“The Immortality Drive” is a digital memory device containing the digitized DNA sequences of some of the world’s greatest minds, artists, athletes, including physicist Stephen Hawking and comedian Stephen Colbert. It was sent to the International Space station in 2008.

Is the Immortality Drive a guarantee for our survival? Will humanity one day be “reincarnated” digitally by other intelligent beings who happen to stumble upon our DNA time capsule?

Read about it here.

Reincarnationist, author, and prominent psychiatrist Dr. Weiss was censured by the medical establishment in 1988 after he published “Many Lives, Many Masters” which details his work with a patient he calls Catherine, who remembered multiple past lives.

Now, according to this very interesting piece, below, from The New York Times, Dr. Weiss says: “Doctors are e-mailing me. They’re not so concerned with their reputations and careers. We can talk about this openly. And it’s not just psychiatrists, but surgeons and architects.”

Is reincarnation finally being accepted within the scientific community? An exciting thought indeed…

Remembrances of Lives Past

 

Dustin Leader for The New York Times

Peter Bostock and his wife, Jo-Anne, of Winnipeg, Manitoba. He believes they loved each other in past lives working on an estate in 1880s Derbyshire, England. (By LISA MILLER)

In one of his past lives, Dr. Paul DeBell believes, he was a caveman. The gray-haired Cornell-trained psychiatrist has a gentle, serious manner, and his appearance, together with the generic shrink décor of his office — leather couch, granite-topped coffee table — makes this pronouncement seem particularly jarring.

In that earlier incarnation, “I was going along, going along, going along, and I got eaten,” said Dr. DeBell, who has a private practice on the Upper East Side where he specializes in hypnotizing those hoping to retrieve memories of past lives. Dr. DeBell likes to reflect on how previous lives can alter one’s sense of self…

 

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There is a growing movement to think about and discuss ideas about morality that are free from the “God Hypothesis” – as reincarnationists, is there any way that we can conceive of reincarnation free from a guiding hand of some kind? This concept seems like fuel for a lot of wonderful deep thinking! If you have any thoughts on this matter, we hope that you decide to share them in Comments.

On this note, please enjoy psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s recent presentation at the Edge conference. Haidt, a prominent social psychologist and researcher spoke on “The New Science of Morality” – Click here and then scroll down until you see the video window for Haidt’s talk. You won’t be sorry you did!