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Sep 2023
1h 37m

Reincarnation Research (Ian Stevenson)

JIMMY AKIN
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Belief in reincarnation is found in multiple world religions, but it is also studied from a scientific perspective today as well. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what parapsychologists have found about cases of the reincarnation type and ask what could explain their findings.

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