FEAR FEAR

If you must be afraid be afraid of yourself
For being afraid of the fear you have felt

This four decades old documentary is the best I've seen so far; Stevenson's conclusion first.

3720 "I think where the evidence has led us is that whereas formerly a belief in reincarnation was religious traditions, scriptures ... now at least one can point to evidence. And the evidence is not flawless, every case had some weakness or other, but there is an accumulation of quite strong evidence from, I would say, 100 cases.

Even for those 100 cases I would say there are alternative possibilities of interpretation but reincarnation is certainly plausible.

I would say in some cases for me its certainly the most compelling even though its not the only one."


Notes: time stamps are approximate.

0030 Discussion of a boy allegedly reincarnated including from the Dalai Lama (himself arguably reincarnated)

0327 Eyewitness describes methodology of finding the boy

0600 UVA Charlottesville DOPS and Dr. Ian Stevenson introduced

0700 British Columbia examples / Dr. Antonia Mills introduced

https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/antonia-mills#Reincarnation_Research

1130 Discussion of birthmarks

1320 Stevenson discusses entry/exit wound birthmarks

1515 Stevenson "the hanging was bungled" / "these types of birthmarks are rare"

1630 Dr. Satwant Pasricha introduced / "being born with missing fingers is very rare"

https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/satwant-pasricha

1920 Discussion of phobias

1940 Manju Sharma introduced / born High caste but chose to live much of her early life with previous lower caste parents

2200 Pasricha notes 'no obvious gains' for belief, in fact the opposite

2215 Possession: Shiva Sumitra

2410 the alleged father tests Sumitra with identifying his wife

2520 Researchers arrive unannounced at village to follow up

https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/sumitrashiva-replacement-reincarnation-case

Stevenson's case study: https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2016/12/STE29Stevenson-1.pdf

2715 Stevenson discusses western culture's mechanistic materialistic culture

2820 Sri Lanka investigators "try to obtain untainted evidence" / Dr. Elendur Haraldsson introduced

2910 Case of Dilukshi G. Nissanka

3215 Haraldsson discusses footbridge

3325 Subashini fear of storms: landslip on tea plantation

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."


I've never had any perception of a previous life and was skeptical of claims reincarnation can happen until very recently.

Remarkably, there is a lot of compelling evidence it happens, much of it compiled by the University of Virginia's Division of Perceptual Studies.

2 and 3 year old children sometimes spontaneously make accurate statements about historical events they couldn't possibly know about absent reincarnation.

In about 70% of the investigated cases the people allegedly reincarnated died what is called an 'unnatural' death: an accident, murder, suicide etc., and not from old age. It really looks like there are sometimes 'restless souls' who return to human life.

Here's an excellent video which features Dr. Jim Tucker, Director of the DOPS: in proper scientific fashion he qualifies his statements but this got my attention:

"there is evidence that consciousness at times can exist separately from a functioning brain..."


Here's Dr. Tucker's case study on James Leininger:

https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2017/04/REI42-Tucker-James-LeiningerPIIS1550830716000331.pdf

James Leininger is an ideal example but DOPS case studies provide MANY HUNDREDS of well documented examples of accurate statements made by very young children who have no way of knowing such precise historical information unless they somehow had access to the mind of the deceased. There are of course sometimes inaccurate statements which is exactly what you'd expect given the vagaries of human memory.

Kind of blows your mind, yes? I'm still trying to absorb all the implications and have to say it's been a game changer for my universe view.

Really though, given what has been learned about connections at the atomic level, reincarnation doesn't contradict any 'laws' of science.

We're all essentially energy and at some level(s) we're all connected.

More from Little Steven: Camouflage Of Righteousness

Early this century I visited Human Ramcey R. in his then adopted hometown of Nashville where he was very active in the music scene.

He turned me onto several singer/songwriters and the one that had the most impact on me is the inestimable Todd Snider, who I now introduce to others as 'what Dylan would have been if Dylan had Dylan for an influence'.

Todd's an incredible talent on the guitar and one of the very few lyricists I'd put in Dylan's league.

Here he is with some friends including the late great Jeff Austin playing The Devil You know: all you need to know about 'race' relations in The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Slaves...

In 1993 I first telneted around the internet, recognizing that the world would never be the same. This was before web pages existed, if you can comprehend that... I still remember the first web page I visited and how long it took to load. Thanks Dan Farmer, wherever you are.

That same year I stumbled onto Bruce Cockburn's (co-burn) _Live_ CD in a Walmart bargain bin, found the listserv for Humans (Bruce fans), signed up and to this day I participate in the same mailing list, in its current permutation as a google group.

I've been fortunate to meet many Humans IRL at concerts across the country and my life has been much richer because of it, so thanks to every Human and of course thanks to Bruce, who second only to Thoreau, changed my life positively with his words and deeds.

Bruce will feature prominently in this thread - here's Pacing The Cage recorded on my point and shoot camera in May 2022 in Colorado Springs - not the best audio but Bruce up close is always special.

So said Bob Dylan in Martin Scorsese's excellent documentary _No Direction Home_ concerning one Robert Allen Zimmerman, a scruffy kid from Minnesota who hitchhiked to NYC when barely more than a boy then in short order changed the world of music forever. These days all kinds of music teach us how to live, thanks largely to Mr. Dylan.

It's only fitting that Little Steven's brilliant _Born Again Savage_ track, from his album of the same name, opens this particular show: he spent years specifically learning how this world works and condensed it into one album, more than adequately summarized in his title song.