[escepticos] Re: gemelos con... vidas anteriores

[jse <jse@...>]

 Buscando en el "Lancet" una protesta de los consumidores japoneses en torno
al rumor de que se vendía "carne clonada", buscando eso, digo, me he
encontrado con una carta que me ha dejado estupefacto. "Lancet" tiene una
acreditada trayectoria y no publica cualquier cosa, como es de general
conocimiento, si bien a veces he visto cartas que parecían poco creíbles,
sobre percepción de campos magnéticos por humanos, o asuntos de zombies.
Pero, aunque no me leo todas las cartas que publica Lancet, nunca había
visto algo como esto. Por eso me llama todavía más la atención. Habrá que
mirar la sorprendente referencia [2], que parece ser un libro...


 Paso a transcribir la carta en cuestión. Es de "The Lancet", Vol 353, nº.
9161, 17/4/99 pág 1359-1360.

Past lives of twins

Sir- The report by Paul Gringras (Feb 13, p 562)[1] of physical differnces
between a pair of monozygotic twins was informative, but could have been
more so if he had described differences, if there were any, in the twins'
behaviours.
 We have examined a pair of twins in Sri Lanka with very different stature
and facial appearance. An analysis of their blood groups and subgroups
showed that they were monozygotic. The twins also showed widely different
behaviour from an early age. The older twin was calm and gentle; his brother
was "tough" and inclined to violence. The older twin was more intelligent
and had a better memory than his brother. The older twin enjoyed schoolwork
and was good at it; his brother did not like school and did poorly there.
The older twin held himself somewhat aloof from other members of the family,
whereas the younger twin was open and affectionate toward them. Finally, the
older twin had a phobia of vehicles and was unusually fond of chillies; his
brother had neither of these traits.
 The twins' parents had no reason to believe that their behaviour towards
the twins could have inculcated or even encouraged these behavioural
differences. When the twins were aged about 3 years they spoke about
previous lives they claimed to remember. The younger twin said he had been
shot by the police. Because his family laughed at his statements, he stopped
speaking about a past life. The older twin spoke copiously about a life he
said he remembered as a schoolboy in a distant town. His many statements
were sufficently precise to allow his familly to trace the family,
previously unknown to them, of a deceased young boy whose life corresponded
to these statements and whose bahaviour corresponded closely to the older
twin's behaviour.[2]
 My colleages and I have investigated 42 twin pairs, one or both of whom
have claimed to remember a previous life. The cases are mostly in Asia, and
tests of zygosity have so far been feasible with only six pairs. One other
pair --this one in the UK-- is monozygotic; and these twins showed physical
differences (including two birthmarks on only one of the twins) and also
behavioural ones that corresponded to the previous lives they seemed to
remember.
 Between 5%[3] and 18%[4] of monozygotic twins are not identical, if judged
by questionnaries alone. Genetics and postnatal influences may not be able
to explain all such differences. Gestational factors may account for some
differences.

Ian Stevenson

Department of Psychiatric Medicine
University of Virginia Medical School
Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
(e-mail: ips6r en virginia.edu)

[1] Gringras P. Identical differences. Lancet 1999; 353: 562

[2] Stevenson I. Reincarnation and biology: a contribution to the etiology
of birthmarks and birth defects. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997.

[3] Eaves LJ, Eysenck HJ, Martin NG. Genes, culture, and personality: an
empirical approach. London: Academic Press 1989

[4] Cederlöf R, Friberg L, Jonsson E, Kalj L.
Studies on similarity diagnosis in twins with the aid of mailed
questionnaries. Acta Genet Stat Med 1961; 11:338-62




At 14:09 1/05/99 +0100, you wrote:
>  Hola a tod en s:
>  Tal vez esto no este tan de moda como los GM, pero tal vez alguien pueda
>ayudarme un poco. Acabo de encontrar en la new scientist de diciembre un
>par de citas de un reportaje relacionado a "fantasmas y posesiones" y no se
>si antes ya se trataria en la lista:(cito textualn para que despues no
>digan que se "sacan de contexto")
>
>  " Many investigators point to work by Michael Persinger of the Laurentian
>University of Sudbury in Ontario, Canada, showing that hallucinations,
>alien abductions, hauntings and out-of-body experiences can all be induced
>in experimental volunteers by subjecting their brains to electromagnetic
>fiels ("Alien abductione: the indide story", New Scientist, 19 November
>1994, p 29).
>  Wilkinson and Gauld have published data supporting the hallucination
>explanation in *Proceedings of the Journal of Psychical Research* (vol 57,
>p 275). By examining records of haunting since the mid-1800s and comparing
>the dates with records of fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field.....".
>    otro tipo encontro que:
>  " Vibrations from a new extractor fan created a 19-Hertz standing wave
>within the room. Intense ultrasound and infrrasound are known to cause
>symptoms such as hyperventilation, breathlessness and feeling of
>oppression. The fan was removed and hauntings ceased (*Jounal of the
>society for Psychical Research*, vol 62, p 360)".
>
>
>  Ahora bien, yo trate de encontrar dichos "journals" en la biblioteca de
>mi universidad, pero no los encontre. En un momento pense que podria ser
>algun tipo de journal-magufo (sera posible que ahora la maguferia se
>aparezca con sus propios journals!!), pero la New Scientist me inspira
>algun respeto y antes de terminar de emitir juicio, prefiero preguntar...
>ALGUIEN SABE DE ESTOS ARTICULOS O REVISTAS Y/O PUEDE ACCEDER A ELLOS. 
>
>  Debo decir que el asunto de los campos magneticos me suena a maguferia
>(nunca he sabido de algun NMR poseido o espectroscopistas que se quejen de
>fantasmas), aunque lo del ventilador me suena mas plausible.
>
>  Muchas gracias.
>   saludos a todos, Pablo Caceres.
>