Welcome to Our Paranormal Afterlife.

This is an Our Paranormal Afterlife classic episode, and I'm your host Simon Bown.

I've been thinking about a few standout episodes from the early days of the podcast.

They're full of great information and I thought it would be a good idea to share them again

for listeners who may have missed them the first time around.

This episode dates back to 2019.

My guest is Walter Simkew.

Walter runs the reincarnationresearch.com website.

This is a great conversation where we talk about the research done by Dr. Ian Stevenson

at the University of Virginia.

Hello, Walter, and thank you very much for giving us your time coming onto the podcast.

Oh, you're very welcome, and thank you for the opportunity.

Now, you ran the reincarnation research website. Correct. Can you give us an overview of that? Yeah, so

one of the main focuses of the website is to disseminate objective evidence of reincarnation, and in particular,

the work of Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia, who for 40 years traveled all

around the world studying young children who had spontaneous

past life memories that could be objectively validated. And there's a huge amount of evidence

that that proves that reincarnation research exists, but most people don't have access to it.

One reason is that Ian Stevenson was an academic psychiatrist at the University of Virginia,

and he wrote for other academics.

And he really wanted to bring reincarnation research into the scientific realm.

And because of that, the way he wrote was like a lawyer presenting evidence to a jury.

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