THE REINCARNATION EXPERIMENT™

"Promoting Scientific Reincarnation Research"

THE EXPERIMENT'S PURPOSE:
To test a scientific model that appears to account for empirical evidence of the apparent inheritance of a "past-life legacy" during human reproduction.

(This site is dedicated to a natural science approach to evaluation of the concept of linear reincarnation. In addition to reporting on the ongoing pilot project, it also describes the research included in Paul Von Ward's book The Soul Genome: Science and Reincarnation.)
CAN SCIENCE PROVE REINCARNATION?
More than half of the world's people believe in reincarnation, and polls suggest at least a quarter of U.S. citizens do. What is it that they believe? Is it based on delusions or wishful thinking? Is there something real at the root of such ideas?

It is beyond the current tools of science to definitively prove the general theory of reincarnation to a skeptical public. Likewise, it is also beyond the tools of modern science to disprove it. However, this project is designed to test whether a body of empirical evidence exists that can provide the basis for scientific validation of psycho-physical links between a person alive today and a past-life.
Newborns appear to have a psychophysical legacy inherited from a previous lifetime.
Do Newborns Have A Past-Life Legacy?
SCIENCE VALIDATES ASSUMPTIONS BASED ON VERIFIABLE DATA

The Eastern metaphysics of Hinduism and Buddhism, their religious derivations, and early Judaism and Christianity describe reincarnation in terms that cannot be easily, if at all, tested by the nonbeliever. Such supernatural beliefs require unquestioning credulity. A historical overview of some of these religious and spiritual beliefs can be seen by clicking here.

However, much of the physical and behavioral evidence that led to such ancient beliefs can be found in the lives of people living today or who have died and left documented information about themselves and their lives. This project employs such tangible or observable evidence to build its data-base of empirical evidence for reincarnation.
BELIEFS BASED ON NATURAL OBSERVATIONS CAN BE TESTED

Early human and later aboriginal societies based their beliefs in reincarnation on observations of their contemporaries that revealed similarities with known people who had lived and died before those being observed were born. Over several generations, people collected many persuasive correspondences between the present personalities and various ancestors that they posited some carry-forward of legacies from the past. As an example, an African tribe used the terms "babatunde" and "yetunde" to indicate the possible reincarnations of boys and girls, respectively, from earlier individuals two generations removed.

The cases described on this website and in the book The Soul Genome: Science and Reincarnation provide credible examples of such observable data which cannot be more plausibly explained than by a reincarnation hypothesis. The author's perspective places the experiment in the context of emerging research findings in physics, biology, neuroscience, and evolutionary studies.
FROM SUBJECTIVE TO OBJECTIVE RESEARCH
The objective evidence that led nature-oriented societies to postulate a process like reincarnation includes physical features and psychological factors. Facial architecture, body types, hair patterns, ear forms, hand-finger proportions, voice, and odor have been noted to correspond in two separate lifetimes. Some physical similarities also include special markings, birthmarks and deformities. Matching psychological traits include levels of mental development, emotional patterns, styles of interacting with others, and areas of creative interest.

All these factors seem to make up a psychoplasm (an information-rich, energetic field) that enfolds and animates the genomic material synthesized at conception.

Considerable empirical research now suggests that what a person accomplishes in terms of self-development and learning becomes the legacy his or her soul genome/psychoplasm transmits to the next generation.

Click here to see the forms that can be used to develop a scientific data base for a particular case. They can be used for one's own case or for someone else's.
The first-ever comprehensive scientific evaluation of the phenomenon known as reincarnation.
Premier Effort to Assess Reincarnation from a Comprehensive Scientific Perspective
CAVEATS

While the preliminary results from this project offer promising leads to a testable scientific approach to reincarnation research, readers should be aware that no reincarnation hypothesis has yet passed the standards required by science to gain widespread acceptance. Conversely, science has not been able to disprove a general reincarnation theory. At this current project's stage of data collection, evaluation, and statistical analyses, it is possible to make only preliminary claims about how it works and about specific past-life identifications.

However, this experiment is the first ever effort to treat the reincarnation phenomenon as a natural process that can and should be subjected to scientific analysis. For that reason alone, it provides a credible data base for interdisciplinary discussions and evaluations of the psychoplasm (or soul-genome) hypothesis.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

The project seeks reports of credible cases from anywhere in the world. The testable research results of other parties are welcome for inclusion in the archives of this project. See Cases in Progress.

CLUES LEADING TO POSSIBLE PAST-LIVES

Many people receive hints of possible past lives that cannot be considered as definitive proof of reincarnation or of a specific past-life connection. Some come through extrasensory channels such as dreams, visions, intuitive feelings, or hypnosis. Some may come from other-dimensional sources such as psychic readings or through channeled messages from apparent disincarnate beings.

Since neither such sources nor the information from them can be accessed by independent observers, they provide only potential clues that require validation by third parties. Nevertheless, they should not be dismissed out-of-hand as they may lead to verifiable evidence to support the posited past-life connection.
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