Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal: Survival After Death: Dr. Stevenson on rebirth

Friday, December 22, 2023

Survival After Death: Dr. Stevenson on rebirth

ArtNetworkTV, May 27, 2018; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Cycling through Buddhism's 31 Planes of Existence, simplified to six more general realms

Reincarnation research movie: Survival After Death

(ArtNetworkTV) This is an excellent science film from 1980s, a 40-minute documentary about rebirth research. It features American Prof. Ian Stevenson of the University of Virigina the 14th Dalai Lama, a rinpoche (high lama) reborn, Native American reincarnation traditions, children born with past life recall.

Now I've already been reborn.

The late Dr. Ian Stevenson was a pioneer in scientific research on reincarnation (which should really be called rebirth as it is not an eternal soul again and again taking on flesh as it seems).

The film is summarized in Science, the Self, and Survival after Death: Selected Writings of Ian Stevenson (rowman.com) by his colleague, Emily Williams Kelly:

Ian Stevenson was a prominent and internationally known psychiatrist, researcher, prolific author, and well-regarded figure in the field of psychical research. Science, the Self, and Survival after Death: Selected Writings of Ian Stevenson is the first book devoted to surveying the entirety of his work and the extraordinary scope and variety of his research.

He studied universal questions that cut to the core of a person's identity: What is consciousness? How did we become the unique individuals that we are? Do we survive in some form after death? Stevenson's writings on the nature of science and the mind-body relationship, as well as his empirical research, demonstrate his strongly held belief that the methods of science can be applied successfully to such humanly vital questions.

Researcher Eben Alexander continues this work

Featuring a selection of his papers and excerpts from his books, this collection presents the larger context of Stevenson's work and illustrates the issues and questions that guided him throughout his career.

Our esteemed colleague, Emily Williams Kelly, is the editor of this collection of Dr. Stevenson's writing. He founded The Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) at the Department of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, VA. (medicine.virginia.edu/clin...)

A presentation of him is here: • Scientific Reincarnation Evidence by... An evaluation of his rebirth research is here: Reincarnation Evidence in Ian Stevenson's Research by Robert Almeder •

Follow up on this ground-breaking reincarnation research is done by Dr. Jim Tucker: • Reincarnation research by Ian Stevenson... • Scientific Evidence of Rebirth by Dr. Stevenson

Selected Ian Stevenson Bibliography

(1974). Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation (second revised and enlarged edition). University of Virginia Press.
(1974). Xenoglossy: A Review and Report of A Case. University of Virginia Press.
(1975). Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Vol. I: Ten Cases in India. University of Virginia Press.
(1978). Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Vol. II: Ten Cases in Sri Lanka. University of Virginia Press.
(1980). Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Vol. III: Twelve Cases in Lebanon and Turkey. University of Virginia Press.
(1983). Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Vol. IV: Twelve Cases in Thailand and Burma. University of Virginia Press.
(1984). Unlearned Language: New Studies in Xenoglossy. University of Virginia Press.
(1997). Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects. Volume 1: Birthmarks. Volume 2: Birth Defects and Other Anomalies. Praeger Publishers.
(1997). Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect. Praeger Publishers (a short, non-technical version of Reincarnation and Biology).
(2000). Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation (revised edition).
(2003). European Cases of the Reincarnation Type. McFarland & Company.

Rebirth from an Early Buddhist perspective: