I'm new here. By way of introducing myself, I've studied reincarnation from the point of view of Eastern metaphysics since about 1972. In 1997 I began work on an independent documentary entitled "In Another Life: Reincarnation in America." I had only $1,300 donated funds, and $350 of that had to be set aside to pay for an interview, but I had my own one-man video production business, and produced the show over a period of five years, with my own gear and some trade-outs for services and donated services. The doc was released in 2003. It aired on one PBS affiliate in Denver (now defunct--hopefully I didn't have anything to do with that), and was picked up for distribution to universities by Films Media Group.
I have a master's in counseling, unused professionally, from Florida State.
In 2005, having studied the best reincarnation cases (those researched scientifically, and those researched using layman's methods), I stumbled across a proposed past-life case of my own, that of obscure 19th-century author Mathew Franklin Whittier. MFW was the younger brother of Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier.
In 2009, I began researching the case in earnest, via this method:
http://www.ial.goldthread.com/Proving_Re...ation.html
In the ten years that followed, I dug more and more deeply into the life of my subject. I found that whereas he was said, by historians, to have only published one satirical anti-slavery series, in actuality he began publishing at age 12, in 1825, and continued for the next 50 years. I painstakingly identified over 1,600 of his published works, including seven books. I learned that he was extremely talented, but that he published anonymously. He used a great many pseudonyms over the course of his career. Most of these he used the way we use passwords, today; but a few of them he would return to over the years. I also gradually learned that for much of his literary career, he was engaged in dangerous undercover anti-slavery work. Thus, while his best work was often claimed for, or by, other writers, he was not in a position to publicly defend it.
I proved the case beyond a reasonable doubt, via the method outlined in my article. However, for better or worse (in terms of my credibility), I learned that of the 14 or so authors whose names are associated erroneously with Mathew's work, today, four of them are famous. This causes me to be immediately dismissed as a nutcase, whenever I honestly cite my results. It is invariably perceived as making grandiose claims for myself, rather than what I'm actually doing, i.e., presenting my findings, good bad or indifferent. It so happens they are really good--but had they been the reverse (say, if MFW had turned out to be a murderer or a thief), I would have presented *that*. I have made a life-long commitment to strict honesty, as a spiritual discipline, since my late teens, and I have applied this commitment to all my research.
I have the evidence--but I can't induce people to sit still long enough to examine it with an open mind. Most of this evidence is rather convoluted--one would have to really take some time with it in order to understand it properly. But there is one instance of plagiarism for which I have very strong evidence, and which is relatively easy to present--Mathew's original authorship of "The Raven," which was stolen from him by Edgar Allan Poe. I have recently released two videos presenting 15 points of evidence--the first presents 10 points, and the second presents an additional five points:
https://youtu.be/dgoGmZaV5-w
https://youtu.be/ud-mJOUZY7o
There is a great deal more to my study, but that will suffice for an introduction.
Stephen Sakellarios
I have a master's in counseling, unused professionally, from Florida State.
In 2005, having studied the best reincarnation cases (those researched scientifically, and those researched using layman's methods), I stumbled across a proposed past-life case of my own, that of obscure 19th-century author Mathew Franklin Whittier. MFW was the younger brother of Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier.
In 2009, I began researching the case in earnest, via this method:
http://www.ial.goldthread.com/Proving_Re...ation.html
In the ten years that followed, I dug more and more deeply into the life of my subject. I found that whereas he was said, by historians, to have only published one satirical anti-slavery series, in actuality he began publishing at age 12, in 1825, and continued for the next 50 years. I painstakingly identified over 1,600 of his published works, including seven books. I learned that he was extremely talented, but that he published anonymously. He used a great many pseudonyms over the course of his career. Most of these he used the way we use passwords, today; but a few of them he would return to over the years. I also gradually learned that for much of his literary career, he was engaged in dangerous undercover anti-slavery work. Thus, while his best work was often claimed for, or by, other writers, he was not in a position to publicly defend it.
I proved the case beyond a reasonable doubt, via the method outlined in my article. However, for better or worse (in terms of my credibility), I learned that of the 14 or so authors whose names are associated erroneously with Mathew's work, today, four of them are famous. This causes me to be immediately dismissed as a nutcase, whenever I honestly cite my results. It is invariably perceived as making grandiose claims for myself, rather than what I'm actually doing, i.e., presenting my findings, good bad or indifferent. It so happens they are really good--but had they been the reverse (say, if MFW had turned out to be a murderer or a thief), I would have presented *that*. I have made a life-long commitment to strict honesty, as a spiritual discipline, since my late teens, and I have applied this commitment to all my research.
I have the evidence--but I can't induce people to sit still long enough to examine it with an open mind. Most of this evidence is rather convoluted--one would have to really take some time with it in order to understand it properly. But there is one instance of plagiarism for which I have very strong evidence, and which is relatively easy to present--Mathew's original authorship of "The Raven," which was stolen from him by Edgar Allan Poe. I have recently released two videos presenting 15 points of evidence--the first presents 10 points, and the second presents an additional five points:
https://youtu.be/dgoGmZaV5-w
https://youtu.be/ud-mJOUZY7o
There is a great deal more to my study, but that will suffice for an introduction.
Stephen Sakellarios
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