As a scientifically minded person. The propensity for the left to go for "woo"...

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35. Well, Quantum Enigma is not woo

it is a serious examination of the implications of the measurement problem. Profs Rosenbaum and Kutner are careful to explain and to distance themselves from the ignorance of certain people who attempt to use their book to support nonsense theories. Of course it suffers from the problem that no-one has actually defined what consciousness or awareness actually is.

Now contrast with "Return to Life". In all cases highlighted by Dr Tucker the children were either schooled in the histories they were recounting or had other sources of information about their supposed previous existence - notably the leading questions asked by their interviewers. The few who were returned to the site of this past life either made simple errors or, like all children picked up on cues from their companions. It is some years since I read the debunking of this but I seem to recall most of the children forgot these supposed prior lives a year or so later.

There are, of course, another problems. Why do only a few "return" or conversely why do so few recall their past lives? The persons who were supposedly reborn lived lives that were unexceptional so why were they chosen to be reincarnated? On the other hand if only certain persons are able to recall their past lives why is that so? When does this transfer of awareness happen; if at conception how does the aware soul stay sane for 9 months in a sensory deprivation cell; how does it survive the birth pangs? Why does the transfered soul make itself apparent by early acquisition of speech or why, if speech has to be gained naturally does the revelation only happen some time after that not at the time of acquisition? If the transfered awareness waits until later what happens to the person taken over by this new soul?