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Jim Tucker, MD of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, 6/25/07. Dr. Tucker, successor to Dr. Ian Stevenson, describes the Division's ongoing efforts to investigate the phenomenon of spontaneous past-life memories in children. Regarding the photos of bullet-wound birthmarks which I have permission to use here, Dr. Tucker writes that witness accounts varied, but that two witnesses indicated the mark on the side of the head had originally been further toward the front and had migrated back along the side (as they sometimes do). The widow of the previous personality, meanwhile, reported that he (the previous personality) had been shot from behind, leaving a small entrance wound in the back of the head and a larger, irregularly-shaped wound in the front. There was no autopsy report for this particular case, but stronger cases with such reports exist in Dr. Stevenson's publications. (Windows Media format optimized for fast access.)
Tom Shroder, interviewed here on 5/1/1999, is an editor for the Washington Post who investigated Dr. Ian Stevenson's work as a skeptic by traveling with him on two research expeditions. Committed as he was to the journalistic ideal of objectivity, he had to admit he was convinced that the findings were genuine. (A portion of this interview appears in the documentary.) For those who complain that I didn't have more skeptics in "In Another Life," I can only say that as a skeptic, Mr. Shroder has impeccable journalistic credentials, and it's not my fault if he was convinced. My obligation was to provide a well-qualified skeptic--not to insist that he remains skeptical after seeing the evidence.)
Philosophy professor Dr. Robert Almeder of Georgia State University discusses reincarnation and societal reactions, focusing especially on the work of the late Dr. Ian Stevenson. Interview conducted 7/24/2000.
Don E. Stevens, direct disciple of Avatar Meher Baba and co-editor of Meher Baba's most important work, "God Speaks," describes his personal journey both of discipleship, and of coming to terms with the concept of reincarnation. In particular, he describes how Meher Baba anchors reincarnation in the deeper teachings that are set forth in "God Speaks". Read "God Speaks" online.
Angela Grubbs, attorney, 11/7/04, describes how she researched and verified her dreams of a past life in Lexington, Kentucky in the early 1900's.
Donna describes her experience of undergoing past-life hypnotic regression and discusses what it meant to her, including how being gay relates to her past lives, 7/23/98. (Donna is featured in "In Another Life" but this portion of the interview was not used.) Click here for dialup version.
Marge Rieder is a hypnotherapist and the author of "Mission to Millboro" and "Return to Millboro" (see Recommended Books section). The Millboro study is the most extensive research conducted to date on group reincarnation (although Dr. Rieder prefers not to use the label "reincarnation," speaking instead of past-life memories). This interview, videotaped on Nov. 10, 2001, was originally included in "In Another Life." However, Dr. Rieder didn't want me to use the video portion of the interview, and I didn't want to re-work it at the last minute so as to be narration-only, so the segment was pulled. However, I'm presenting it here substituting a still photograph of Dr. Rieder where the interview video was.
Swami Yogeshananda, a monk of the Ramakrishna
Order, discusses reincarnation from the point of view of Vedanta, 2002. (Note the Swami appears in the documentary,
but this interview was not used.)
Dr. Roger Woolger, author of "Other Lives, Other Selves" discusses past-life therapy and describes some of his own personal journey, 4/28/99. (Dr. Woolger appears in the documentary, but this portion of his interview was not used.)
Capt. Robert Snow, commander of the homicide branch of the Indianapolis police department, describes his efforts to try to disprove the facts that emerged in a hypnotic past-life regression he originally underwent as a dare--and how he ended up proving 26 of 28 points using police investigation methods. (See also Capt. Snow's book, "Looking for Carroll Beckwith,"
in the Recommended Books section.) This is one of the strongest reincarnation cases I came across in my five years of research on the project. I wasn't able to include it in the show because I couldn't obtain travel funds for the interview, but more importantly because no-one who held copyright for the images painted by James Carroll Beckwith, the former personality, would even answer my inquiries once they knew what I wanted permission for. (Audio interview) Click here for dialup connection version. Real Media format
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Music
opening this page: "Over and Over Again," by the Richie Furay Band, album "I've Got a Reason"
