Monday, October 29
Past-life researcher leaves this lifeThe current issue of What Is Enlightenment, a quarterly magazine about spirituality, contains a brief obituary for Dr. Ian Stevenson, the founder of UVA’s Division of Perceptual Studies (formerly the Division of Personality Studies), an arm of the Department of Psychiatric Medicine. Stevenson’s research focused on children around the world who claimed they remembered recent past lives; other projects of the DOPS include near-death experiences and after-death communication. Stevenson died February 8 at the age of 88. “Despite his unorthodox interests, he was the embodiment of academic rectitude in both dress and demeanor,” writes his colleague Emily Williams Kelly in another obituary, this one on the DOPS website.
Dr. Stevenson was a major influence on M. J. Rose’s The Reincarnationist, recently reviewed on these very pages.
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