--- In [email protected], "emptybill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Helen Wambaugh did a lot of data gathering using a simple > recollection technique in large groups over a couple of years. > She obtained past-life recall memories for 30,000+ people. The > overwhelming response she catalogued does not fit our usual > prejudgments bases upon the self-deluded musings of the new- > agers we all have met. > > Based upon her data, very few people experienced any > historically relevant lifetime and of those who did, they > usually were only accessories to people with power or > influence. The mass totality were typically simple folk - > village dwellers or farmers of various kinds.
Heh. I was going to write a very similar post. I couldn't remember the name of the researcher, though, so I'm glad you did (except that it's Wambach, not Wambaugh). I'm not sure it was 30,000 people, more like 1,000, at least from what I found on the Web. In any case, her findings were quite striking in a number of respects. She had apparently set out to *disprove* reincarnation, but the results convinced her it was a real phenomenon. She wrote two books, "Life Before Life" and "Reliving Past Lives" (both out of print but available used). This is a pretty good (if uncritical) summary of what Wambach discovered: http://www.halexandria.org/dward433.htm Among other things, her subjects were virtually unanimous that they did not inhabit the fetus that was to become their body until at least six months' gestation, and in some cases not until right before birth. At some point it becomes more difficult to *explain away* results like hers than to simply accept that reincarnation is a reality.
