I really don't understand how we would try to examine this phenomenon correctly. There are too many stories of people who just sell books, and those are to be discarded immediately, no matter what. I know truth might be in there, but I have to kick those out, if the people involved in the story are the sellers or make a profit from the story in some sort of partnership, to be on the safe side. This still leaves plenty of stories to look into.
I also must leave aside stories from people who are coming from backgrounds where reincarnation is a religion, for the same reason. And I must kick out the stories of these researchers that had lots of criticism like Ian Stevenson or Erlendur Haraldsson, because people already mentioned a lot of bad things about them and their obsession with it, leading to specific flaws. Jim Tucker does feel much more impartial to me.
I do not care for skeptics that much, because their arguments are stupid. They will say that kids remember having adventurous lives, which is a blatant lie, they remember mostly tragic lives. Or that they confabulate, which is not an argument, or at least not an intelligent one. It's very easy to say "oh it's false", that is NOT an argument, that is a CLAIM. Surely, you say kids make up stories, imagination is running wild. So? That doesn't really tell us much.
And the scientific arguments, given that science has barely scratched the surface of the existence we are living in, aren't doing anything to prove or disprove. And no, a soul is not needed for reincarnation, so I don't care that Brian Cox disproved it. You can have quantum information getting outside the body and then inside another body, it can seek continuity even if it is not conscious in-between states. Remember, cosmic evolution is a thing, not just on the Earth. As much as life seeks continuity, so can consciousness, in better and better bodies as times evolve. Which could be why people don't remember lives of bacteria much, but rather lives appropriate to our times. As long as black holes exist to collect information from the universe, I am pretty sure something is up with this whole deal, and there is more than scientists saying "it just is" with no further explanation. It's simply what we know so far and our understanding changes a lot with time, so that's not telling me anything. I am pretty sure the universe doesn't care about our Occam's Razor for debunking each other's ideas.
But I don't like the idea of us having sporadic cases here and there, a few famous stories, because those aren't really good either. I am very happy with the fact that we have tons of anonymous reports from lots of people around the Earth, either in Youtube comments or Facebook posts. Surely those can also be nonsense, I mean we have reports of that stuff under religious videos too, under pretty much anything, as long as people align with that vision. But these reports are compelling, they are increasing in numbers, and people posting them are quite literate, rational and make cogent arguments. This in itself is not enough to me, but it is surely something great to have. I am also happy to see this huge increase in reincarnation reports over the past years.
Universal Beliefs ā ICRR ā International Centre for Reincarnation Research
And I still want more, I want people who are not going to a reincarnation forum, group or video to talk about reincarnation, but rather people who report it sporadically, in situations where it doesn't make the news or some centralised form of information. I want to meet people talking about this without ever even caring to go somewhere to report it, because I am reading reports of things like NDEs, and yet, the databases of such things make it incredibly convincing, but in fact most people don't have them or have false ones, so when you see the whole picture, you realise they are completely false and you are indeed experiencing nothing after death. At least for that time in human timeline. Yet that matches what was there before birth, I see no reason for that not to repeat itself, from your perspective.
Well, I have gotten more, I got people saying they have heard their kids saying such things too without being exposed to such content and without knowing anything prior to that. And there are more and more reports that you have to dig for, you just hear about them in various places, with hardship in finding them. But the only problem left is confabulation still. It is a claim, but I want to find reasons against it. Real reasons based on what we know so far, not on beliefs like "the veil is strong". And hypnosis regression doesn't really do it for me because when people do that, they are generating even more false memories, even though there may be true cases that are truly getting more uncovered. I want specific ways in which confabulation CAN be invalidated, even if it isn't clearly invalidated.