Transmigration means to move oneself from one location to another. With respect to the relationship between the body and the inner self, to transmigrate means the self moves from one body to the next. Some also call this reincarnation.
The problem with the word reincarnation is that it has been misused and ill defined. Many people think this means that the person (defined as the body) becomes another person. This is of course an illogical proposition. It is also not the same as transmigration.
In transmigration, the transcendental inner self moves from one body to another, just as a person might get out of one car and get into another car.
One of the most important points to make in this regard is the fact that each of us has been moving from one body to the next even during this present lifetime. Consider looking at a picture of your body when it was in grammar school. Now look at your current body (assuming you are not still in grammar school!) That little grammar-school body looks sort of like your current body in terms of some of the facial features. But the entire body is different. The body you wear now is a completely different body.
In other words, you, the inner self, has changed bodies. As the body has gradually replaced all of its cells and molecules, the entire body has changed. You have effectively transmigrated from one body to the next—from your grammar-school body to your adult body.
This transmigration continues throughout life. We might compare the situation to a waterfall. While the waterfall might look the same from one minute to the next, it contains completely different water molecules. The actual waterfall is different from one moment to the next. It maintains the same shape and outer appearance, but it is made up of different elements from one moment to the next.
As our body changes and recycles matter, the manner in which it changes is based upon the condition of our mind and consciousness. Those things we—the inner self—are interested in are expressed through our mind and body. Once we condition our mind to particular things, the mind becomes attached. As the mind becomes attached, the body’s cells and genes cooperate and form around the condition of the mind.
Thus the form and condition of the body is shaped around the attachments of the mind. We can see this through this lifetime. A person who likes to eat will gradually develop a body that is capable of eating a lot of food. A person who likes to run will gradually develop a body that can run very efficiently.
Athletes refer to this as training. When they want to excel in a certain sport they will train for that sport. The focus of their mind is concentrated upon conditioning the body. This will change the shape of the body to excel in that particular sport.
This same mechanism also works when we change bodies. At the time of death, the condition of our mind and consciousness will determine the form of the next body the inner self inhabits.
This reality is confirmed by a vast amount of scientific research performed over the past forty years by eminent scientists. The process, called , was in part developed by Dr. Ian Stevenson, a medical doctor and professor of research at the University of Virginia, Department of Psychiatric Medicine. Over several decades of research, Dr. Stevenson conducted extensive interviews with children, during which led to their recall of a previous lifetime.
It is interesting how Dr. Stevenson’s transmigration research began. Being a conservative psychiatrist and medical professor, Dr. Stevenson had no prior belief in the transmigration of the self. But he became convinced when one of his younger patients recalled their previous life with accuracy.
After researching the patient's history and finding incredible accuracy in their account — in both detail and historical record — Dr. Stevenson began documenting other cases of past life remembrance among children.
His research documented over 2,000 cases of children who detailed previous lifetimes as historical persons, describing events with a clarity and experience only possible from having lived personally in that situation. Dr. Stevenson and his associate research scientists meticulously corroborated the accuracy of many of these details, leaving them to conclude that many children can recall their previous lifetimes prior to the age of seven.
Though undoubtedly controversial, the research has been thoroughly peer-reviewed. Other researchers have since taken up similar studies, finding similar results.
Over thirty scientific books and hundreds of scientific papers have been written to document past-life recall studies by experts, including M.D.s and/or licensed psychiatrists.
Dr. Stevenson and his associates meticulously documented these recollections along with the confirmations of their historical accuracy. Dr. Stevenson wrote several books on the subject, presenting the evidence in a clinically rigorous and scientific manner (Stevenson 1997; Tucker 2005). Dr. Stevenson’s research spanned over thirty-seven years, and his documented thousands of cases can still be examined in his books and original file records. In most cases, at least some of the account of previous life recognition was corroborated through independent investigation.
During the interview process, Dr. Stevenson found that quite often the subject described in detail a previous lifetime as a particular historical person, describing events which occurred at that time with a clarity and experience only possible from having been personally in that situation. The research did not stop there however. Dr. Stevenson and associate researchers then researched the historical accuracy of the account to confirm whether 1) the subject could have known these facts otherwise; and 2) whether the facts can be confirmed as being historically accurate.
Dr. Stevenson also observed that many children also had birth marks located almost precisely the location where their fatal wound was inflicted in their previous lifetime.
For example, he found cases where children recalled being hung or strangled to death having birth marks around their neck. He also found children recalling being stabbed somewhere having birthmarks precisely where they recalled being stabbed to death.
Dr. Stevenson and others also noticed that certain phobias were sometimes connected with how the subject died in their previous lifetime.
Dr. Stevenson’s research along with others indicate that past life recollection fades by about age seven. Before that age, children will often speak spontaneously about their previous lives as historical individuals, recalling historical details decades’ old and otherwise unknowable.
Another form of evidence has been provided through hypnotherapy. A number of other scientists have documented regressing patients through hypnotherapy into verifiable past lives, including Dr. Helen Wambach (1978), Dr. Morris Netheron (1978), Dr. Edit Fiore (1978), Dr. Bruce Goldberg (1982), Dr. Joel Whitton (1986), Dr. Brian Weiss (1988), Dr. Christopher Bache (1994), Dr. Winafred Lucas (1993), Dr. Marge Rieder (1995; 1999) along with a number of others.
One of the more interesting studies was led by Dr. Marge Rieder. She initially documented regression sessions with a number of patients that revealed historical information regarding Millboro, VA—a pivotal village during the Civil War. These subjects accurately described many historical and little-known details of the war and the town, details that were corroborated historically.
The subjects had no other way of knowing those details. For example, many of the subjects described the use of a number of interconnected tunnels and hideaways in Millboro used during the war. Prior to the hypnosis regression, many of these tunnels and hideaways were not known even by historians. The regression detailed the precise location of the tunnels, leading the researchers to discover them for the first time since the war.
To this, we can add the research of Dr. Michael Newton, a psychologist and master hypnotist who regressed patients into the period between their last body and the current body. Dr. Newton’s patients consistently tell of inter-life judgment scenarios, karma and other topics in his 1994 and his 2000 work, Dr. Newton was a clinical specialist in pain management who stumbled onto the reality of past-lives while treating patients. His texts document some fifteen years of clinical research, and empirically illustrate the transitional (“judgment day”) phase that exists after the death of this body.
Note that these are all credentialed and peer-reviewed scientists and researchers.
Transmigration has been scientifically proven and authenticated - with many repeat studies that confirm the results of others.
The other misunderstanding regarding reincarnation - explained within the Science of Transmigration - is the fact that the inner self - the person within - can also transmigrate from the human form into the physical bodies of animals, and from there devolve even lower on the hierarchy of species.
This means a person can just as simply devolve as well as evolve. However, the human form of life is the crossroads. In the human form we have the consciousness to decide our direction: Which way will we go?
The problem with the word reincarnation is that it has been misused and ill defined. Many people think this means that the person (defined as the body) becomes another person. This is of course an illogical proposition. It is also not the same as transmigration.
In transmigration, the transcendental inner self moves from one body to another, just as a person might get out of one car and get into another car.
One of the most important points to make in this regard is the fact that each of us has been moving from one body to the next even during this present lifetime. Consider looking at a picture of your body when it was in grammar school. Now look at your current body (assuming you are not still in grammar school!) That little grammar-school body looks sort of like your current body in terms of some of the facial features. But the entire body is different. The body you wear now is a completely different body.
In other words, you, the inner self, has changed bodies. As the body has gradually replaced all of its cells and molecules, the entire body has changed. You have effectively transmigrated from one body to the next—from your grammar-school body to your adult body.
This transmigration continues throughout life. We might compare the situation to a waterfall. While the waterfall might look the same from one minute to the next, it contains completely different water molecules. The actual waterfall is different from one moment to the next. It maintains the same shape and outer appearance, but it is made up of different elements from one moment to the next.
As our body changes and recycles matter, the manner in which it changes is based upon the condition of our mind and consciousness. Those things we—the inner self—are interested in are expressed through our mind and body. Once we condition our mind to particular things, the mind becomes attached. As the mind becomes attached, the body’s cells and genes cooperate and form around the condition of the mind.
Thus the form and condition of the body is shaped around the attachments of the mind. We can see this through this lifetime. A person who likes to eat will gradually develop a body that is capable of eating a lot of food. A person who likes to run will gradually develop a body that can run very efficiently.
Athletes refer to this as training. When they want to excel in a certain sport they will train for that sport. The focus of their mind is concentrated upon conditioning the body. This will change the shape of the body to excel in that particular sport.
This same mechanism also works when we change bodies. At the time of death, the condition of our mind and consciousness will determine the form of the next body the inner self inhabits.
This reality is confirmed by a vast amount of scientific research performed over the past forty years by eminent scientists. The process, called , was in part developed by Dr. Ian Stevenson, a medical doctor and professor of research at the University of Virginia, Department of Psychiatric Medicine. Over several decades of research, Dr. Stevenson conducted extensive interviews with children, during which led to their recall of a previous lifetime.
It is interesting how Dr. Stevenson’s transmigration research began. Being a conservative psychiatrist and medical professor, Dr. Stevenson had no prior belief in the transmigration of the self. But he became convinced when one of his younger patients recalled their previous life with accuracy.
After researching the patient's history and finding incredible accuracy in their account — in both detail and historical record — Dr. Stevenson began documenting other cases of past life remembrance among children.
His research documented over 2,000 cases of children who detailed previous lifetimes as historical persons, describing events with a clarity and experience only possible from having lived personally in that situation. Dr. Stevenson and his associate research scientists meticulously corroborated the accuracy of many of these details, leaving them to conclude that many children can recall their previous lifetimes prior to the age of seven.
Though undoubtedly controversial, the research has been thoroughly peer-reviewed. Other researchers have since taken up similar studies, finding similar results.
Over thirty scientific books and hundreds of scientific papers have been written to document past-life recall studies by experts, including M.D.s and/or licensed psychiatrists.
Dr. Stevenson and his associates meticulously documented these recollections along with the confirmations of their historical accuracy. Dr. Stevenson wrote several books on the subject, presenting the evidence in a clinically rigorous and scientific manner (Stevenson 1997; Tucker 2005). Dr. Stevenson’s research spanned over thirty-seven years, and his documented thousands of cases can still be examined in his books and original file records. In most cases, at least some of the account of previous life recognition was corroborated through independent investigation.
During the interview process, Dr. Stevenson found that quite often the subject described in detail a previous lifetime as a particular historical person, describing events which occurred at that time with a clarity and experience only possible from having been personally in that situation. The research did not stop there however. Dr. Stevenson and associate researchers then researched the historical accuracy of the account to confirm whether 1) the subject could have known these facts otherwise; and 2) whether the facts can be confirmed as being historically accurate.
Dr. Stevenson also observed that many children also had birth marks located almost precisely the location where their fatal wound was inflicted in their previous lifetime.
For example, he found cases where children recalled being hung or strangled to death having birth marks around their neck. He also found children recalling being stabbed somewhere having birthmarks precisely where they recalled being stabbed to death.
Dr. Stevenson and others also noticed that certain phobias were sometimes connected with how the subject died in their previous lifetime.
Dr. Stevenson’s research along with others indicate that past life recollection fades by about age seven. Before that age, children will often speak spontaneously about their previous lives as historical individuals, recalling historical details decades’ old and otherwise unknowable.
One of the more interesting studies was led by Dr. Marge Rieder. She initially documented regression sessions with a number of patients that revealed historical information regarding Millboro, VA—a pivotal village during the Civil War. These subjects accurately described many historical and little-known details of the war and the town, details that were corroborated historically.
The subjects had no other way of knowing those details. For example, many of the subjects described the use of a number of interconnected tunnels and hideaways in Millboro used during the war. Prior to the hypnosis regression, many of these tunnels and hideaways were not known even by historians. The regression detailed the precise location of the tunnels, leading the researchers to discover them for the first time since the war.
To this, we can add the research of Dr. Michael Newton, a psychologist and master hypnotist who regressed patients into the period between their last body and the current body. Dr. Newton’s patients consistently tell of inter-life judgment scenarios, karma and other topics in his 1994 and his 2000 work, Dr. Newton was a clinical specialist in pain management who stumbled onto the reality of past-lives while treating patients. His texts document some fifteen years of clinical research, and empirically illustrate the transitional (“judgment day”) phase that exists after the death of this body.
Note that these are all credentialed and peer-reviewed scientists and researchers.
Transmigration has been scientifically proven and authenticated - with many repeat studies that confirm the results of others.
The other misunderstanding regarding reincarnation - explained within the Science of Transmigration - is the fact that the inner self - the person within - can also transmigrate from the human form into the physical bodies of animals, and from there devolve even lower on the hierarchy of species.
This means a person can just as simply devolve as well as evolve. However, the human form of life is the crossroads. In the human form we have the consciousness to decide our direction: Which way will we go?
