The Scientist Who Tried to Prove Reincarnation

responsive zenoglossy speaking in a foreign language, placed under hypnosis basically, and, you know, go into this trance and they would not only speak this language that allegedly they had no knowledge of, so, you know, this housewife in Ohio starts speaking German, but she's never taken a you know, she's not educated, she's never been to Germany. The key for him was that it wasn't that she was just kind of saying these things in German, which is easy to find a couple of sentences and, you know, sprinkle them into a conversation. She was actually responding to questions that were asked in German. And he thought that that was important as a paranormal case because you can't really explain dialogue because that requires lived experience in his mind. My argument in the suicide book is basically that people most frequently die by suicide for social reasons.

for because of negative social appraisal, shame, anxiety, guilt, feeling the weight of other minds on you in judgment. She had a dream where her daughter was floating up away from her, reaching down, saying goodbye, I'm free, or something something like that. And she woke up thinking, that's a really weird dream. Why am I having this dream about Victoria? And it's not something that she would normally say.

And she literally went to her bedroom right after she woke up and found the girl was not in her bed, and then half an hour later somebody knocked on the door saying a taxi driver had found her body on the street having jumped. All right everybody, it's Michael Shermer. It's time for another episode of the Michael Shermer Show brought to you as usual by the Skeptic Society and Skeptic magazine. Hey, here's the latest issue on UFOs

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