Abstract
Claimed memories of former lives seem to fall into two main categories. The first consists of spontaneous claims to ‘remember’ a past life, made by the subject while awake and fully conscious. The second consists of apparent memories which emerge in dreams, or which are articulated in response to questions asked under hypnosis when a subject has been told to ‘go back in time’.1 Let us begin by looking at alleged cases of spontaneous waking memories of former lives.
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Cf. J. Iverson, More Lives than One? (Pan, 1977) p. 24.
I. Stevenson, Cases of Reincarnation Type, vol. I, Ten Cases in India (Univ. Press of Virginia, 1975) p. I.
I. Stevenson, Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation (ASPR 1966) pp. 20–33.
I. Stevenson, The Evidence for Survival from claimed Memories of Former Incarnations (ASPR reprint, 1961) p. 40.
L. Weatherhead, The Christian Agnostic (Hodder and Stoughton, 1967) pp. 248–9.
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Badham, P., Badham, L. (1982). Claimed Memories of Former Lives. In: Immortality or Extinction?. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04439-9_7
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