He told me the name of a royal navy officer, a Dr. Stuart Hameroff in whose works I can find no mention of reincarnation, an MD (Ian Stevenson) whose work has been described as pseudoscience while Bruce Greyson is connected to the same type of work, and a 19th century philosopher (McTaggart).
Of these the only one with -some- credibility is Paul von Ward, and his ideas about the "soul genome" seems very unfounded and questionable.
Not a lot of hard science here... :sarcastic
Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an
English mathematical physicist and
Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the
Mathematical Institute,
University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of
Wadham College.
Stuart Hameroff (Born on July 16, 1947,
Buffalo, New York) is an
anesthesiologist and professor at the
University of Arizona known for his scientific studies of
consciousness, and his theories of the mechanisms of consciousness. From 1975 onwards, he has spent the whole of his career at the University of Arizona, becoming professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Psychology and associate director for the Center for Consciousness Studies, both in 1999, and finally Emeritus professor for Anesthesiology and Psychology in 2003.
Ian Pretyman Stevenson,
MD, (October 31, 1918February 8, 2007) was a Canadian
biochemist and
professor of
psychiatry. Until his retirement in 2002, he was head of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the
University of Virginia, which investigates the
paranormal.
[1]
Stevenson considered that the concept of
reincarnation might supplement those of heredity and environment in helping
modern medicine to understand aspects of human behavior and development.
[2] He traveled extensively over a period of 40 years to investigate 3,000 childhood cases that suggested to him the possibility of past lives.
[3] Stevenson saw reincarnation as the survival of the personality after death, although he never suggested a physical process by which a personality might survive death.
[4] Stevenson was the author of several books, including
Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation (1974),
Children Who Remember Previous Lives (1987),
Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect (1997),
Reincarnation and Biology (1997), and
European Cases of the Reincarnation Type (2003).
Bruce Greyson is Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry and the division director of The Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS),
[1] formerly the Division of Personality Studies, at the
University of Virginia. He is also a Professor of Psychiatric Medicine in the Department of Psychiatric Medicine, Division of Outpatient Psychiatry, at the University of Virginia.
Jim Tucker is medical director of the Child and Family Psychiatry Clinic, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the
University of Virginia.
[1] His main research interests are children who seem to remember previous lives, and prenatal and birth memories.
[2] He is the author of
Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Childrens Memories of Previous Lives, which presents an overview of over 40 years of
reincarnation research at the Division of Perceptual Studies.
[3] Tucker, a board-certified
child psychiatrist, worked for several years on this research with
Ian Stevenson before taking over upon Stevensons retirement in 2002.
[4][5][6]
Lynne McTaggart (born 1951) is an American journalist, author, publisher, lecturer, and spokesperson.
[1] According to her author profile, she is a spokesperson "on consciousness, the new physics, and the practices of conventional and alternative medicine".
[2] McTaggart is co-executive director of Conatus and is the author of six books, including
The Intention Experiment and
The Field.
[2]
John Hagelin was a researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (
CERN) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (
SLAC), and is now Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy at
Maharishi University of Management. He has conducted research into
unified field theory and the
Maharishi Effect.
