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Reincarnation - myth or reality
- 2. Reality Dr. Ian Stevenson Four types of evidences: • Recollections • Recognitions • Behaviors • Birthmarks
- 5. The Case of Necip Unlutaskiran • Born in Adana, Turkey, • Past-life as Necip Budak in Mersin 80 km away • Knew about scar on wife’s thigh
- 6. The Case of Necip Unlutaskiran • Affectionate to children • Jealous of wife’s new husband • 6 correlating birthmarks – probability 1 / 160^6
- 7. Fraud? No money No fame No religious motive Embarrassing behavior eg Jasbir Singh
- 8. Fraud “Neither self-delusion, intentional fraud, peer pressure, nor coincidence could explain how the children Ian investigated could have known all that they knew about strangers who’d died before they were born.” - Skeptic Tom Shroder, Editor, Washington Post, Author, Old Souls
- 9. Reality Two different people – non- intersecting sets Intersection point: non-material soul
- 10. Rationality Why different starting points? Chance? Divine Caprice? Multi-life progression?
- 11. Chance? Life a cosmic lottery? We live based on cause- effect connection Doctrine of helplessness
- 12. Divine Caprice? God’s justice? – better than ours, not worst God’s tests? – why different tests for different people?
- 13. Multi-life progression Our present starting point is determined by us, by our past ending point Reconciles world’s inequities with God’s goodness
- 14. Implication “Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive towards virtue, our future lives will be less afflicted.” –W. Somerset Maugham in The Razor’s Edge
- 15. Implication “I am no Hindu but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state to be incomparably more rational, more pious and more likely to deter men from vice than the horrid opinions inculcated by the Christians on punishment without end.” - Christian scholar & pioneering Sanskritist Sir Willam Jones
- 16. Opportunity We are sparks attracted to other sparks. Now we can become attracted to the whole