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How to beHow to beLucky SuccessfulLucky & Successfulin lifein life

Sumit umar SirkarSumit Kumar Sirkar

Why some people are lucky and why some people are unlucky and how to

be luckythe mystery is unfolded in this small handbook.


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Contents

What Is Luck? [5]

I Started Getting Some Answers [8]

Answer one [41]

Answer two [53]

Answer three [56]

Answer four [58]


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Chapter 1Chapter 1

What is luck?

Why do I write on this subject?

I felt like writing my real experiences, which have

benefited me tremendously and I think they can also benefit

readers, although they may appear fantastic and romantic

- because my experiences have been quite strange and

mysterious, which, may be, very blessed people can only

have the privilege of having. So I write.

According to me the definition of good fortune is: one who

enjoys good health, has the physical and mental capabilities

of achieving his goals in life, has good appearance, has

happiness in mind and is not prone to accidentsI think

such a person can be called a fortunate person. Whether

anyone believes me or not, I have learnt from this life that

each person is born with a balance of fortune or misfortune.

I understood that sum total of a mans personality and life,

depends upon three factors: one: GENETIC FACTOR, two:


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ENVIRONMENT FACTOR and three: HARDWORK FACTOR.

And all these three factors are not in ones hand. One cannot

take birth with good genetic qualities of ones choice. One

cannot as a child arrange a good environment for himself.

He lives where he is born, in his family and goes to the

school where his parents put him into and plays with such

kids who are available. Ability to work hard also depends

upon his genetic qualities and environments like his health,

nutrition, and motivation and may be many other factors.

But all such factors are not his choice but he has to live

with them as chance grants him. So this chance is luck or

fortune and some are fortunate and some are not fortunate.

So the question is why some are fortunate and some are

not. What can be done to become fortunateI have found

the answer and so I write?

I was born with very bad health. I suffered from congenital

nystagmus, due to which I never enjoyed a normal vision.I suffered from hormonal misbalance in brain. Hormone

called serotonin remained in abnormally lesser quantity in

my brain due to which I suffered from acute lack of mental

concentration, lethargy, lack of memory and also from

chronic depression. My parents were refugees and not quite

educated. My dad worked as a soldier in the Indian Air Force

and earned a meager salary. My normal body resistance

was also poor and I constantly suffered from various kinds


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of infections. Hence could not do well in studies, games or

in any other social activities, as the diseases I suffered from

had no cure. And everyone condemned me as useless and

good for nothing. So I called myself unfortunate. Because

I felt I was unfortunate, I always searched answer to the

question why is somebody fortunate and why is somebody

not?

My search went on. I even meditated for hours everyday

and searched within to get the answer. After more than 34

years of search, I got some answers and so I write


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Chapter I IChapter I I

I s tarted get t ing some answers

I am writing the following lines only to inform readers how

and where I gathered knowledge about luck and fortune,

which need not be read with utmost seriousness, as they arenot absolutely relevant and tangible in nature.

Reading was almost impossible for me. With eye problem

congenital nystagmus it was very slow and after sometime

painful. And with hormonal misbalance of serotonin, mental

concentration, retention and understanding were horrible.

I was also constantly disturbed by unknown memories of

war between armies and the soldiers of both sides were

Indians and I had regular dreams of such kind. I was shown

to a few doctors for my eye problem but they could not be

of any help. So I was an utter failure in all the activities

of life. Life was miserable. No one knew how I could be

helped. My parents were not religious. My father did not

practice any religious norms regularly and my mother


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merely carried out routine worships that she had learnt

from her parents. But somehow I came to know that there

is something called God who is all-powerful and can help

anyone. So not knowing what I was doing, I started praying

fervently everyday for months and months. One day while

meditating I got a clue that if I start running in the morning

everyday then my condition would improve. Somehow I

shook my lethargy and got up in the morning next day and

went for running. I kept running for next few days in the

morning. One day, strangely I felt better, mentally and

physically and I found I was able to understand so many

simple things, which were riddles earlier. I was feeling free

from lethargy. I was able speak with confidence and wascheerful in mind. Depression was gone. During this time

reading was much easier as I was able to understand quite a

few things. But my nystagmus of eyes remained. But prayer

and meditation became a part of my daily life. I also tried

to do running and exercise regularly. Within a week I found

with distress that my mental and physical condition that had

magically improved once again became what it was. Again

depression, poor understanding, no concentration, lethargy

and all that. It was then I understood that I am having some

physical illness that needs medical attention. Strangely

after a week or so, again I started feeling fine, no depression,

no problems of concentration or understanding etc. I was

around 20 years of age at that time. I consulted a doctor who

listened patiently and told me that it was all a psychological


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not a matter or energy. It cannot be touched, weighed or

destroyed. It cannot be contained. A soul remains in contact

with a body so long as the body remains alive. When body

becomes unfit to remain alive the soul departs it and again

comes in contact with a new body. Human brain only reads

and reflects the soul to the extent it is normally capable

of. Soul contains vast database of information. Soul has all

the information; knowledge and wisdom of all the bodies

it has been in contact with in the past with cent percent

completeness and accuracy. But the body that is in contact

with it now, can normally retrieve only the information that

has been stored during the time this body remained in

contact with the soul. Memory and wisdom does not lie incerebrum or cerebellum or in the central nervous system as

normally believed. In extraordinary cases soul is capable

of networking with other souls and can also retrieve or

read data from other souls. Not necessary that soul always

contacts a human body only. It contacts all kinds of living

beings. Only specialty of a soul, when it is in contact with

a human body is, it enjoys some independence and liberty

of action. Animals and other non-human living beings do

not have that privilege. They are simply programmed in

their respective DNAs and their life cycle materializes as

programmed. In human beings, with the power of will, the

programmed life cycle can be altered to some extent. So

the human activities are not pre determined and options are

available for choosing a better activity to some extent.


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Each soul goes through evolution process. Some souls

are superior in quality of intelligence than others. Soul

when departs a body, carries with it all the experience of

the body and when contacts a new body, that new body

although cannot have access to all the experiences of the

soul which it had in its contact with the previous body/

bodies, but unconsciously, however, the knowledge that

soul has accumulated in its previous contacts manifests

through the new body. The great scientists, inventors,

prodigious children and philosophers are examples as they

are superior species of evolution.

Soul is very possessive about the body it is in contactwith and remains with it as long as achievable. But when

the body is no longer fit to live, the soul departs to find a

new body as per it qualifies to deserve. After departing a

human body, if the soul does not deserve a human body,

it has to contact a non-human body like that of an animal

or may be even reptile. These are all cycles of fortune

and misfortune. It is after millions of reincarnations, a

soul finds a human body, which gives it the independence

and liberty of choosing activities in life. A soul during its

contact with a human body, if attains perfection in its purity,

it does not require to reincarnate. This soul then mingles

with the eternal soul the Almighty forever. Further, soul

not only carries the memory and experience of previous

lives forever, but also carries the balance of fortune it has


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earned or lost during lifetime. Negative balance of fortune,

if carried over, the new life would be full of misery. One can

develop negative balance in ones lifetime as well, although

he may have been born with a positive balance of fortune

if he exhausts his balance by bad deeds. In that case he

would start suffering misfortune in that life itself.

Whatever I have realized about soul and mentioned above

cannot be proved scientifically but I beg to challenge any

scientist or physician or a rationalist to prove otherwise.

I also got the clue as to what fortune and misfortune are.

Every human being is born with a credit or debit balance of

fortune. Anyone who is born with a massive credit balance

of fortune enjoys life tremendously. That person is blessed

with very good health, good looks and lots of wealth, mental

and physical abilities to achieve his goals and enjoys

happiness of mind and is not prone to accidents. A person

born with massive debit balance of fortune, suffers ill health,is poverty stricken is mentally and physically incapable of

achieving his goals in life, does not have happiness in mind

and is prone to accidents. It is something like this. The soul

carries with it the credit or debit balances of fortune like

memory and experience. Credit balance of fortune can be

increasedduring ones life and can be wasted as well.

Although, the scientific findings about reincarnation, as

has been recorded are as under, I quote:


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Past life regression is a technique that uses

hypnosis to recover what practitioners believe are

memories of past lives or reincarnations, though

others regard them as fantasies or delusions. Past life

regression is typically undertaken either in pursuit

of a spiritual experience, or in a psychotherapeutic

setting. Most advocates loosely adhere to beliefs

about reincarnation,though religious traditions that

incorporate reincarnation generally do not include

the idea of repressed memories of past lives.

The technique used during past life regression

involves the subject answering a series ofquestions while hypnotized to reveal identity

and events of alleged past lives, a method similar

to that used in recovered memory therapy and

one that similarly misrepresents memory as a

faithful recording of previous events rather than

a constructed set of recollections. The use of

hypnosis and suggestive questions makes the

subject particularly likely to hold distorted or

false memories. The source of the memories is

more likely cryptomnesia and confabulations that

combine past experiences, knowledge, imagination

and suggestion or guidance from the hypnotist

than recall of a previous existence. Once created,

the memories are indistinguishable from memories


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based on events that occurred during the subjects

life. Memories reported during past life regression

have been investigated, and revealed historical

inaccuracies that are easily explained through a

basic knowledge of history, elements of popular

culture or books that discuss historical events.

Experiments with subjects undergoing past life

regression indicate that a belief in reincarnation

and suggestions by the hypnotist are the two

most important factors regarding the contents of

memories reported.

Past life regression is mentioned in the Upanishadsof ancient India, but is discussed in greater detail

in the Yoga Sutras of Patajali. Writing during

the second century BCE, the Hindu scholar

Patajali discussed the soul being burdened

with an accumulation of impressions that were

part of the karma from previous lives. Patajali

called the process of past life regression, prati-

prasav (literally reverse birthing), and involved

addressing current problems through memories of

past lives.Prati-prasavis used today as a practice in

some types of yoga.

In the modern era, it was the works of Madame

Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society,


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which brought it a new found popularity, especially

in the West. French educator Allan Kardec also

delved into past life regression in The Spirits

Book and Heaven and Hell. Past life regression

therapy has been developed since the 1950s

by psychologists, psychiatrists and mediums. The

belief gained credibility because some of the

advocates possess legitimate credentials, though

these credentials were in areas unrelated to religion,

psychotherapy or other domains dealing with past

lives and mental health. Interest in the phenomenon

started due to American housewife Virginia Tighe

reporting and recounting the alleged memories ofa 19th-century Irish woman named Bridey Murphy;

later investigation failed to support the existence

of such a woman and the memories were attributed

to Tighes childhood during which she spent time

living next to an Irish immigrant.

Past-life regression practitioners use hypnosis

and suggestion to promote recall in their patients,

using a series of questions designed to elicit

statements and memories about the past lifes

history and identity.Some practitioners also use

bridging techniques from a clients current-life

problem to bring past-life stories to conscious

awareness. Practitioners believe that unresolved


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issues from alleged past lives may be the cause of

their patients problems, Luis Cordn states that this

can be problematic as it creates delusions under the

guise of therapy. Memories can vary from harmless

to actually increasing suffering in the patient or

their families. The memories are experienced as

vivid as those based on events experienced in ones

life, impossible to differentiate from true memories

of actual events, and accordingly any damage can

be difficult to undo.

The technique is not taught as part of any medical

internships.

Scientific consensus is that the memories are

the result of cryptomnesia, narratives created

by the subconscious mind using imagination,

forgotten information and suggestions from the

therapist. Memories created under hypnosis areindistinguishable from actual memories and can

be more vivid than factual memories. The greatest

predictor of individuals reporting memories of

past lives appears to be their beliefs about the

existence in reincarnation - individuals who believe

in reincarnation are more likely to report such

memories, while sceptics or disbelievers are less

so.


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Examinations of three cases of apparent past life

regression (Bridey Murphy, Jane Evans and an

unnamed English woman) revealed memories

that were superficially convincing. However,

investigation by experts in the languages used and

historical periods described revealed flaws in all

three patients recall. The evidence included speech

patterns that were ...used by movie makers and

writers to convey the flavour of 16th century English

speech rather than actual Renaissance English,

a date that was inaccurate but was the same as a

recognized printing error in historical pamphlets,

and a subject that reported historically accurateinformation from the Roman era that was identical to

information found in a 1947 novel set in the same time

as the individuals memories, with the same name

reported by the person regressed. Other details

cited are common knowledge and not evidence

of the factual nature of the memories; subjects

asked to provide historical information that would

allow checking provided only vague responses

that did not allow for verification, and sometimes

were unable to provide critical details that would

have been common knowledge (e.g. a subject who

was unable to provide the name of the Emperor of

Japan during the 1940s despite describing a life of

a Japanese fighter pilot during World War II).


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A 1976 study found that 40% of hypnotizable subjects

described new identities and used different names

when given a suggestion to regress past their birth. In

the 1990s a series of experiments undertaken

by Nicholas Spanos examined the nature of past life

memories. Descriptions of alleged past lives were

found to be extremely elaborate, with vivid, detailed

descriptions. Subjects who reported memories

of past lives exhibited high hypnotizability, and

patients demonstrated that it was the expectations

conveyed by the experimenter that were that was

most important in determining the characteristics

reported by the patients during their memories.The degree to which the memories were

considered credible by the experimental subjects

was correlated most significantly to the subjects

beliefs about reincarnation and their expectation

to remember a past life rather than hypnotizability.

Spanos research leads him to the conclusion that

past lives are not memories, but actually social

constructions based on patients acting as if they

were someone else, but with significant flaws that

would not be expected of actual memories. To

create these memories, Spanos subjects drew upon

the expectations established by authority figures

and information outside of the experiment such as

television, novels, life experiences and their own


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very much a black sheep among academics, as the

philosopher David Ray Griffin (2000, p. 195) has

noted. One reason that parapsychological studies

on reincarnation in particular may often be consid-

ered outside the pale of solid academic research is

that reincarnation entails an ontology that deeply

contradicts contemporary scientific (Angel, 1994,

p. 295), philosophical (Edwards, 1996, p. 255), and

Christian theological (Swinburne, 1986, p. 302)

views of mind consciousness. If it were shown that a

human mind or consciousness could reincarnate

into another body after death, this would have a

revolutionary impact on how we understand Jour-nal of Consciousness Studies, 14, No. 12, 2007, pp.

92101 Correspondence: nathan.edelmann@the-

ology.oxford.ac.uk mindbody relationships, the

nature of human memory, and the ontology of con-

sciousness, as would the studies done on near-

death experiences (Parnia & enwick, 2002). More-

over, reincarnation would rule out reductive mate-

rialism, and give some credibility to non-physical

views of consciousness in Eastern religions such as

Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Yet, is it possible

to conclude anything substantive about reincarna-

tion on the basis of empirical research? Many

would dismiss the question as impossible to an-

swer or irrelevant because neurology has shown


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the minds dependence on the brain (Churchland,

1999, p. 25). Recognizing how deeply a belief in re-

incarnation contradicts the ontology that contem-

porary scientists adhere to, the authors of the pres-

ent paper have designed a very rigorous and large-

scale reincarnation experiment that would involve

many teams of researchers and a series of proto-

cols. In order to evaluate whether reincarnation can

be argued for on the basis of empirical evidence,

one must have some sense of what such empirical

research might look like and how it might best be

conducted. There are two types of reincarnation

cases:spontaneous and hypnotic. In the latter, hyp-notists gather information about a supposed previ-

ous life or supposed unlearned languages when a

subject (usually an adult) is placed under hypnotic

regression. The spontaneous cases occur appar-

ently from no particular cause when a (usually

young) child claims to remember a previous life.

We shall only discuss the spontaneous cases in that

we believe they are more amenable to scientific in-

vestigation for reasons that will become clear be-

low. There are a number of weaknesses with the

current methodology used by parapsychologists to

study reincarnation claims,even though these stud-

ies have provided a wealth of interesting informa-

tion and provided a much needed rationale for


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further study. Considering that many reincarnation

cases occur in countries in which belief in reincar-

nation is part of the cultural matrix, the possibility

of interpreting otherwise normal information in

light of reincarnation is very strong. In most cases,

the child was not interviewed so as to exclude the

possibility of familial and/or interviewer sugges-

tion, nor in such a way that allows other researchers

to observe the interview itself. Generally, the child

was present at the time his statements were validat-

ed at the designated household, thus introducing

the possibility that suggestion occurred (Bernet,

2002; Edwards, 1996, p. 138; Rhine, 1966). Jim Tuck-er (2000) has demonstrated the manner in which

the University of Virginia Division of Personality

Studies has used the CRITERIA FOR IDEAL REIN-

CARNATION RESEARCH 93 strength-of-case scale

(SOCS) to document about 800 cases. The SOCS

evaluates a reincarnation case based on four crite-

ria: (1) whether it involves birthmarks/defects that

correspond to the supposed previous life; (2) the

strength of the statements about the previous life;

(3) the relevant behaviours as they relate to the pre-

vious life; and (4) an evaluation of the possibility of

a connection between the child reporting a

previous life and the supposed previous life

(also Mills, 2004). The SOCS is an important


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contribution to creating an ideal protocol for

studying reincarnation, but no attempt has

ever been made to compare the childs score in de-

scribing the designated household with a control

household. We are attempting to correct these

weaknesses by providing a protocol that has yet to

be employed. An ideal protocol would have the

sort of evidence and employ the methods of re-

search able to give substantive weight to a reincar-

nation hypothesis, even for those who have physi-

calism as a metaphysical bias and are therefore

highly sceptical of reincarnation case studies. In

order to have an ideal protocol for reincarnation re-search, the standards, acceptable practices, and

methods should be carefully outlined and reviewed

by professionals in fields as varied as psychology,

psychiatry, parapsychology, forensic science, and

anthropology. The group must hold varying

degrees of sympathy and skepticism for the

belief in reincarnation so as to add as much

objectivity and balance to the discussion as

possible. What follows is a step toward establishing

these standards and methods. Phase 1

When a child spontaneously tells of a previous life

he or she believes to have had, that data should be

collected from the child in an individual interview

by trained professional(s), A. The interview must be


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videotaped so that other people working on this

project can determine the overall quality of the in-

terview, both in its content and the manner in which

it was conducted. This would allow other members

of the project, as well as other scientists and schol-

ars in the future, to make up their own minds as to

whether the information could have arisen from

normal means during the interview process, for in-

stance, that the interviewer made suggestions or

that the child was merely speaking 94 J. EDEL-

MANN AND W. BERNET from rote memorization.

Thus, close-ups of the child and interviewer, as well

as a long shots of both, must be provided. As of yet,this practice has not been adopted by those study-

ing reincarnation. Interviewer A must elicit from

the child specific statements about the previous

life, such as My mother, whose name was Mary, has

red hair; There is a round window in the bathroom

overlooking the garden; My house is surrounded

by a stone wall, etc. Asmuch as possible, the inter-

view should be nondirective. That is,A should pro-

ceed from very general questions (Tell me every-

thing you can remember about the past life.) to

more specific questions (Tell me the names of ev-

erybody who lived in the house.) to even more spe-

cific questions (How old was your younger broth-

er?) so as to mine as many details as possible. If


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the child has not said anything about serious inju-

ries or operations,A could ask a general question

(Did you have any operations or injuries?) and

then more specific questions (Were you ever

stabbed?). Since the interview will be recorded,

other researchers can determine whether the

interviewer made suggestions as to the sorts

of answers needed to prove reincarnation. The

statements by the child must in principle be

empirically verifiable, and they must be specific

enough and numerous enough to eliminate the

possibility of chance and/or common knowledge

that any child might have. We suggest thatA collectenough information from the child to make twenty

discrete, independent descriptors of the former

life. For example, My younger brother was 5 and

He was in kindergarten only amounts to one de-

scriptor, because almost all 5-year-olds are in kin-

dergarten. However, My younger brother was 5

and He broke his left arm and had a cast constitute

two descriptors.

Phase 2A group of trained professionals, B, looks at the

data collected from the child. GroupBs role is to

make a critical evaluation of the interview as well

as all possible information that can be gathered


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about the life-history of the child. Group B will

collect information about the child by interviewing

the childs parents and other relatives, reviewing

school information, and reviewing medical and

mental health records of the child. Their analysis will

be handed over to the project director for further

evaluation. GroupB must be trained in psychiatric

interviewing so they can discover any discrepancies

in the interview of the child. There are two aspects

to Bs project: (a) to show that the child could not

have CRITERIA FOR IDEAL REINCARNATION

RESEARCH 95 received the information through

some normal means, or (b) to point out when orwhere the child did receive the information through

normal means, e.g., from radio, television, the

Internet, parents, an informant, suggestion by an

investigator, etc. Regarding (a), it is entirely possible

that B could provide mere approximations or

probabilities,for instance, that it is highly unlikely

the child could have obtained the information

through normal means or that there are many

ways the child could have obtained the information

through normal means such as the neighbour with

him he spoke daily.

Regarding (b), B may only be able to suggest

possible situations that the child could have


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received the information normally based on what

is gathered from the childs life-history, rather than

a specific instance such as, On July 12, the child

was in the house when people from his supposed

former town came to his house. Since group B

must have full access to the childs history, this

would entail cooperation from the parents and

other persons associated with the up-bringing of

the child. Much of what B investigates regarding

the childs life-history must come from the

parents testimony since the child would not be a

reliable source given she or he already espouses

paranormal means of information transmission.As such,B must demonstrate either the reliability

or unreliability of the testimony involved in the

case; this may require psychological evaluation

of key informants, including the child. Many of

Stevensons cases occurred before people had

access to modern communication technology and

long distance transportation, but that is certainly

changing quickly.With the tremendous amount

of information children have easy access to

today, group B may find it exceedingly difficult,

perhaps even impossible, to rule out normal

means of information transmission. Thus, it would

be important that the child be very young (that

is, 3 to 6 years old) so as to reduce the possibility


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of normal means of information acquisition, and

ideally the child should have led a life that was

tightly controlled by the parents. An analysis of

the interview, the possibility of normal and/or

paranormal knowledge reception, the life-history

of the child, and the reliability of testimonials

should be drawn up to be presented to the project

directors. Also, B will create the list of the 20

descriptors elicited by the interview of the child,

and will prepare definitions of what will constitute

a hitwhen the next group of investigators, C,visit

the supposed previous home or village and collect

data to validate the claim of reincarnation. 96 J.EDELMANN AND W. BERNET

Phase 3A third group of investigators, C, is sent by

the project directors to the location of childs

supposed previous life to collect data. C must

not have been given any access to child or his/

her recorded statements, as this might influence

their investigation of the location. C should be told

to gather general information from the family

at the designated household and the location in

question. By general information, we mean they

should be asked to describe the physical features

of the mother if the child had spoken about the


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mother, to describe the bathroom in detail if the

child had spoken about the bathroom, the describe

the size, shape, colour and general condition of

the house if the child had spoken about a house,

etc. It will be group Bs job to formulate the types

of information C is to gather in such a way that C

is not led to a particular conclusion. C should

also describe surrounding areas so that it can be

seen if the information provided by the child is

unique or common. For instance, if the child says,

I had a blue house on a hill with a water-well in

the backyard, then C should provide enough

detail of the surrounding area to determine howcommon such descriptions are. Since much of the

information gathered will depend on the testimony

of neighbours, the reliability of this testimony

must be determined, as in Phase 2. Aside from

gathering information of the surrounding areas

of the alleged past life, C should visit another

household nearby that has been predetermined

by groupB, which serves at the control household.

For instance, the control household could be at

the same house number on an adjoining street or

a comparable household in a nearby community.

C must not know which is the designated house

and which is the control house. In other words, the

criterion for success is not that the child scored


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12 hits out of 20 descriptors, but that the number

of hits for the designated household and village is

significantly higher than the number of hits for the

control household and village. Such numbers could

be compared statistically to show how likely it is

that the result did not occur by chance. Wherever

possible interviews should be video recorded, and

household objects, landscape and relevant artifacts

should be photographed.

As with groupB, all ofCs instructions, collections, and

evaluations must be saved so that future research-

ers can evaluate their strengths and weaknesses.CRITERIA FOR IDEAL REINCARNATION

RESEARCH 97

Phase 4In this final phase the project directors, D, collect

and assess the findings from groups A, B, and C.

Group D must provide for publication a written

review of work done in each phase to determine

their overall quality, and their strength or weakness

for paranormal activity. It is their job to ensure that

all documentation and records are secured and

organized so that other researches can view them in

the future. D must determine whether the interview

was conducted properly by group A; D must


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determine whether groupB adequately addressed

all possible natural sources of information; and D

must determine whether group C had collected the

relevant information from the alleged past life and

the control site. Assuming that D finds the above

satisfactory, the largest questionD must answer is:

Do the 20 (at least) descriptors provided by the

child rule out chance as an explanation? Perhaps

the child could construct a convincing reincarnation

story with no paranormal knowledge based solely

on facts gained from everyday experience. The

results of the experiment proposed thus far in this

paper can be analyzed statistically to see if there isa significant difference between the accuracy of the

childs descriptors for the designated household

and that for the control household. It is not possible

to analyze a single case statistically, since almost

any result in a particular case might come about

by chance. For example, if a person were to flip a

group of five coins, every so often all five coins

will come up heads. In fact, this will occur on the

average once in 64 trials:

1

2

1

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5 _

_ _

_

_ _

_

In the proposed study, the experimenters will need

to study a number of cases of alleged reincarnation

and analyze them as a group. The null hypothesis is

that there is no significant difference between the

designated households and the control households.

If the null hypothesis is disproven, we are left with

the alternative hypothesis that there is a significant

difference and that the reincarnation of the child is an

explanation for this difference. In other words, one

must rule out the possibility of chance statistically.

Suppose the experimenters study several cases of

alleged reincarnation. In each case, after the child

designates twenty descriptors of the household ofhis or her former life, the experimenters will look

for these descriptors in the designated household

and the control household. For each case, this will

produce two scores: the number of 98 J. EDELMANN

AND W. BERNET correct descriptors or hits for the

designated household (XD) and the number of hits

for the control household (XC). These are called

paired samples. The difference between these two

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XD XC = _

If the child made 16 hits on the designated household

and only 10 hits on the control household, then _

= +6. If the child made 12 hits on the designated

household and 14 on the control household, then _

= 2. In this design, the significance is determined

by several factors: (1) The size of the average of

_ (_ ave) for all the cases included in the study. If

the _ ave is a large positive number, it is more likely

there will be a significant difference between

the designated households and the control

households. (2) The number of cases (n). The largerthen, the more likely it will be to find a significant

difference between the designated and the control

households. (3) The standard deviation ( ) of all the

_ s. If this standard deviation is small, it is more likely

there will be a significant difference between the


If this standard deviation is large, it is more likely

the scores for XD and for XC will overlap and there

will be no significant difference between the


The formula for the standard deviation ( ) of the

differences (_ s) is:

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_ _

_

_

_ _ ave

n

2

1

The test statistic for the null hypothesis is:

_ _ _ ave ave

n

n

/

_

To give a simple example of how this would work

in practice, suppose the experimenters study 9

cases of alleged reincarnation. Assume that on

the average, the children achieve 4 more hits on

the designated households than on the control

households. And assume the _ s are fairly tightly

grouped, so the standard deviation of the _ s is 2.

These assumptions are optimistic in the sense that

they favour the rejection of the null hypothesis, but

we do not wish to suggest that the actual results

would necessarily be this way. Applying the test

statistic to these data, the result would be: CRITERIA

FOR IDEAL REINCARNATION RESEARCH 99


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94_

2

_ 6

We use the one-tailed t-test because we are only

interested in showing that the childrens scores

for the designated households are significantly

higher than those for the control households,

not the reverse. Consulting a t table at 8 (n1)

degrees of freedom, we find the probability (p) of

this result occurring by chance is less than 0.001.

If these were our actual results, we would reject

the null hypothesis and adopt the alternativehypothesis that these children had knowledge of

the designated households through reincarnation

or some similar means. On the other hand, if the

average of the _ s turns out to be a small number or

a negative number and/or the standard deviation

of the _ s turns out to be relatively large, the result

would not allow us to reject the null hypothesis.

A strong case for reincarnation would, on this model,

require that at each and every phase the research

was conducted without flaw. In other words, if the

children were interviewed according to the above

standards by groupA, and if the children provided

the necessary information; if group B was unable,


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despite their best efforts, to show how the childrens

information was obtained normally; if the information

gathered by C showed that the childrens statements

regarding the designated households were

significantly more accurate than when applied to

the control households; if D could find no flaw in the

overall quality of the research, then we would have

a strong case for reincarnation. Lastly, the _ , or the

difference between the results obtained from the

designated house as opposed to the control house,

must be a large, positive number. Such a result has

yet to emerge, for none of Stevensons, Haraldssons,

or Mills cases involve this large collaborativeeffort. We believe, however, that the work done

by Stevenson and others provides a rationale

for conducting further research in reincarnation.

Furthermore, the vast implications of reincarnation

for our understanding of mind, memory and

consciousness suggest that such experiments

could be beneficial to human knowledge. Although

ideal reincarnation research has not yet occurred,

it is in principle possible to achieve this goal.

Acknowledgements The authors thank Mitchell

Gail, MD, PhD, for helpful consultation regarding the

statistical aspects of this paper. 100 J. EDELMANN

AND W. BERNET


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1625.

Haraldsson, Erlendur (2000b), Birthmarks and claims of

previous life memories II. The case of Chatura Karunaratne,

Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. 64 (859), pp.

8292.

Mills, Antonia (2004), Inferences from the case of Ajendra

Singh Chauhan: The effect of parental questioning, of

meeting the previous life family, an aborted attempt to

quantify probabilities, and the impact on his life as a young

adult,Journal of Scientific Exploration, 18 (4), pp 60941.

Parinia, S. and Fenwick P. (2002), Near death experiences

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science of consciousness,Resuscitation, 52, pp 511.

Rhine, Louisa E (1966), Book Review of 20 Cases Suggestive

of Reincarnation by Ian Stevenson.,In The Journal of

Parapsychology, 30 (4), December, pp 26372.

Stevenson, Ian (1966/1974), 20 Cases Suggestive of

Reincarnation, 2nd Edition, Revised and Enlarged

(Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia).

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Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects,


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Stevenson, Ian (1997b), Reincarnation and Biology: A

Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects,

Volume 2 (Connecticut: Praeger). Tucker, Jim (2000), A

scale to measure the strength and weakness of childrens

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Swinburne, Richard (1986), The Evolution of the Soul

(Oxford: Clarendon Press).Paper received October 2006

Criteria For Ideal Reincarnation

Research 101.U

Unquote. However, a person can endeavor to increase his

credit balance of fortune. How? I have got that clue also. I

am revealing the answers one by one.


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Chapter I I IChapter I I I

Answer one :

This was the most important and useful knowledge that I

had gathered, which had really helped me immensely to

improve my luck and readers are recommended to readwith utmost seriousness.

One who does all his legitimate duties prudently,

completely and honestly increases his credit balance of

fortune and one, who does not, decreases his balance of

fortune,because God deputes every soul with human bodyfor some purpose. Hence, one must try to keep oneself fit

to perform his duties successfully.

We all want to function at the best level of efficiency,

both physically and mentally. And many of us know heart

by heart that we are not doing so as certain elements are

preventing us from leading the kind of life we really want

to lead, within the available resources. That is to say, we are

not making the best use of our available resources and the


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elements that come in the way to our functioning at the best

possible manner, are also not unknown to us altogether, but

we do not find ourselves strong enough to see them with

an open eye and take measures for their elimination. In a

way, we are escaping from the reality. That is to say, we are

failing in one of our duties in life.

Let us, nevertheless, try to examine, what elements

prevent us from functioning at our best. The elements are:

worries, ill health, depression, fear, sorrows, regrets and

such other undesirable feelings.

There is only one reason for our worries, anxieties, ill

health, depression, sorrows, fear and any other undesirable

feelings and that is: failure to perform our legitimate

duties. One who performs all his duties properly and

completely is a blessed individual and has no sorrows in

life. Let us examine this fact closely; A school child, whose

duty is to study his lessons and complete his home work, ifdoes not perform them, has all the problems in the world,

when he goes to school next day. He worries; he suffers

and sometime undergoes punishments. An employee, who

does not perform his work properly, has problems from the

employer, results in worries, anxiety, reprisals and sometime

loss of employment. If the parents do not perform their duty

towards their children, then children get spoilt and give

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the duty of taking reasonable and prudent care of ones

health, then again he has all the problems. Thus, there is not

even a streak of doubt left that all our problems, worries,

sorrows, unhappiness stems from only one reason and that

is: failure to perform the legitimate duties prudently

and completely.

Duties that apply to almost all of us are:

1. Duties towards oneself e.g. taking due care of

ones health and hygiene etc: Taking due care

of health includes few essentials like: regular

exercise, healthy and digestible food cleanliness.

One should develop the habit of regular exercise.It can be brisk walking, jogging, running,

bicycling, aerobics, yoga or any sports or outdoor

games. Whatever suits the individual! In food one

should try to include lots of seasonal and colorful

vegetables, fruits, nuts, milk etc. Surroundings in

living place must be kept clean and body parts

especially hands and feet must be frequently

washed with soap and water and kept free from

germs.

2. Duty towards others, i.e. family, relatives, friends

and society as a whole:One has to look after his

family members well and feel responsible about

them. Children need special psychological and


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physical care in growing stage. And the relatives

and friends cannot and should not be ignored.

Social contacts must be respected and good

relationship in society helps a lot in life otherwise

one may develop secret jealousy among people

in society who can be potentially harmful. One

should remember that every person in society

could be useful and helpful in some way or the

others at a given point of time.

3. Duty towards ones job/occupation/profession

etc.: What ever be ones job, it must be performed

with full enthusiasm, honesty and best of ability.A cobbler or a teacher should try to be the best

cobbler or teacher in his city.

4. Duty to maintain good human relationship

with all people who come in touch or contact:

Good human relation always pays and badrelation always harms. Often-good relations

result in change in fortune for better. This is quite

important and essential. So one should smile

heartily while greeting friends, relatives and other

contacts, refrain from criticizing them, genuinely

appreciate their good qualities, remember their

names, dates of birth, marriage anniversaries,

speak politely, use pleasant sense of humor and

all such good human relation techniques.


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While talking of duties, let us remember the magic maxim:

Wisdom knows what to perform,

Skill knows how to perform,

And virtue performs it.

Above formula, to attain happiness and to function at the

best appears very simple. Yes, indeed it is quite simple. All

problems stem from failure to perform ones duties. Why

then one fails at all? One fails to perform ones duties only

owing to either one or more of the following reasons:

1. LETHARGY;

2. FEAR AND

3. MISCONCEPTION.

Let us now discuss these three reasons in brief:

LETHARGY: This is the main reason for procrastination.

Opportune moments slip out because of laziness and one

fails to derive the fullest benefit of opportunity. Lethargy

stops one from pro-active preparations, which are important

requirement for developing good luck.

FEAR: Fear in mind is often real or unreal. One mustknow the reason behind ones fear and find out whether the

underlying reasons and their worst possible consequences,

behind the fear are justified or not. Unreal fear makes an


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easy task appear difficult and something that could be

easily achieved goes unattempted.

MISCONCEPTION: This bottleneck can be removed by

gathering all possible relevant facts and data on the subject

matter of work. Knowledge is power and one should work

hard to acquire maximum possible relevant information and

knowledge about the subject matter of work to be achieved.

In life, we all have tasted failure sometime or the other.

It really tastes bad. If we analyze, as to why did we fail,

the answer would be either the failure was directly or

indirectly attributable to fear or lethargy or some kind of

inherent misconception. How then can one remove these

three evils from ones system the lethargy, the fear and

the misconception? Quite simple there are only two

requirements:

1. Unity of thought, speech and action and

2. Faith in the system of universe or nature (or

whatever one may call) or the Supreme Power.

Let us discuss these two requirements in a better detail:

Unity of though, speech and action: When one fails, what

one usually says? One says, failure is due to some reasons

beyond his control. He looks for excuses. He blames either


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others or circumstances or sometime his fate. But he never

comes out with the real reason for his failure that is his

lethargy, fear or misconception. But in his inner judgment,

he knows the real reason he knows that the failure is

because of one or more of the three evils in his system

lethargy, fear or misconception. So there is no unity of

thought and speech.

Instead, if one makes an honest confession regarding the

reasons of ones failure, one makes a psychological gain out

of it. When one confesses ones weaknesses honestly and

openly before others, one automatically builds up amental

resistance within, against those particular weaknesses.The chances then become lesser for him to repeat such

failures due to those particular reasons, which he has

openly confessed before others. Thereby, his power of will

becomes stronger and stronger and the weaknesses like

fear or lethargy or even misconception, which are basically

mental blocks, start diminishing gradually and in course

of time, they even get eliminated. The Bible says: confess

your sins and repent. These ancient words still hold good

in modern times. Thus in this manner, one develops unity of

thought and speech. Thereafter, having confessed that real

reason for ones failure, one should then think and declare

as to what actions should be taken so as not to recur failure

again and immediately start workingon them. Thus, there

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result will not be instant. One has to constantly hammer

and forge in order to build up a stronger character. Then

sooner or later, one will realize that the failures are really

the pillars of successes.

Faith in the system of universe or nature (or whatever

one may call) or Supreme Power: Some people find it

difficult to believe in the existence of a Supernatural Power

that governs the marvel of entire universal system. They

argue that the whole system of universe, the solar system,

life cycle, all creations of natures wonders are all a mere

chance and that no supernatural power is governing all

these. They are the people without faith. People withoutfaith are at tremendous psychological disadvantage, as they

constantly suffer from an inner feeling of insecurity. May be

there are a few exceptional individuals, who are although

non believers and yet they are of strong characters and are

quite successful in life. But decidedly, such individuals are

negligible in number. The main reason for their success,

if examined, would be perhaps, their conscientious

performance of all their duties. But the fact remains:

exceptions do not prove the rule.

The greatest scientist of 20thcentury, Albert Einstein had

said: God is not playing at dice. He had said this after

making a detailed examination of the physical laws that

govern the universe. He had realized that the whole system


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of universe is so meticulously planned, with foresight of

millions of years, which is possible only by an intellect of

supernatural kind.

Many years before, I had read some part of a book, written

by an American author named Dale Carnegie, which had

helped me a lot and I had jotted down that part of the book

in a piece of paper, which I am rewriting below.

Those days are gone, when people debated about the

conflict between science and faith in Almighty. One of the

most modern sciences, the Psychiatry, is teaching what the

ancient holy books taught. Because psychiatrists know

by research that prayer and a strong faith in Almighty will

banish the worries, anxieties, the strains and fears that

cause more than half our ills. Dr. A. A. Brill, an American

psychiatrist said: Anyone who is truly religious does not

develop a neurosis.

Mahatma Gandhi had confessed: without prayers, I

should have been a lunatic long ago. Dr. Alexis Larrel, who

was honored with Nobel Prize, said in a Readers Digest

article Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can

generate. It is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a

physician, I have seen men; after all other therapy had

failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy, by the serene

effort of prayer prayer like radium is a source of luminous

self-generating energy in prayer human beings seek to


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not become duty crazy and so at the same time also

remember the following prayer:

God give me courage to change what I can;

Serenity to accept what I cannot change;

And the wisdom to know the difference.

Regular prayer of this kind automatically transforms onein to a stronger character, his abilities, his power of will

and determination enhances day by day. Magical effect of

prayer becomes visible sooner than one can imagine.

Leading a systematic life: Having mastered the above

principles, one should then try to make his day-to-day

life a little more systematic. After all, the essence of life is

performance of ones duties. And one can perform his duty

only atpresent, and not in the past or in future. Therefore,

the concentration should be on present day TODAY. If

we live perfectly today only today because we cannot

possibly live perfectly in yesterdays or in tomorrows then

our yesterdays become perfectly lived ones, and there is

every hope that our tomorrows shall also be well lived.

Therefore, prepare for TODAY.

One should make a Master list of all the tasks and dutiesthat one thinks has to be performed in ones life. Then each

morning, he should see the list and make few additions, if

found required. Then the list for TODAY should be prepared


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i.e. out of the Master list, which of the tasks that can possibly

be accomplished today and required to be performed today,

should be listed and then GO AHEAD AND ACCOMPLISH

THEM. Next morning again review the Master list, delete

the items that have been accomplished, add if any new

items come in mind and then prepare the TODAYS LIST

and so on. This practice does not require much time but on

the contrary saves lot of time and confusion, because one

knows clearly what is required to be done TODAY ONLY.

So to conclude, let us all function well, perform well and

lead a blessed and enjoyable life.

I feel, the political leaders are born with massive balances

of fortune. Most of them are not performing their duties

honestly and sincerely and yet they are enjoying life. But

as per my realization they are steadily exhausting their

balances of fortune and they may end up very unfortunate

or may be reborn as very unfortunate or their off springsmay have to pay the price. I humbly beg to suggest them to

try honestly to do their best for the people.


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Chapter IVChapter IV

Answer two

We must try to maintain the credit balance of fortune, which

may diminish if we do not follow the rules of Eternal Soul

the Almighty.

So the second answer that I got in this regard is that we

must not hurt any soul. We hurt a soul and we get a debit

entry in our fortune balance. And when we make a soul

happy, we get a credit entry in our fortune balance. It is

not quite difficult to understand as how can we make asoul happy or unhappy. Give food to a hungry person, we

make a soul happy. Treat people well and we make the soul

happy. Insult a person, we make a soul unhappy.

Scientists are doing great job to make many souls happy.

They invent new drugs, which heal sick people. They are

inventing new gadgets that give comfort and happiness to

people and also solve their problems. So are physicians,

teachers and so many such people engaged in the services


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soul, a third person, a child or a section of society? If it so,

then it is wrong and harmful for the balance of luck.

Making a soul happy is one of the easiest ways to increase

the balance of fortune but most people waste their balance

of fortune by hurting and hating people.

It is quite easy to remain fortunate indeed.


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Chapter VChapter V

Answer three

Another simple answer that I got for reducing balance of

misfortune or increasing the balance of fortune is: be truthful

always. Being truthful means, not only telling the truth butalso be honest, refrain from doing anything dishonest,

harmful, adulterating, damaging etc. Some industries are

making money by making spurious drugs. Some are making

baby food, which are made from cheap and harmful material.

Now people have even started making artificial milk, called

the synthetic milk. Also illegal weapons are being made

used for criminal acts and all these are done for making

money. People for fulfilling needs and to get happiness and

satisfaction in life require money. But this kind of money

diminishes fortune balance and misfortune is not far away,

because credit balance of fortune is not inexhaustible. Life

is not as short as we think. Misfortune may strike in this life

itself and if not, all balances of fortune and misfortune are


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carried forward with meticulous accuracy to next body that

your soul shall be in contact with.

So dont cheat, dont defraud and dont commit a crime.

And also dont be arrogant.

It sounds difficult to remain absolutely truthful. Try for

sometime and see what happens. Nobody will starve todeath or be destroyed by cruel world, if one is truthful, as

most people think. In this very world, there are numerous

people who are truthful and also good to others. At least I

dont find any of these kinds of people suffering in any way

going by my definition of fortune.

My life started with great misery and by believing and

adopting these answers, I am quite a happy person now. I

am leading a reasonably decent life and I have never lost

anything by being truthful.

Anyone is welcome to verify the facts in my case.


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Chapter VIChapter VI

Answer four

This chapter is important for those readers who desire to

attain spiritual development.

A soul, when attains perfection in its purity, does not

require contacting a new body. Such soul mingles with the

Eternal Soul - we call the Almighty.

How can a soul attain perfection in its purity? Simple.

Anyone who performs all his legitimate duties to the best

of his ability, prudently, honestly and completely and

never hurts any soul, instead makes other souls happy and

is completely truthful is a soul in its perfect purity. He is

equal to God. God is the king of Universe - none can reach

beyond that height.

All that I have written may appear like a fairy tale to manybecause there is no immediate and tangible evidence

available in their support. Therefore, do not believe blindly

all what I have written, instead, practice for a couple of


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