Verifying the purported past-life memories of children against the records of people who have died is part of a day’s work for Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson.
20 million men in China will never find a wife! That’s how many more men than women there are and in a few decades that number could be 40 million. It’s gotten so bad that some places have revived the tradition of Ghost Weddings—marrying deceased men and women to other corpses. It’s just one solution to the leftover men problem left behind by the One Child Policy and decades of sex selective abortions.
In a state-of-the-art lab at the University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS), psychokinesis isn’t a sensationalized magic-show talent. Its subtle forms are studied and scientifically measured in various ways.
Even as far as reincarnation stories go, this is an unusual one. In the 1970s, famed reincarnation researcher Ian Stevenson encountered a woman who could fluently speak a form of Bengali spoken some 150 years earlier.