REBIRTH – THE PROOFS
SOME CHAPTERS OUT OF THE GERMAN BOOK
REBIRTH – THE PROOFS
BY TRUTZ HARDO
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THE BOY WHO ONCE AGAIN LIVES WITH HIS WIFE FROM THE PAST
I wish to begin with a story which Tag Powell, an American friend, leader of seminars and publisher of various books and tapes confided in me during a book fair in Frankfurt.
“Do you know something Tom?” (This is what my friends call me).”I can tell you about a case of reincarnation that is so extraordinary that it could surely turn every sceptic into a dedicated follower of reincarnation. Even so, I am not inclined to give away the names of the respective couple and their son. I am sure you know this couple, at least by name, since he is a famous author, and he and his wife run seminars in the whole of America.” I would have loved to know the name of this couple, but I was not going to encourage Tag to break his promise to them. Even so I asked, “Does he run courses on spiritual themes like Reincarnation, Astrology or...?” “No, no!” Interrupted Tag, “he’s a bloody scientist and one of his books has become a national best seller. He is owner of many patents. His wife is also a scientist and an author.”
The couple in question had a son whom I shall call Michael. When he was a baby he desperately wanted to hold his father’s Rolex watch in his hands. He kept reaching for it again and again. As soon as he could speak his first words, he pointed to the watch and said, “Mine!” One day, when his parents called him by his name, he pointed to himself and said, “Sunny.” He insisted so long and so forcefully on being called Sunny that his parents soon gave in and agreed to his wishes. A few months later the young nipper said, “Me Sunny Ray.”
His mother was immediately taken by this name, which after all meant sunray. So from now on she called him My Little Sunray. One day he told them that he had a wife whose name was Dawn, and that they had both lived in Texas. In his present parent’s house they mainly listened to classical music. When the radio played a Country and Western song Michael would sing along, and to their amazement he even seemed to know the words. One day Michael was looking at a book about dogs with his mother. All of a sudden he pointed to a white spaniel and called out excitedly, “That’s my dog Willie!” His parents never seemed to seriously consider that their son could be talking about something from a previous life.
Some time later when the boy was seven years old, the couple was running a seminar in Texas. One of the people taking part was Dawn Ray. During a break Michael’s father started a conversation with the woman, and asked her whether she was married. She said no and told him, “I have been a widow for eight years.” “What was your husband’s first name?” “Sunny”, she replied. The couple then looked at each other in amazement. Then he asked the woman whether she would please come to their hotel after the seminar because they had something important to tell her. When she got there they told her that they have a son who claims to have been married to someone called Dawn Ray from Texas in a previous life. “Did you own a white spaniel?” asked Michael’s mother. “Oh yes, that was our Willie. He and Sunny were inseparable!” Mrs. Ray now was determined to get to know Michael. Michael’s parents phoned home to arrange a flight for him and two days later the seven-year-old was able to fly out to be with them. They did not tell their son over the phone why it was so important for him to come to Texas so suddenly. After collecting him from the airport they took him straight away to Mrs. Ray’s house. When she opened the door, the boy recognised her immediately and called out excitedly, “Dawn!” He stretched out his hands and ran into the arms of the dazed Mrs. Ray, hugged her and gave her a big kiss on the cheek.
Finally everyone sat down in the living room. Mrs. Ray, who was still sceptical, asked Michael whether he knew this house. He did not recognise it. On hearing that, she explained that she only moved into this house two years after the death of Sunny. Then Michael asked her whether she had kept his guitar. Mrs. Ray was highly amazed at this question. She went to a cupboard and took out a guitar and placed it into the outstretched hands of the little man. Michael held the instrument like a competent guitar player. After a couple of tries, even though the fret board was not the right size for a seven-year-old, he began to play and sing a well-known folk song. This especially amazed his parents, since to their knowledge their son had never played the guitar. But then he asked Mrs. Ray, whom he now only called Dawn, whether she also kept his watch for him. She fetched a box in which the watch was kept. It was a Rolex identical to the one his father was wearing. Then he asked her for his camera. His parents first wanted to know exactly what it looked like. When he had described it, Dawn fetched it and it perfectly matched his description. Also his pipe, which he wanted to see, had first to be described by him.
Tag closed his reports with the comment, “I would have loved to have been witness to that evening.” “Me too,” I agreed. “Gosh Tag! That’s really an incredible story!” “The best bit is yet to come,” he continued. “Dawn sold her house and moved in with the family in California. She looked after Michael, since his parents were often away travelling. When she moved to New York Michael missed her so much that even though he was only fourteen-years-old his parents agreed to let him live in New York with her. They have lived together ever since.” “If these events were really like you say or even close to it, then this is a real classic!” I said. “Honest to God, this is a true story.”
Dear readers, my jaw dropped in amazement when I heard this story. Perhaps it was the same for you. One more word for our dear sceptics who are in no way inclined to believe in reincarnation, but who still read this report, you still have the chance to put this book down. For if you do not you may find yourselves having to agree that maybe there really is some truth in it. To the rest of my readers I would now like to report on some more unquestionable cases.
BIRTH DEFORMITIES AND BIRTHMARKS AS EVIDENCE OF REINCARNATION
Ian Stevenson, the Copernicus of a New World Vision
I would now like to tell you about something that is equal in importance to the discoveries of Copernicus. In the 16th Century this man unequivocally established that the earth moves around the sun, contrary to the Christian belief that the sun, the planets and the stars all rotate around the earth. This discovery had the effect of changing the whole world concept, even though the Counter Reformation tried to reverse it. This change also heralded the beginning of a new scientifically based concept of the world where only that which could be proven to be true by technical and scientific means was considered valid. Belief and intuitive knowing were no longer taken seriously.
The intellect, now the symbol of the scientific world, has driven out the belief in the beyond, in wonder, the belief in anything spiritual and even in God and godliness itself. Visions of life after death, the possibility of contact with the dead or even the return of someone in another body - namely reincarnation - didn’t fit the scientific concept of the world. These are all things that were not possible to prove with technical gadgetry used as an extension of intelligence. Where there was no proof there was also no truth. The representatives of the scientific world who are still in control of the way people think in the western world at the end of the twentieth-century, see those who still believe in old or very new truths as not in their right minds. In their eyes people who believe in life after death or even reincarnation are to be pitied. They are obviously unable to think rightly and are clinging to wishful thinking or are evading the truth. This is why the so-called evidence in favour of reincarnation was declared false. This included evidence based on children’s statements who remembered their past lives as well as evidence retrieved during regression by means of trance techniques.
Those who wave the banner of the scientific worldview are not moved in the slightest by the most convincing evidence. Whatever they are unable to prove by scientific means has no validity and is not to be taken seriously. In their view it should be either ignored or opposed. There is a whole army of such scientists who grew up with this scientific concept of the world and completely paid homage to it at the beginning of their careers. Many scientists, because of their continued interest and dedicated research into reincarnation, have come to an understanding based on the new evidence available. These new insights simply did not fit their existing concepts of life and to admit to the truth of this took great courage.
One of these brave scientists is the Canadian psychiatrist Professor Dr. Ian Stevenson, who out of curiosity, got to grips with the possibility of reincarnation in 1960. He heard of a case in Sri Lanka where a child claimed to remember a past life. After having gone there and thoroughly questioned the child’s parents, the child and the people who the child claimed were its parents from the past, he was convinced that the possibility of the reality of reincarnation may be valid. He was well aware that in seeing only one case there was still the possibility of coincidence. He could only prove the rebirth of a child claiming to remember a past life scientifically, if he had evidence of many such cases that were either very similar or totally different. This would require a vast amount of work not only behind the desk where the threads of evidence would be linked and scientific reports compiled, but also by travelling all over the world wherever a case showed up. Such an undertaking would be a life’s work that would involve the work of other scientific assistants as time went by. Amateur practices would not be allowed to creep into this investigation.
The more cases he pursued, the greater became his drive to scientifically solve more about this new territory within the many world’s mysteries, which until now have been excluded from scientific observation. Nonetheless be believed he could approach it with scientific means and eventually present us with hard evidence and solutions.
In 1960 he published two articles in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, about children who remembered past lives. Parapsychologists and medics open to his explanations encouraged him to continue to apply himself to this new area of research. It was only in 1974 that Dr. Stevenson published his book, Twenty cases suggestive of reincarnation. Dr. Stevenson became well known wherever this book appeared by those people who already had an interest in this subject. They were pleased to be presented with such fundamental research into reincarnation from a scientific source. When writing about various cases Stevenson is extremely careful not to jump to conclusions about the truth of reincarnation. He calls these cases which have been researched ‘suggestive’ of reincarnation, meaning that they have not as yet been proven. If in the past he had written about it with total conviction he could well have lost his teaching post at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, USA. He did not want to commit himself to making such a claim as yet, because it was very clear to him that during the course of his scientific research many related questions would arise which he first hoped to follow up in greater depth. He published his research in the scientific newspapers for the scientific community to examine.
In 1987 he published his second book entitled, Children who remember past lives. Of this he says, “This book is written for the ordinary man in the street.”29 Meanwhile, the interest in reincarnation among the people had risen dramatically. Thousands of Americans attended regression seminars or one to one regressions in which they hoped to follow up their own past life experiences. The television reported many interesting cases relating to this subject. People wanted to know more about reincarnation, especially from an expert such as Stevenson who keeps himself well concealed behind his scientific image. In this book which marks a milestone in research into reincarnation he presents the reader with the most interesting cases he has researched in a simple and down-to-earth manner. He has already published some of these cases in specialist papers. This book and his articles were merely by-products of his main life’s work on which he had been working for a long time, and which he hoped to complete before he died and before he will discover after death the whole truth which while living on earth is hidden from us due to our somewhat limited vision.
THE BOOK THAT WILL CHANGE OUR WAY OF THINKING
The great scientist Professor Dr. Ian Stevenson published his life’s work, which was published in the autumn of 1997. It is in two volumes with a total of 2268 pages. Its title is Reincarnation and Biology - A contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects. This monumental piece of work contains hundreds of pictures. In the first volume he mainly describes birthmarks, those distinguishing marks on the skin which the new-born baby brings into the world that cannot be put down to inheritance. In his second volume Stevenson mainly focuses on deformities and other anomalies which children are born with, which cannot be traced back to inheritance, prenatal or perinatal (created during birth) occurrences. I will give you a couple of examples from his second volume since we have been confronted with children’s birthmarks on many occasions in the first part of this book.
When I encountered Professor Stevenson’s extensive book for the first time in 1997 I could not put it down. I am convinced that this book will completely change our way of thinking. We will no longer view reincarnation as a hypothesis but as a reality. What this could mean for all of us I will go into in greater detail at the end of this book. Stevenson wrote his book as a scientific thesis so that the scientifically minded could study it and possibly accept it. You, dear readers, will perhaps say regretfully that this is precisely the reason that this material will not be so accessible to you. I wish to thank Dr. Stevenson for considering the ‘man in the street’ by publishing an easy to understand condensed version of his book, (i.e. one-tenth of his entire two-volume thesis). This he embellished with several important photographs and is called, Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect . This book is likely to spread like wildfire throughout America on it’s way to becoming a best seller. Every critic, journalist or spiritually minded person who speaks of reincarnation will need to read this book in order to sound plausible, and be able to keep up with conversations on the subject.
During his original research into various cases involving children’s memories of past lives, Stevenson enthusiastically brought to our attention the fact that these children frequently bore birthmarks which most likely related to their murder or the death they suffered in a previous life. At the time he was unaware of the fact that an in-depth study of these occurrences would be the final proof of reincarnation. The above mentioned research into birthmarks and congenital defects are more vital in establishing proof of reincarnation than children’s accounts, including all the factual evidence - such as the case of Shanti Devi has shown us - for it gives us objective and illustrative evidence that fits in with the rather fragmented memories of the children and adults questioned. In many cases there are also medical documents available as further proof, which are usually compiled after the death of the person. Professor Stevenson adds that in the so called ‘solved cases’ he researched and in which birthmarks and deformities were present, he could see no other explanation other than that of reincarnation.30 Only 30% - 60% of these deformities can be put down to birth defects which related to genetic factors, virus infections or chemical causes. (I.e. like those found in children damaged by the drug Contergan or alcohol). Apart from these obvious causes, the medical profession has no other explanation for the other 40% to 70% of cases than that of mere chance. Stevenson has now succeeded in giving us an explanation of why a person is born with these deformities and why they appear precisely in that part of their body and not in another.
According to Stevenson, birthmarks and congenital deformities for which no medical explanations exist can be directly linked with reincarnation. These can also be the result of how the person met his death in a previous life. There are at least five possible connections that all these cases have in common. Firstly, and the most unusual scenario, it is possible that someone who believed in reincarnation expressed a wish to be reborn to a couple or a previous partner. This is usually because they are convinced that they would be well cared for by those particular people. Such wishes are often expressed by the Tlingit Indians of Alaska and by the Tibetans. Secondly, and more frequent than this are the occurrences of prophetic dreams. Someone who has died appears to a pregnant or not as yet pregnant woman and tells her that he or she will be reborn to her. Sometimes relatives or friends have dreams like this and will then relate the dream to the mother to be. Stevenson found these prophetic dreams to be particularly prolific in Burma and among the Indians in Alaska. Thirdly, in these cultures the parents or someone experienced in this immediately check the body of a new-born child for recognisable marks to establish whether the deceased person they had once known has been reborn to them. This searching for marks of identification is very common among cultures that believe in reincarnation, and especially among the Tlingit Indians and the Igbos of Nigeria. I know that various tribes of West Africa make marks on the body of the recently deceased in order to be able to identify the person when he or she is reborn.
The most frequently occurring event relating to rebirth is a child remembering a past life. Children usually begin to talk about their memories between the ages of two and four. Such memories gradually dwindle when the child is between five and eight years old. There are of course always some exceptions, such as a child continuing to remember it’s previous life but not speaking about it very often for various reasons. Most of the children talk about their previous identity with great intensity and feeling. Often they cannot decide for themselves which world is real and which one is not. They often experience a kind of double existence where at times one life is more prominent, and at times the other life takes over. This is why they usually speak of their past life in the present tense saying things like, “I have a husband and two children who live in Jaipur.” Almost all of them are able to tell us about the events leading up to their death.
Children tend to talk about their previous parents rather than their present ones, and usually express a wish to return to them. When the previous family has been found and details about the person in that past life had been verified, then the fifth common denominator reveals itself. This is the noticeably unusual behaviour of the child. For instance, if the child is born in India to a very low class family and was a member of a higher caste in its previous life, it may feel uncomfortable in its new family. The child may ask to be served or waited on hand and foot and may refuse to wear cheap clothes. Stevenson gives us many examples of all these unusual behaviour patterns. In 35% of cases he investigated children who died an unnatural death developed phobias. For example, if they had drowned in a past life then they frequently developed a phobia about going out of their depth in water. If they had been shot, they were often afraid of guns and loud bangs. If they died in a road accident they would sometimes develop a phobia of travelling in cars, buses or lorries. Such reasons for phobias are often revealed during regression therapy and can be swiftly dealt with and overcome. In my experience it is often the case that such phobias could become acute at exactly the time in the person’s life at which the accident had occurred in their previous life. As you can see there is much work to be done in researching actual past causes that now affect present day lives. This is only the beginning, a hundred years from now many thousands of specialist books will have been written on the subject. They will give us a much clearer picture of which conditions relating to past lives trigger which phobia, at what age, of what intensity and under which conditions.
Another frequently observed unusual form of behaviour Stevenson called Philias concerns children who express the wish to eat different kinds of food or to wear different clothes to those of their culture. If a child had developed an alcohol, tobacco or drug addiction as an adult in a previous incarnation he may express a need for these substances and develop cravings at an early age. This confronts us with the question of whether many of today’s addicts were already addicts in a previous life and are they merely continuing this habit in the present? Regression therapy could often give them relevant information and support. Many of these children with past life memories show talents that they had in their previous lives. Often children who were members of the opposite sex in their previous life show difficulty in adjusting to the new sex. These problems relating to the ‘sex change’ can lead to homosexuality later on in their lives. They may wish to dress as girls or prefer to play with girls rather than boys. Until now all these human oddities have been a mystery to the psychiatrists. We can no longer blame the parents for their children’s behaviour. At long last research into reincarnation is shedding some light on the subject. In the past doctors blamed such peculiarities on a lack of certain hormones, now they will have to think again.
Children that died when they were adults in their previous life and are able to remember this often behave like adults in many ways. When playing with siblings or friends they automatically slot into the role of an adult. Difficulties sometimes arise if a child is reborn to a woman who used to be her daughter in a past life, for then the child usually does not want to listen to anything her previous daughter wants to tell her. Behaviour like this can of course also be found among children in general whether they remember their past lives or not.
As you can well imagine dear readers, many answers to questions are being made available to us through the extensive research into reincarnation. This work is of enormous importance to the whole of mankind. Stevenson, who acts as a representative for the scientists, is suddenly bringing many new recently discovered connections to our attention. Scientists and psychiatrists have been aware of the existence of reincarnation and regression therapy for some time now, and have been showing an interest in these issues. The fact that scientists, such as the meticulous Stevenson are showing an interest in these matters is sensational news. Stevenson came to the conclusion that in cases where children’s memories of past lives and previous families cannot be explained by cryptomnesia, thought-transferral, possession or impressions received through the mother, reincarnation offers the only feasible explanation.
So far we have been focusing a great deal on Prof. Stevenson, the Copernicus of our times, so now it is time to turn our attention to some cases in which reincarnation offers the only explanation. Stevenson describes these in his extensive book, Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect. You can find the relevant illustrations to the examples I am about to present to you in his book, which will hopefully give you a more complete picture.
THE GIRL WHO WAS MURDERED WHEN SHE WAS A MAN IN A PAST LIFE
In May 1973 a girl named Ma Hatwe Win was born in the village of Kyar-Kan not far from the town of Meiktila (pronounced Myanmar) in northern Burma. The little finger on her left hand was missing, and her left thigh and her right ankle just above the joint had indented creases all the way round. These can clearly be seen in picture 29 of the above-mentioned book. Similar indentations were found at the base of the fingers of her left hand. There were also birthmarks on her chest just above her heart and on her head.
When her mother was three months pregnant she had a terrible dream. She dreamt a man crawling on all fours, whose legs appeared to have been amputated from the knees down, was following her. He followed her into her house. She ran outside but he continued to follow her, even though she begged him not to. She woke up, but when she finally got back to sleep she again dreamt of the man with the amputated legs following her, and woke up very frightened.
When Ma Htwe Win was two years old she showed her grandfather her legs saying, "Look how cruel they have been to me Granddad." When he asked her who had been so cruel to her, she told him that this had happened when she had been a man called Nga Than. She said that three men called Than Doke, Nga Maung and Chan Paw had killed her. When the girl's parents returned from the fields the grandfather told them about what their daughter had said. As time went by the girl was able to recall more and more details about her own previous death. She told her parents that she remembers being a man, and standing face to face with three men wielding sabres. He had defended himself as well as he could until his sabre had become stuck in a wall. Then the attackers had stabbed him, chopped off several of his fingers and hit him over the head.
Lying on the ground his attackers must have taken him for dead, but he could still hear them discussing how they could best hide his body. They decided to make his body as small as possible so as to fit it into a medium-sized sack. His legs had been bent up behind his back and his ankles tied together with rope. They put him in the sack and threw him into a dried up well.
Another time the girl told her parents that Nga Than’s wife had had an affair with his friend Than Doke, which was why the two men had fallen out with each other. Nga Than had owned a grocer's shop and Than Doke was one of three business partners who had been his murderers. It was later discovered that Nga Than’s wife had wanted to be free of her husband and had hired the three men to murder him. When she had been questioned about the disappearance of her husband, she had told the police that he had moved south. This kind of separation was a common occurrence so they suspected no foul play. The deserted wife now married Than Doke.
One day when he was drunk he had an argument with his wife, and was over heard telling her exactly how he had killed her previous husband and where the body had been hidden. The police were informed and on searching the dried up well found the body. Both the woman and the men responsible for the murder were arrested, but were later released due to lack of evidence.
What is interesting is that a pregnant woman was passing the well as the police were retrieving the murdered victim's body. It was during the night after this experience that the woman had the dreams about the man following her. She had perceived him with parts of his legs missing because they had been tied up behind his back. Ma Htwe Win remembered watching her body being pulled out of the well while hovering over the scene as a spirit being still connected to the earth. She had then seen the pregnant woman among the crowd of inquisitive onlookers and had chosen her as her future mother.
Apparently Ma Htwe Win parents’ had not let on to anyone who their daughter really was. One-day, at their daughter’s request, they took her to the cafe run by the wife of the murdered man. When a boy not much older than Ma Htwe Win came into the café, she immediately recognised him as her son. (Do you remember Shanti Devi’s meeting with her son?) This boy asked his mother for some money. Before she had the chance to give it to him, Ma Htwe Win had already asked her own mother for some money and had given it to the boy. After this the two children had held hands and cried. Suddenly the girl begged her parents to leave the café as quickly as possible because Doke was coming. Once outside her father asked her who Doke was. The girl told him that he was the man who had murdered her.
Ma Htwe Win felt more drawn to boys than girls and preferred wearing boys’ clothes, but her mother soon put a stop to this. Even so, when Stevenson went to visit her in order to find out more details, she sat opposite him wearing shorts, which was seen as improper for girls in Burma. She was embarrassed about her legs and vowed to take revenge on her murderers one day. When Stevenson suggested that it wasn't very lady like to carry out this threat, she said that nonetheless she intended to find a way of revenging herself. The deformed part of her legs matched the areas on the corpse where the man’s legs had been tightly bound with rope. The left little finger was also missing on both the girl and the murder victim. After reading about this case, can anyone still doubt this evidence for reincarnation? But now we shall move onto the next case.
LOST A LEG IN A TRAIN ACCIDENT - LATER REBORN WITHOUT A LEG
Tatkon is a fairly small town in Burma (Mayamar) which is situated directly on the main Rangoon (Yangon) to Mandalay railway line. Most of the trains stop at this station and many locals, most of them women and children, use this opportunity to sell water, fruit, various foods and other things to the passengers through the open windows. They usually stand on the platform or on the central rail track. Two women Daw Than Kyi and the slightly younger Daw Ngwe Kyi were good friends. Both of them sold water to the passengers. The former woman had a sixteen-year-old daughter who on August 19th.1966 was selling red roses from the central track, which ran between the two lines bordering the platforms. This girl was called Ma Thein New, and due to her dark skin colour she had given herself the nickname Kalamagyi. Her mother was also there working from one of the platforms.
On that particular day the points man was unable to shift the rails for the oncoming train because they had become jammed, so the train continued along the central rail instead of running along the track alongside the platform as usual. Kalamagyi was standing on the central track oblivious to any danger, since she knew from experience that the incoming train would switch to the other track on its way in. The man operating the points saw her and shouted to her to get off the track, but it was too late and the train hit her. When the train stopped, the lower part of her right leg was found several metres away from the rest of her body, which had to be retrieved in parts from under the wheels. Her parents later buried the pieces in the family grave.
Shortly after this a friend of Kalamagyi’s mother had a dream in which she saw Kalamagyi standing before her completely healed saying, “I will come back to be with you.” In the dream the woman answered, “How could you come to me? You were run down by a train!” Not long after she again dreamt of Kalamagyi who now begged to be granted the wish to be reborn as her daughter. Finally the woman agreed and told several neighbours about the dreams, which had occurred about two months before she became pregnant. Kalamagyi also appeared to her former mother in a dream and told her that she owed a certain woman some money. Another woman whom she mentioned in the dream also owed Kalamagyi money that her mother was to ask for. When she went to the woman to discuss this outstanding debt, the woman said that Kalamagyi had already appeared to her to remind her of this.
On July 26th.1967 Mrs. Daw Ngwe Kyi gave birth to a girl who was given the name Ma Khin Mar Htoo. The lower part of her right leg was missing. (See picture 25 in the relevant book). Her hands too had deformities, her left thumb was a mere stump. The mother knew immediately that this girl was Kalamagyi who had appeared in the dream asking to be reborn as her daughter. Even in her early years she began to call herself Kalamagyi. When she was three she told her uncle that this was her name and that a train at the station had killed her. She also told a relative the name of her previous father. One of her aunts wanted to test just how much she would remember of her previous life by reminding her of the roses she had given her to sell from Kalamagyi’s mother’s field on the day of the accident. The little girl then corrected her telling her where the roses had really come from. This was correct as her aunt then confirmed. When the three-year-old accompanied her mother to the train station, she saw her previous mother among the saleswomen and called out to her, ”Mother!”
This woman then took the little girl, who hopped on one leg or crawled on all fours, home and showed her some family photographs. The little girl called each person portrayed by name, even using nicknames that she had given them when she was Kalamagyi. At another meeting she recognised her uncle and a brother from her past. She addressed them both with their correct names. Since both families knew each other and her old family totally accepted her as the fatally injured Kalamagyi, she spent much time with them. Her two houses were only 350 metres apart. When she was about four years old she expressed a wish to go and visit her father from her past life who now lived in a different part of the town. When she was taken there she immediately recognised him and wanted to hug him and sit on his lap.
As time went by, the one legged girl could even recall what it had been like after her death. Apparently she had been trapped at the scene of her accident for some time, but had also been witness to her body parts being buried at her funeral. She insisted that one of her legs had not been accounted for. The truth of this matter could not be proven. When asked at which point in time she had decided to be born to her present mother, she answered, ”I already knew her very well and had often watched her selling water, and one day I followed her home.”
Ma Khin Mar Htoo had a great fear of trains as a child, even just going near railway lines frightened her. Another peculiarity she had in common with Kalamagyi was that she refused to eat pork. When Stevenson visited the thirteen-year-old in 1980, she was walking on crutches. She confided in him that she still had the wish to live with her past family. When asked how she explains the fact of her deformities and her left thumb missing she replied, ”I lost these a long time ago when the wheels of a train rolled over me.” Her memories of being Kalamagyi were still relatively clear. When Stevenson again visited her four years later she only had vague memories of her former life. Meanwhile she had been fitted with an artificial limb that enabled her to move around freely.
Is it not strange how such impaired limbs or even limb amputations can imprint themselves on the body of a person when reborn? What as yet undiscovered laws are behind all this? Who or what decides why a reincarnated person must return to this world with such marks of recognition, whilst another person, after having died a gruesome death with the loss of limbs is born with a perfect body? Are these laws also governed by karma? We are not aware of the true reasons as yet, but we are beginning to collect evidence and to carry out comparisons. Theories will no doubt follow these discoveries and facts, and one-day we will discover the law that governs the fate of those who return to earth with birthmarks or deformities. Let us now turn our attention to another most informative case which Stevenson’s colleague Resat Bayer investigated in 1966. Stevenson himself went to Turkey a year later in order to further research this case.
SHOT ACCIDENTALLY BY HIS NEIGHBOUR
On May 9th 1958 Selim Fesli, a 47 years old Turk, had been working in his field bordering his neighbour’s vineyard. His neighbour was called Isa Dirbekli. In the early evening Selim frequently rode home to his village Hatun Koy on his donkey. Imagine how surprised his family were when the donkey arrived home without his master on its back. Something was wrong. They hurried to where he had been working and found Selim on the ground. He was in pain and his face was covered in blood from a gunshot wound. He was still breathing and able to react to them, but could not speak. They tried to get him to say who had shot him but he could utter no name. He seemed to indicate that it was someone from the village. The police only arrived at the scene of the crime hours later, and then finally a taxi took him to the hospital in the neighbouring village of Iskenderum in southeast Turkey. He died six days later. He had been unable to give them the name of his murderer.
The police arrested two suspects, one of which was his neighbour Isa Dirbekli. He admitted to having accidentally shot his friend while out hunting with his shotgun. He had seen something moving in the grass, thought it was a rabbit and had pulled the trigger. When he heard screams he had hurried over to see what had happened. Selim had been lying on the ground taking a nap when Isa shot him in the ear. There was blood flowing from his ear and parts of his face. Isa Dirbekli had panicked and left the scene of the crime as fast as he could. When asked why he had not helped Selim or at least called for help he said that he had been afraid of the revenge of Selim’s sons. The judges later accepted the fact that it had been a sad accident and found Isa’s story so believable that he was only sentenced to two years in prison. The victim’s sons also seemed to see their father’s death as an unfortunate accident, and therefore backed away from taking any revengeful action. Even so, Selim’s father was convinced that this shooting had been no accident. Even though Isa was his friend and neighbour he knew that his son had been in conflict with him at that time. The autopsy report, which was handed to Dr. Stevenson in order to give him greater insight into this case, stated that six holes were found in the area of the right side of his face and right ear. After opening the skull they determined that shotgun pellets had entered his brain.
Two kilometres from Hatun Koy is the village of Sarkonak. It was there in 1958 that Mrs. Karanfil Tutusmus was in her late pregnancy awaiting the birth of her second child. Two days before the birth of her son, whose name was to be Semih, she had a dream. In this dream she saw a man enter her room. She asked him why he had come and told him to leave since her husband was presently in Ankara. He told her that his name was Selim Fesli and that he had been shot in the ear. When Mrs. Tutusmus awoke she remembered that a man with this name from the neighbouring village had recently been accidentally killed. When her husband returned she told him about this dream. Her husband Ali Tutusmus, the owner of a vegetable stall, had known the recently deceased man very well and could accurately describe him to her.
Semih was born with a right ear that was small and deformed, (see picture 28 in the book). At the early age of one and a half he did not want to be called Semih, insisting that his real name was Selim. He even used his old surname, Fesli, which was exactly the name the man had used in Mrs. Tutusmus’ dream shortly before Semih’s birth. As time went by Semih revealed to his mother that Isa Dirbekli had murdered him, intentionally shooting him in the ear. At the age of four he walked the two kilometres to the neighbouring village of Hatun Koy on his own and went into his former wife’s house and told her, “I am Selim, you are my wife Katibe.” He could describe many incidents in great detail from their former lives together. Semih saw a basket woven out of reeds and said, “I bought you this basket, and you still keep it where I first put it.”This comment convinced Mrs. Katibe that he really was her deceased husband Selim. Later he saw his daughter and sons from his past and called them by their correct names.
From then on Semih often went to Hatun Koy alone, even though he had been forbidden to do so and often got beaten for it. He could not resist the urge to return to his previous home and village and to his former family who welcomed him with open arms. One day he met a man who had heard that he apparently was the deceased Selim and asked him, “Do you know who I am?” The little chap answered immediately, “I know you very well. You are Ali Battihi.” He had been Selim’s former neighbour.
Sometimes he would go to Hatun Koy five or six times a week. It made no difference to him that his children from his previous life were all much older than he was; he treated them as if he was their father often meddling in their family affairs. Since they all seemed convinced that he was their deceased father they let him be. When Taju, Selim’s second son got married, Semih had not been invited to the wedding. He felt so insulted that he stopped visiting his former family for two months. In order to rectify this mistake, he was invited to the engagement party of Hassan, Selim’s youngest son. Semih asked his father for some money to give to his son for his engagement. His father had long accepted the fact that his son also belonged to another family and gave him the money. When Hassan was married a year later, Semih’s father gave him an even larger sum of money for the bridegroom.
When Semih was eight years old Mrs. Katibe Fesli wanted to remarry. When Semih heard of this, he went straight to Hatun Koy to have a talk with the man who was trying to win his wife, and threatened to kill him if he tried to marry her. To Katibe he said reproachfully, “How dare you attempt to marry another man as well as me!” Katibe then told the boy that she had no intention of remarrying. Three years later Katibe died. When Semih heard of this he went straight to Hatun Koy. The twelve-year-old boy was so shaken by this that he arrived in tears. Neighbours later commented on the fact that Semih seemed to mourn the death of Katibe more than her own sons did. An aunt later found Semih at Katibe’s grave where he sat and cried for a long time. She also claimed to have seen him lying unconscious by the grave one day, and in order to bring him around had poured a bucket of water over him.
Isa Dirbekli turned his hand to a new profession after being released from prison. He now sold Raki-Schnapps, which he carried around with him in bottles. When the eight-year-old Semih saw Isa he picked up some stones and threw them at him, smashing one of his bottles. Whenever he saw Isa after that he always picked up stones and threw them at the street trader, saying that one-day when he was grown up he would seek revenge. Semih had not forgotten the events from the past. He had been in conflict with his friend and neighbour Isa about occasionally letting his donkey stray into his vineyard. While Selim was lying down for a short nap, Isa had once again found the donkey in his vineyard. He had grabbed his gun and in anger had fired a round at the sleeping man. Then he had opened the man’s bleeding mouth and spat into it. In his superstitious beliefs this meant that the dead or injured person could no longer give away any information about his aggressor, and as we know, this is what happened. Stevenson later met up with Isa and asked him about the truth of Selim’s death. He denied having killed him intentionally and finally admitted that he feared Semih’s revenge.
At the age of eighteen when Semih was doing his military service he was given an artificial ear, which at first glance was not recognisable as such. Stevenson’s Turkish partner, Resat Bayer, took it upon himself to attempt to free Semih of his feelings of revenge by presenting him with this likely scenario: if he was to kill Isa, Isa could be reborn and then likewise take revenge on him. This scenario could then continue indefinitely from one life to the next. Having seen the likely-hood of this Semih changed his attitude towards his murderer, even though as he later admitted he still felt the urge to throw stones every time he saw him.
Stevenson presents us with many similar examples in his extensive book. He reports on those reborn with birthmarks or birth deformities relating to past lives, and on those remembering their previous lives at an early age. Some of these children remember the circumstances in past lives, which led to the scars or the loss of certain limbs in their present life. These examples are clearly illustrated with various photographs. Now I wish to tell you of the latest discoveries about reincarnation, which are surprisingly new, even to me. In the following chapter I will present you with evidence of so-called albinos, white skinned people born to dark skinned races, who in many cases can trace their skin colour to having been white in a past life and are now reincarnated in dark skin cultures.
SHOT DOWN OVER BURMA AS AN AMERICAN DURING THE WAR - LATER REBORN IN THE SAME PLACE
During World War two, Burma renamed Myanmar, was occupied by the Japanese. At the end of the war the British with the help of the Americans air force, which was based in India at that time, forced their Japanese opponents to retreat. Many British and Japanese lost their lives in this conflict, and several American planes were shot down. In the following years several white skinned children were born among the Burmese people. This was years after any white skinned people had been resident in this country. Many of these albino children began to talk about being English or Japanese at a very young age and claimed to have died in the war. They found it rather difficult to adjust to their new culture. They refused to eat the spicy food that the Burmese are very fond of, and asked to use spoons and forks to avoid eating with their hands. They preferred to wear white people’s clothes and shoes and refused to wear the traditional lungyi, (an ankle long cloth tied around the waist). They wanted to play with European toys and often called themselves by their names from a past life. Some asked to be allowed to go home. Among these white skinned albinos Stevenson found an American co-pilot who claimed to have been reborn after being shot down over Burma during the war.
Approximately 120km south of the Burmese town of Mandalay lies the provincial town of Meiktila. On the 9th May 1950 Mrs. Daw Kjin Htwe gave birth to her first child. Her husband U Tin Aung was a teacher and later the director of a public school. His wife was shocked when she saw that her child had white skin and facial features similar to those of European children. What would people say? Thank God there were no white Europeans in their town since the British pulled out two years ago, otherwise people might have suspected her of having been unfaithful to her husband. This fear was to be put to rest as time went by, since out of her 11 children that followed, three more were born white skinned. In both her husband's and her own family there had never been any albinos, which meant that this phenomenon could not be genetic. The child was given the name Maung Zaw Win Aung. (Please see picture 34 in the relevant book).
The boy was brought up by his parents and two aunts. At the age of three the little boy Zaw talked about being called John Steven and spoke about having been an American air man who was shot down. Soon he was making even more detailed claims. He said that he had not been the pilot but the pilot’s friend and that
hey used to drink alcohol before going into action. The Japanese had shot their plane down near Meiktila. When he overheard people talking about the bombs that were dropped on their town in 1945, the three-year-old would say, "Why would you have been afraid? It was me who was flying over the town." Zaw had mixed feelings about aeroplanes. On the one hand he was fascinated by them and was drawing them at an early age, but on the other hand he was terrified of them. If an aeroplane flew overhead while he was playing with his friends he would panic and shout, "Hide!" or "Get down!" One day, at his request, his parents took him to an airport. They talked to several pilots about Zaw claiming to have been an American airman in his previous life. When one of the pilots heard about this he said that he would happily take him on a flight one-day. The three-year old answered, "I don't want to because when you fly in planes you get shot down."
When he was given a tricycle he suddenly rode off saying, "Come with me, I'm off to America." He had often made such statements to his aunt about going to America, who then tried to suppress his longing by feeding him duck eggs. This, according to the beliefs of their region, is the most effective cure for helping children forget their past lives. This cure had no effect on the boy.
At times he would brag about having been a great airman, and at other times he seemed to regret having killed people with the bombs he dropped. This gave him no peace. At the age of 4 he started going to Buddhist monks, asking them to grant him absolution. One of them explained to him that the reason he was born in Burma and not in America was for karmic reasons. He was here to put things right by acknowledging his sins. Following this, his boastful attitude towards having been a great fighter changed. Even so at the age of 16 he still wanted to be a pilot, but his parents managed to talk him out of it.
When he was a small boy he once saw a tray with a picture of an American house and church on it. He said it reminded him of home. He still had romantic ideas about America and often expressed the wish to fly there one day.
As a child Zaw wanted to wear shoes even though all the other children went barefoot or wore sandals. He also demanded to have a uniform just like the one he had worn in his past. He managed to persuade his parents to allow him to wear trousers instead of the traditional lungyi, which all the other children and many of the adults wore. Zaw also had a dislike of the hot spicy food of his country. He loved to drink soft drinks or milk, was very fond of eating biscuits and insisted on eating with a spoon instead of using his fingers like everyone else. Zaw also seemed to crave alcohol. (You may recall that he was drunk at the time he was shot down. The circumstances in which we died can continue to affect us in our present life.) Ever since he was a child he hated the Japanese for having shot him down. There was a young boy in the neighbourhood who claimed to have been a Japanese soldier in the past. Whenever he saw Zaw he would panic and scream. Could it be that he had died because of the bombs John Stevens had dropped, or possibly at the hands of some Europeans or Americans?
There is so much us humans are not fully aware of as yet. It seems to me that we know very little about what really surrounds us and about the laws that govern our lives. I find it exciting to gradually unravel more and more of life's mysteries. Stevenson is one of those people who succeeded in doing just that.
Zaw’s story is not yet finished. When he was a child he was looking at an English book and suddenly said regretfully, "I used to be able to read this." When he went to school, he was extremely good at English. He was given awards for his essays, which were printed and sent to other schools as examples. The teachers were amazed at his knowledge of the English language. (I know from my work with regression therapy that we often resist learning languages that we spoke while living in a certain country in the past in which we had an unpleasant experience or a terrifying death. On the other hand we seem to find it easy to learn a language we spoke in a life which was joyful. Our preferences for or against certain languages are governed by our past experiences; no matter at what time these may have occurred.) Zaw later became a successful doctor.
When Zaw was 10 years old his mother had a dream. In this dream a white woman aged about wearing European clothing appeared to her asking to be reborn as her child. Mrs. Daw Kyin Htwe replied, “Please don't come to us, we are very poor.” The woman then told her, "I don't mind that as long as I can be with my brother again." On the 21st April 1961 Mrs. Daw Kyin Htwe gave birth to an albino daughter, who not only had pale skin but also Caucasian features. When their friends saw her they commented on the fact that she looked like an English doll. This is why her parents named her Dolly. This girl had expressed nothing that could possibly be related to a past life, yet she exhibited many traits that were not part of the Burmese culture. She insisted on eating with a spoon, and if refused it she would scream. She often talked to herself in a language no one could understand. Her father thought it must be English. She developed a very close friendship with her brother Zaw that was rather unusual. At night she chose to lie down next to him on his bed and often talked to him in her strange language. When going for walks she always held Zaw’s hand, which is seen as unusual among the Burmese. One day when she was asked to leave her aunt's house while Zaw was to remain there, she insisted on him coming with her, or her staying with him. She cried terribly when she was forced to leave him. She also kissed her parents on the mouth, which was most unusual in Burma. For years she refused to eat rice, but asked to have bread, butter and milk instead. Just like her brother she too wanted to wear Western clothes.
Dolly told her brother that someone else looking like them was going to be born into their family. And so it was. On the 19th October 1969 the third albino child was born. After the mother had given birth to 11 children her husband decided that she should be sterilised. Shortly before this operation was due she had a dream. A young man with blond hair came riding towards her on an elephant saying, "Please don't allow yourself to be sterilised now. I also want to come to you. I am one of your family." In November 1974 Mrs. Daw Kyin Htwe gave birth to her third albino child.
Stevenson visited the woman regularly. One day he asked her how she copes with having three albino children. She told him that it makes no difference to her and that before Zaw’s birth she had never wished for albino children.
Of course Stevenson checked whether a man named John Steven had really existed and been shot down over Burma in 1945. He could not determine whether the names John Steven were both Christian names, and to which unit the soldier had belonged. These details would first have to be clarified in order to find his name in the lists of soldiers who had died in the war.
Since Zaw speaks good English I am tempted to go and look him up one day, to lead him into his past life. This would prove whether or not his life in America and all the dates relating to his life as a soldier were indeed correct. For then we would have double proof of his past life in America. I find it very tempting to research a case like this, where we are dealing with children's memories of past lives having used trance induced regression techniques. During trance things are often revealed which would normally not surface during spontaneous flashes of past memories. I can imagine that in the future we will work together more closely with others on this subject.
Even without double proof such as this one, the cases portrayed and substantiated by photographic evidence by Professor Stevenson in his thesis are enough evidence to state with certainty that reincarnation is no longer a debatable subject. The knowledge that many cultures have long possessed and the wise people of this earth have spoken about has now become common knowledge. This foundation is now so solid it can no longer be shaken. We have to thank to thank Professor Ian Stevenson for the actual break through leading to the acceptance of reincarnation. His pioneering achievements will one-day rank among those of Freud and Einstein.
I think you will agree with me that anyone who has read this evidence and is still not convinced of reincarnation can not be taken seriously. He must be either stuck in his old ways of thinking, or is evading the truth because he is not ready to incorporate new concepts into his belief system. Maybe he is caught up in wishful thinking that forbids him to believe in repeated lives on earth. The most likely reason for this would be that he himself does not wish to be reborn. I will now share some thoughts on how our views on life may change when we accept reincarnation as a fact.
THE MEANING OF REINCARNATION IN RELATION TO A NEW CONCIOUSNESS
HOW THE CONCEPT OF REINCARNATION MAY INFLUENCE YOUR PERSONAL LIFE
1. I am no longer afraid of death, since I know that I have almost definitely lived before and am likely to reincarnate on earth again after an in-between life in a less dense reality.
2. When someone close to me dies it is natural to be sad. But my sadness is much reduced by knowing that he (or she) has not died but continues to live on another plane of existence. I know that he is likely to be with me often, even if I cannot see him. I also know that it was right for him to die at that time according to his fate, which was decided by a higher consciousness. I also feel that I will see this person again after my death or in a following life on earth. Good byes forever do not exist.
3. I am tolerant towards all people as long as they do not restrict my freedom and that of others. I tolerate any form of religious practices and other people’s opinions as long as they give others the same right to express themselves freely. We humans develop by broadening our awareness from one life to the next. I am never arrogant in my response towards other people’s ways of thinking. I may have been that way in a previous life, and for that reason I never push my convictions onto others. Every human being reaches his time for broadening his consciousness when it is right for him. Besides, it is clear to me that it is most likely that I will often change, i.e. broaden my outlook in my future lives.
4. I will never discriminate against other people no matter who they may be. I know that it is futile for me to discriminate against someone of the opposite sex since I most likely belonged to that sex at some time myself. I will not condemn someone with a different skin colour or of a different nationality or race, since I could easily have been of this colour or race at some point in time, or possibly will be in the future. If I discriminate against someone on the grounds of being part of a different race I will then have to experience being part of that race in order to broaden my understanding and love for them. I will never look down on other people because they are poor, disabled, unattractive or in some way different, since every person has chosen precisely their circumstances, looks, and their particular disposition in order to learn from it.
5. I will never envy others, be they richer, more powerful, cleverer, healthier or physically more beautiful, since they have created this learning situation for themselves in their life. They can use these means at their disposal to learn what ever they can in order to grow spiritually. I could possibly have had the same means at my disposal in a previous life or will have in a future incarnation. It seems necessary for us to experience all learning possibilities in order to evolve spiritually.
6. If I have a child I will give him the chance to develop his talents as long as they are not destructive. I will not force my will on him or attempt to break his, since I know that this child’s past lives have played a major part in forming his present life. He will want to live out his learning programme in this life, which may be completely different to my own. This is why I will respect his individuality. Apart from all this I know that he has been an adult in a past life, possibly even one of my deceased relatives or friends. I would watch carefully whether he mentions anything about his past lives. I will not forbid him these expressions or dismiss them as crazy talk. Perhaps this child has been my partner, mother, father or friend in a past life. I also know that it is possible that I could be reborn to my present child in a future life.
7. I know that I did not choose my partner by accident. I already knew her or him from an earlier life. We decided during our life after death to return to earth to continue learning from each other. Each partnership is a learning situation in the school of life. I wish to make the most of all situations from which I can learn something.
8. I am able to accept my parents just how they are, since I freely chose them before my birth. They provided me with precisely those conditions that I need to accomplish my specific tasks in this life.
9. I see people, events and twists of fate which come my way as important pointers, which enable me to learn exactly that which is of importance to me. I allow no envy to develop in me towards others, since they most likely have very different issues to deal with and different means at their disposal for dealing with them. This is why I calmly face my specific life conditions seeing them more as learning opportunities than anything else. I do not complain about them but ask myself what it is I could learn from each situation.
10. The earth is a school of learning. With each incarnation we learn to be more understanding, more tolerant and above all more loving. If after many incarnations we have become totally loving, then we are free to leave this earthly school having passed our examinations. We will then be allowed to move on to higher universities, where we are taught greater wisdom and deeper Love.
11. I know that whenever I resist love I myself will one day be the one who is treated without love. It is only through this that I learn to be more loving with my thoughts, words and deeds. Everything I do to hurt others will one day hurt me. The laws of karma that govern this learning process are always just. Unfairness does not exist for me. This is why I don’t put blame onto other people or situations; instead I ask myself what it is I need to learn from a situation in order to balance things out from an earlier life. Nothing happens by chance.
12. I know that everything in life has a purpose. Nothing is senseless. Everything that comes my way has some kind of meaning for me. This is why I will endeavour to find the purpose behind everything that happens to me.
13. I know that it is entirely down to me how quickly I evolve spiritually. I myself am responsible for whatever happens to me, since both these things are born out of the thoughts I held, words I spoke or deeds I acted out in my past lives. In order to live another life on earth in joy and love I will use my present life to give others much joy and love. I am the creator of my own luck. I can hold no one else responsible since I am, was and will be responsible for everything that happens to me whatever that may be.
14. I see life as a gift, in which each life on earth is an opportunity to develop myself more and more in love and understanding. It pleases me to help others in their development and to allow them to help me on my journey. Therefore I am grateful for each day I am given to learn and discover more about love. I am grateful to be given the chance to turn my consciousness more and more towards the laws of life and God’s love.
HOW THE CONCEPT OF REINCARNATION MAY INFLEUENCE SOCIETY AS A WHOLE
1. Knowledge of reincarnation is beneficial. We will see every person having equal rights and there will be no more discrimination. Intentional dishonesty or victimisation, even when following orders, will be seen to create personal karma.
2. The laws of karma will become a commonly known fact, which states: what you consciously do to another you will one-day experience yourself, either in this life or another. The law of Karma is always just. Every atrocity carries a karmic debt. The law of Karma serves the learning process.
3. When everyone knows that it is possible to have lived in any country or with any race, or members of a certain religion, or could do so at some time in the future, we develop a sense of belonging together. When this occurs there will be no more competitive thinking between the different states of this world, no more working against each other, but rather with each other. It will be a one-world community in which we will treat every other human being with care, tolerance and understanding.
4. In emergency situations we will be more willing to help each other, knowing that among the people of some distant part of this planet who are suffering starvation or some other major catastrophe there may be among them some of our relatives and friends from a past life. If particular nations ignore the needs of others this will again create karma for them. Therefore we will be able to offer our help more readily to those in need. There will be a general increase in the involvement of other people’s the well being where ever they live in this world.
5. Everyone will develop a totally different awareness of belonging and will accept responsibility as being part of the state. If for instance, I deceive the state by withholding taxes, something will one day be taken from me for karmic reasons. What I do to the state or to another individual one day will be done to me. This is why honesty is the best insurance policy for your future life.
6. Before man becomes a globally responsible citizen he will feel the need to share all the responsibilities as a citizen of his particular state. If he continues to live just for his own interests and is using in an unfair manner the state to his benefit he will one day find himself in situations where he is used. Egocentric thinking and actions are a guarantee for experiencing unfairness and lovelessness in a later life.
7. Religious sects and world religions will integrate reincarnation into their belief systems in order to have a chance of survival when this knowledge becomes widely accepted. There is no such thing as a single life, only a cycle of single lives. With every life the soul becomes more complete. Reincarnation is the most just religion, giving everyone the chance when once again incarnated on earth, to rectify that which he resisted; namely loving his fellow man. God is no longer the bad guy who allows crippled babies to be born or millions of people to starve to death or die in wars.
8. Regression therapy will have a large role to play in the future. In society, drug addicts and alcoholics will be led back to the cause of their addiction in order to delete the programming that caused their addiction in the first place. Psychiatry will no longer be imaginable without regression therapy. For instance, an unusual urge to harm oneself or others may have its origins in a past life; which in the first place have to be uncovered and then cleared through regression therapy. The National Health Service will pay for training regression therapists and will happily take on board the cost of this therapy. This will save on other extremely high costs for existing therapies that are usually slow to work. Regression therapy can prove being successful in a very short space of time.
9. In the field of psychology many old and much-loved theories will need to be replaced with new ones in order to make more space for reincarnation. Universities will found new courses in psychology based on reincarnation.
10. The medical profession will have to do much rethinking. Through the discoveries made by Professor Stevenson, MD, we now know that birth deformities may not be genetic or caused by viruses, but in most cases can be traced back to previous lives, and in particular in past causes of death. Reincarnation will also play a large part in surgery. In many cases, before conducting an operation that is not entirely necessary the doctor or surgeon will refer the patient to a regression therapist. Here will be decided, for example in the case of a vagatomy, whether or not a wound received in a previous life had already weakened the stomach area. If this is the case then it is advisable to treat it with regression therapy. Failing this, symptoms of some kind or other are likely to continue to manifest in that area. For example, if a person was killed in a previous life by a spear wound to the kidney area, he will often experience chronic pain in this region, even if doctors cannot find anything wrong with him. The co-operation between the medical profession and the regression therapists will become an obvious necessity.
11. Once we know that we will almost definitely be reborn on this earth, keeping the planet clean and healthy will become an obvious thing to do. This will enable us to return to a healthy planet where we will be able to continue our spiritual journey. We will care more about our surroundings and will not allow the earth to become polluted.
12. Philosophy will praise those great philosophers who are already advocating this knowledge of reincarnation. The acceptance of reincarnation creates a whole new way of thinking, and will create new philosophical schools of thought, which will not rely on abstract thinking. Instead they will be built on the integrated knowledge uncovered through regressions into past lives. The after life will also be thoroughly investigated. This is where we exist as souls before being reincarnated on earth. Philosophy will pose amongst many the question: Who or what created this system of reincarnation and the afterlife, for what reason and why? Ontology will gain a completely new perspective as we endeavour to get in touch with the basic truth of creation itself through trance expriences or possibly through spiritual insights.
13. The arts will gain tremendous momentum, since a new creative theme will be opened up to them in which public demand could become huge for anything related to the theme of reincarnation. Film, television, theatre and especially literature will no doubt adopt this theme. The representations of people and their motives for certain behaviour will be reflected against a background of their past lives in which the laws of karma will play an important part.
14. We will concern ourselves less with reputation, power or ownership, since we will know that it is more important to nurture the love inside ourselves. This is why we will be more inclined to collect inner riches instead of outer ones. We will treat life with more respect and will view being able to spend time on this earth as a valuable gift, the opportunity to learn more and more about love and Gods’ laws. Reincarnation will contribute immensely towards making this world more beautiful and loving and one in which it is a blessing to be allowed to live, love and learn.
LITERARY INDEX
Jeanne Avary: A Souls Journey. / Austin, Texas 1996.
Morey Bernstein: The Search for Bridey Murphy. / New York 1956.
Sue Carpenter: Past lives - True Stories of Reincarnation. / London 1995.
Jenny Cockell: Yesterday’s Children. / London 1995.
Yonassan Gershom: From Ashes to Healing. / Virginia 1996.
Bruce Goldberg: Past Lives - Future Lives. / New York 1988.
Bruce Goldberg: The Search for Grace. / St. Paul, Minnesota 1997.
Trutz Hardo: Entdecke Deine Früheren Leben. (Discover your past lives.) Munich 1997.
Trutz Hardo: Das Grosse Buch der Reinkarnation—Heilung durch Rückführung. (The Big Book of Reincarnation - Healing through Regression.) / Munich 1998.
Jeffrey Iverson: More Lives Than One. / London 1976.
Jeffrey Iverson: In Search of the Dead. / San Francisco 1992
Frederick Lenz: Lifetimes - True Accounts of Reincarnation. / New York 1997
Sture Lönnerstrand: I Have Lived Before. / Stockholm 1994.
Satwant Pasricha: Claims of Reincarnation. - An empirical study of cases in India. / New Delhi 1990.
Tag Powell: ESP for Children. - How to develop your child’s psychic abilities. / Lago, Florida 1993.
Dick Sutphen: You were Born to be Together. / New York 1976.
Brad Steiger: You Will Live Again. (New edition) Nevada City, CA. 1996.
Brad Steiger: Returning from the Light. / New York 1996.
Ian Stevenson: Twenty cases suggestive of Reincarnation. / Virginia 1966-1974.
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