THE LAST TWO SENTENCES JUST ABOVE :
"What if the subject had what my grandmother calls 'cauliflower ears' or a schnoz that wouldn't quit and the painter was being nice? We have no idea if the man from the 16-century himself even looks like the man in the painting."
Well noted, & well...
He had already loved the Helmet. And that too, even before watching the portrait. [sEE THE 1ST POST OF THIS THREAD.]
So far as inquiring mind is considered, he has at least shown a 'general interest' reportedly in the Internet, as at least one website claims he's "totally interested" in...
2 REFERENCES of Reincarnation being 'considered' in the Internet, outside our Forum:-
Man finds his doppelganger in old painting - Unexplained Mysteries:
www.unexplained-mysteries.com › News › Bizarre2 days ago – Max Galuppo got came across a painting of someone rather familiar ... They say...
But just consider the following 2 & 1/2 points: (APART FROM THE portrait)
## "...he loved the helmets. He was completely oblivious to it, and I walked past it and was like, 'Do you see this painting right now?..." [para 5]
## Max said: "To be honest, I didn't see it. I didn't see the...
E.g. Evidence from 'simple' Online News?—No Hypnosis, no Spontaneous-recall case; AND YET?—READ THIS ONLINE NEWS & SEE IF IT SHEDS LIGHT IN THE DIRECTION OF THE FUTURE EMPIRIC RESEARCH ON REINCARNATION
In fact, after extraordinary meditation, an adult could also become a Jatiswar - according to Ancient India. The person would achieve the capacity to recall the past life just as those children did spontaneously in the research area of Stevenson.
I haven't had 'much' reference to the...
Perhaps, meditation is the best evidence for reincarnation.
And yet I'm in support of empirical research. Because it keeps up with the Zeitgeist. (This German word means: Time-spirit i.e. the tendency of the time.)
The Ancient Indians - - as far as I know - - didn't conclude it ONLY from the...
Inverters & counter-inverters
I call these factors INVERTERS. They are not karma at all. But they reverse the potential effect of a Karma (which literary means: Action). If someone gets a Government job without sufficient preparation in the relevant field, but only thanks to a Political party...
Pseudo-Karma
This concept is explicitly stated in the Jain philosphy. The Jain scholars/monks, even after Lord Mahavir's time (about 2500 years ago), went on further working on the Karma theory throughout several centuries. They developed many details and elaborated on it. And to tell further...
When does Karma MANIFEST ?
According to Jainism, Karma - - both bad & good - - is bound to manifest WHEN THE RIGHT CONDITIONS EXIST. And no one can escape the results, at that time.
Let us consider a good case now. Suppose:
I've written a good Book over several years, say from 2005. And...
With the growth of New Technology, especially the Internet, the new children can tap databases of the past persons more easily than ever before. So to continue the Stevenson-model of Research (the empiric research without hypnosis) we will soon need to use an innovative strategy. We may enlarge...
Not really.
I know of TWO religions viz. Buddhism & Jainism (both originating in ancient India) which don't believe in God. The Buddhists are AGNOSTIC, oscillating between belief & disbelief, and the Jains are ATHEISTS i.e. they outright deny God.
But they are BOTH convinced in Reincarnation.
How the Karma returns?
It doesn't take a Rocket scientist or a certain Expert to help conclude that the World is NOT 1:1. People may like the Balance e.g. they may want a Criminal or an Abuser to get punished. But does it happen in a STRAIGHT line? - Not always. - Maybe not even often...
Social Networks online can help flourish the spontaneous memory based empiric modern research on Reincarnation. For example, a Jatiswar (this Bengali term ???????? means: A PERSON WHO REMEMBERS PREVIOUS LIFE) could recall their User ID & Password in Facebook & several other social onlines like...