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Volume 10: Number 4: Article 2
Cases of the Reincarnation Type: An Evaluation of Some Indirect Evidence with Examples of "Silent" Cases
Jürgen Keil, Psychology Department, University of Tasmania,
Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia
In a published summary of recent studies of cases of the reincarnation
type, I suggested that paranormal processes may be involved. The counter
hypothesis which requires the most detailed analysis before it can be
rejected is the one which states that significant information transfers
— apart from occasional deceptions and chance correspondences — are
entirely due to unintentional normal processes about which the families
involved are not aware. Such a normal information transfer is most likely
when the subject and the previous personality are members of the same
family (or village) or when the subject's parents expect the subject
to be a rebirth case. Some subjects in this category, however, never
speak about a previous life. This and other related findings support
the suggestion that the counter hypothesis above is not an adequate
rejection of a paranormality hypothesis in connection with cases of
the reincarnation type.
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