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the unedited/roughly edited interview with that person.
New interviews may be added from time to time.
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.)
Philosophy professor Dr. Robert Almeder of Georgia State University discusses reincarnation, especially in the context of the work of the late Dr. Ian Stevenson, 7/24/2000.
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. Click on thumbnail image for fast internet access version; click here for dial-up version. (If you play the dial-up version, and you back off some distance from your monitor, it will appear sharper.)
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.
Audio interview with Marge Rieder,
hypnotherapist and 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 segment, a more recent interview with Marge Rieder (11/10/01), 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. Fast internet access is required for this one.
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.)
Neale Lundgren, Ph.D., a psychotherapist, former Christian monk and follower of Meher Baba, discusses reincarnation from both psychological and religious perspectives.
Dr. Roger Woolger, author of "Other Lives, Other Selves" discusses past-life therapy, 4/28/99. (Dr. Woolger appears in the documentary, but this portion of his interview was not used.) Click here for dialup connection version.
Bhau Kalchuri, direct disciple of Avatar Meher Baba, discusses reincarnation from the perspective of Meher Baba's teachings. Click here for dialup connection version. You can also view a transcript, in case you have difficulty understanding Mr. Kalchuri's accent. To read Meher Baba's teachings on reincarnation,
click
here.
Jenny Smedley, from Britain, describes her personal journey in remembering, researching and resolving a lifetime in which she was separated forcibly from her husband, Ryan, who in this lifetime is country music star Garth Brooks, 5/6/99. (However unlikely it seems at first glance to those of us in America--Garth Brooks isn't as well-known in Britain--I believe Jenny's case is genuine, partly as a result of getting to know her personally and being able to vouch for her character. But since she's not an American I decided not to include her in the documentary about "Reincarnation in America")
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. Note this has been re-edited and the audio quality improved.
Charles Skillas, Ph.D., hypnotherapist, relates how two patients who didn't know
each other in this life turned out to have been sisters in a previous lifetime, based on details each described under hypnosis, 6/17/98. (Dr. Skillas is featured in the documentary, but this section of the
interview was not used.)
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Music
opening this page: "Over and Over Again," by the Richie Furay Band, album "I've Got a Reason"
