Reincarnation Research (Ian Stevenson) - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

[@eleanorpolchinski7919]

Thank you both for a wonderful show . Peace be to us all💕

[@lisadwhitworth]

Thank you Jimmy and Dom! Excellent as always. Utterly fascinating and so well researched. This is my favorite podcast and program because it a wonderful blend of our Catholic faith, exploring our world with its many mysteries. Regardless of a person's background it just such a balance and interested programing. Keep up the good work! Blessing to both of you! 🙏💕

[@briancook2485]

Thank you for sharing your beautiful gifts with the world, Jimmy and Dom.

[@joelmontero9439]

I'm waiting for the next episode! God bless you Jimmy this podcast is the best online

[@SeleneStarr]

Very informative! Looking forward to next week's episode.

[@ksanto9797]

Looking forward to the next episode.

[@MelanieLiCausiLeveledlLearning]

Thank you for sharing. It's interesting that the stage of childhood you mentioned as being particularly vulnerable to recent reincarnation -type experiences happens to overlap with the exact stage where children's brain-wave states are primarily subconscious. Is it possible that they are just more open to suggestions or communication from spirits? Being primarily ego-centric, they may also assume that any thoughts, feelings, or memories communicated to them are "mine/me". Not sure how that could be ruled out?

[@JustErics101]

It could also be that the memories they have of a previous life are memories that are in the “souls” own subconscious, granting them access. This is what Jim Matlock (another researcher) suggests. Also the singular focus on a particular previous identity rather than multiple souls in these cases lines up closer to reincarnation IMO. I don’t know however, in parapsychology it can be hard to differentiate psi from Survival evidence.

[@PatrickSweeney1]

A great treatment of a topic that is covered so often with unwarranted credulity or closed-minded skepticism. I hope that Jimmy gets around to suggesting what the agency or mechanism might account for the cases he mentioned without a natural explanation.

[@danharte6645]

Brilliant as always!

[@tabithamotta8753]

I'm Catholic, so I don't believe in Reincarnation, but it's a fascinating topic! I appreciate you treating the topic seriously.

[@ferreus]

His move is usually to say x is compatible with Christianity, actually.

[@nightyew2160]

In the Bridey Murphy episode he already said reincarnation is NOT compatible with Christianity. My guess is he will go with a paranormal explanation. Some of this seems very similar to ghost type phenomena except anchored to a person like many poltergeist cases seem to be.

[@adiesumpermariam4111]

@@ferreus Jimmy has already said in previous episodes that reincarnation is not compatible with Catholicism.

[@jasonread2887]

Doesn't matter, there actually seems to be more evidence for reincarnation than 90% of Catholic doctrine. So it's really selective blinkering.

[@tafazzi-on-discord]

​@@ferreus"his move" ???

[@gregc.8040]

I had memories as a kid up untill 7 that I worked at an Ice House. I even told my dad where it was. The place I decribed was an old brewery that went out of business during Prohibition. I found out when I was an adult that they had an Ice House on the property. I wish I could remember what I told my dad. He did not remember much. He did say I named some of my friends I worked with. He said it was just my wild imagination. I actually live less than half mile from the brick walls of the brewery. There are 3 walls about 6ft high still standing and one has an arch. North Eastern Pennsylvania. JimThorpe.

[@lespike2058]

I can’t wait to see wait Jimmy says about this. I love this show! 🎉

[@adiesumpermariam4111]

This topic has been stressing me out for a while. Thank you.

[@sbanach]

Looking forward to part 2!

[@davidpacitti8942]

Thanks Jimmy! I am very interested in hearing what you believe the possibilities for this topic is.

[@btandthebear6021]

I’m only 4 minutes in where you’re talking about doing something in a future episode and had to stop and say. Hi future Jimmy! Greetings from down the road in Conway.

[@markgillies1970]

Your story of your childhood brought back a funny memory. I remember seeing shows about reincarnation as a kid. I told my parents that I thought it was funny that everyone was someone famous in their past life. Why wasn't anyone a slave or a Joe Schmo? I began a joke that I was a cow in my past life, and I ended up as a hamburger at McDonald's. The joke went on for quite a while. I remember even getting a birthday cake with a cow on it saying, "here's too a better life this time around."

[@mariegiselegirishya4056]

Very informative. Thank you Jimmy.

[@marshalkrieg2664]

Off topic, but do you guys have an extra special broadcast planned for the 300th episode, something that will really knock our socks off ? Sure hope so, thanks.

[@helenr.2184]

Thank you, Jimmy. Really interesting…looking forward to next week’s episode.

[@SaraHunter-l3l]

Thanks! Great episode

[@michelleschroeder9015]

I always appreciate you detailed, thought through analysis 😁

[@earlmvc]

Great video!

[@jendoe9436]

As a Catholic I don’t believe in reincarnation in reality, but I do find it a neat idea in stories, especially tragic cases such as lovers who didn’t get a chance to develop a relationship before their first deaths or characters who experienced immense hardship in their first life. In an anime/manga (cartoons and comics from Japan, respectively, for those who may not know) I’m watching and read, two characters died during a battle and promised to find each other if they’re reborn around the same time. An epilogue flashing forward about 4 or so generations in the manga shows them doing just that, along with other ‘modern’ incarnations of some of the characters going about their day. Legit teared up at a few as the characters died pretty tragically and it was nice to see them smile without the weight of the world on their shoulders. Especially the young couple who end up running a restaurant together 😄 Makes me wonder if the tragic cases are more likely to happen because the soul wants another chance at a better life. Which then makes me wonder if there are way more benign cases of reincarnation that never manifest because the soul doesn’t register much difference between its old life and the new, so just lays dormant in a person until they eventually fade back into the spiritual world. 🤔

[@JamesGoetzke]

All I can say is I don't want to go through this again. LoL

[@brendanquinn6894]

I bet Jimmy Akin is going to say that if re incarnation was true he wants to come back as the lead singer of ZZ Top.

[@radar4545]

Jimmy can do it without reincarnation, doesn't need a time machine either. Is Time Travel In The Spirit Possible? // PART 1 of Katie Souza with Robert Hotchkin on HEROES ARISE

[@catholicbeth2371]

Sshhh you're exposing his alter-ego....

[@ryanb4780]

Jimmy, any plans to do a video on the Trinity?

[@JimmyAkin]

The Trinity is a purely doctrinal mystery, and thus it wouldn't normally be the kind of thing I'd cover on Mysterious World. Instead, I'd discuss it in a Catholic Answers forum.

[@Emschough]

Insert comment here to help Jimmy’s KZbin channel

[@ElPresidenteAndycito]

Jimmy, have you ever heard of Omm Sety/Dorothy Eady? Her legacy as an Egyptologist is interesting enough, but because she claimed to be a reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian Priestess, it strikes me as a much different case than the ones you mention in this video. Any thoughts?

[@JimmyAkin]

Yes, I'm familiar with with Omm Sety. I haven't looked into her case in detail yet, but it strikes me as rather cinematic (meaning, like a movie--not particularly credible).

[@SydneyCarton2085]

Another interesting episode, thank you Jimmy and Don! According to Jim Morrison, when he was 4 years old he and his family were driving in Albuquerque New Mexico when they came upon the scene of an accident where some Pueblo indians were dying. Jim Morrison claims that the soul of one of the dying Pueblo indians entered his body.

[@gregc.8040]

Indians scattered on dawns highway bleeding. Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind. I haven't recited that since high school 1988. Thanks for the recall my friend.

[@lizhoward9754]

I have one foot in the reincarnation camp and another foot in the skeptic camp. I suppose I feel this way because there is no way to prove or disprove reincarnation. From a spiritual standpoint, reincarnation makes so much sense as it gives the soul a chance to have more experiences to help the soul evolve. From a science standpoint, it is too difficult to prove. I have been told that as a young child, I used to tell people all about a previous life I had when I “was grown up.” I used to tell people I was an artist. I really don’t remember this but a friend of my mother’s and my stepfather used to tease me about this. I vaguely, vaguely remember believing I had been a teenager/young adult in another life. Who knows if it was my imagination or real.

[@earthgirl369]

can you please do a show in the dalai lama reincarnation narrative? thx!

[@TheProdigalMeowMeowMeowReturns]

Living agent psi (a la Braude 2003) is a smooth and plausible alternative interpretation for reincarnation, hauntings, and veridical medium encounters

[@1001011011010]

Some of the time but not all of the time

[@TheProdigalMeowMeowMeowReturns]

@@1001011011010 which cases cannot be explained by LAP? I’m asking sincerely because I’ve been asking for years

[@1001011011010]

@@TheProdigalMeowMeowMeowReturns When multiple people see the same ghost, for instance, it strains credulity to say they both at the same time were seeing dissociated forms of psychic information or what have you, especially if the sighting is just a sighting with no special info given. For instance, say multiple people see a ghost running down a hallway and then disappear, and that's it. It would seem strained to say it is super psi. There are alternative explanations that would more readily explain such a phenomenon without feeling as strained (though they may still be ad hoc) like that places "record" energy somehow and "plays" the footage back every now and then. Or that there is some sort of time fold thing where you briefly can see the same location at a different point in time, or something. Or, of course, survivorship. Even Braude himself ultimately puts more stock in the survivorship hypothesis, though he thinks super psi should be taken seriously as a counter explanation I am sure we can think of alternative ways of describing all sorts of phenomena but if it gets strained and ad hoc then maybe we shouldn't insist on it

[@TheProdigalMeowMeowMeowReturns]

@@1001011011010 Can you clarify, precisely, why survival is more likely overall than LAP? In the case of multiple witnesses, why can’t the explanation be telepathy between living people? Perhaps mixed with living agent PK? Before you object, may I suggest the following?… If the survivalist view is correct, then we *still* need to posit telepathy and /or PK between *multiple* persons. Why? Because the spirit -if there IS a spirit- would then be using ESP and or PK in order to communicate with those witnesses. Sounds good to me, but if we grant refined widespread ESP and /or PK between the dead and the living, then why not between the living and the living?

[@adiesumpermariam4111]

What is living agent psi?

[@nightyew2160]

I have to wonder if the statistics of reincarnation from a higher caste are skewed by the fact that those cases are both more noticable and more problematic. A wealthy kid who has an innate understanding of some kind of peasant labor and eats with the lower class might be seen more as eccentric rather than reported as a possible CORT case. Also, people who experience a past life that harmonizes well with their own life might slip by unnoticed.

[@Netomp51]

Thank you King Richard I of England you are always amazing with your Research hehehe

[@markgraff8326]

Dom gotta get the shirt 👍

[@martinreynolds5548]

I never have understood reincarnation. Great job Jimmy!! Great job Dom!!! I still cannot buy any of reincarnation. Let’s hear what next week brings. God bless you both!

[@MelissaLange-l8m]

Some feedback on this. Does the same 'it only takes one to prove that it's true' comment apply here as it did on the Eucharistic Miracles from about a year ago? Or is a Eucharistic miracle different because we have potential proof that is physical?

[@fishman6660]

Nice follow up to Bridey Murphy

[@markiangooley]

Some lead characters in Neil Breen movies could be considered walk-ins…

[@rivereuphrates8103]

He's a GENIUS

[@Jeffreyk7]

Some of the strongest evidence ever brought forth on the reality of reincarnation (not involving hypnosis). Birthmarks, scars, and photographic evidence. A Civil War general’s reincarnation, plus a great story of a young boy, 9/11 and the reincarnation of a New York City fire lieutenant who perished in The North Tower. The full story as told by the boy's mother on (and off) a popular Reincarnation Forum starting in 2007 up to the present day. The books full title, Fire in the Soul: Reincarnation from Antietam to Ground Zero. The author is Jeffrey Keene a retired Asst. Fire Chief. PS: My case was discussed in James Matlock’s book, Signs of Reincarnation

[@nebolevar3583]

This is a good example of a case where the faith section completely invalidates the supernatural explantations of these cases. It's obvious from the Catholic perspective (aka reality) that there is no reincarnation. The question then shifts to the reason perspective: assuming these aren't all hoaxes (some well might be, some not), what explains them? It seems likely that there are multiple explanations for different cases.

[@JustErics101]

It doesn’t and it isn’t obvious. Reincarnation is a totally viable explanation for many of the cases, maybe not all though. It could be psi or it could be genuine reincarnation, and maybe even a mixture where some cases are psi and some are reincarnation.

[@stananders2333]

I would postulate that a lot of the evidence seems to kids claiming things so they can get out of doing bothersome things, like the low caste kid not doing dishes cause he was brahmin, or the one who got to eat first so he didnt break higher caste rules

[@markozbunjol625]

demons. One of the signs of demonic possession is knowledge that the victim otherwise wouldn't have, including knowledge of ancient languages. Demons have been around since the beginning of time, so someone who has received information from them could easily be able to do something like you're describing that they otherwise could not have learned in the modern day.

[@rossmcguinn2256]

​@@stananders2333Jimmy seems to have cherry picked cases here, notice how he usually gives a dozen or more examples, but here he only did 4. There are reincarnation cases of high-caste to low-caste, but Jimmy chose not to include or mention them.

[@Danaluni59]

“There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Horacio” -Hamlet

[@Ladyoffidelity14]

The hidden memory bit is honestly fascinating 💖

[@tonyl3762]

Yeah, before you introduced the replacement case I was thinking maybe God sometimes allows dead spirits to temporarily/partially unite with the bodies of other people (similar to demon possession). These cases would support the notion of the personal, immaterial soul and the body as a transceiver. Maybe higher caste people and men tend to be more aggressive/ambitious and thus tend to try to invade another's body more often and to avoid crossing over.

[@gaspartiznado6418]

If reincarnation were a possibility, I can definitely see Jimmy as Richard the Lionhearted.

[@sybilyap7949]

Woah fascinating Buddhism beliefs - that one will reincarnate into an insect eg cockroach if one is evil. How do we research on that because insects don’t talk. And how far is “karma” true I don’t know because I am a Catholic and I believe in the afterlife with Jesus.

[@marcrummler6316]

👍

[@gilbertgarrido297]

John 1:51 And he said to him, "Amen, amen, I say to you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man." Did that happened?

[@marcelof4032]

I would like to suggest the possibility of reincarnation not being a general rule for humans, but maybe God allows for some individuals to returm for purposes He may only know.

[@Carlos-M]

If I were able speculate wildly about it, I'd say, given many of these past lives ended in sudden violent deaths, it might be a mercy allowing the person a "do-over".

[@markozbunjol625]

its demons

[@dhanarajsavarynasan27]

Hi Jimmy. Next reincarnation episode make on an Indian woman Shanti Devi . Whose case study on her rebirth has shocked the world. To should be unbiased on making the episode as your a christian.

[@maggiesace389]

NO reincarnation! One soul, one life! Do not return to earth to learn what remained unlearned - soul is either condemned to hell, or judged worthy of heaven and will be purified in PURGATORY!

[@gor764]

I don't care what anyone says, Jimmy is Richard I Lionheart

[@nightyew2160]

Richard the Lionheart was Catholic, and Jimmy became Catholic. Coincidence? 😉

[@bellottibellotti9185]

he trinity is supported in both the old and new testament. quote me a passage from either book that upholds your belief. quote me a passgae. my adive to you is read the bible

[@MartinaStC]

1 Curt, 2 Curt, like 1 fish, 2 fish 😊

[@terezka5340]

It ´s fun how everyone is the reincarnation of someone kings and generals, no one is peasant A, or eigth of ten babies of peasant A who died in infancy... It ś all ego driven

[@JustErics101]

Did you watch the episode? It’s not like this at all.

[@terezka5340]

@@JustErics101 I commented in the beginning of it, after J.A. said about his reincarnation belief because I know so many past Kleopatras and high priests and nobility and kings and even aliens, it reminded me of them:)

[@JustErics101]

@@terezka5340 ah I see, my bad. You typically get this type of stuff in past life regressions which are unreliable as real reincarnation evidence (fascinating phenomena though). Most reincarnation cases investigated by researchers are peopel reporting far more mundane past lives, not famous people.

[@rochellehunt695]

Another possibility could be familier spirits that knows what happened in the past and influencing people.Are these familiar spirits angels or demons? Just wondering.Reincarnation is false!!

[@bellottibellotti9185]

Once Jesus made his appearance the time was right for all people to see and know the full truth. Now that we know from revelation that Jesus is the Alpha and Omega and that only Yahweh can rise from the dead we can go back and see that Jesus is Yahweh in the old testament. But jesus is the father jesus is the son the second person of the the trinity. the holy ghost is referenced in Genesis 1-2 and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. There are many other reference as to who God is in the old testament that fit who Jesus says he is. Remember only God can raise from the dead - and if only God can do it and jesus did it then Jesus is God in bothe testaments

[@bellottibellotti9185]

The argument is over with one obsservation. Jesus never mentioned or promoted it. end of story

[@tammielisa]

Jesus literally said “unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

[@Nikator24]

The gnostic jesus most definitely did

[@bellottibellotti9185]

@@Nikator24 no such thing as gnostic jesus - its made up. What you are saying is the holy ghost was a complete failure because he did chose people who could accuratetly carry the message - same for jesus , a failure

[@Nikator24]

@@bellottibellotti9185 what if the trinitarian jesus is also made up, did u ever think of that? What if it was just the philosophical creation of church fathers coming much later? Is that who the historical jesus really was? My advice for u is to read some books by the scholars

[@bellottibellotti9185]

@@Nikator24 the trinity is supported in both the old and new testament. quote me a passage from either book that upholds your belief. quote me a passgae

[@china-bot6695]

Second!

[@conner200]

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