Related to important actions in previous lives. This Westerner is more interested than us Easterners.
In 1960, Ian Steven, the founder of contemporary reincarnation research in the West, published the article "Evidence of Memories of Past Lives" in the magazine of the American Association for Psychical Research, which caused an uproar throughout the world. It was later hailed as the pioneering work of modern Western research on reincarnation. In 1961, at the age of 43, Stevenson received support from private funds and began more than 40 years of research on "reincarnation." He traveled around the world to collect, organize and verify reincarnation cases from different countries. He recorded nearly 3,000 cases and published ten monographs and dozens of academic papers.
Stevenson’s research mainly focuses on children. He believes that children can preserve clear past life memories between the ages of 2 and 4, but this memory will decline after the age of 7 or 8. Especially those children who have experienced "heroic" deaths in their previous lives will often mention the details of their death process in their previous lives. For example, "Twenty Cases Illustrating Reincarnation" is Stevenson's first book and his most famous work. It is the most cited reference book in the field of reincarnation research today. The 20 cases of reincarnation in the book are part of the cases he collected, compiled and verified from India, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Lebanon and Alaska in the United States between 1961 and 1965. One of the cases is about an Indian girl. She remembered "her" husband and son when she was 3 years old, and then returned to her "hometown" accompanied by her parents to meet her relatives in her previous life. After a long and rigorous investigation, it was finally confirmed that She is "Baiya" who has been dead for many years.
Stevenson also believes that birthmarks, birth defects, and other physical defects can be seen as reflections of past lives. In the book "Reincarnation and Biology: The Causes of Birthmarks and Congenital Defects," he pointed out that birthmarks and congenital defects are the most intuitive and objective evidence in reincarnation case studies. He believes that birthmarks or physical defects can reflect the physical condition of previous lives. Surveys have found that almost every adult has about 15 birthmarks. In addition to family history that can explain hereditary birthmarks at the same location, as for why they appear on the body There is a birthmark in a specific area, but there is no reasonable explanation so far. Modern medicine identifies three causes of birth defects: genes, viral infections, and the influence of chemicals. But these factors explain less than half of birth defects. If we dig deeper, why does this person have it and others don’t? Why is it in that part of the world? It’s also as unexplainable as a birthmark. The principle of reincarnation provides a reasonable explanation for such difficult problems. Stevenson said that during reincarnation, if a person was stabbed to death, shot to death, or burned to death in the previous life, the wound and the injured part will often leave obvious marks on the body in the future life, that is, a There will be birthmarks at birth.
Stevenson also said that children who remember their past lives generally have four characteristics, as well as birthmarks and birth defects. These four characteristics are: phobia, eccentricity, sexual reversal (i.e. sexual role reversal), and unreasonable hatred and love, which all make them behave differently in games. For example, some children always tie a rope around their necks in games because he or she hanged himself in a previous life; some children often regard other children as their students because his or her previous career was teacher. These conclusions attempt to explain many common and difficult-to-explain phenomena in modern psychology, especially child psychology.