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REINCARNATION: Who Were You Before You Were You?

REINCARNATION: Who Were You Before You Were You? – Have you experienced Déjà vu—a sense you’ve seen or done something before—even though you haven’t?

Are you drawn to certain time periods and cultures?

Do you have phobias that have no apparent cause?

Have an eerie feeling you’ve lived before?

Sound spooky? It shouldn’t! These may be indications of reincarnation—the belief a human starts a new life in a different physical body after each biological death—meaning, we live more than once.

For thousands of years great spiritual teachers have taught the soul is an eternal entity which existed before our body, comes into the body, and exists after the body dies. In physics, the 1st law of thermodynamics states: energy is neither created nor destroyed, only transferred from one form to another. By analogy, think of your body as a car. The car didn’t create you—it merely hosts you until it stops working, then you leave the car and get another car.

Traditionally, reincarnation has been associated with India, home of the world’s oldest religion Hinduism, and birthplace of Jainism, Sikhism, and Buddhism all of which embrace reincarnation. However, cases of reincarnation have been reported worldwide for millennia, even among people whose religions reject reincarnation. According to PEW Research, The Global Research Society, and The Institute for Social Research (Ipsos), 51% of the world’s people believe in reincarnation, including 33% of Americans.

Reincarnation may be more than matter of faith. Since the mid-20th Century, it has been studied scientifically. In 1967 Dr. Ian Stevenson founded the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia. Applying the scientific method of objective analysis, he investigated over 2,500 cases of children worldwide who remembered prior lives.

Recall of prior lives manifests in different ways. Sometimes it begins at a very young age like it did for Reena Gupta. She was born in the mid-1960s in New Delhi, India. At age two she told her parents that in a previous life she was married and had four children. Her recall was extremely detailed. Being Hindus, her parents weren’t shocked—until Reena said her husband was a bad man who killed her.

Reena’s story spread throughout New Delhi to the home of Sudar Kishen Singh and his wife. As Sikhs they believed in reincarnation. Reena’s story paralleled that of their daughter Gurdeep who was murdered by her husband Surjeet on June 21, 1961.

Curious, the Singhs visited Reena’s family. When they arrived, Reena was napping, but when she awoke, Reena smiled and called the Singhs “mother and father.” She called the Singh’s other daughter by her nickname “Sarno” and embraced Gurdeep’s son and three daughters as family. At the Singh’s home, Reena saw a photograph which she recognized as herself—it was of the late Gurdeep.

Enter Surjeet. Although sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his wife, Gurdeep, he’d been released early for “good behavior.” He met Reena in 1975 when she was nine years old. To pose for a photo, Reena sat on the armrest of Surjeet’s chair. He tried to hug her—Reena recoiled and screamed, “He will kill me again!”

A Hindu girl in India recalling a prior life is one thing, but an American Police Captain is another. Robert Snow grew up in a strict Methodist midwestern middle-class family. This 38-year Indiana Police Department veteran and captain of homicide investigations was all about facts and evidence. Reincarnation wasn’t part of his belief system—until 1992, when Robert met a hypnotherapist who utilized PLR (past life regression) therapy. PLR is used to treat people with mental or physical pain with no discernable cause. The patient is hypnotized with the objective of going into a past life to discover the basis for the pain. Snow scoffed at PLR as “goofy people trying to find a way to blame their problems on someone else in another lifetime.” The therapist challenged him to try it—he agreed.

My co-host on Transformation Network’s livestream show “The Psychic & The Doc” is world-renowned behavioral psychologist Dr. Pat Baccili. She explained the “paradox of the psychological profession which considers PLR as therapeutic, but rejects it as evidence of reincarnation.” We interviewed Robert on our show. He compared PLR to a theme park ride—he could see, smell, feel, hear, and taste things while traveling through another lifetime, or in his case three different lifetimes including one as a woman—not exactly what this tough guy expected.

Robert’s most “recent” lifetime was the game changer. He saw horses and buggies on cobblestone streets—it was the 1800s. He was a male artist painting a portrait of a hunchback woman. He recognized every brush stroke as his work, then thought, “I hate painting portraits, but I need the money.” Robert felt connected to France—but died elsewhere—in a big city.

Intrigued, Robert engaged in more PLR sessions. Hundreds of precise details emerged about his life as an artist. However, as a cop, he needed proof. In 1992, the internet wasn’t available. Art galleries couldn’t help unless he knew the artist’s name. He searched hundreds of library art books for the portrait of the hunchback woman—nothing.

Months later Robert and his wife vacationed in New Orleans where they’d never visited before. While perusing an art gallery in the French Quarter, Robert suddenly froze. Before him on an easel was the portrait of the hunchback woman!

“This is impossible! How can this be?” Robert exclaimed. In 38 years of police work, nothing ever shocked him like this.

The gallery owner explained the artist was J. Carroll Beckwith, born in 1852 and died in 1917. He was American, but spent a lot of time in France.

Robert’s investigative expertise led him to New York City—the “big city” where J. Carroll Beckwith died. Snow found a photograph of Beckwith, which felt eerily familiar. At NYC’s National Academy of Design, he located Beckwith’s diaries on microfilm. Nearly 17,000 pages long, Robert was amused to discover his prior incarnation was also meticulous. Robert poured over the diaries and verified every one of the details he saw in PLR as true!

He also discovered Beckwith typically painted portraits, created no masterpieces, and wasn’t famous. The credibility of Robert’s past life would be questionable if it indicated he was famous like Michelangelo or Monet instead of an obscure, unknown portrait artist.

These are only two of the thousands of documented cases of reincarnation. In the 21st Century, the study of the soul, afterlife, and reincarnation has expanded from philosophy into physics. Several prominent quantum physicists, including Dr. Michio Kaku, originator of String Theory, believe “eternal life does not violate the laws of physics.” My Electromagnetic Soul (EMS) Theory describes what we really are, a soul which is pure consciousness that is eternal electromagnetic energy. The EMS pre-exists the body and continues on beyond physical death. This theory presents a sound scientific basis for the existence of the soul, the afterlife, near-death experiences, and reincarnation.

Definitive scientific proof of the soul, afterlife and reincarnation is coming, but we must be patient. Afterall, that type of research can take lifetimes…

Mark Anthony, JD Psychic Explorer® (The Psychic Lawyer) is a fourth-generation psychic medium and Oxford-educated trial attorney and author of the multiple award-winning Pulitzer considered best seller THE AFTERLIFE FREQUENCY. His other bestsellers are EVIDENCE OF ETERNITY and NEVER LETTING GO. Mark is currently on a nationwide spirit communication and speaking tour. In May 2024, Mark will present “Debunking Death: The Science of Reincarnation and Near-death Experiences” at the Edgar Cayce Association for Research and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach. To schedule a reading with Mark, visit his website:

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