reincarnation

The Dalai Lama is turning 90 on July 6 and has announced that when he dies he will reincarnate, and has previously said it would be someone outside of China. His broadcast about it was censored in China. China has said they will find the new Dalai Lama within China...

Hi I’ve become very interested in the work at the U of V’s Division of Perceptual Studies. I’m reading a couple of books by their professors. One on children remembering past lives and the other trying to reconcile PSI phenomena with science. Ive also watched a couple of interviews with...

This method of past lives research requires presence of people who know foreign languages. This is my linguistic background: I am fluent in Russian (my parents are from the former USSR), I learned Spanish in the school, during my one-year assignment in Turkey I learned Turkish to some degree – I...

In this thread, I was hoping that I could get a chain of objections going, the purpose of which is to not settle on some single objection we have to a claim and leave it at that, but to dig deeper and see where it leads us. So I will make an objection to an objection in this post and in the next...

Suppose science with overwhelming evidence determined for certain that you reincarnate after death, would anything change ? Set aside the karma angle for now. Nothing religious involved. It is simply nature. Lets just say you know for sure that you will reincarnate. Would you change...

No explanation required. I voted No.

Hello, After having ceased my job a year ago, I have time again to deal with The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge. See: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=89909 http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48248 My claim is not exactly humble...

Scientific Proof of Reincarnation Dr. Ian Stevenson's Life Work "Either he [Dr. Stevenson] is making a colossal mistake. Or he will be known as the Galileo of the 20th century." Dr Harold Lief in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease About Dr. Ian Stevenson Omni Magazine's Interview with...

I am interested in what you think about death. In your mind what it is like to be dead? Can you imagine it? Can you justify your position? Are you looking forward to it? Or are you scared, and hoping it won't happen for some time? How often do you think about it seriously? I was watching you...

After re-thinking about this quote from Bill Hicks, from Sane Man, I've been pondering consciousness: "Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing...

I don't know whether the title is appropriate, as the last time I checked, there wasn't any proof/conclusive proof of survival of the personality after death, let alone said personality somehow returning, but I really need some help with a fellow student. My Biology teacher for my first...

From his tweeter... Perhaps every soul doesn't reincarnate. Perhaps some reincarnate on new worlds or in higher dimensions. There, I refuted your refutation... AND that's what the believers say to explain it! Why do people bother saying stuff like this? I don't understand! Why not say that...

Hello JREF community, I just joined the forum but I have been a Skeptic, fan of James Randi, and JREF for many years. I have a question regarding the quality of a BBC program that aired for 2 seasons about 10 years called BBC Supernatural Science. My question is has anyone seen this series or in...

Recently I've seen a new advert here in the Netherlands that makes me kinda sad for two reasons. Basically it entails that if you text your name to a certain number, they'll tell you about your past life. I'm sad that so many people believe this due to horrible TV mediums and the like that this...

Greetings fellow skeptics, My hope for this thread is to have as many people as possible state what criteria would satisfy their need for evidence to accept reincarnation as real. The purpose is to find a common ground, the smallest common denominator, if you will, of what is to be considered...

youtube.com/watch?v=rkuwLZDxt6Y Love thy neighbour folks we reincarnate!

"A case in which a woman had sued Winfrey and the former first couple -- as well as three Charleston physicians -- after she claimed they all had conspired to implant a camera with wire sensors into her with the intent of reincarnation has been dismissed." Kanawha Circuit Court case number...

Hello all, first post, be nice. :) Just to say I am an avid listening of Skeptoid and am in agreement with 99% Mr Dunning says on his podcast. I am a software developer by trade, so my mind is constantly running through possible outcomes of situations. This helps in programming, but is quite...

Id like to hear some opinions, There is a 11 year old boy on cnn claiming he is the reincarnation of a WWII Fighter pilot. Personally, I believe this child is experiencing a thing we call, IMAGINATION. But you average k00k would say, due to the"evidence" being, the boy pulled up some vague...

Don't be spending or giving away all your assets in this lifetime - you CAN take it with you. http://www.reincarnationbank.com/index.html Check out the terms and conditions - what a hoot. Someone has a great sense of humour.

http://www.reversespins.com/proofofreincarnation.html It seems a lot of people have decided to believe in this one... Sad.

This is the headline on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald's website: 'Buddha: He spent months sitting in jungle without food or water.' The linked photo is captioned 'The reincarnation of Buddha ... Ram Bahadur Bamjan'. Apparently some Nepalese buddhists are convinced that Ram...

reincarnation is going to happen to you no matter what you do, its only a matter of time.

This thread was supposed to be about alleged cases of reincarnation as put forth by Ian Stevenson. It became, partly due to me, a discussion about the Watseka Wonder. Rodney claims that my minimalized debunking (copied from my post on another forum) were both inaccurate and unsubstantiated...

Hi. I just did the dramatic thread title to get your attention... buuuutt there does appear to be pretty strong evidence of reincarnation. The evidence is predominantly events where young children appear to know many facts about other places that they could not have been to and people that they...

Well, after reading that other reincarnation thread about the population of Japan:confused: I decided to make my own I came up with this idea a couple years ago, and of course my friends laughed at me, but recently there has been a scientific paper which is somewhat the same thing...

After having read interesting contributions in the discussion Bobby Fischer Dead I have remembered my own dealing with Bobby Fischer several years ago in the context of reincarnation chains. Because many readers may consider such a hypothesis as abhorrent, I start here a new discussion thread on...

In the thread Demography of Japan - Evidence of Reincarnation I showed that the demographic evolution of Japan constitutes strong evidence for demographic saturation and therefore also for reincarnation. Because of the poor quality of most posts in that thread I start here a new one...

Japan was for a long period a "closed country" and Japanese society is still today quite homogeneous. Therefore Japan is an ideal country to test 'demographic saturation', which is a logical consequence of reincarnation according to the psychon theory (a pandualist evolution theory). The...

http://www.kalingatimes.com/international_news/news/20070824_China_bans.htm This is really... well, funny and weird. By banning this without permission, they acknowledge its existence, AND try to control it, which makes no sense on multiple levels.