Saturday, March 12

The Scars And Wounds Of Reincarnation

Reincarnation - Thérèse Duncan
It's sometimes said that physical defects we may be born with are carried over from a previous life. Many will strongly disagree with this, which is why religion and beliefs are a very personal thing.

The psychiatrist Ian Stevenson, from the University of Virginia, conducted more than 2,500 case studies of supposed reincarnation, over a period of 40 years, and published twelve books on the subject.

One of the things Stevenson recorded was that in 35% of the cases studied had either birthmarks or birth defects. He said of this, "The subject's marks or defects correspond to injuries or illness experienced by the deceased person who the subject remembers; and medical documents have confirmed this correspondence in more than forty cases."

He saw this as possible evidence in favour of reincarnation. In other words an injury in a previous life might well show up as a scar or something similar when a young child. Examples he quotes include ...

... a girl, born with markedly deformed fingers, who seemed to remember being a man whose fingers were cut off, and a boy, born with stubs for fingers on his right hand, who seemed to remember the life of a boy in another village who lost the fingers of his right hand in a fodder-chopping machine.


These birth marks, or defects differ from anything hereditary, such as the following personal instance. My daughter-in-law mentioned that my seven month old grandson has a small bump at the top of his left ear. She was surprised when I told her my wife (her mother-in-law) also had a small bump in an identical position on her left ear, which she has also had from birth.

Returning to reincarnation 'defects' there is a story of about a man who had a red three inch birthmark on his leg just below his right knee. No one else in his family had this mark, or any other birthmarks.

He went to a psychic to have a reading done. The psychic took him through his past lives to help him come to terms with some issues he had in his present life. In doing so they discovered that, in a previous life, he was an American Indian in the 1800s and had bled to death from a knife wound.

The wound was on his right leg just below the knee.

There are hundreds of such stories. As to whether they are all true, who is to say for sure, but it is another aspect for consideration for those undecided about reincarnation.

Psychiatrist Jim B. Tucker, in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, justified posssible reincarnation in the following way:

I think they relate in the sense that the physical universe is not what it seems to be, from what we can tell from quantum mechanics. And at least on a quantum level, it seems to be dependent on our observation of it. Quantum physicists talk about electrons, or events being potential, rather than actual physical entities. So that there are various potentials, basically until somebody looks, and then it sort of forces the universe to make a determination about which potential is going to be actualized.

So one take-home message from that is that consciousness is not just a by-product of a physical brain but is actually a separate entity in the universe that has a big impact on things in the universe. And there are people looking at the idea of how, in a quantum way, consciousness can affect the physical brain. If you are open to that possibility, if you are truly going to consider the fact that consciousness is that separate entity in the universe, then you have to consider the possibility that consciousness is not dependent on just being a by-product of a functioning brain. It's going to continue after the brain dies.


Further Reading:
The Law Of Re-Embodiment Or Reincarnation
The Reincarnation Of Phil Collins
The Reincarnation Of The Cathars Priest Roger de Grisolles

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7 comments:

  1. you are beginning to convince me about reincarnation

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  2. Anonymous18:27

    Stevenson was the best physician/advocate for reincarnation. Carol Bowman, who worked with him, wrote two fantastic books on children's past lives and on the very things you talk about in this post, scars that carry over. Great post, Mike.
    - Trish

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  3. I think we travel in soul groups...and when we pass on we wait in the wings acting as guides to our soul groups here on Earth until we have the opportunity and desire to return within the same family...to continue the learning process of the pain body. My family thinks this is absurd, and tries ever so hard to convince me that this is just DNA...but there are too many coincidences to convince me otherwise. When my youngest was between the ages of 3-5...all he could talk about was his experience before being born...and most of the things he was saying were true...and only I could have known these things...

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  4. Both my kids have the same birthmark on their lower backs. My daughter's is less visible than her brother's though. They also have different fathers. It's starting to make me freak out!

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  5. Anonymous02:25

    I've never had any surgeries or stitches. I have a perfectly drawn cross on my right ankle.

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  6. Anonymous06:28

    I have a red dot (it was really red like it just happened) from when i was born. Now it's faded. And I have never had any surgeries or stitches but I have a perfectly drawn straight line down my stomach

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  7. I have a mark at the Base of my neck it looks like I had some sort of surgery done. The funny thing is I have never even been for any surgery before I've asked my mum and she seems to think it was a scar from a past life

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