Sorry for not having any comic strip this weekend. I spent it entirely working instead in the edition of our upcoming YouTube interview, in which we had the chance to speak with Jesse Bering, the author of the book The Incredible Afterlives of Doctor Stevenson.
Ian Stevenson (1918-2007) for people who might not know, was the foremost authority in the West of empirical evidence suggesting cases of reincarnation, particularly among young children—in countries like India and Lebanon, but also in Western countries—who remembered uncanny details about their purported previous lives.
What’s even more astonishing (and the thing that gave skeptic materialists a harder time in their attempts to debunk his work) is that in several cases the previous incarnation had not only seemed to have influenced the children’s behavior and tastes—a boy in India, for example, hated both milk curd and taking a bath; coinciding with the manner in which his previous personality had allegedly died, after suffering an illness caused by consuming large quantities of spoiled curd, which caused him to pass away in his bathtub—but they also somehow ‘shaped’ the physiology of the children: The children in Stevenson’s cases displayed birthmarks and birth defects that had an uncanny match with the manner in which their previous personality had suffered a violent demise—weirdly shaped skin moles and marks that mimicked gunshot wounds, or other fatal injuries in their earlier incarnations.
But Stevenson’s reach in parapsychology was even wider than that. Do not worry, as we tried to cover as much terrain as possible in the 1-hour conversation with Jesse, and I also plan to write (and illustrate!) a full review of his book, which I cannot recommend highly enough.
But in the meantime, here are some of the images which will be part of the soon-to-be-released video on our YouTube channel:
‘Explain the panels’, you ask? But where’s the fun in that?? Wouldn’t you rather wait until the video is posted, so they make sense to you? 😉
Don’t worry, we’ll try to release it as soon as possible. In the meantime, please consider becoming one of our Patreons, if you aren’t one already—after the golden summer come the Fall and the harsh Winter, and we would like to enjoy some small comforts during those lean months… like food.
