An Investigation Into Reported Cases Of Persons Who Claim To Have Reincarnated

Throughout recorded history in every culture and period, many persons have believed that they could perceive or influence events at a distance without known physical means of communication or action. These abilities-now called paranormal-were either rejected by skeptics as "recrudescence of superstition" or accepted by believers as "evidence of the supernatural" without an objective basis for doing so (Barrett, 1911) . Scientific investigation of such claims began about a hundred years ago, A number of eminent scientists from various fields, including the physicists Sir William Barrett (1844- 1925) and Sir Oliver Lodge (1851-1940), the chemist Sir William Crookes (1832-1919), and the biologist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) gave serious thought to the subject. They felt that the reports of such occurrences had much more to offer than conventional scientists had recognized.