Reincarnation all over again

Skeptic | January 1, 2002| | Copyright

Evidence for reincarnation rests on backward reasoning

A review of Ian Stevenson's Reincarnation and Biology, Praeger Publishers, 1997. Volumes I and 2, 2,228 pp. $135. ISBN 0275952843

THROUGHOUT HISTORY PEOPLE IN every country around the world have been attracted to a belief in an afterlife. No culture has gone untouched by the notion that somehow this is not all there is. One variation on this belief is reincarnation, which itself has many cultural and religious variants.1 Naturally, since we live in the age of science where one is inclined to look for and present "proofs" for one's ...

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