Division of Perceptual Studies — Publications
University of Virginia, Division of Perceptual Studies · ongoing · University of Virginia School of Medicine
Summary
Curated, regularly updated publications list from the academic group that runs the largest case database on children reporting past-life memories.
Why it matters here
The institutional home for serious empirical work on past-life memories and survival-related anomalies.
Linked claims
A subset of past-life cases include birthmarks or birth defects whose location matches reported wounds — sometimes with autopsy verification.
Dying patients commonly report visits from deceased loved ones. Cross-cultural pattern with deep clinical familiarity.
A consistent core experience — peace, light, life review, OBE — reported across cultures and prospective hospital studies.
Decades of cases of young children making specific, verifiable claims about a deceased stranger's life — across many cultures, with reproducible sub-patterns (≈70% violent deaths, family-rebirth clusters).
Brief return of clear cognition shortly before death in patients with severe dementia or brain injury — observed across hospice care.
Related evidence hubs
Children's past-life memories, birthmark cases, and the rebirth interpretation.
Past-life memories, karma, soul contracts.
Evidence around dying, near-death experience, and what (if anything) continues.
Whether anything of mind continues.
Structured experiences during cardiac arrest and crisis.
The nature of subjective experience.
Brief return of clear cognition before death.