Journalist and Washington Post journalist Tom Shroder checked up on the work of psychiatrist Ian Stephenson, who studied thousands of cases of children who claimed vivid and exacting memories of their former lives. Many of these remembered lives were recent enough to have been verified by living relatives - who had no connection or contact with the child. Shroder traveled with Stephenson to reinvestigate cases from Lebanon to northern India to the American South, to write "Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives." He shares case histories, as well as the methods of verification of these stories. Does this scientifically-based evidence count as proof for reincarnation?

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