S3E4: Do Birthmarks Carry Evidence of a Past Life?

A child remembers being murdered with a blow to the head and bears an unusual mark in the same place. Another recalls being shot, with birthmarks that appear to match a bullet's entry and exit wounds. But what makes these cases extraordinary is that researchers identified the real people whose lives the children claimed to remember and, in some cases, uncovered autopsy reports and medical records documenting fatal injuries that appeared to match the children's birthmarks and birth defects.
Dr. Ian Stevenson, founder of the University of Virginia's Division of Perceptual Studies, was so fascinated by these cases that he devoted decades to investigating them. These physical correspondences make children's past-life memories far more difficult to explain away as coincidence, imagination, or suggestion.
Could the human body carry physical evidence that consciousness survives death?
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Dive into the work of those interviewed in this episode:
Dr. Ian Stevenson
Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. First published 1966 as Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, Vol. 26. Second revised and enlarged edition 1974, University Press of Virginia.
Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Vol. I: Ten Cases in India. 1975, University Press of Virginia.
Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Vol. II: Ten Cases in Sri Lanka. University Press of Virginia.
Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Vol. III: Twelve Cases in Lebanon and Turkey. 1980, University Press of Virginia.
Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Vol. IV: Twelve Cases in Thailand and Burma. 1983, University Press of Virginia.
Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation. 1987, University Press of Virginia. Revised edition, McFarland.
Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects. 1997, Praeger.
Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect. 1997, Praeger.
European Cases of the Reincarnation Type. 2003, McFarland.
Xenoglossy: A Review and Report of a Case. 1974, University Press of Virginia.
Unlearned Language: New Studies in Xenoglossy. 1984, University Press of Virginia.
Telepathic Impressions: A Review and Report of Thirty-Five New Cases. 1970, University Press of Virginia.
Dr. James Matlock
Signs of Reincarnation: Exploring Beliefs, Cases, and Theory. 2019, Rowman & Littlefield.
I Saw a Light and Came Here: Children's Experiences of Reincarnation. 2016, White Crow Books.
Dr. Jim Tucker
Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives. 2005, St. Martin's Press.
Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives. 2013, St. Martin's Press.
Before: Children's Memories of Previous Lives. St. Martin's Essentials.
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