Reincarnation in Tribal Societies with James G. Matlock

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James G. Matlock, PhD, an anthropologist, is coauthor (with Erlendur Haraldsson) of I Saw a Light and Came Here: Children's Experiences of Reincarnation. He is a regular contributor to the online Psi Encyclopedia sponsored by the Society for Psychical Research in London. He has authored dozens of academic papers concerning reincarnation and related areas.

Here he points out that tribal beliefs concerning reincarnation can be found among indigenous people throughout the world. Furthermore, these beliefs typically include knowledge of the very same signs of reincarnation that researchers have found in case studies of children who remember past lives. Tribal beliefs regarding kinship patterns seem to influence the verifiable cases of past-life memory found within tribal groups, reinforcing the notion that individuals, based on their beliefs, can exert a measure of control over the reincarnation process.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980).

(Recorded on November 14, 2017)

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It's always nice to see such observant commentary on this topic. Wild metaphysical speculation and unfounded materialist scepticism can be gotten anywhere. But well-founded discussion that doesn't shy away from asking critical questions, like in this show, is really rare.

royzlatanestevez
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dr. Mishlove is just so friendly and kind. A perfect host.

claudiochianese
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I enjoyed watching this video. It is very informative about beliefs of reincarnation in tribal cultures outside India.

kuldipdhiman
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Dr. Mishlove, you are on my top 5 list of people I'd love to sit down to dinner with before I die. Dr. Braude is on there too. :) Thank you for these videos and just for sharing your knowledge.

Sheltieshangrila
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An excellent interview. Thanks Jeffery.

keepitsimple
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On the leading edge of knowledge and discovery

AnthrYrslf
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The light said, 'Come here and suffer much'

pwwka
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the consciousness, is indestructible and eternal. It neither slays, nor can it be slain. It is never, born and it never dies. After coming into existence, it never ceases to be. It is always, permanent and very ancient. It does not suffer, nor can it be tainted. At the time of death it does not die, but leaves the body and enters a new one . Weapons cannot pierce it, fire cannot burn it, water cannot moisten it and wind cannot dry it. It is impenetrable, incombustible, all pervading, stable and immobile. It is invisible, imperceptible and immutable.
The Bhagavadgita📖 knows the limitations of human mind to gauge the true nature of the consciousness . Hence, it concurs with the popular notion that no one can exactly know what a consciousness is. One looks at it with great surprise, another speaks about it with great surprise, another hears about it with incredulity and yet another after hearing about it knows it not.
The consciousness is superior to everything else in the human being. The senses are great, greater than the senses is the mind, greater than the mind is buddhi and greater than the buddhi is the Self . This is similar to the description of the tattvas (realities) in contrast to the consiousness in the Samkhya. The soul is the highest, eternal reality (tattva), whereas the senses, the mind, intelligence, etc., are finite and dependent realities.

dheerajmalhotra
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connecting has nothing to be to a former self can be any other self.

Sepantamino
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I think it would be very irrational to disbelief reincarnation. if we would accept that immortality is a fact it would take the pressure of. it would help us to escape this sense of desperation that this is all there is & i think that this would come with the feeling of serenity, peace & traquality that would be translated to the world.

dheerajmalhotra
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"the ghosts want company and so they could cause you to die too"

Paddyllfixit
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I don't believe there is no need to be reincarnated in this version because there are probably parallel infinite number of versions to make conscious and synthesis.

Sepantamino