In the photo, the boy stares fondly - lustfully, one might almost say, were one to spend too much time in India with reincarnation researchers - at his alleged past-life wife. Rawat's correspondences, I came across a letter that included the line: "I am so glad you were able to marry your daughter." I am reasonably, but not entirely, sure that the correspondent meant "marry off." This morning, while leafing through a file of Dr. Just in case the age business isn't sufficiently topsy-turvy, the elastic strap on the "son's" birthday hat has been inexplicably outfitted with a long, white beard. "Here is the boy Aishwary at the birthday party of his 'son.'" Aishwary is four in the photograph. Rawat opens his briefcase and takes out an envelope of snapshots from last month, when he began this investigation. "We say 'P.P.' for short."Īishwary is thought by his family to be the reincarnation of a factory worker named Veerpal, several villages distant, who accidentally electrocuted himself not long before Aishwary was born. "The previous personality." The deceased individual thought to be reincarnated. "Also typical is the sudden, violent death of the P.P." Ninety-five percent of the children in Stevenson's cases began talking about a previous existence between the ages of two and four, and started to forget about it all by age five. The child, Aishwary, began talking about people from a previous existence when he was around three.
Rawat is telling me that the case we are investigating is fairly typical. Mary Roach, former Salon columnist Author of Spook: The Science Tackles The Afterlifeĭr. She talks about her search, which took her to places as disparate as rural India and the hallowed halls of Cambridge University. In her new book Spook: Science Tackles The Afterlife, Roach searched for scientific evidence of what happens after we die proof of an afterlife. In Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, she chronicled the curious careers of the dead. Salon writer and journalist Mary Roach has a knack for bringing the dead to life.
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