Genius Buddhist prodigies, past lives?

The strange, brilliant life of a billionaire scientist living between two worlds

(Lei's Looking Glass) From child prodigy to billionaire scientist, Dr. John D. Young lived a life most people can only imagine—college at 13, dual doctorate degrees (PhDs) by 21, Nobel recognition before 30. But behind his extraordinary success was an even stranger story: visions of light, encounters with divine beings, out-of-body experiences, and a search for the truth behind consciousness. In this episode, we explore the brilliant and mysterious life of a man who walked between science and spirit, between wealth and awakening, between this world and another. Was he simply a prodigy—or something more? Discover the story of a genius who may have been chosen for a higher purpose.

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(Lei's Looking Glass) The child prince who remembered a past life - and the Karmapa controversy

• Dr. Ian Stevenson, MD, American academic and scientific rebirth/reincarnation researcher, founder and director of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, professor and a founder of the Society for Scientific Exploration
• Lei's Looking Glass, Nov. 20, 2025, Nov. 5, 2025; CC Liu, Crystal Q., Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What is consciousness? Comatose are aware

Sam Jones, Washington Post, 11/2023; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Trapped in a body that's out of its mind.

Some brain injury patients may appear to be in a coma, but they are not. They are processing at least some of what is happening around them but cannot physically respond.

Without a physical response, a physician might assume that a patient hasn’t understood, said Dr. Sudhin Shah, a neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. Referring to the patient, she said, “Unfortunately, it could be that you were processing, you were understanding, you were wanting to talk to me. You just can’t.” More: Some coma patients may be conscious. and new research could identify them.

• Am I conscious? I feel unconscious because I can’t picture things in my mind. I didn’t realize that was unusual. Others can or are they just imagining it?
• Signs one is a 'highly sensitive person' — the missing personality type, according to some researchers

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