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120: The Science of Past Lives

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Comedy, Education, Science

4.9640 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Some children tell stories about lives they used to live… Are they just playing pretend or is this proof of reincarnation? Maybe science has some answers… 

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References & Further Reading

Past Lives, Jim Tucker & UVA’s Division of Perceptual Studies
  1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550830708000943
  2. https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/our-research/children-who-report-memories-of-previous-lives/
  3. https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/resources/advice-to-parents-of-children-who-are-spontaneously-recalling-past-life-memories/
  4. https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqygg/hard-science-of-reincarnation-past-lives
  5. https://www.npr.org/2014/01/05/259886077/searching-for-science-behind-reincarnation?t=1626790336553
  6. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550830721000951
False Memories, Source Errors & Other Explanations
  1. https://www.livescience.com/7272-belief-reincarnation-tied-memory-errors.html
  2. https://www.livescience.com/7737-reality-reincarnation.html
  3. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1363461503040001005
  4. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2466/pms.1996.83.3f.1107
Past Life Regression Therapy
  1. https://www.thehypnotherapypracticeedinburgh.co.uk/why-past-life-regression-is-a-waste-of-money/
  2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5797677/
  3. https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/members/sigs/spirituality-spsig/james-pandarakalam-a-search-for-the-truth-of-past-life-regression.pdf?sfvrsn=f5442f17_2
  4. tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00029157.1982.10404067?needAccess=true
The Egg
  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI&vl=en-GB

Transcript

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0:00.0

What are we starting with...

0:02.0

With this week, that's staying in.

0:05.0

No, we're starting with this week.

0:06.0

Um, a week review.

0:08.0

No, we're starting with the little thanks to our patrons.

0:10.0

I know we did it last week, but let's do it again.

0:12.0

We did it last week.

0:13.0

We're doing it again.

0:14.0

Sir, you cannot do this.

0:15.0

I try to keep track of what we're doing, so I can be right. And you can't just throw curveballs at me like this. I'm throwing a curveball.

0:21.6

And the reason I'm throwing a curveball is because this episode that we're about to listen to

0:24.6

and do, or we're not listening to it, people are about to listen to it, this episode was suggested

0:28.6

by a patron.

0:29.6

Oh.

0:30.6

Yeah.

0:31.6

That makes sense.

0:32.6

So before we get into the show, I do want to just ask everyone that's listening, do you believe in reincarnation?

0:37.8

Let us know in the comments.

0:39.3

Oh!

0:40.3

Yeah.

0:41.3

So, we start the show?

0:44.3

I've not considered it.

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