Let’s consider a case that involved six correlating birthmarks from Ian Stevenson’s book Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect. Case with Multiple Correlating Birthmarks:
Necip Unlutaskiran Necip Unlutaskiran was born in Adana, Turkey in 1951.…
Let’s consider a case that involved six correlating birthmarks from Ian Stevenson’s book Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect. Case with Multiple Correlating Birthmarks:
Necip Unlutaskiran Necip Unlutaskiran was born in Adana, Turkey in 1951. On his birth, his mother noticed that he had seven birthmarks. When he was six, he started speaking about a previous life in Mersin, a city that was about 80 kilometres from Adana. He said his name in that life had been the same as in this life: Necip. He also stated that he had children whom he wanted to see. He further said that he had been stabbed and while describing the stabbing, he pointed to the parts of his body where he had birthmarks to indicate the places where he had been stabbed. His parents ignored his statements for six years. But when his requests became insistent, his mother finally took him to a village near Mersin where her father lived with his second wife. Though Necip had never met his grandfather’s second wife until then, on seeing her he suddenly said that he recognised her from his previous life in Mersin. There, she had known a man named Necip Budak and she confirmed the accuracy of Necip’s statements about him. When Necip expressed his now-intensified desire to go to Mersin, his grandfather took him there. He recognised several members of the family of Necip Budak, and those members confirmed the accuracy of Necip’s statements about Necip Budak’s life. Necip Budak had been a quarrelsome person especially when drunk. Once, in a drunken state, he had begun teasing and then taunting an acquaintance, who, possibly drunk himself, had stabbed Necip Budak repeatedly with a knife. Necip Budak had collapsed on the street and rushed to a hospital where he had died the next day.
Among Necip’s various statements, the most significant was his claim that he had once stabbed “his” (Necip Budak’s) wife in the leg resulting in a lifelong scar. Necip Budak’s widow did indeed have a scar on her thigh at the place where Necip had claimed to have stabbed her in his previous life. Additionally, the twelve-year-old Necip also expressed emotions as if he were Necip Budak. He showed great affection toward Necip Budak’s children and showed such attachment to Necip Budak’s wife that, out of intense jealousy, he wanted to tear up her second husband’s photo.
Most importantly, the locations of Necip’s six birthmarks correlated with the locations of the knife wounds that had led to Necip Budak’s death. The probability of six correlations is extremely low at 1/160^6, making chance an unrealistic explanation. For our analysis, these multiple birthmarks cases with their precise correlations are particularly difficult, if not entirely impossible, to be explained away as products of exaggeration.
From the book, ‘Demystifying Reincarnation’ by Chaitanya Charan Das
Here’s a PDF copy of the book:
https://www.scribd.com/document/475000031/Demystifying-Reincarnation-Chaitanya-Charan-pdf
