Ian Stevenson’s "Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation": An Historical Review and Assessment
Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation (first published in 1966) is a classic of 20th-century parapsychology that can still be read with profit. Along with Children Who Remember Previous Lives (2001), it is an ideal introduction to Stevenson. The latter work, intended for the educated general read...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:6d9ef7ae062048c1bfc26aa64f0a1464 2023-05-15T18:33:22+02:00 Ian Stevenson’s "Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation": An Historical Review and Assessment James Matlock 2011-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/6d9ef7ae062048c1bfc26aa64f0a1464 EN eng SSE http://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/view/414 https://doaj.org/toc/0892-3310 0892-3310 https://doaj.org/article/6d9ef7ae062048c1bfc26aa64f0a1464 Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol 25, Iss 4 (2011) Speculative philosophy BD10-701 article 2011 ftdoajarticles 2022-12-30T23:41:59Z Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation (first published in 1966) is a classic of 20th-century parapsychology that can still be read with profit. Along with Children Who Remember Previous Lives (2001), it is an ideal introduction to Stevenson. The latter work, intended for the educated general reader, provides an overview of 40 years of research and includes capsule summaries of several cases, but Twenty Cases contains detailed reports that illustrate reincarnation-type cases much more fully. The cases reported in Twenty Cases come from India, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Lebanon, Brazil, and the United States (the Tlingit Indians of Alaska). They were selected from about 200 personally investigated by Stevenson in order to show the variety of features this type of case presents. The subjects of all were young children at the time they claimed to have lived before. Collectively these twenty cases help define “cases of the reincarnation type,” as Stevenson came to call them, though they vary substantially in detail. Article in Journal/Newspaper tlingit Alaska Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
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Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation (first published in 1966) is a classic of 20th-century parapsychology that can still be read with profit. Along with Children Who Remember Previous Lives (2001), it is an ideal introduction to Stevenson. The latter work, intended for the educated general reader, provides an overview of 40 years of research and includes capsule summaries of several cases, but Twenty Cases contains detailed reports that illustrate reincarnation-type cases much more fully. The cases reported in Twenty Cases come from India, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Lebanon, Brazil, and the United States (the Tlingit Indians of Alaska). They were selected from about 200 personally investigated by Stevenson in order to show the variety of features this type of case presents. The subjects of all were young children at the time they claimed to have lived before. Collectively these twenty cases help define “cases of the reincarnation type,” as Stevenson came to call them, though they vary substantially in detail. |
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