PAST LIVES

Severely malformed ear (microtia) in a Turkish boy who said that he remembered the life of a man who was fatally wounded on the right side of the head by a shotgun discharged at close range.

Where Biology and Reincarnation Intersect

In 1993, Ian Stevenson MD, head of the Department of Psychiatric Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine [Charlottesville, Virginia], published "Birthmarks and Birth Defects Corresponding to Wounds on Deceased Persons", this article was based on his presentation at the 11th annual meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration at Princeton University in June 1992.
His paper presented dramatic evidence of how past life traumas become so embedded in an individual's cellular memory that they are carried from one life to the next.

Published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, Volume 7, No 4, pp 403-410, 1993.

Almost nothing is known about why pigmented birthmarks (moles or nevi) occur in particular locations of the skin. The causes of most birth defects are also unknown. About 35% of children who claim to remember previous lives have birthmarks and/or birth defects that they (or adult informants) attribute to wounds on a person whose life the child remembers. The cases of 210 such children have been investigated.
The birthmarks were usually areas of hairless, puckered skin; some were areas of little or no pigmentation (hypopigmented macules); others were areas of increased pigmentation (hyperpigmented nevi). The birth defects were nearly always of rare types.

In cases in which a deceased person was identified the details of whose life unmistakably matched the child's statements, a close correspondence was nearly always found between the birthmarks and/or birth defects on the child and the wounds on the deceased person.

Alternative rendition.

[Naevi are caused by visible clusters of cells in the skin. Vascular naevi are due to clusters of blood vessels, melanocytic naevi are due to clusters of pigmented skin cells (melanocytes), epidermal naevi to keratinocyte skin cells and so on. The exact cause of why these occur is unknown but it may relate to localised abnormalities of certain genes. There is no known way to prevent them.]