TSC2026 · Research Discussion · 13 October 2026
Past-Life Memory, Time & Awareness
An analysis and discussion brief for Saeedeh Sadeghi, PhD: what the temporal pattern shows, what it leaves open, and how the next studies could sharpen the question.
By AkashicNET / u/NeuronsToNirvana · Human-directed, AI-assisted analysis · Approximately 6-minute read
The Research
A Temporal Pattern Worth Testing Further
Sadeghi, Marieta Pehlivanova and Philip Cozzolino investigate reported past-life memories in children through the University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies. The conference abstract asks whether more unexpected deaths correspond to shorter intervals before the reporting child’s birth. [1]
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Database | 2,254 cases |
| Median death-to-birth interval | 17 months |
| Intervals below two years | 57% |
| All cases | r = −0.10; p = .001 |
| Verified cases | r = −0.13; p < .001 |
| Stringently verified cases | r = −0.16; p < .001 |
The association strengthened with verification. Five tested moderators, including family beliefs and family association, did not explain it in the predicted bias-consistent direction. [1]
UVA’s publication summary describes 1,678 analyzed cases and a 40–45% reduction in median intervals between the least and most unexpected death categories. [2] The photographed database slide instead labels 1,650 cases as verified, alongside 209 coded variables. These counts require clarification of sample definitions; we do not treat them as interchangeable.
Conceptual Inquiry · Hypotheses
Whose Time Are We Measuring?
Sadeghi’s official UVA profile lists subjective time and self-continuity among her research interests, making this a particularly relevant question for discussion with her. UVA researcher profile ↗
The death-to-birth interval belongs to our clocks. It does not directly measure a felt period of waiting, or establish an experiencer between those events.
If consciousness could exist without a body, several temporal models are conceivable: no intervening experience; a sequence of experiences with an unknown relationship to physical clocks; or awareness without succession. These are conceptual alternatives, not results of this study. A timeless model still needs a specified explanation for why externally measured intervals would vary with death characteristics.
Meta-awareness ordinarily means noticing one’s own mental activity. In AkashicNET’s Actor, Director and Witness language, it resonates with the Witness noticing experience. Using the term for awareness beyond an individual is a broader philosophical proposal that needs its own definition. Feeling timeless does not by itself demonstrate existence outside physical time.
Spiritual meaning can also be explored without claiming experimental confirmation. Reincarnation, an Akashic information model and personal continuity should each state what they predict, rather than borrowing confirmation from an unexplained correlation.
Photographed Slides · Planned Work
From Archive Patterns to Present-Day Cognition
The supplied future-direction slides describe modern-era cases, parent surveys and controlled comparisons. They present plans, not completed outcomes.
Recent Reports
Apply contemporary psychology and neuroscience methods to cases in the modern era.
Parent Surveys
Examine memory features, spiritual beliefs, family dynamics, attachment, personality, everyday memory and PTSD symptoms.
Controlled Comparisons
Compare children reporting past-life memories with a control group on autobiographical memory, descriptions of self-identity, and remembering real versus imaginary events.
Our interpretation: this programme could characterize how these children remember and describe themselves. A group difference would need explanation; neither a difference nor its absence would, alone, settle an account of disembodied consciousness.
AkashicOMNI · Compare Explanations
Personal Continuity or Information Access?
The key question is not just whether a statement matches a deceased person. It is which process could produce that match. These possibilities have different evidential requirements and are not presented as equally supported.
Ordinary Information & Memory
Investigate prior exposure, family communication, source confusion, matching flexibility and case selection. Record both matches and errors.
Anomalous Information Access
A specified hypothesis would need accurate information obtained under conditions that exclude identifiable ordinary routes. That outcome would still leave its source and mechanism open.
Personal Continuity
Ask what evidence would distinguish a continuing individual from access to another person’s information. Biographical correspondence alone does not resolve that distinction.
An Akashic-field explanation remains a hypothesis here. This timing study does not directly test that field or a quantum mechanism.
Proposed Contribution · For Discussion
How AkashicNET Could Help Saeedeh’s Research
AkashicNET proposes a small evidence-mapping pilot: make claims, case definitions and competing explanations easier to trace. The contribution would be research organization and transparent comparison, with investigators retaining control of study design and interpretation.
- Agree a case vocabulary. Distinguish reported, identified and independently verified cases; record how analytic samples are selected.
- Preserve statement chronology. Link a claim to its first documented wording, the identification date, verification sources and recorded opportunities for prior exposure.
- Compare predictions. Use AkashicOMNI’s comparative approach to state what each explanation expects and what finding would count against it.
- Build a reproducible evidence map. Track methods, exclusions, missing data, corrections and independent replication attempts, including null or contrary findings.
A feasible starting deliverable would be an agreed schema and a methods-linked bibliography using public or appropriately authorized material. Any analysis of unpublished cases would require the research team’s permission and suitable protection of children’s and families’ information. No case-database access, partnership or institutional endorsement is currently claimed.
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Discussion Brief
Questions for Saeedeh Sadeghi
“Will the controlled studies examine how children distinguish experienced, imagined and learned information, and document their statements before identifying a possible previous person?”
- How do the slide’s verified sample and the published analysis sample differ?
- Does the timing association survive controls for country, historical period and the deceased person’s age, with case clustering and missing data accounted for?
- Are raters of death unexpectedness blinded to the interval, and how consistent are their ratings?
- If children spontaneously describe an intervening period, could its reported sequence or duration be recorded neutrally and separately from the external interval?
- Which outcome would distinguish personal continuity from information access, and which would weaken each explanation?
- Would a public methods and provenance map be useful for an independent replication?
These are our proposed questions, not assertions that the published study omitted these safeguards.
Sources & Transparency
- Saeedeh Sadeghi’s official TSC2026 abstract: conference methods and reported correlations.
- UVA Division of Perceptual Studies publication summary: published analytic sample and median-interval comparison.
- Published paper: DOI 10.1037/cns0000493, in Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. The full text was inaccessible during this review.
- Attendee-supplied photographs of the database, results-summary and future-direction slides, reviewed 13 October 2026. Slide content is summarized; the photographs are not reproduced.
- Official UVA researcher profile: current research interests and professional contact details.
This is an independent AkashicNET analysis prepared for discussion with Saeedeh Sadeghi, not a statement authored or approved by her. Source review covers the abstract, institutional summary and supplied slide photographs. No full-paper methods audit, raw-data reanalysis, independent replication or exhaustive literature review was performed.
Observed findings, speaker-reported plans, our interpretations and proposed hypotheses are labelled separately. Questions and collaboration ideas are human-directed, AI-assisted editorial contributions.
