[From Carol Bowman's reincarnation forum]
https://reincarnationforum.com/threads/books-about-reincarnation.3828/
Ian Stevenson’s Case for the Afterlife: Are We ‘Skeptics’ Really Just Cynics?
[this is from an article published in Scientific American in 2013 by Jesse Bering]
If you’re anything like me, with eyes that roll over to the back of your head whenever you hear words like “reincarnation” or “parapsychology,” if you suffer great paroxysms of despair for human intelligence whenever you catch a glimpse of that dandelion-colored cover of Heaven Is For Real or other such books, and become angry when hearing about an overly Botoxed charlatan telling a poor grieving mother how her daughter’s spirit is standing behind her, then keep reading, because you’re precisely the type of person who should be aware of the late Professor Ian Stevenson’s research on children’s memories of previous lives.[read more here]
People who identify with races and cultures other than their own
There are many cases of people who identify with cultures they don't have any "biological" connection to. "Iron Eyes" Cody, the Italian-American actor who portrayed Native Americans all his life (and insisted he was one) is an example that immediately springs to mind. More recently, there's the puzzling story of Rachel Dolezal. Dolezal was a NAACP leader whose white parents say she misrepresented her identity by masquerading as a black woman. Dolezal told the “Today” show that, despite the criticisms, she identifies as black. She ended up writing a book about it. You have to wonder where stuff like this comes from. Could reincarnation explain it? I think it does. Here's another interesting case: White boy dreams of being a Zulu sangoma
Here's a video that reminds me that we're all connected, regardless of what color we are. Spirit is deeper than what lies on the surface. Johnny Clegg And Savuka - Scatterlings Of Africa (1987):
Reincarnation | At Home with Jenny Cockell
I remember seeing this lady a long time ago, like in the '80's or something, on a show like "That's Incredible!" or "Unsolved Mysteries." I'm amazed she's still alive, frankly, she still looks to be in great health! Anyway, I was deeply moved by her story, because she strongly remembered a past life where she was taken much too quickly from her many children. In this current life she became obsessed with finding them and making sure they were okay. I'll never forget the interview with one of her Irish-born sons. He was an very old man at the time and he said Ms. Cockell and his mother had the same eyes. He looked at the interviewer and acknowledged that he believed she was really his mother even though he was a Roman Catholic. Anyway, Ms. Cockell wrote a book about this, which I'll have to get around to reading sometime.
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