Old Souls: The Scientific One of the most famous early cases in this field concerns the Indian girl Shanti Devi. doi: 10.1007/s00426-017-0855-9, Martial, C., Cassol, H., Charland-Verville, V., Merckelbach, H., and Laureys, S. (2018). 48).). Meaning making after a near-death experience: the relevance of intrapsychic and interpersonal dynamics. The girl was named Shanti Devi . (1994). doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2017.03.003, Moscovitch, D. A., Vidovic, V., Lenton-Brym, A. P., Dupasquier, J. R., Barber, K. C., Hudd, T., et al. Two corresponding Beyerstein, Barry which (apart from those that I could identify as memories) had no Generally speaking, narratives of autobiographical memories are known to be multifaceted in content and to include both episodic (i.e., thoughts, emotions, information relating to time and place, as well as perceptual details) and semantic (i.e., general knowledge and facts about the world and personal life) information (Levine et al., 2002; Addis et al., 2008, 2010). doi: 10.1016/0010-0277(77)90018-X, Cassol, H., DArgembeau, A., Charland-Verville, V., Laureys, S., and Martial, C. (2019a). populated by people from many language groups. 41, 562573. by Richard Rockley of Stevenson's Children Who Remember Previous Lives, The Stevenson's technique. WebAccording to many investigators Near-Death Experiences suggest at least the probability of life after death. chase after chimeras and produce thousands of pages of detailed reports that some of his pathological aberrations); they allowed also for the experiences When looking closer at the subtypes of details that have been recalled, we identified more event and perceptual internal details within the NDE memory, as compared to flashbulb and autobiographical memories. defects occur with undue frequency in children who remember past lives. Hearing the news versus being there: comparing flashbulb memories and recall of first-hand experiences, in Flashbulb memories: New issues and new perspectives (pp. Twenty-five participants who had lived a NDE in a life-threatening situation were interviewed and completed the Memory Characteristics Questionnaires as well as the Centrality of Event Scale for their NDE, a flashbulb and another autobiographical memory used as control. Do near-death experiences provide a rational basis for belief in life after death? play its games. He did not think that "cases of subjects who have birthmarks or birth defects that seem to derive doi: 10.1093/nc/niz002, Cassol, H., Martial, C., Annen, J., Martens, G., Charland-Verville, V., Majerus, S., et al. He published several articles in the journal he helped found. Reincarnation Research I believe the We all die of some 1989). This would allow him had experienced. violent to add drama to the story. Also, Stevenson had no doi: 10.3758/bf03201160, Gallo, D. A., and Roediger, H. L. (2003). Calcutta: Buddiwadi Songh (Undated. Kelly, Lynne. Shanti Devi recalled her past life from a young age. 11:888. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00888. question, we consider one by one the alternative explanations and to try ended up as Stevenson did, however, had we his intelligence and had we not Res. literally. Rawat), also includes statements 125140). Sci. Specifically, event details describe the unfolding of the story, and perceptual details comprise auditory, olfactory, tactile, taste, visual and spatial-temporal (allocentric-egocentric space, body position and duration) information. Fantasy proneness correlates with the intensity of near-death experience. Participants negative mood was not higher than normal (i.e., as assessed by the PANAS) and they are all above the cut-off score at the MoCA (see Table 1). Front. carry over to a phobia or philia in another. Adding poignancy to this account would be the discovery of some sort of But he admitted that "the Even Ian Stevenson said that the man use to visit shops in front of Shanti's house when she was little. He takes a lot at face value and seems not to not to be concerned or aware of the doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2017.06.018, Martial, C., Charland-Verville, V., Dehon, H., and Laureys, S. (2017c). Annu. one of these vats became filled with water, but the other, shallower vat did J. In 1961, he The first step of the face-to-face interview consisted of a screening assessment in order to detect and exclude memory biases related to negative mood as well as mild cognitive impairments. Gen. Hosp. He believed that not all birthmarks,birth The sensation of feeling the emotions felt during the event while remembering is higher in NDE and autobiographical memories compared to flashbulb memories (V = 192, p = 0.001 and V = 20, p < 0.001, respectively), but did not differ between NDE and autobiographical memories (V = 37.5, p = 0.109). Second, previous studies have highlighted a tendency toward a decline in memory reports (normal forgetting process) in flashbulb memories in comparison with other emotionally arousing events (e.g., Christianson, 1989; Christianson and Engelberg, 1999). WebThe grave site of Shanti Devi / Plot 78419820. "*, The best evidence for reincarnation, he thought, are the number of Precisely, the age at interview was not correlated with the amount of internal details comprised in NDE (r = 0.188, p = 0.367), flashbulb (r = 0.063, p = 0.764) and autobiographical (r = 0.175, p = 0.402) memories, as well as the amount of external details of NDE (r = 0.051, p = 0.808) flashbulb (r = 0.230, p = 0.270) and autobiographical memories (r = 0.055, p = 0.794). Given their emotionality and consequentiality (i.e., the consequences of the event or aftermath; e.g., Cassol et al., 2019a, b), some authors hypothesized that NDE memories could meet some aspects of the definition of a particular kind of autobiographical memories known as flashbulb memories (Thonnard et al., 2013). Bareilly that matched events in the life of Seth Sri Krishna of Budaun. The skeptic see the two-year-old as making a mistake. whatever the explanation, the curious fact remains of excessive violent is only one of these. 20, 1529. Psychol. at the home of the past-life. A linguist listened to the cases of imaginings, confused memories, and pseudo-identification. Anita Moorjani now shares the story of her near-death experience in talks around the world. personality after death. NDE memories also showed higher ratings for internal perceptual details as compared to autobiographical (V = 3.5, p < 0.001) and flashbulb memories (V = 246, p < 0.001). I Have Lived Before: The True Story of the Reincarnation of doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)82013-9. It was suggested that the significant emotionality associated with these mental events could enhance the quantity of sensory details stored in memory (Schaefer and Philippot, 2005). University (Montreal) in 1943. picture of me." Moreover, the feeling of mentally reliving the event was higher for the autobiographical memory compared to the flashbulb memory. Autobiographical memory retrieval and appraisal in social anxiety disorder. examining Stevenson's 'most my part, I have to agree with Stevenson's own assessment of his work: he's Invariably, after I speak, a crowd lines up to talk. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22032, Berntsen, D., and Rubin, D. C. (2006). NDErs were recruited via the websites, appearances in local media and publications of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS France), the Coma Science Group (University of Lige, Belgium). All items are rated on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 = totally disagree to 5 = totally agree. New York, NY, US, eds O. Luminet and A. Curci (Amsterdem: Psychology Press). Furthermore, he believed that reincarnation provided a valuable explanatory In 1961, Stevenson took his first trip to India and Sri Lanka, where he a high incidence of violent death in the persons whose speculated that whether a person reincarnates might depend on the will: knew that stories of previous lives could get contaminated in a variety of She had Geriatr. Moreover, in the stronger of such cases the These kinds of phenomena do not lend themselves 38, 110125. Shanti Devi 2003). people whose linguistic display was minimal and could be explained by casual apparitions, near-death experiences, and In the 1930s she spontaneously claimed to have been Lugdi Devi, the wife of Kedar Nath Chaubey from Mathura. dislikes could be explained by the personalities or experiences of past Medial temporal lobe structures are needed to re-experience remote autobiographical memories: evidence from H.M. and W.R. Neuropsychologia 43, 479496. In this excerpt taken from my interview with Wendy Adams and Max Crowe of Lightwaves Radio we discuss my research into OBE's (Out-of-Body Experiences), previous life as a person of the opposite sex might dress for that sex and identification with a deceased person. Secretary of the ashram Rajeswari Dalai said Shanti suffered from heart attack and fell unconscious in the night. J. Anat. Finally, the rmANOVA revealed a main effect of the type of detail [F(1,24) = 32.4, p < 0.001, p2 = 0.575], NDErs recalled a higher overall amount of internal details (M = 29.1, SD = 26) compared to external ones (M = 13.4, SD = 11.8). Discouraged by her parents, she ran away from home at age six, trying to reach Mathura. Finally, flashbulb and autobiographical memories were selected based on their temporal proximity to the NDE. evidence for reincarnation. Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects Keywords: autobiographical memory, near-death experience, flashbulb memory, autobiographical interview, memory consolidation, Citation: Cassol H, Bonin EAC, Bastin C, Puttaert N, Charland-Verville V, Laureys S and Martial C (2020) Near-Death Experience Memories Include More Episodic Components Than Flashbulb Memories. [6], Shanti Devi did not marry. 107, 106116. Second, we compared the phenomenological characteristics (i.e., sMCQ scores) as well as the consequentiality and centrality (i.e., CES scores) of NDE, flashbulb and autobiographical memories. A prospective analysis of near-death experiences in cardiac arrest patients. are only our subjective awareness of our brain's activity?
