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Ouroboros Society (Reincarnation) 01/07/14 (Tue) 01:47:33 No. 2169

History of the Society

The Ouroboros Society was founded in 1923 by August Strickland, Professor of Theology at Columbia University. Dr. Strickland's interest in the subject of reincarnation dated back to his days as a student at the university. However, after the deaths of his wife and children during the flu pandemic of 1918, the study of reincarnation became the focus of Dr. Strickland's life. He used his family fortune to create the Society, and he housed the organization in his own mansion opposite Gramercy Park in Manhattan.

Read more: http://ouroborossociety.com/

More material on the subject of Reincarnation 01/09/14 (Thu) 21:49:58 No.2190

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Kardec

Dr. Ian Stevenson

http://www.monroeinstitute.org/thehub/scientific-proof-of-reincarnation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Stevenson#Case_studies

>According to Ransom (stevenson's lawyer and assistant), Stevenson asked the children leading questions, filled in gaps in the narrative, did not spend enough time interviewing them, and left too long a period between the claimed recall and the interview; it was often years after the first mention of a recall that Stevenson learned about it. In only 11 of the 1,111 cases Ransom looked at had there been no contact between the families of the deceased and of the child before the interview; in addition, according to Ransom, seven of those 11 cases were seriously flawed. He also wrote that there were problems with the way Stevenson presented the cases, in that he would report his witnesses' conclusions, rather than the data upon which the conclusions rested. Weaknesses in cases would be reported in a separate part of his books, instead of during the discussion of the cases themselves. Ransom concluded that it all amounted to anecdotal evidence of the weakest kind.

>Edwards argued that Stevenson's views were "absurd nonsense," and that when examined in detail his case studies had "big holes … that do not even begin to add up to a significant counterweight to the initial presumption against reincarnation."[27] He cited the case of Corliss Chotkin in Angoon, Alaska, who Stevenson described in his Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation (1966), as an example that relied entirely on the word of one woman, the niece of Victor Vincent, a fisherman.[28] In defense of Stevenson, Robert Almeder wrote in 1997 that the Chotkin case was one of Stevenson's weaker ones

>Critics suggested that the children or their parents had deceived him, that he was too willing to believe them, and that he had asked them leading questions. In addition, the results were subject to confirmation bias, in that cases not supportive of the hypothesis were not presented as counting against it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB8yyiTo05k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wh0OsVtdeE

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/bozo-sapiens/201002/reincarnation-the-cabinet-dr-stevenson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbWMEWubrk0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H7szhBgyVA

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/2013/11/02/ian-stevensons-case-for-the-afterlife-are-we-skeptics-really-just-cynics/

"Stevenson’s main claim to fame was his meticulous studies of children’s memories of previous lives. Here’s one of thousands of cases. In Sri Lanka, a toddler one day overheard her mother mentioning the name of an obscure town (“Kataragama”) that the girl had never been to. The girl informed the mother that she drowned there when her “dumb” (mentally challenged) brother pushed her in the river, that she had a bald father named “Herath” who sold flowers in a market near the Buddhist stupa, that she lived in a house that had a glass window in the roof (a skylight), dogs in the backyard that were tied up and fed meat, that the house was next door to a big Hindu temple, outside of which people smashed coconuts on the ground. Stevenson was able to confirm that there was, indeed, a flower vendor in Kataragama who ran a stall near the Buddhist stupa whose two-year-old daughter had drowned in the river while the girl played with her mentally challenged brother. The man lived in a house where the neighbors threw meat to dogs tied up in their backyard, and it was adjacent to the main temple where devotees practiced a religious ritual of smashing coconuts on the ground. The little girl did get a few items wrong, however. For instance, the dead girl’s dad wasn’t bald (but her grandfather and uncle were) and his name wasn’t “Herath”—that was the name, rather, of the dead girl’s cousin. Otherwise, 27 of the 30 idiosyncratic, verifiable statements she made panned out. The two families never met, nor did they have any friends, coworkers, or other acquaintances in common, so if you take it all at face value, the details couldn’t have been acquired in any obvious way."

Here are some scientifically minded papers written by Stevenson and published in The Journal For Scientific Exploration (a fringe journal dedicated to paranormal research).

http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_02_2_stevenson.pdf

http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_04_2_stevenson.pdf

http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_07_4_stevenson.pdf

http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_13_2_keil.pdf

http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_06_4_stevenson.pdf

http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_05_1_keil.pdf

http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_14_3_stevenson.pdf

http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_17_2_stevenson.pdf

http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/articles.html

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