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In reply to the discussion: The Children Who Remember Past Lives [View all]PatSeg
(52,178 posts)Psychology Today: Evaluating the Evidence for Reincarnation
All in all, this evidence makes me feel that I have no choice but to accept that reincarnation is real. As a scientist, I feel obliged to revise my views in the face of evidence. As I point out in my book Spiritual Science, it appears that the idea of life after death is more than a naive superstition. In Shakespeares famous play, Hamlet describes death as the Undiscoverd country from whose bourn no traveller returns. But perhaps it is possible to return from death, and to even remember the previous journey we took there.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-darkness/202112/evaluating-the-evidence-reincarnation
University of Virginia, School of Medicine: Children Who Report Memories of Past Lives
In last 50 years of research, DOPS has collected over 2500 cases of the reincarnation type, most of which have been found outside of the United States. For the vast majority of these cases, the field notes have been coded on >200 variables and put into our database. This research has taken countless hours and hundreds of people to accomplish, and there is still so much to learn on the topic.
https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/our-research/children-who-report-memories-of-previous-lives/
NIH National Library of Medicine: Evidence that suggest the reality of reincarnation
The cases that have been described so far, isolated or combined, do not provide irrefutable proof of reincarnation, but they supply evidence that suggest its reality.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26299061/
Science Direct: Academic studies on claimed past-life memories: A scoping review
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550830721000951
From Harvard Book Store: Reincarnation as a Scientific Concept: Scholarly Evidence for Past Lives
https://shop.harvard.com/book/9781786771278
Cambridge University Press: The Evidence for Reincarnation
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/religious-studies/article/evidence-for-reincarnation/2A537B24084CC9444E7C31D3AE38331D
Notice how often the word "evidence" is used. There is much, much more, but I doubt you are really interested. If you were, you would have looked it up yourself.