Cases of the reincarnation type in South India: Why so few reports? - Parapsychological Abstracts - Brief Article

Journal of Parapsychology, The, March, 2002 by Sally R. Feather

PASRICHA, S. K. (2001). Cases of the reincarnation type in South India: Why so few reports? Journal of Scientific Exploration, 15, 211-221.

Nearly 450 cases of children who claim to remember a previous life have been professionally investigated in India. With one exception, all published reports of such cases have hitherto involved children in North India, which raises the questions of whether there are similar cases in South India and whether they are underreported. This paper presents features of 7 additional cases in South India. The cases were investigated primarily by means of interviews with firsthand informants for the subject's side of a case and for that of the concerned deceased person, if such a person has been identified.

The cases of South India show features similar to those of North Indian cases. The belief in reincarnation is held as strongly in South India as it is in North India, yet there is a marked disparity in terms of the ease with which cases can be found in North India compared with South India. Cases in South India may be underreported, but there is some indication that they may actually be less frequent, and the paper draws attention to this anomaly.

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