TIMING
Were exact statements recorded before investigators searched for, identified or contacted a proposed previous person?
Strengthens: Contemporaneous record
Weakens: Recollection written after a match
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Previous-Life
Evidence Matrix.
Measure the quality of the record—not how extraordinary, moving or culturally familiar the story feels.Open the matrix ↓
The matrix does not calculate the probability of reincarnation. It profiles documentation strength, alternative-explanation controls and remaining uncertainty. BQ001 stays unresolved.
Eight assessment dimensions
Every case gets
the same questions.
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Could the statements distinguish one real person from many plausible candidates?
Strengthens: Rare, falsifiable details
Weakens: General or elastic statements
INFORMATION ACCESS
What ordinary pathways could have exposed the child, family or investigator to matching information?
Strengthens: Documented separation
Weakens: Media, travel or social contact
MATCHING
Was the candidate selected through a predefined, blinded comparison against alternatives?
Strengthens: Several decoy candidates
Weakens: One favoured match only
RECOGNITION
Were people, objects or places presented in randomised, cue-controlled conditions?
Strengthens: Recorded full choice set
Weakens: Informal family encounter
RECORDS
Can names, dates, relationships, events and medical facts be checked in independent records?
Strengthens: Primary documents
Weakens: Retelling or unsourced media
WITNESS INDEPENDENCE
Did witnesses record observations separately before discussing them together?
Strengthens: Independent accounts
Weakens: Group reconstruction
ALTERNATIVES
Were coincidence, cueing, cryptomnesia, suggestion, fraud and memory reconstruction actively examined?
Strengthens: Adversarial review
Weakens: Alternatives merely listed
Evidence profiles—not verdicts
A transparent ladder
without false precision.
A · PROSPECTIVELY DOCUMENTED
Core statements predate identification; ordinary information routes and alternative candidates are actively tested.
B · STRONGLY DOCUMENTED
Multiple specific correspondences and independent records, but one or more prospective controls are missing.
C · SUGGESTIVE
Interesting correspondences exist, yet timing, leakage controls, witness independence or matching remain incomplete.
D · ANECDOTAL / CULTURAL
A sincere or culturally meaningful report without enough independent documentation for evidential comparison.
H · HOLD / COMPROMISED
Publicity, coaching, contact, incentives, missing records or contradictory chronology currently prevent responsible assessment.
First worked example
Case KA.
Suggestive, not solved.
Written interview notes preceded identification of the proposed previous person, strengthening the chronology. Missing blinded matching, incomplete archival records and possible information exposure keep the provisional profile at C.
Indian worked example
Kumkum Verma.
Eighteen recorded statements.
Her aunt reportedly recorded eighteen statements about six months before an identity search. The chronology is notable; incomplete primary documentation and untested information routes keep the provisional profile at C.
Benares worked example
Jagdish Chandra.
Recorded before the journey.
A newspaper appeal and magistrate record reportedly preceded travel from Bareilly to Benares. Strong chronology meets incomplete archival access and uncontrolled recognition, producing a provisional Profile C.
Case intake sequence
Before searching
for a previous identity.
- 01 · FREEZE THE RECORDTime-stamp exact words, drawings, behaviours and uncertainties without interpretation.
- 02 · PROTECT THE CHILDAvoid leading questions, publicity, pressure and treating the child as the previous person.
- 03 · DECLARE EXPOSUREDocument media, family networks, travel, languages and every possible information route.
- 04 · SEARCH BLINDLYUse independent researchers, alternative candidates and predefined matching rules.
- 05 · PUBLISH THE WHOLE RESULTKeep misses, contradictions, failed recognitions and unresolved details beside the matches.
Research foundations
Existing cases become
a map for better methods.
UVA Division of Perceptual Studies
A long-running case archive used to examine recurring features. Archive size does not determine whether reincarnation is the correct explanation.
Open programme ↗2021 academic scoping review
Maps the published research territory and makes its geographical, methodological and reporting limitations visible.
Open review ↗Cases recorded before identification
A small but especially important subset because written statements preceded identification of a proposed previous person.
Open paper ↗New methods initiative
Developing recruitment, cognitive, trauma and neuroimaging approaches that may strengthen future comparisons.
Open initiative ↗Interpretation boundary
An unexplained match
is a result, not a mechanism.
A highly documented case may resist current ordinary explanations while still leaving multiple possibilities open: unknown information transfer, unusual memory processes, methodological error, coincidence, survival, reincarnation or an explanation not yet formulated.