiritual Frontiers

"This amazing book provides a synopsis of the multivolume series of books that Stevenson published over a course of nearly four decades....This book is of general interest and useful for undergraduate and public library collections."-Religious Studies Review

"Dr. Ian Stevenson, a distinguished scholar and professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia has written a highly intriguing book about his experiences around the world that support the idea that birth marks and other skin lesions and abnormalities may provide evidence of cutaneous injurines sustained in a previous life, thus supporting the notion of reincarnation....Ian Stevenson' well written book, modest in its claims, is an interesting read with an intriguing challenge."-Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science

About the Author

IAN STEVENSON is Carlson Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Personality Studies at the Health Sciences Center, University of Virginia. He has published nine books on his research since 1966, two of which have been translated into French, German, and Japanese.