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Research Questions and Scholarly Sources

Shifting away from the afterlife and into past lives, there needed to be a little bit of adjustment; however, I believe I included the research questions I’d like to explore.


Many children are able to vividly remember and provide descriptions of what they preserve as their “past life.” How accurate are these cases, and do these cases pose any benefits for children? Are children just highly imaginative, and does a child’s highly developmental mind play a role in their experiences? Could there be any overlap between these children?


Sources:

Haraldsson, Erlendur. “Children Who Speak of Past-Life Experiences: Is There a Psychological Explanation?” Psychology & Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice, vol. 76, no. 1, Mar. 2003, p. 55. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1348/14760830260569256.

Kean, Leslie. Surviving Death: a Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife. Three Rivers Press, an Imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a Division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018. 

Pasricha, Satwant K. “Do Attitudes of Families Concerned Influence Features of Children Who Claim to Remember Previous Lives?” Indian Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 53, no. 1, Medknow 

Rawat, Kirti Swaroop, and Titus Rivas. “The Life Beyond: Through the Eyes of Children Who Claim to Remember Previous Lives.” Journal of Religion & Psychical Research, vol. 28, no. 3, July 2005, pp. 126–136.

    Stevenson, Ian. “Ropelike Birthmarks on Children Who Claim to Remember Past Lives.” Psychological             Reports, vol. 89, no. 1, Aug. 2001, p. 142. EBSCOhost, doi:10.2466/pr0.2001.89.1.142.

Comments

  1. Michael GoellerFebruary 14, 2021 at 1:21 PM

    Looks good. You should also search Amazon for books on the topic. There are so many, and many by seemingly reputable people. These include:
    Old Souls by Tom Schroder (we saw this through Rutgers also)
    Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot by Bruce Leininger
    Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives by Brian Weiss
    Return to Life by Dr. Jim Tucker
    Life before Life by Dr. Jim Tucker

    Jim Tucker has written tons of stuff, both scholarly and popular. His predecessor (who also published scholarly literature on the topic) was I. Stevenson -- see discussion here:
    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/feeling-too-much/201412/children-who-seemingly-remember-past-lives

    Tucker also maintains a list of scholarly resources:
    https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/publications/academic-publications/children-who-remember-previous-lives-academic-publications

    There is also this video series (two seasons):
    https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Inside-My-Child-Season/dp/B00ECU20HA

    It would be worthwhile for you to look at as many cases as possible and try to come up with common themes or issues in them, perhaps. And you could already have a good project just by documenting this amazing phenomenon and trying to understand why people (including, now, myself) find it so fascinating.


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