Chapter 415 Related Birthmark Preface

If you are a "reincarnation" person, you will find more soulmates in the Western world now than before.According to the British "Daily Mail" report, on April 25, 2008, Ian?A commemorative meeting was held on the first anniversary of Stevenson's death. Stevenson's "fans" from all over the world came to mourn silently in the drizzle of London with their "research results".However, the "reincarnation theory" has not been recognized by mainstream science so far, and has been called "nonsense". "Samsara" is derived from ancient Indian Sanskrit, meaning "reincarnation" or "circle of life".Ian Stevenson (Ian Stevenson), the founder of modern Western reincarnation theory research, died of pneumonia on February 8, 2007, at the age of 89.Stevenson served as chair of the Department of Perception Studies at the University of Virginia before retiring. In 1960, he published the article "Evidence of Past Life Memories" in the journal of the American Association for Psychic Research, which caused a worldwide uproar.It was later hailed as the pioneering work of modern western reincarnation research. In 1961, Stevenson, who was 43 years old at the time, received the support of private funds and began his research on "reincarnation" for more than 40 years.He traveled all over the world to collect, collate and verify reincarnation cases from different countries, recorded nearly 3,000 cases, and published ten monographs and dozens of academic papers.In particular, his books "Twenty Cases Demonstrating Reincarnation" (1966), "Children Who Remember Past Lives" (2001), "Reincarnation and Biology - Meet Here" (1997), "Reincarnation and Biology Science: Birthmarks and the Causes of Birth Defects" (1997), etc., have become bestsellers in the West.According to the results of several Gallup polls, at least 1/4 of Westerners believe in the theory of reincarnation, and this number is still rising. This trend may be inseparable from Stevenson.

Stevenson's research is mainly on children. He believes that children can retain clear past life memories between the ages of 2 and 4, and this memory will decline after the age of seven or eight.Especially those children who have experienced "heroic" death in the previous life will often mention the details of their death process in the previous life.For example, "Twenty Cases Demonstrating Reincarnation" is Stevenson's first book and also his famous work. It is the most cited reference book in the field of reincarnation research today.The 20 reincarnation cases in the book are part of the cases he collected, organized and verified from India, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Lebanon and Alaska in the United States from 1961 to 1965.For example, one of the cases is an Indian girl. When she was 3 years old, she remembered her "own" husband and son, and then she returned to her "hometown" accompanied by her parents to meet her relatives in her previous life. After a long and rigorous investigation, she finally confirmed that She is "Baya" who has been dead for many years.

Stevenson also believes that birthmarks, birth defects, and other physical defects can all be seen as a reflection of past lives.In the book "Reincarnation and Biology: The Causes of Birthmarks and Birth Defects", he pointed out that birthmarks and birth defects are the most intuitive and objective evidence in the case study of reincarnation.He believes that birthmarks or physical defects can reflect the physical condition of the previous life. "The survey found that almost every adult has about 15 birthmarks. In addition to family history, which can explain the genetic birthmarks at the same position, why are there in the same place? There is no reasonable explanation for birthmarks on specific parts of the body.Modern medicine has identified 3 causes for birth defects: genes, viral infections, and the influence of chemicals. But these factors can only explain less than half of the birth defects. Going deeper, why does this person have it and others don’t? Why do they have it at that place? It’s just as unexplainable as a birthmark. The principle of reincarnation provides a reasonable explanation for this kind of difficult problem.” He said that people in In reincarnation, if you were stabbed to death by a knife, shot to death by a bullet, or burnt to death in your previous life, the wound and the injured part will often leave obvious marks on your future life, that is, there will be a birthmark upon birth.

Stevenson also said that children who remembered past lives generally shared all four characteristics, along with birthmarks and birth defects.These 4 characteristics are: phobia, eccentricity, sex reversal (that is, sex role reversal), gratuitous hate and love, which make them behave differently in the game.For example, some children always tie a rope around their necks in games because he (she) hanged himself in the previous life; some children often regard other children as their students because his (her) previous career was teacher.These conclusions attempt to explain many common but difficult-to-explain phenomena in modern psychology, especially in child psychology.

In addition to Stevenson's method of collecting cases of children with past life memories, another study is the past life regression of the subjects through hypnosis under the guidance of a psychiatrist.Its representative figure is the American Brian?Dr. Weiss, his first book "Many Past Lives, Many Masters" (1988) has sold 2 million copies and been translated into more than 20 languages.Wei Si was originally a psychiatrist. At first he didn't believe in the so-called past life and reincarnation until he met the patient Catherine.Catherine was 27 years old and suffered from multiple phobias and depression.Wei Si treated her traditionally for a year, but her condition remained the same.Weiss believed that Catherine's mental illness might stem from suppressed childhood memories, so she suggested that Catherine recall the suppressed memories and release negative emotions through hypnosis.But what Wei Si didn't expect was that during the hypnotherapy session, one of his instructions "go back to the time when your cause of disease occurred", brought Catherine's consciousness back to about 4,000 years ago, and she had a different face from the present. , clothing, body, hair and name, and remember the architecture, clothing and details of daily life at that time, even she died in the flood, and her child was washed from her arms by the flood.After this treatment, Catherine's fears of drowning and suffocation disappeared.In subsequent sessions, Catherine recalled more than a dozen vivid past lives.From then on, Wei Si began to study the issue of reincarnation.

Interestingly, under the guidance of a hypnotist, Stevenson also claimed to have found his past life - the Crusades (referring to the wars launched by Western European Christian countries against countries on the east coast of the Mediterranean between 1096 and 1291). monks.According to David who hypnotized Stevenson at the time?Wells dictated, and Stevenson followed the instructions, imagining himself floating up to the roof and then floating into space, and turned back to face the earth.Slowly, the earth seemed to stop turning and started to go in the opposite direction, meaning that time went backwards, and he began to describe his past life.

Stevenson said he last "died" in Jerusalem in 1276, when Pope Gregory X's crusades faced defeat.He said he was surrounded by 100 knights in a domed church and watched them sharpen their swords and strengthen their shields and armor.Stevenson said that when he came to the "Holy Land" (Jerusalem) from Kent (the British place name), although he still hated Muslims, he found that he didn't like the Christians on his side either.Soon the church caught fire, and he calmly watched the fire engulf the church and himself without feeling any pain. Although the theory of reincarnation is becoming more and more popular in the West, there are many opponents.The most famous is the philosopher Leonardo of Douglas College in Vancouver, Canada?Ange.He has written many times to question Stevenson's various investigations and cases. Even in an interview with the New York Times when Stevenson died, he said mercilessly: "Stevenson's research is not rigorous. Yes, his conclusions are not reliable, they are all nonsense!"

Anger believed that Stevenson was loosely using the fragmented information provided by the experimenters to shape a person's personality traits. "Using this method, you can find characters that match the characters you create anywhere. His method is fundamentally completely unreliable, because there is no quantitative standard for character in the first place, and there is no scientific method to verify character. The matching between them. This is purely empirical, and its conclusions are very questionable." In addition, the inability to effectively analyze the prior probability (referring to the probability obtained based on past experience and analysis), and the inability to actually manipulate the experimental subjects are also the main reasons for people to criticize the theory of reincarnation.The British Broadcasting Corporation reported in 2005 that Helen?Joss said that in the study of reincarnation, the experimental subject cannot rule out being influenced by guidance and suggestion. At the same time, when the experimental subject finds that his reincarnation memory is not supported by evidence, he will use his imagination, and the margin of imagination is very large. Whether it is true or not is difficult. verify.

Joss said that as an ordinary person, believing in "reincarnation" may add interest and conversation to life; but as a scientist, if you study reincarnation as a theory, you must have a serious attitude and strict standards. What do you think?The following story is about the strange incident related to the birthmark.Why did Grandpa know in advance that Grandma Yue's grandson had a large red birthmark on the inner thigh?This birthmark will trigger a series of strange things to happen?If the ghost events written above are the accumulation of life plus artistic imagination, then the story of this birthmark really happened.Don't worry, everyone, and listen to me.