AkashicNET · Independent TSC 2026 preview · 26 September 2026
Reincarnation
Reimagined.
Eight questions to bring to the research, the workshop and the wider conversation.
Children’s reports of apparent past-life memories deserve careful listening and careful tests. The reports are real experiences; their cause remains open.
The conference connection
A workshop worth questioning well
The official TSC 2026 program lists a Sunday, 11 October workshop on OBEs, past-life memories and altered states of consciousness. Saeedeh Sadeghi is scheduled to discuss common patterns in children’s cases; Kunal Mooley is scheduled to discuss neurobiological studies of children claiming past-life memories. The questions below are ours, not statements from the speakers or conference. Times and sessions can change; consult the official program.
Questions for researchers, attendees and readers
What would we need to know?
Before a match
How often are a child’s exact statements recorded and dated before anyone identifies or contacts a possible previous family? What is retained when no match is found?
Information pathways
How do investigators document family contact, local publicity, travel, prompting and other ordinary routes by which details could become known?
A fair comparison
Could several plausible candidate lives be compared with a blinded scoring procedure, including misses and vague statements as well as striking hits?
Patterns across cases
Which recurring patterns survive checks for referral, cultural and documentation bias? Can independent teams reproduce them from the same records?
The brain and memory
What would neurobiological measurements add beyond a description of a child’s experience? Which comparison groups and predictions could distinguish competing accounts?
Identity and continuity
Even if an unusual detail were independently verified, what further evidence would connect it to personal identity or consciousness continuing after death?
Care for the child
How can research avoid leading questions and protect children and families from publicity, distress and pressure to accept an explanation?
A result that changes minds
What prospective result would make a skeptical researcher reconsider? What result would make a survival interpretation less plausible?
Bring a question. Keep the answer open.
Which question would you ask a researcher studying past-life memories? We are opening a discussion on r/NeuronsToNirvana and welcome careful questions from differing perspectives.
Read our Reincarnation Reimagined evidence map for the distinction between testimony, corroboration and interpretation, or return to the TSC 2026 journal.
Independent, AI-assisted AkashicNET editorial inquiry. No affiliation with TSC, its speakers or their institutions is implied. No claim that reincarnation has been established.