The Stability of Assessments of Paranormal Connections in Reincarnation-Type Cases

The phrase “case of the reincarnation type” refers to any child who has information and/or other characteristics that suggest a paranormal connection between himself and a particular person who has died before he was born. By a “paranormal connection,” we mean the communication of information without the recognized sensory channels. Initially unintentionally, several cases previously studied by one of us (I.S. ) were investigated by the other (J.K. ) about 20 years after I.S.’s first investigation. Additional cases were then intentionally reinvestigated to test the stability of the paranormality assessments of 15 cases. All but one of the cases investigated 20 years later received the same or a lower paranormality rating. These results support the view that such case studies, even if carried out 2 decades after the relevant events occurred, do not generate inflated paranormality assessments.