ABSTRACT
The first kind of case involves adults who undergo hypnotic regression and recall lives typically from the distant past. Tarazi described the case of an American woman who during a number of hypnotic regression sessions recalled a life in sixteenth-century Spain. The second type of case involves spontaneous memories of purported past lives. Almeder published an extensive response to Edwards, arguing that none of Stevenson's richer verified cases included the kinds of methodological flaws that Ransom had described. Schouten & Stevenson considered twenty-one cases from India and Sri Lanka in which written records of the children's statements were made before the previous person was identified. Another explanation to consider for the cases is fraud. Though Stevenson, Pasricha & Samararatne published a small set of cases involving either deception or self-deception, fraud seems a very unlikely explanation for the entire phenomenon.
