Welcome to our paranormal afterlife.

This is episode 225 of paranormal stories.

In this episode, I'm reading from J.M. deBoard's book, The Science of the Paranormal,

the truth behind telepathy, ensparnation, and more mysterious phenomena.

When I have guests on my podcasts, I read their books to work out questions for the episodes.

When reading these books, I always find such amazing information that never makes it into the podcast.

And here, I get a chance to give you a peek into the book.

I put a link to the book in the show notes, and I did seek permission to record this extract, and the author kindly said yes.

I'm going to be reading from chapter three, which is titled Reincarnation, Spirits and the Afterlife,

and this is a section titled Explaining Reincarnation, and this is what J.M. has written.

Some scientists can accept the evidence for reincarnation gathered by Ian Stevenson and other researchers

without jumping to the conclusion that it proves reincarnation, gathered by Ian Stevenson and other researchers, without jumping to the conclusion

that it proves reincarnation. Under one theory, a person's memories are stored in a memory

pool, a collective memory storehouse similar to the morphic field concept espoused by Rupert

Sheldrake. The memories may survive death and transfer to a young

child who then reports them as their own. Powerful emotions create an imprint of memory,

which may explain why the data show that a violent and traumatic death may lead to a quick

reincarnation, though in the case of James Lainiger, five decades passed before

he was born again. Similar theories about memory transfer are used to explain cases of spirit

possession and split personality. A memory packet downloads like software into the mind of a recipient,

who then may assume personality characteristics

of the original person. Indeed, there are documented cases of altered personalities related to past

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