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Old Souls: Compelling Evidence from Children Who Remember Past Lives
This book might interest you. It has a lot of research into accounts of children who remember past lives. They usually stop speaking about their past lives by the age about 5.
This happened to me in College, and sways from crazy anxiety for years, to peace for a few years, to atheism and just generally depressed about it, back to peace and hope, to Atheism... it is never stable for me.
For me the only way I can cope with Death when I'm not feeling crazy Atheist is to find real tangible evidence of, well, some kind of existence after. (Good luck, I know.) My favorite books helping with my own personal death related anxiety are
Old Souls Dude's been studying "past lives" his whole life. Interesting to say the least, and not preachy. More objective.
Emmanuel's Guide to the Cosmos Note - there is nothing scientific about this book at all - however if there does happen to be some kind of soul-system, this one makes the most sense to me personally.
I also enjoy the Tibetian book of living and dying and reading up on weird shit the Llamas can do / have done.
Reading up on Near Death Experience can be cool, too. I know a lot of people believe NDE's are chemically induced and that is certainly viable, but I've read a couple accounts that just... ring kind of true to me, idk. You'll have to decide for yourself.
All the best.
This happens a lot!
http://www.amazon.com/Old-Souls-Scientific-Search-Proof/dp/0684851938
One Buddhist philosopher who spent considerable effort examining the concept of rebirth was Dharmakirti. You might want to take a look at some of these papers:
Another general book looking at rebirth from a Buddhist perspective is Rebirth and the Western Buddhist (Dan Martin).
Looking at Ian Stevenson's work is a good idea. You may also want to read Old Souls: Scientific Search for Proof of Past Lives by Tom Shroder, a journalist who accompanied Stevenson during some of his field research.
For a history of the Tibetan tulku recognition practices, check out Incarnation: The History and Mysticism of the Tulku Tradition of Tibet by Tulku Thondup.
> From my understanding he researched children that had allegedly remembered previous lives. There's so much room for contamination there that it makes the study flawed from the beginning. The kids could have picked that information from their family and surroundings; they could have made rather vague claims for which finding a match by sheer luck would be easy, or the researcher may have intentionally or not omitted the mispredictions made by the subjects (confirmation bias). It's just not enough to prove anything.
I agree it's a difficult topic to tackle, but I think he took a nice, manageable bite. He studied thousands of cases and eliminated or at least heavily caveated those with a strong opportunity for contamination; his particular specialty was the intersection of children with past-life memories and children with birthmarks (testing the hypothesis that birthmarks, like phobias, might be residues of past-life violence).
If you're interested, I found this book about him Old Souls; Thomas Schroder (note, it was written by a journalist who, if memory serves, at least claims to be biased against the plausibility of Stevenson's research at the beginning) to be very good. Actually, that was my introduction to Stevenson.
> [W]hen it comes to something with such consequence as one's life stance it seems justified to do one's homework and base it on the best available evidence.
I would agree; the question is how much reincarnation, yea or nay, should really affect one's life stance. Why would it really matter?
There's a great book called Old Souls that you should definitely check out.
Old Souls. Not exactly evidence for ghosts, but if this is possible, why discount them outright?
I concur, This book was fascinating.
Here's the Amazon link.