Children claiming past-life memories: Four cases in Sri Lanka. Journal of Scientific Exploration grein eftir dr. Erlend Haraldsson

 

Abstract-This is a report on an investigation of four children in Sri Lanka

who claimed to remember a previous life at the early age of two to three

years. Detailed written records were made of the statements of three of the

children before any attempt was made to examine their claims. In two cases,

these statements made it possible to trace a deceased person whose life

history fit to a considerable extent the statements made by the child. In these

cases, no prior connection of any kind was found to have existed between

the child’s family and that of the alleged previous personality. The pattern

of these cases resembles those earlier reported by Stevenson: the children are

at a preschool age when they start to make claims about a previous life; they

usually start to “forget” at about the time they go to school; some of them

claim to have died violently earlier; they express the wish to meet their

earlier families or visit their homes; and some of them show behavioral

idiosyncrasies that seem to differ from what they observe and would be

expected to learn from their environment. In Sri Lanka more than half of

such cases remain “unsolved,” i.e., no person can be traced that roughly

matches the child’s statements.

 

Lesa greinina í heild: https://notendur.hi.is/erlendur/english/cort/fourcase.pdf

 

Fleiri greinar eftir dr. Erlend Haraldsson: https://notendur.hi.is/erlendur/rannsvid.htm