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जैन दर्शन और विज्ञान published my review in 1960. This increase has com frome several different kinds of observation and cases, but chiefly from the observation of the behavior of the childern claiming the memories and the study of cases with specific or idisyncratic skills and congenital birthmarks and deformities.
.......... In the cases of the present collection, we have evidence of the occurence of patterns which the present personality is not known to have inherited or aquired after birth in the present life. And in some instances these patterns match corresponding and specific features of an identified deceased personality. In such cases we have then in principle, I believe, some evidence for human survival of physical death."
डॉ. स्टीवनसन के उक्त अभिमत के समर्थन में उनकी उक्त पुस्तक के भूमिका-लेखक सी. जे. ड्यूकास ने और भी अधिक स्पष्ट एवं तर्क-संगत शब्दों मे लिखा
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" If, them one, asks what would constitute genuine evidence of reincarnation, the only answer in sight seems to be the same as to the question how any one of us now knows that he was living some days, months, or years before. The answer is that he now remembers having lived at that earlier times, in such a place and circumstances, and having done certain things then and had certain experience.
"But does anybody how claim similarly to remember having lived on earth a life earlier than his present one?
"Although reports os such a claim are rare, there are some The person making them is almost always a young child, from whose mind these memories fade after some years. And when he is able to mention detailed facts of the earlier life he asserts he remembers, which eventual investigation verifies but which he had no opportunity to learn in a normal manner in his present life, then the question with which this confronts us is how to account for the veridicality of his memories, if not by supposing that he really did live the earlier life he remembers."
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