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Volume 15: Number 2: Article 5
Cases of the Reincarnation Type in South India: Why So Few Reports?
Satwant K. Pasricha, Department of Clinical Psychology, National
Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore 560
029, India
Nearly 450 cases of children who claim to remember a previous life
have been professionally investigated in India. With one exception,
all published reports of such cases have hitherto involved children
in North India, which raises the questions of whether there are similar
cases in South India and whether they are underreported. This paper
presents features of seven additional cases in South India. The cases
were investigated primarily by means of interviews with firsthand informants
for the subject's side of a case and for that of the concerned deceased
person, if such a person has been identified.
The cases of South India show features similar to those of North Indian
cases. The belief in reincarnation is held as strongly in South India
as it is in North India, yet there is a marked disparity in terms of
the ease with which cases can be found in the North compared to the
South. Cases in the South may be underreported, but there is some indication
that they may actually be less frequent, and the paper draws attention
to this anomaly.
Keywords: reincarnation, unusual behavior, South India
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Cases of the Reincarnation Type in South India: Why So Few Reports?
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