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Signs of Reincarnation

Exploring Beliefs, Cases, and Theory
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Signs of Reincarnation provides a systematic, inter-disciplinary examination of beliefs in as well as evidence for reincarnation that will appeal to students of anthropology, religious studies, philosophy, and the psychology of consciousness and memory, as well as parapsychology. Matlock discusses various ways the reincarnation evidence may be interpreted and shows that although the postmortem survival and reincarnation of consciousness entails a rejection of the materialist notion that consciousness is generated by the brain, it does not require the acceptance of any radically new concepts or the abandonment of well-established findings in mainstream psychology or biology. The book includes an extensive bibliography and a glossary of specialized and technical terms.
FOREWORD: A TALE OF TWO THEORIES, by Jeffrey Mishlove PREFACE CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF REINCARNATION SIGNS What is Reincarnation? Challenge to Materialism CHAPTER 2: THE BELIEF IN REINCARNATION Signs, Beliefs, and Customs in Animistic Cultures A Brief History of the Belief in Rebirth, West and East Karma, God, and the Individual in Rebirth Theory CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODS AND INTERPRETATIVE FRAMES Accounts of Past-Life Memory Recorded Before 1960 Ian Stevenson's Field Research and Its Critics Interpretive Frames for Reincarnation Cases CHAPTER 4: CHILD STUDIES: THE PRINCIPAL SIGNS OF REINCARNATION Involuntary Memory of Previous Lives Behavioral Identification with the Previous Person Birthmarks and Other Physical Signs CHAPTER 5: CHILD STUDIES: SECONDARY SIGNS OF REINCARNATION Signs of Discarnate Agency Universal, Near-Universal, and Culture-Linked Patterns The Psychological Impacts of Past-Life Memory CHAPTER 6: PAST-LIFE RECALL IN ADULTHOOD AND THIRD-PARTY REPORTS Developmental Factors in Involuntary Past-Life Memory Retrieval Fantasy and Fact in Past Life Regression under Hypnosis The Contributions of Shamans, Psychics, and Mediums CHAPTER 7: THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION Beyond Materialism Personal Identity and Postmortem Survival Reincarnation and Life AFTERWORD: IMPLICATIONS OF REINCARNATION CASES FOR BIOLOGY, by Michael Nahm
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