Media

 

Because of public interest in paranormal phenomena and the tendency of some members of the public media to sensationalize the subject, members of the staff believe they have an obligation to disseminate accurate information to the public. Accordingly, as time permits, they make themselves available for interviews and as consultants to representatives of the media, provided they can receive assurance that the subject will be treated in a serious manner.

In 1997 Dr. Stevenson agreed to let Tom Shroder, an editor at the Washington Post, travel with him through India, Lebanon and the United States as he investigated cases of children who seemed to remember previous lives. Shroder, with Dr. Stevenson's permission, wrote a book based on those experiences called Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives. It was published by Simon and Schuster in 1999 and should be available through any bookstore or online book seller. This link is for the hardcover edition, ISBN 0-684-85192-X, $24.00 . It is now out in paperback as well with a slightly different title, Old Souls: Compelling Evidence from Children Who Remember Past Lives from Fireside (a Simon and Schuster imprint) for $12.00, ISBN 0-684-85193-8.

In 1991 a three-part documentary film In Search of the Dead was jointly produced by the BBC and the PBS station, WXXI, in Rochester, New York. DOPS research is prominently featured in this documentary; in fact Part III, entitled "Remembered Lives," is almost entirely devoted to the Division's research with children who seem to remember previous lives. Part I is entitled "Powers of the Mind"; it offers a an overview of the field of parapsychology/psychical research with a focus on psychics (and those in particular that have assisted police in their criminal investigations), as well as telepathy in general and distant viewing in particular. Dr. Stevenson is interviewed briefly at the beginning. Part II, "Visions and Voices," focuses on near-death experiences, mediums who purport to communicate with the dead, apparitions, and death-bed visions. Dr. Stevenson is interviewed briefly about a couple of cases.

The rights for these films have reverted to the producer and we have written permission from him to make video copies for those who are seriously interested. Please contact us before ordering if you would like a copy. Parts I, II, and III are each on separate videos. Note that each video costs $15.00; this covers copying costs, and shipping within the United States. If you request that your order be shipped to somewhere outside the US, the additional shipping costs will increase the total cost of your order.

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All rights for these videos are owned by the producer, Jeffrey Iverson. No portion of any of these videos may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of Jeffrey Iverson.

In 1990 a paper by members of the staff (#STE36 in the NDE section of the Publications list : "Features of 'Near-Death Experience' In Relation to Whether or Not Patients Were Near Death") published in the British medical journal, The Lancet, was widely publicized in the media and thus appears to have had an educational value for many persons additional to the mainly medical readers of the journal in which it was published.