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Dr. Michael Newton's Research
Past-Life Regression & Life-Between-Lives


Dr. Michael Newton developed and pioneered the most advanced form of hypnotherapy techniques in spiritual regression. He spiritually regressed over 7000 individuals in a span of 40 years. The most important findings were highlighted in his two best-selling books, Journey of Souls with spiritual regressions of 29 subjects, and Destiny of Souls with spiritual regressions of 67 subjects. All of his subjects recalled their stunning past-life experiences and life between lives and articulately revealed the graphic and groundbreaking details. Amazingly all his subjects witnessed and revealed very similar experiences and even used the same words to describe the spiritual events. Dr. Michael Newton's startling discoveries can be summed up as follows:
   
        How It Feels to Die
        Journey and Destiny of Soul Right After Death
        How Your Life Will Be Reviewed by Council of Elders (Wise Beings)
        How Spirits Live in Small Soul Groups/Clusters in the Spirit World
        How Spirits in the Spirit World Connect with and Comfort the Living
        What Souls Do During Life Between Lives in the Eternal Realm
        The Different Levels of Souls: Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced
        The Truth about Soulmates, Spiritual Guides, Council of Elders
       
The Truth about
The Higher Presence (Divine Purple Light), Oneness or Creator
        The Purpose of Life on Earth (Karma is there!)  
        The Soul-brain Connection
        How Disturbed Souls Become Ghosts & Demons and Attack Innocent Humans
        How & Why You Choose Certain Body to Return to Earth
        And Many Other Graphic and Groundbreaking Details


In coming decades, if not in years from now, this kind of clinical research should be built and expanded until we have a detailed understanding of life on the higher dimensions. With Dr. Michael Newton's work and those of similar investigators we are finally gaining an understanding of life in higher dimensions based on research and first-hand reports, rather than speculation and blind belief.


Biography of Dr. Michael Newton
Michael Duff Newton, PhD (75-year-old in 2007), holds a doctorate in Counseling Psychology, and is a California State-certified Master Hypnotherapist, a member of the American Counseling Association and founder of The Newton Institute (TNI). He has been on the faculty of higher educational institutions as a teacher while active in private practice in Los Angeles. In addition, Dr. Newton has been a corporate consultant and worked as a behavioral counselor and group therapy director for community mental health centers and spiritual renewal organizations in cooperation with hospital and social service agencies. He has been a hypnotherapist for over 45 years and a LBL therapist for over 30 years. He is considered a pioneer in uncovering the mysteries about life after death through the use of Spiritual Regression. He devoted his private hypnotherapy practice to behavior modification and helping people access their higher spiritual selves. Through the development of his own age-regression technique, Dr. Newton discovered that it is possible to take his clients beyond their past-life experiences to uncover a more meaningful life—that is the soul existence in the spirit world between lives. He has taught and certified over 100 practicing Hypnotherapists the Life Between Lives training course around the world. Three of his best selling books “Journey of Souls, Destiny of Souls and Life between Lives” have been translated into over 25 languages:

Dr. Newton has appeared on numerous radio and television shows and is an active speaker on the lecture circuit explaining his discoveries and beliefs about our immortal life in the spirit world. You can see him speaking on You Tube. Click on the link below:

Watch Dr. Michael Newton Speaking About His Experience on You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QDT58Q6Zxo


As of November 2003, Dr. Newton has officially retired from active clinical practice of seeing clients; He no longer teaches the entire coursework personally; However he still works parttime, lecturing and training. Dr. Michael Newton is an author, a historian, amateur astronomer and world traveler. Dr. Newton and his wife, Peggy, now reside in the Sierra Nevada Mountains Range (In Spanish, it means Snowy Range) of northern California—the highest mountain peak in the United States outside Alaska.

Awards
 
  In 1998 Dr. Newton received the National Association of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists (NATH) annual award of "Most Unique Contribution by a Hypnotherapist in Bridging Mind, Body and Spirit."  He was also honored for his years of clinical soul memory research and discoveries into the cosmology of the afterlife.   
    In 2001 he was a winner of the annual Independent Publishers Association Book Award, at the Annual Book Exposition for his 2nd book “Destiny of Souls.”

Dr. Michael Newton’s Best-Selling Books
1. Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives (1994),
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Examined 29 subjects under special clinical hypnosis techniques]
2. Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives (2000) and
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Examined 67 subjects under special clinical hypnosis techniques]
3. Life Between Lives (2004) published by Llewellyn.
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A Step-by-Step Guide Written for Practitioners]

All these three books have been translated into over 25 languages thus far.

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Dr. Michael Newton’s First Case of Past-Life-Regression
Dr. Michael Newton began studying traditional hypnosis at a very young age and placed his first subject in a hypnotic trance in 1947 (He was close to 15-years-old at that time).

Dr. Michael Newton was skeptic by nature and focused on traditional hypnotherapy, as his training was mostly on pain management to help uncover and heal childhood trauma. At the beginning he used to refuse requests to do past-life-regression, believing
that this was unorthodox and rather unethical.

However, one day this all changed when he was stumbled into past life regression by accident while performing a routine hypnotherapy session for pain management. A young man came to Dr. Newton’s clinic complaining of chronic pain on his right side. Dr. Newton first tried a regular hypnotherapy session in which the client made stabbing motions to describe the kind of pain he has been feeling throughout his life. Dr. Newton instructed the client to go to the source of the pain and was actually searching for an explanation of this pain in his childhood of the current life, but the client took a brave step and suddenly regressed himself into his past life as a First World War soldier who was killed by a fatal wound from a bayonet in France. As the client was regressed into his past life, the source and root cause of pain was discovered and immediately the pain disappeared. This experience changed Dr. Michael Newton’s career as hypnotherapist forever. Since then, he has begun working on past life regressions extensively.

             
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Dr. Michael Newton’s First Case of Life-Between-Lives-Regression
Dr. Newton stumbled onto life-between-lives-regression by accident through a routine past-life-regression hypnosis session. Dr. Newton described about his first experience with his client as follows:  One day a woman walked into his clinic complaining about a problem of depression, claiming she has been experiencing a sense of deep loneliness and finding herself isolated from the society and that she has been missing and feeling a terrible obsession to be with her old friends. When Dr. Newton asked her if those old friends were childhood friends of this life, she replied quickly with a “NO” answer.

Dr. Newton took her to deep hypnosis session. He walked her through several past lives and based on her answers, Dr. Newton determined that those friends were not from any past life. Dr. Newton later took her to super-conscious state and inadvertently used the word “group,” which he later found that as the “key word” in spiritual regression process, inquiring if she ever lived in a group of friends. Dr. Newton finally asked her if there was ever a time in her existence that she was not lonely because she was with her “group” of friends. She immediately replied with a big YES.  Dr. Newton instructed her to travel to the source of that group. Immediately after that, she exclaimed that
THEY ARE THERE, MY COMPANIONS, I SEE THEM ALL RIGHT NOW,” pointing her finger towards his office wall. When Dr. Newton asked her if they were her friends in her past life, she replied NO with confidence, and described that she is in her spirit world at her eternal home with her eternal soul mates (there were 8 of them), whom she has been deeply missing throughout her life. She cried with overwhelming joy after she visited her eternal group/cluster of companions in that spiritual regression session.

This experience opened the door for Dr. Newton’s new research interest on “Life-Between-Lives.” Since then, Dr. Newton has become obsessed with what had occurred, replaying the tape over and over again, making refinements with other clients, and slowly this complex jigsaw puzzle began to come together. After this amazing experience, he intensified his research interest on Life-Between-Lives session with his clients, and discovered the detailed, stunning and groundbreaking details about the Spirit World
¾a Realm where souls travel to and live after death.

 

Books of Dr. Michael Newton

            
            
               
       
1. Journey Of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives (Oh, My god I am not Really Dead, Am I?)
Author: Michael Newton, PhD

List Price: $14.95  Price: $10.17
2. Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives (Paperback)
Author: Michael Newton, PhD

List Price: $16.95  Price: $11.53
3. Life Between Lives: Hypnotherapy for Spiritual Regression (Paperback)
Author: Michael Newton, PhD
List Price: $14.95  Price: $10.17
     
     

 Dr. Brian Weiss's Research
Past-Life Regression & Space-Between-Lives or Life-Between Lives

Biography of Dr. Brian Weiss: Brian L. Weiss, MD (born in Brooklyn in 1944) is one of the world's foremost experts in the hypnotic past-life-regression therapy, and one of the first medical doctors to explore the past lives of his patients as a means of therapy. Dr. Weiss owns a private practice in Miami, Florida, USA, staffed with highly experienced hypnotherapists, psychologists and social workers who conduct past-life-regression sessions and spiritual psychotherapy sessions to those in need. In addition, Dr. Weiss conducts national and international seminars and hands-on training workshops on past-life-regression therapy. His wife Carole K. Weiss, MSW, has worked with him since 1981 and has been co-training on past-life-regression therapy with him since 1995.

Dr. Brian L. Weiss is a psychiatrist by profession and bestselling author who currently lives in Miami, Florida, USA. He holds a BA in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1966, a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, graduate and received his medical degree (MD) at Yale Medical School in 1970. At the age of 35, he became the first Chief of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami, Florida, and a professor at the University of Miami's medical school.
He is currently the Chairman Emeritus of psychiatry at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Miami, Florida.

Dr. Weiss Met Catherine in 1980 Who Changed His Life
As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Weiss spent years in the disciplined study of the human psychology, training his mind to think as a scientist and a physician. In his earlier life, Dr. Weiss considered himself as a materialistic person who rarely gave much thought to anything mystical, philosophical or spiritual. He held steadfastly to conservatism in his profession, and used to argue against any spiritual thing that could not be proved by traditional scientific methods. But this all changed when he met his 27-year-old patient named “Catherine”, in 1980, who came to his office desperately seeking help for her anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias.

For 18 months, Dr. Weiss used conventional methods of treatment to help Catherine overcome her traumas. When nothing seemed to work, he tried traditional hypnosis, which, he explains, is an excellent tool to help a patient remember long-forgotten incidents. There is nothing mysterious about it. It is just a state of focused concentration. Under the instruction of a trained hypnotist, the patient’s body relaxes, causing the memory to sharpen, eliciting memories of long-forgotten traumas that were disrupting their lives.
After inducing a trance, Dr. Weiss asked Catherine to go back to the origin of the time from which her symptoms arose. Much to his astonishment, that hypnotic suggestion regressed her back to a time approximately 4000 years ago in a place like Babylon where she died in a flood, and had originally suffered the traumatic experiences that were the root causes of her present-day problems. 


At first Dr. Weiss, influenced by his own skepticism, thought Catherine was experiencing a fantasy of some false memories, or maybe remembering a movie. In any case, her fear of drowning disappeared. Over the next few months, in a series of trance-like states, Dr. Weiss regressed Catherine to many more past lives and with each regression, another fear disappeared. Painful acts of past life memories were proved to be the causative factors of her recurring nightmares, anxiety attack and panic attack symptoms. She remembered altogether 86 past lives in physical state, and discovered that she lived in different places on the planet Earth both as female and male. She recalled vividly the details of each birth, her name, her family members, her physical appearance, the landscape, and how she was killed by stabbing in one life, by drowning or by illness in another. And in each lifetime she experienced myriad events making progress to fulfill all of the agreements and all of the Karmic debts that were accumulated by her actions.

Catherine Revealed Startling Details to Dr. Weiss
During a past-life-regression session, Catherine found herself unexpectedly regressed to a spiritual state of space-between-lives or life-between-lives where she met with many Masters, highly evolved and enlightened higher beings. From this spiritual state, Catherine delivered the following two stunning messages:

  1. Catherine delivered a message to Dr. Weiss from his father, who died long ago, by revealing his father’s name (Avrom) correctly in Hebrew language—a name she could not have known.
 
2. Catherine delivered another stunning message to Dr. Weiss from his first-born son (Adam) who died when he was just 23 days old from a very rare heart condition.

Dr. Weiss’s skepticism was totally eroded
as a result of these astonishing messages from Catherine. He was fully convinced that the past life memories, reincarnation and the spiritual state of life-between-life are indeed true. And his life would never be the same. He has done detailed past-life-regressions of multiple lives in dozens of more patients. None of these patients was psychotic, hallucinating, or experiencing multiple personality disorders.

After twenty years of diligent research through conducting hypnotic sessions, he produced five remarkable books, as listed below, publishing his groundbreaking discoveries of past-life-memories and life-between-life revelations.

      1. Many Lives, Many Masters
     
2. Through Time Into Healing
     
3. Only Love Is Real
     
4. Messages from the Masters
     
5. Same Soul, Many Bodies

Dr. Weiss's 1st Book “Many Lives, Many Master"
In his 1st book, “Many Lives, Many Masters,” Dr. Weiss reported the true story of a prominent psychiatrist, Himself, his young patient Catherine, the results of Past-Life-Regression therapy, and Messages (Remarkable Revelations) from the Masters that changed both their lives.

Messages From the Masters
Catherine during her regressions floated out of her body after her death of past lives. Dr. Weiss knew that she never read the studies of Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross or Dr. Raymond Moody, who have both written books about Near Death Experiences. Yet she revealed similar or even more experiences to those described in those publications. As she floated out of her body after each death, she repeatedly said: “I am Aware of a Bright Light; It’s the Wonderful Light; You Get Energy from this Light.” Then, while waiting to be reborn in the in-between-lives state, she met with the Masters and learnt from them the great wisdom and became a conduit for transcendental knowledge. From what Catherine said she learnt from the Masters, Dr. Weiss summarized her sacred revelations as follows:

Teachings From the Voices of the Master Spirits:
  1. Our task is to learn on this planet, to become God-like through knowledge. By knowledge we approach God, and then we can rest. Then we come back to teach and help others.
 
2. There are many gods, for God is in each of us.
 
3. We have to be on different planes at different times. Each one is a level of higher consciousness. What plane we go to depends upon how far we’ve progressed.
 
4. We must share our knowledge with other people. We all have abilities far beyond what we use. You should check your voices, if you do not, you carry them over with you to another life, when you decide you are strong enough to master the external problems, then you will no longer have them in your next life.
 
5. Everybody’s path is basically the same. We all must learn certain attitudes while we’re in physical state. “Charity, Hope, Faith, and Love are the topics that we must master in order to know them full well.
  6. Everything is energy. Humans can only see the outside, but you can go much deeper. Being in a physical state is not normal. Being in spiritual state is natural. When we are sent back to this physical life, it’s to learn new things in life. In the spirit world you have to wait, and then your going back to physical life is renewed.
 
7. The fear of death, that no amount of money or power can neutralize, remains within us. But if people knew that life is endless so we never die; we were never really born, this fear would dissolve. We have lived countless times before and would live countless times again, and spirits are around us to help while in physical state and after death, in spiritual state. We and our deceased loved ones would join these guardian angels.
  8. Acts of violence and injustices against people do not go unnoticed or unnoted, but those evil people will pay their accumulated Karma in the future lifetime or lifetimes to come.
 
9. Everything comes when it must come. A life cannot be rushed. We must accept what comes to us at a given time, life is endless, we just pass through different phases. There is no end. Time is not as we see time, but rather in lessons that are learned.
 
10. After death, we get to the spiritual plane, we keep growing there too. When we arrive, we’re burned out. We have to go through a renewal stage, a learning stage, and a stage of decision. We decide when and where we want to return to physical body, and for what reasons. Our body is just a vehicle for us in that life while we’re here on Earth. It is our soul and our spirit that last forever.


How Did Catherine Reach the Masters?
To reach or attract ”Messages From the Masters,” the subject should travel much deeper levels beyond past-life-regressions and reincarnation. Dr. Weiss called this field “psychospiritual psychotherapy” which includes all elements: regression therapy, understanding at a deeper level, spiritual roots and understanding a lot about love. Love is the basic energy, binding force and it is the love that can help to dissolve fear and anxiety disorders. Catherine successfully traveled through those levels when she revealed Messages from the Masters. As a result, her anxiety disorders were wiped out by the divine love.

Dr. Weiss believes that, under hypnosis, Catherine was able to focus in on the part of her subconscious mind that stored actual past-life memories, or perhaps she had tapped into what the psychoanalyst Carl Jung termed “the Collective Unconscious,” the energy source that surrounds us containing the memories of the entire human race.

Hinduism Versus Dr. Weiss’s Research Findings
Reincarnation and past-life–experiences maybe new to Dr. Weiss and his client Catherine in 1981, but they were not new to human race on the planet Earth. In the primitive religion such as Hinduism, “the reincarnation, cycle of life and death (countless times), the concept of Karma (the universal principle of cause and effect), purpose of life, divine knowledge, how evil deeds are punished and good deeds are rewarded” are very commonly known to and highly believed by Hindu people. In the Holy Bhagavat Gita (which was written 5000 years ago in Sanskrit by Sage Vyasa Maharshi) and Vedic Scriptures (which were written 5000 years ago in Sanskrit by Vedic Rishis), the concept of reincarnation and cycle of birth and death were very well described in detail.  That is to say Dr. Weiss’s discoveries merely coincided with the revelations already illustrated in detail in the Holy Bagavat Gita and Vedic Scriptures of Hinduism 5000 years ago.  The same is true with Buddhism.

In 1881, Swami Vivekananda was brought to the trance state by Sri Ramakrishna, and Swami Vivekananda revealed to Sri Ramakrishna the purpose of his life on the planet Earth and the nature of his future. And these revelations were later found to be true. The life of Swami Vivekananda is described in the section Understanding God (East). Please click on East button and scroll down.


 

Dr. Weiss’s 2nd Book: “Through Time Into Healing”
This book contains numerous case histories which illustrate the healing potential of past life regression therapy, and it provides several techniques for eliciting past life recall.
This book shows readers how to help themselves lead healthy and productive lives, secure in the knowledge that death is not the final word and that the doorways to healing and wholeness are inside us.

In this book, "Through Time Into Healing," Dr. Weiss demonstrated how to utilize safe and rapid techniques to heal clinical symptoms. Now, drawing on the wisdom of the Masters, the spirit guides who shape our destinies, bestselling author Dr. Brian Weiss gives us his most outstanding achievement to date.   He reveals the essential life force in the universe and the ultimate healing energy. Its name is love. And he shows us how to harness its awesome power.

Dr. Weiss’s Mind Blowing 3rd Book: “Only Love is Real”
Anybody will be blown away by reading through the breathtaking contents of this book. In “Only Love is Real,” Dr. Weiss identified two Soulmates “Elizabeth & Pedro” who have been lovers over many lifetimes prior to 2000 years ago, but never had been re-united in the current lifetime or in the lifetimes of preceding 2000 years. Prior to 2000 years ago: both of them had been lovers in many previous lives, they had been husband and wife, childhood lovers, father and daughter in another life. Now they had traveled nearly 2000 years to be together again and re-united in the same therapist’s clinic in the same city at the same time but scheduled apart from each other, each unaware of the other's existence but both in their separate therapy sessions. Both Elizabeth & Pedro were suffering from grief, anxiety attacks, depression, dejection and unable to pursue a loving and meaningful relationship in the current life.
When Dr. Weiss regressed them to their past lives, both Elizabeth and Pedro revealed the exact same breathtaking information regarding their past lives.

Only Dr. Weiss knew this information and both of them had never met in their current lives and neither had a hint about how their destiny would unfold. It was a difficult decision for Dr. Brian Weiss whether he should cross the boundary of psychiatric ethics and nudge the destiny to help them meet or let them go separated and be unhappy forever in this lifetime.

However, the astounding truth is that Soulmates will re-unite as the fate brings them together whether it takes 50, 100, 500, 1000 or 2000 years. Your spirit will recognize just by looking into the eyes. You will be one again, because Only Love is Real.

Dr. Weiss’s 4th Book: “Messages from the Masters”
In his 4th book, Dr. Weiss reveals many messages from the Masters received through his own meditations and through the past-life regressions and life-between-lives regressions of his own clients. Each chapter opens with a quote from the Masters.

The messages from the Masters can be summed up as follows: We should allow our minds to return to what is importantlove, peace, eternal life, spiritual thoughts and practices; We should put aside what is unimportant such as material things, money, pride and ego, violence, jealousy, fear, worry, anxiety and hatred.


Dr. Weiss’s 5th Book: “Same Soul, Many Bodies”

In this miraculous book “Same Soul, Many Bodies,” Dr. Weiss reveals his research findings on how past and present lives can affect our future lives, and how our future lives can transform us in the here and now. We have all lived past lives. All of us will live future ones. What we do in this life will influence our lives to come as we evolve toward immortality. Dr. Weiss knows this is true because recently he has not only regressed his patients into the past, but has progressed them into the future. And what they have discovered is that our futures are variable, so the choices we make now will determine the quality of life when we return next time into this human body.

By regressing his patients to their past lives. Dr. Weiss healed their sicknesses and improved their current lives to much healthier levels. As a result, Dr Weiss believed that, their future lives would automatically be refined. Using dozens of case histories of his patients, Dr. Weiss demonstrated the therapeutic benefits of future-life-progression, just as he has proved that journeys into our past lives can alleviate or cure our physical and emotional wounds in the present. 

 

Cycle of Birth and Death Continues Until We Evolve Fully!

We have all lived past lives. All of us will live future ones. What we do in this life will influence our lives to come as we evolve toward immortality.  Dr. Brian L. Weiss

 

Books of Dr. Brian Weiss

                 
1. Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist & His Young Patient
Author: Brian L. Weiss

List Price: $14.00  Price: $11.20
2. Through Time Into Healing (Paperback)
Author: Brian L. Weiss

List Price: $14.00  Price: $11.20
3. Only Love Is Real: A Story of Soulmates Reunited (Paperback)
Author: Brian Weiss

List Price: $13.95  Price: $11.16
                    
4. Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love (Paperback)
Author: Brian Weiss

List Price: $13.95  Price: $11.16
5. Same Soul, Many Bodies: Discover the Healing Power of Future Lives through Progression Therapy
Author: Brian L. Weiss

List Price: $14.00  Price: $11.20
6. Meditation: Achieving Inner Peace and Tranquility In Your Life (Little Book and CD)
Author: Brian Weiss

List Price: $17.95  Price: $12.21
                   
7. Eliminating Stress, Finding Inner Peace (Hardcover)
Author: Brian Weiss

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8. Mirrors of Time: Using Regression for Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Healing
Author: Brian L. Weiss

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Dr. Ian Stevenson's Research
The World's Best-Known Investigator of Reincarnation

Biography of Dr. Ian Stevenson: Ian Pretyman Stevenson, M.D., (born on October 31, 1918, in Montreal, Canada, died on February 8, 2007, in Charlottesville, Virginia), was a Canadian-American psychiatrist. He was the son of a Scottish lawyer, John Stevenson, a writer at heart who became chief correspondent in Ottawa, Canada for Times of London. Dr. Stevenson studied medicine at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and then transferred to McGill University, Montreal, Canada after the outbreak of World War II. His studies in internal medicine led to an interest in psychosomatic illness and then in psychiatry.

In 1957, Dr. Ian Stevenson, M.D. became the Director, Division of Personality Studies and Carlson Professor of Psychiatry, both a part of the Department of Psychiatric Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. Dr. Stevenson's research into the possibility of reincarnation began in 1960 when he heard of a case in Sri Lanka where a child claimed to remember a past life. He thoroughly questioned the child and the child's parents, as well as the people whom the child claimed were his parents from his past life. This led to Dr. Stevenson's conviction that reincarnation was possibly a reality.

His Research Interests Included: Children Who Claim to Remember Previous Lives, Near-Death Experiences, Apparitions (death-bed visions), Telepathy, The Mind-Brain Problem, and Survival of the Human Personality After Death.

Dr. Ian Stevenson's Research:
Dr. Ian Stevenson, the world's best known investigator of reincarnation, conducted field research and studied over 3000 real cases in a span of 40 years about reincarnation, and meticulously documented the scientific proof along with testimonies for each case in India, Burma, Africa, Alaska, British Columbia, South America, Lebanon, Turkey, and many other places. The children studied usually started recalling their past life memories between the ages of two and four, yet seem to have forgotten it by seven or eight. There were frequent mentions of having died a violent death, and apparently clear past life memories of the mode of death. The description of the children’s memories has been matched with the data of their former identity, family, residence and manner of death. Birthmarks and scars on the children have been found to match the experiences from the past life. Stevenson also gathered testimonials as well as medical records of information on birthmarks, birth defects, and other physical evidence that supports reincarnation.

Dr. Ian Stevenson’s has devoted some 40 years of his career and his collection of scientific data that appears to provide scientific proof that reincarnation is real.
Dr. Stevenson published over 200 articles and about 10 or more books, densely packed with scientific protocols of each occurrence accompanied with witnesses and testimonials surrounding each case. Instead of relying on hypnosis to verify that an individual has had a previous life, he instead chose to collect thousands of cases of children who spontaneously (without hypnosis) remembered a past life. Dr. Ian Stevenson used this approach because spontaneous past life memories in a child can be investigated using strict scientific protocols. Some skeptics say that Hypnosis, while useful in researching into past lives, is less reliable from a purely scientific perspective. Therefore, in order to collect his data, Dr. Stevenson methodically documented the child's own statements of a previous life. Then he identified the deceased person the child remembers being with, and verified the facts of the deceased person's life that match the child's past life memory. He even matched birthmarks and birth defects to wounds and scars on the deceased, verified by medical records.

Reincarnation: How Does a Case Unfold?
Typically a case begins when a child around the age of 3 without any kind of prompting begins to speak of a former life. The child will mention people and places that nobody in his/her family has heard about before and will, in certain cases, describe details of his/her former death. The child will be quite insistent in claiming to have a different name, and he/she will tell his astounded parents that he/she is, in fact, somebody else. He/she may also say that he/she has other parents or a wife/husband or children that live in a different city or even a different country. The child continues talking about it for several years, generally to the great annoyance of the parents. Finally the parents will be amazed to discover that it was all indeed a true case of reincarnation, and start treating the child as God-like.

Reincarnation: A Few Fascinating Stories

1. This is the best-documented and subsequently authenticated case of reincarnation. Lugdi Devi was born on January 18, 1902 in a town called Madhura, located 15 miles south of Delhi, India. On September 25, 1925, she gave birth to a child (a son) in a hospital in Agra, and died on October 4, 1925 due to birth complications. After 14 months on December 11, 1926, she reincarnated in Delhi into another family and was given the name Shanti Devi. At the age of four she started talking about her past life experiences, about her husband and asked how her son was doing. At six years old, while being dressed by her mother, she gave a detailed account of what kind of clothes she used to wear and what kind of food she used to eat in her previous life, and further provided a very detailed description of her former husband and the location of his clothes shop. Both families joined together and were able to verify the facts of this remarkable story of Shanti Devi. Her real-life story was published in a book: “I Have Lived Before: The True Story of Reincarnation of Shanti Devi.”

2. One 2-year-old boy in India was insistent that he didn't belong in the home of his parents, wanting instead to return to his own home, to his wife and brothers. He said he had a bread store. He even described the house and store. The parents put him in the car and followed his directions. Soon they arrived at a bread store the boy could not have known about. He ran to a woman he said she was his wife and greeted three grown men whom he said were his brothers. The parents discovered that the woman's husband – the men's brothers had been hit in the head and murdered two years earlier, shortly before the toddler was born. The boy also had a birthmark on the back of his head, which matched, with the deathblow of the baker.

3. From Stevenson's book "Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation" the case of Swarnlata can be the most breathtaking. Swarnlata was born in 1949 in Pradesh in India into a middle class family. She started to talk about a former life at the age of three when one day her father was taking her for a ride and they passed the town of Katni, which was more than 100 miles from their home. Swarnlata suddenly pointed out the window and asked the chauffeur to turn down a street to "my house", where she said they could get a better cup of tea than on the highway. She told her father more than 50 facts about her life in Katni and the father made a note of these. She said that her name in the former life was Biya Pathak and that she had two sons. She described every detail of her home and how there was a railway behind her house. She said that she had died from a throat disease and was treated by a Dr. S.C. Bhabrat in Jabalpur. In 1959, when Swarnlata was 10 years old, news about the case reached Dr. Ian Stevenson and he initiated an investigation. He found the house where the Biya Pathak's family lived using only Swarnlata's description and he found everything just as Swarnlata had described it. He interviewed the Pathak's family and they informed him that Biya Pathak had died in 1939 and had left two sons and a husband. A few months later Biya's husband, her brother and one of her sons traveled to the town where Swarnlata lived in order to see her and test her memories. Swarnlata knew nothing about their arrival and they arrived at her house in the company of nine other persons and hid their identity. Swarnlata immediately recognized her (Biya's) brother and called him by his pet name. Afterwards she recognized her husband and behaved in a subservient manner as befitted a Hindu wife. She also recognized her son who had been 13 years old when she died. She reminded her husband that he had hidden money (1200 rupees) from Biya before she died and that the money had been in a particular box when he took it, which he confirmed to be true. A few weeks later Swarnlata visited her "former home" in Katni for the first time and she immediately commented on changes in the house and she identified the room where Biya had died. She revealed intimate details from the life of the family, she recognized old servants and commented in a good-humored way on how things had changed during the last 20 years. She had no knowledge of events after 1939.

Swarnlata's story is so well documented that it clearly points to her being the reincarnation of Biya Pathak. Dr. Ian Stevenson investigated the case and came to a conclusion that Swarnlata had no way of knowing the intimate details she revealed about Biya. She had never been to Katni in her life.  Dr. Iam Stevenson verified with certainty that Swarnlata had no knowledge about the Pathak family. Yet she knew their most intimate secrets and a large number of details about their life. This strongly suggests that reincarnation indeed took place.

There were thousands, or even millions, of these cases in India alone and many of them were left unnoticed and undocumented.


Some Miraculous Discoveries of Dr. Ian Stevenson:
State Between Incarnations:
Dr. Michael Newton termed it the “Life-Between-Lives” while Dr. Brian Weiss termed it the “Space-Between-Lives” and the Toronto psychiatrist Dr. Joel Whitting termed it the "State of Bardo" or the "Life-Between-Life" or the "Between-Life State" or the "State of Metaconsciousness" or the "Interstate" or the "Next World" or the "State Between Incarnations."  Dr. Ian Stevenson however chose the term carefully and termed it the "State of Intermission.”
 
¨ From his extensive research findings, Dr. Ian Stevenson found that many of his subjects in Thailand claimed that they had seen their physical bodies, while floating above, and had observed their own funeral rites (similar to the findings of Dr. Raymond Moody). 
¨ Many also described being greeted in the "next world" by a man-in-white or being-of-light (similar to the findings of Dr. Raymond Moody), and were offered the fruit of forgetfulness before rebirth. Eating this fruit would erase the memories of the previous life and; several other subjects further claimed that their past-life recollections were preserved only because they had managed to evade the tempting offer.
¨ Elsewhere some of Dr. Ian Stevenson’s subjects recalled that their previous physical bodies were cremated while some others claimed that the cremations of the physical bodies of their previous lives were directed to the home of their future birth.
¨ One subject even maintained that he had flitted through the air and rested on the tops of tree between his death in 1928 and his rebirth in 1947.
¨ A relatively more fascinating feature of Dr. Ian Stevenson’s casework is "the announcing dream" in which a mother-to-be, usually before conception, learns someone she already knew (maybe one of her dead relatives) would be reborn in her womb. This dream supposedly represents direct contact with the personality’s disembodied awareness and would oftentimes dictate a choice of name for the child to be born.
¨ Occasionally some subjects of Dr. Ian Stevenson claimed to remember appearing to their future mothers while in a transitional state between incarnations.

 

 
About half of the 200 subjects studied by Dr. Ian Stevenson said that they didn’t go directly to heaven but had to wait in another place first, which corresponds to the cross over phase. They reported making decisions about their next lifetime once they got to heaven, choosing a new family and new challenges. As one girl put it: “HEAVEN ISN’T EASY. YOU HAVE TO WORK THERE.” 

 

Books of Dr. Ian Stevenson

                

1. Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation (Paperback)
Author: Ian Stevenson

List Price: $45.00  Price: $36.00

2. Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation: Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged
Author: Ian Stevenson

List Price: $29.95  Price: $29.95

3. European Cases of the Reincarnation Type (Hardcover)
Author: Ian Stevenson

List Price: $75.00  Price: $60.00

                     

4. Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect (Hardcover)
Author: Ian Stevenson

List Price: $125.00  Price: $125.00
 

5. Reincarnation and Biology:
A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects Volume

Author: Ian Stevenson 

List Price: $175.00  Price: $175.00

6. Ordered to Return:
My Life After Dying
Authors: George G. Ritchie and Ian Stevenson

List Price: $14.95  Price: $13.46

                                  
7. Claims of Reincarnation: An Empirical Study of Cases in India (Over two decades, she has researched over 500 cases).Author: Satwant Pasricha
(
Asst to Dr. Ian Stevenson)
  Price: $53.72

8. I Have Lived Before:
The True Story of the Reincarnation of Shanti Devi (Paperback)

Author: Sture Lonnerstrand

List Price: $14.00  Price: $14.00

9. Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives  Author: Jim Tucker (worked with Dr. Ian Stevenson)
List Price: $23.95  Price: $16.05