Recent content by hedpe9999

"Now that you reminded me, Skephardinn, I´ve dedicated my past 20 years to genetics. This is a fairly modern field of science and the basis were developed by Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel in the late 19th C." I'm not trying to start an argument but Darwin didn't know anything about...

Here is an objective critique of both Angel's and Stevenson's reponses: http://www.criticandokardec.com.br/imad_elawar_revisited.html Also, Tucker implies that the Elawar case has problems: "JT: By all appearances, the children report memories from the vantage point of only one deceased...

Does anybody know if Richter's father's name was Fritz? Also, didn't Carl mention the name of the town where he lived in Germany? Was it verified that Richter was from this town?

I was just trying to delineate the speculation from the empirical evidence. I praised Jim Tucker's view because it is specific and avoids the confusion of saying something like "consciousness survives." After all, what do we mean by "consciousness?" Is it some sort of "life principle" and/or...

For me, it is a very scary idea and I wish it wasn't true. I don't know why anybody thinks it is comforting to come back to a world like this over and over again. I basically think the universe is some meaningless psycho-physical process and I don't think we're here to "learn" or anything like...

Jim Tucker implies that he is not comfortable with the term "reincarnation" and he tries to use specific terminology. He says something along the lines that "memories, emotions, and sometimes traumas seem to carry over to another life." In my opinion, that it the only intellectually...

The point I was trying to make is that reincarnation research will always be based on anecdotal evidence like the social sciences. It will never achieve the ability to map all local causes and effects like physics or chemistry. Therefore, reincarnation researchers will never have a way to...

Ah, I thought you meant a reincarnation science in the spirit of the "hard" sciences (understanding the mechanics of it, creating mathematical models, etc.). In terms of the "soft" sciences, I think reincarnation research would fit in quite nicely.

I don't think there is a problem with true skepticism. True skepticism is a very healthy approach to just about anything. I think the problem is with dogmatism. Most so called skeptics are just dogmatists who engage in a knee jerk dismissal of evidence that contradicts their views of reality...

I don't think it's possible. Science gains its currency through mathematical models and/or empirical investigation(material causes and effects). That is why physics only deals with the simplest of physical systems. Once it is cut loose from the empirical realm, it devolves into metaphysical...

That's how some groups view reincarnation. In Eastern religions it varies. In the Vedas, reincarnation was viewed in a positive light; by the time of Upanishads it was considered to be completely meaningless. Buddhists and Jains (both non-theistic religions) have always viewed it as a...