Science Discovers Eternal Wisdom

Author(s): Amarendravijay, J D Lodaya, Bhuvanchandra
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Academy

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to recollect his past life, say of ten years ago, then fifteen years ago and so on till he would regress back to his infancy. During such age-regression sessions under hypnosis, it was noticed that, at times, the patient would start recalling things which could not have happened in his present lifetime and .... let us see how this strange phenomenon led Dr. Alexander Cannon, an internationally acclaimed medical man and scientist who was at one time a staunch opponent of rebirth theory to come around and accept it whole-heartedly. Here is the account in his own words:
For years the theory of reincarnation was a nightmare to me and I did my best to disprove it and even argued with my trance-subjects to the effect that they were talking nonsense, and yet, as the years went by, one subject after another told me the same story inspite of varied conscious beliefs, in effect until now, well over a thousand cases have been so investigated and I have to admit that there is such a thing as reincarnation.
In everyone of over a thousand cases I have looked into, the existence has gone back to a previous existence on earth over a period varying from a hundred years previously to two, three or more thousand years B.C.10
After furnishing some details of his research, he further states,
The reader will see that my remarks ... are not ased upon supposition, but upon tested evidence which has been most remarkably and encouragingly constant throughout the investigations which number over thirteen hundred to date. Such evidence as this defies the attacks of the most materialistic doctrinaires and cannot lightly be passed over, even by the most hardened cynic.11
Hypnosis :
During these investigations, he found convincing
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