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Signs of Reincarnation provides a systematic, inter-disciplinary examination of beliefs in as well as evidence for reincarnation that will appeal to students of anthropology, religious studies, philosophy, and the psychology of consciousness and memory, as well as parapsychology. Matlock discusses various ways the reincarnation evidence may be interpreted and shows that although the postmortem survival and reincarnation of consciousness entails a rejection of the materialist notion that consciousness is generated by the brain, it does not require the acceptance of any radically new concepts or the abandonment of well-established findings in mainstream psychology or biology. The book includes an extensive bibliography and a glossary of specialized and technical terms.
Contents
FOREWORD: A TALE OF TWO THEORIES, by Jeffrey Mishlove
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF REINCARNATION SIGNS
What is Reincarnation?
Challenge to Materialism
CHAPTER 2: THE BELIEF IN REINCARNATION
Signs, Beliefs, and Customs in Animistic Cultures
A Brief History of the Belief in Rebirth, West and East
Karma, God, and the Individual in Rebirth Theory
CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODS AND INTERPRETATIVE FRAMES
Accounts of Past-Life Memory Recorded Before 1960
Ian Stevenson's Field Research and Its Critics
Interpretive Frames for Reincarnation Cases
CHAPTER 4: CHILD STUDIES: THE PRINCIPAL SIGNS OF REINCARNATION
Involuntary Memory of Previous Lives
Behavioral Identification with the Previous Person
Birthmarks and Other Physical Signs
CHAPTER 5: CHILD STUDIES: SECONDARY SIGNS OF REINCARNATION
Signs of Discarnate Agency
Universal, Near-Universal, and Culture-Linked Patterns
The Psychological Impacts of Past-Life Memory
CHAPTER 6: PAST-LIFE RECALL IN ADULTHOOD AND THIRD-PARTY REPORTS
Developmental Factors in Involuntary Past-Life Memory Retrieval
Fantasy and Fact in Past Life Regression under Hypnosis
The Contributions of Shamans, Psychics, and Mediums
CHAPTER 7: THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION
Beyond Materialism
Personal Identity and Postmortem Survival
Reincarnation and Life
AFTERWORD: IMPLICATIONS OF REINCARNATION CASES FOR BIOLOGY, by Michael Nahm
