Genetic Memory?

[Mike in Cumbria]

..and here's the stone as close to a line drawing as I can do with Nik filters.

I think the fact that the "researchers" (I use that term loosely) found this evidence convincing tells us far more about them than about anything else. I watched the documentary on YouTube (fast forwarded much of it) and I'm afraid that this was typical of their approach - they just bent over backwards to accept what they were being told as truth, to a ridiculous degree, even when Gwen took them for a fruitless 7 mile walk across countryside.

[Erato]

Where did you find that astonishing drawing of the rock?

[JenB]

Where did you find that astonishing drawing of the rock?

Take a look at https://paran-sci.com/reincarnation-article-2-2/ you need to scroll a good way down before you get the the relevant images.

[Mike in Cumbria]

Where did you find that astonishing drawing of the rock?

Rose Duncan, in the eighteenth century, remembered it (of all the things she could have remembered from that time) and was later reincarnated as Gwen McDonald in Australia in the twentieth century. She drew that under hypnosis and, as you can see, it is an "exact copy", showing "every curve, every line, and position on the stone slab exactly as she had drawn months before."

I've got similar rocks in my garden, but hey ho. Astonishing indeed.

[Erato]

I glanced at the article and found myself flashing back.  I think I might have known Rose.  My own people [well, some of them] were from Stogumber, just 30 miles away!  And they picked lemon balm, too, the genetic memory of which has produced in me an affinity for plants.  Incredibly [it can't be a coincidence], they also lived in small cottages with thatched roofs and there were hills and trees nearby.  To top it all off, they were stone masons; they probably laid that very stone in Farmer Brown's floor.

[Malcolm33]

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I can recommend an excellent book, based on real research that might help you with this. "The Memory Illusion" by Dr Julia Shaw is a fascinating exploration of the way memory works and why almost everything we think we remember is wrong and why we all remember things that never happened.

     That has been debunked many times as have most of your arguments.

     The stone slab is shown in the film that was made during the research in Britain and was witnessed by many people.  The first part of the film was taken in Sydney and that was when the drawing was filmed and shown.

      It doesn't matter really as you will find out for yourself soon enough and I shall probably witness your shock and admission that you have been wrong.   

      But all the best, whatever makes you happy,  Malcolm

[Mike in Cumbria]

Yes. The photo of the rock and the drawing were both from the film.

Can you point me to any criticism of the book by Dr Julia Shaw that you say has been "debunked" many times please?  She covers lots of aspects of memory - which of them specifically have been debunked?

Thanks

Mike

[Mike in Cumbria]

      It doesn't matter really as you will find out for yourself soon enough and I shall probably witness your shock and admission that you have been wrong.   

You're planning on being around when I'm re-incarnated?  Cool - wear a red carnation so that I'll know it's you.

How soon is soon, by the way?

[CarolA3]

I'm sure we've been here before

When this topic came up I had a vision of Malcolm and Mike (or M&M to their fans) standing on opposite sides of the same brick wall, determinedly banging their heads thereon - and look, here they are

Carol