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Ian Stevenson

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Ian Pretyman Stevenson (October 31, 1918 – February 8, 2007) was a Canadian-born U.S. psychiatrist. [1]

100 relations: Afterlife, Aldous Huxley, American Society for Psychical Research, Angoon, Alaska, Annmarie Adams, Bronchitis, Bruce Greyson, C. T. K. Chari, Caste system in India, Charlottesville, Virginia, Chester Carlson, Christopher Bache, Confabulation, Confirmation bias, Cryptomnesia, Cultural artifact, Doctor of Medicine, Eileen J. Garrett, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Eugene Brody, European Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Evan Thompson, Explanatory gap, Extrasensory perception, Financial endowment, Free Inquiry, Gordon Stein, Hard problem of consciousness, Harold Lief, Harper's Magazine, Ian Wilson (author), Imaginary friend, Irreducible Mind, Jim B. Tucker, John G. Taylor, Journal of Near-Death Studies, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Language (journal), Leitmotif, Lewis Spence, Life Before Life, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, Lysergic acid diethylamide, Madras Christian College, Margalit Fox, McGill University, McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Mescaline, Mind–body dualism, Mind–body problem, ..., Montreal, Morris Moscovitch, Near-death experience, Neuroplasticity, New mysterianism, Occam's razor, Old Souls (book), Paranormal, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Foundation, Paul Edwards (philosopher), Philia, Philip David Zelazo, Phobia, Psychedelic drug, Psychoanalysis, Psychological stress, Psychosomatic medicine, Qualia, Randolph College, Reductionism, Reincarnation, Reincarnation and Biology, Residency (medicine), Richard Wiseman, Robert A. Baker, Robert F. Almeder, Robert Todd Carroll, Roger Penrose, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Sarah Thomason, Skeptical Inquirer, Skepticism, Society for Scientific Exploration, Terence Hines, The Morning News (online magazine), The New York Times, The Times, Theosophy (Blavatskian), Tom Shroder, Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation, University of St Andrews, University of Toronto, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Westonzoyland, Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect, William James, World War II, Xenoglossy, Xerography. Expand index (50 more) »

Afterlife

Afterlife (also referred to as life after death or the hereafter) is the belief that an essential part of an individual's identity or the stream of consciousness continues to manifest after the death of the physical body.

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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family.

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American Society for Psychical Research

The American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) is an organisation dedicated to parapsychology based in New York City, where it maintains offices and a library.

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Angoon, Alaska

Angoon (sometimes formerly spelled Angun) (Tlingit: Aangoon) is a city on Admiralty Island in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska, United States.

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Annmarie Adams

Annmarie Adams (born 1960) is an architectural historian and university professor.

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Bronchitis

Bronchitis is inflammation of the bronchi (large and medium-sized airways) in the lungs.

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Bruce Greyson

(Charles) Bruce Greyson (born October 1946) is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia.

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C. T. K. Chari

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Caste system in India

The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic example of caste.

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Charlottesville, Virginia

Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville and officially named the City of Charlottesville, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Chester Carlson

Chester Floyd Carlson (February 8, 1906 – September 19, 1968) was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington.

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Christopher Bache

Christopher M. Bache has been a professor of Religious Studies at Youngstown State University for almost 30 years as well as an intermittent adjunct faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

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Confabulation

In psychiatry, confabulation (verb: confabulate) is a disturbance of memory, defined as the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive.

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Confirmation bias

Confirmation bias, also called confirmatory bias or myside bias,David Perkins, a professor and researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, coined the term "myside bias" referring to a preference for "my" side of an issue.

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Cryptomnesia

Cryptomnesia occurs when a forgotten memory returns without it being recognized as such by the subject, who believes it is something new and original.

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Cultural artifact

A cultural artifact, or cultural artefact (see American and British English spelling differences), is a term used in the social sciences, particularly anthropology, ethnology and sociology for anything created by humans which gives information about the culture of its creator and users.

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Doctor of Medicine

A Doctor of Medicine (MD from Latin Medicinae Doctor) is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions.

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Eileen J. Garrett

Eileen Jeanette Vancho Lyttle Garrett (17 March 1893 – 15 September 1970) was an Irish medium and parapsychologist.

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Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Encyclopedia of Philosophy is one of the major English encyclopedias of philosophy.

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Eugene Brody

Eugene Brody, (Eugene Bloor Brody), (1921–2010) was an American psychiatrist.

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European Cases of the Reincarnation Type

European Cases of the Reincarnation Type is a 2003 book by psychiatrist Ian Stevenson, who conducted research into claims of reincarnation.

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Evan Thompson

Evan Thompson (born 1962) is professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia.

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Explanatory gap

In philosophy of mind and consciousness, the explanatory gap is the difficulty that physicalist theories have in explaining how physical properties give rise to the way things feel when they are experienced.

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Extrasensory perception

Extrasensory perception or ESP, also called sixth sense or second sight, includes claimed reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses, but sensed with the mind.

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Financial endowment

A financial endowment is a donation of money or property to a nonprofit organization for the ongoing support of that organization.

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Free Inquiry

Free Inquiry is a bi-monthly journal of secular humanist opinion and commentary published by the Council for Secular Humanism, which is a program of the Center for Inquiry.

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Gordon Stein

Gordon Stein (April 30, 1941 – August 27, 1996) was an American author, physiologist, and activist for atheism and religious skepticism.

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Hard problem of consciousness

The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining how and why we have qualia or phenomenal experiences—how sensations acquire characteristics, such as colors and tastes.

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Harold Lief

Harold I. Lief (1917-2007) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

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Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine (also called Harper's) is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts.

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Ian Wilson (author)

Ian Wilson (born 1941) is the prolific author of historical and religious books.

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Imaginary friend

Imaginary friends (also known as pretend friends or invisible friends) are a psychological and social phenomenon where a friendship or other interpersonal relationship takes place in the imagination rather than external physical reality.

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Irreducible Mind

Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century is a 2007 parapsychological book by Edward F. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso, and Bruce Greyson.

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Jim B. Tucker

Jim B. Tucker is a child psychiatrist and Bonner-Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

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John G. Taylor

John Gerald Taylor (18 August 1931 – 10 March 2012) was a British physicist and author.

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Journal of Near-Death Studies

The Journal of Near-Death Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the field of near-death studies.

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Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease is a peer-reviewed medical journal on psychopathology.

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Language (journal)

Language is a peer-reviewed quarterly academic journal published by the Linguistic Society of America since 1925.

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Leitmotif

A leitmotif or leitmotiv is a "short, constantly recurring musical phrase"Kennedy (1987), Leitmotiv associated with a particular person, place, or idea.

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Lewis Spence

James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence (25 November 1874 – 3 March 1955) was a Scottish journalist, poet, author, folklorist and occult scholar.

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Life Before Life

Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives is a 2005 book written by psychiatrist Jim B. Tucker, which presents an overview of more than 40 years of reincarnation research at the University of Virginia, into children's reports of past-life memories.

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Louisiana State University School of Medicine

Louisiana State University School of Medicine refers to two separate medical schools in Louisiana: LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans and LSU School of Medicine in Shreveport.

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Lysergic acid diethylamide

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), also known as acid, is a psychedelic drug known for its psychological effects, which may include altered awareness of one's surroundings, perceptions, and feelings as well as sensations and images that seem real though they are not.

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Madras Christian College

The Madras Christian College (MCC) is a liberal arts and sciences college based in Madras (Chennai), India.

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Margalit Fox

Margalit Fox (born 1961) is an American writer for The New York Times, and other publications, and is a book author.

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McGill University

McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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McGill University Faculty of Medicine

The Faculty of Medicine is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University.

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Mescaline

Mescaline (3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine) is a naturally occurring psychedelic alkaloid of the phenethylamine class, known for its hallucinogenic effects comparable to those of LSD and psilocybin.

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Mind–body dualism

Mind–body dualism, or mind–body duality, is a view in the philosophy of mind that mental phenomena are, in some respects, non-physical,Hart, W.D. (1996) "Dualism", in A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind, ed.

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Mind–body problem

The mind–body problem is a philosophical problem concerning the relationship between the human mind and body, although it can also concern animal minds, if any, and animal bodies.

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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Morris Moscovitch

Morris Moscovitch is Max and Gianna Glassman Chair in Neuropsychology and Aging and Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto.

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Near-death experience

A near-death experience (NDE) is a personal experience associated with death or impending death.

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Neuroplasticity

Neuroplasticity, also known as brain plasticity and neural plasticity, is the ability of the brain to change throughout an individual's life, e.g., brain activity associated with a given function can be transferred to a different location, the proportion of grey matter can change, and synapses may strengthen or weaken over time.

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New mysterianism

New mysterianism—or commonly just mysterianism—is a philosophical position proposing that the hard problem of consciousness cannot be resolved by humans.

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Occam's razor

Occam's razor (also Ockham's razor or Ocham's razor; Latin: lex parsimoniae "law of parsimony") is the problem-solving principle that, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

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Old Souls (book)

Old Souls: The Scientific Search for Proof of Past Lives is a non-fiction book by journalist Tom Shroder.

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Paranormal

Paranormal events are phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described to lie beyond normal experience or scientific explanation.

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Parapsychology

Parapsychology is the study of paranormal and psychic phenomena which include telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, near-death experiences, reincarnation, apparitional experiences, and other paranormal claims.

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Parapsychology Foundation

The Parapsychology Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded in 1951 by the medium Eileen J. Garrett and Frances Payne Bolton, Ohio's then Congressman.

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Paul Edwards (philosopher)

Paul Edwards (September 2, 1923 – December 9, 2004) was an Austrian-American moral philosopher.

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Philia

Philia (φιλία), often translated "brotherly love", is one of the four ancient Greek words for love: philia, storge, agape and eros.

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Philip David Zelazo

Philip David Zelazo (born 1966) is a developmental psychologist and neuroscientist.

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Phobia

A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder, defined by a persistent and excessive fear of an object or situation.

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Psychedelic drug

Psychedelics are a class of drug whose primary action is to trigger psychedelic experiences via serotonin receptor agonism, causing thought and visual/auditory changes, and altered state of consciousness.

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Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental-health disorders.

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Psychological stress

In psychology, stress is a feeling of strain and pressure.

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Psychosomatic medicine

Psychosomatic medicine is an interdisciplinary medical field exploring the relationships among social, psychological, and behavioral factors on bodily processes and quality of life in humans and animals.

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Qualia

In philosophy and certain models of psychology, qualia (or; singular form: quale) are defined to be individual instances of subjective, conscious experience.

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Randolph College

Randolph College is a private liberal arts and sciences college in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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Reductionism

Reductionism is any of several related philosophical ideas regarding the associations between phenomena which can be described in terms of other simpler or more fundamental phenomena.

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Reincarnation

Reincarnation is the philosophical or religious concept that an aspect of a living being starts a new life in a different physical body or form after each biological death.

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Reincarnation and Biology

Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects is a 1997 two-part monograph (2268 pages) written by psychiatrist Ian Stevenson and published by Praeger.

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Residency (medicine)

Residency is a stage of graduate medical training.

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Richard Wiseman

Richard J. Wiseman (born 1966) is a Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

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Robert A. Baker

Robert Allen Baker Jr. (June 27, 1921 – August 8, 2005) was an American psychologist, professor of psychology emeritus of the University of Kentucky, skeptic, author, and investigator of ghosts, UFO abductions, lake monsters and other paranormal phenomena.

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Robert F. Almeder

Robert F. Almeder (born December 11, 1939) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgia State University.

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Robert Todd Carroll

Robert Todd Carroll (May 18, 1945 – August 25, 2016) was an American writer and academic.

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Roger Penrose

Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science.

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Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal

The Royal Victoria Hospital (Hôpital Royal Victoria), popularly known as the "Royal Vic" or "The Vic", is a hospital in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Sarah Thomason

Sarah Grey Thomason (known as "Sally") is an American scholar of linguistics.

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Skeptical Inquirer

Skeptical Inquirer is a bimonthly American magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) with the subtitle: The Magazine for Science and Reason.

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Skepticism

Skepticism (American English) or scepticism (British English, Australian English) is generally any questioning attitude or doubt towards one or more items of putative knowledge or belief.

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Society for Scientific Exploration

The Society for Scientific Exploration, or SSE, is a group committed to studying fringe science.

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Terence Hines

Terence Hines (born 22 March 1951) is professor of neurology at Pace University and adjunct professor at the New York Medical College and a science writer.

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The Morning News (online magazine)

The Morning News is a U.S.-based daily online magazine founded in 1999 by Rosecrans Baldwin and Andrew Womack.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Theosophy (Blavatskian)

Theosophy is an esoteric religious movement established in the United States during the late nineteenth century.

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Tom Shroder

Tom Shroder (born 1954 in New York City) is a journalist, writer and editor who worked for the Washington Post for many years.

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Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation

Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation is a book written by psychiatrist Ian Stevenson on the phenomenon of what he calls spontaneous recall of information about previous lives by young children.

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University of St Andrews

The University of St Andrews (informally known as St Andrews University or simply St Andrews; abbreviated as St And, from the Latin Sancti Andreae, in post-nominals) is a British public research university in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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University of Toronto

The University of Toronto (U of T, UToronto, or Toronto) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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University of Virginia School of Medicine

The University of Virginia School of Medicine is a medical school located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.

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Westonzoyland

Westonzoyland is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England.

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Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect

Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect is a 1997 book by psychiatrist Ian Stevenson, published by Praeger.

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William James

William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Xenoglossy

Xenoglossy, also written xenoglossia, sometimes also known as xenolalia, is the putative paranormal phenomenon in which a person is able to speak or write a language he or she could not have acquired by natural means.

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Xerography

Xerography or electrophotography is a dry photocopying technique.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Stevenson

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