How much experience do you have with cysts in young children?
Dr. Levine presumably is referring to the disappearance of Edward's cyst when he says: "There are some things that I just can't explain, and this is one."
I agree that we need more information, but how do you know that the recollection was "well after the fact"?
I'm guessing that is also true of Dr. Austrian, but he might have more experience in this area than you. We don't know, but I think it is significant that both Dr. Austrian and Dr. Levine seem to be puzzled as to why Edward Austrian's cyst disappeared.Just a little bit (including my own son who had a thyroglossal duct cyst). I depend more upon published research and the experience of experts, on this issue.
What other subject would he have been talking about?Why would you presume that?
As you noted, the video was truncated, but I wouldn't assume that Drs. Austrian and Levine were speaking long after Edward's cyst disappeared.That was the information they presented. If they had documentation from the time of the events, they didn't present it to us.
I'm guessing that is also true of Dr. Austrian, but he might have more experience in this area than you. We don't know, but I think it is significant that both Dr. Austrian and Dr. Levine seem to be puzzled as to why Edward Austrian's cyst disappeared.
What other subject would he have been talking about?
As you noted, the video was truncated, but I wouldn't assume that Drs. Austrian and Levine were speaking long after Edward's cyst disappeared.
The statement that he made was: "I'm not sure what I can make of this story of Edward's remembrance of a past life. I, as a physician and scientist, can only observe things. And then, if I can explain them, that's fine. But there are some things that I just can't explain, and this is one." I'm not sure why Dr. Levine wouldn't have been able to explain a 4-year old boy fantasizing about a past life, if that's all there was to it.Well, we don't know what Dr. Levine was puzzled about.
True, but if both doctors thought that the cyst was a good candidate to spontaneously resolve, I don't think there was much to be puzzled about.And since we know that cysts can spontaneously resolve, we would need to have an explanation as to why it couldn't have happened in this case. And regardless of the condition of the cyst, there isn't any way to form a connection between the disappearance of the cyst and reincarnation anyway.