Soul Perception

Psychiatry chair Stevenson spent 40 years collecting 2,500+ cases of children reporting ‘past-life memories’, focusing on checkable details and matching birthmarks; successor Tucker continues.

Pingyang recorded 110+ living ‘reborn people’ — toddlers stating past-life names, addresses and causes of death and recognising past-life relatives; the official survey concluded ‘the phenomenon exists, but no scientific basis was found’.

Of 344 resuscitated cardiac-arrest patients, 18% reported near-death experiences, unrelated to hypoxia, drugs or fear.

Medium, scorer and experimenter mutually blinded; a medium’s description of a stranger’s deceased was blind-rated by relatives.

James called her the white crow proving ‘not all crows are black’; the SPR watched her for years without finding cheating.

Six dying patients on a scale; one lost 21 g at the moment of death; 15 dogs showed no change.

A youth on trial for a fatal gun accident had the victim ‘psychographically’ write that it was an accident, with handwriting matching the deceased, and the jury acquitted 6–1.

Lab ‘ghost’ figures and chills came from a new fan producing 19 Hz infrasound resonating the eyeballs.

From age 2 the boy repeatedly dreamt of being shot down by the Japanese, naming the carrier ‘Natoma Bay’ and a comrade, matching a WWII pilot James Huston killed at Iwo Jima in 1945.