Reincarnation, Part Four: Implications, with Walter Semkiw

Walter Semkiw, MD, is founder and president of the Institute for the Integration of Science, Intuition, and Spirit. He is author of Born Again, Return of the Revolutionaries: The Case for Reincarnation and Soul Groups Reunited, and Origin of the Soul and the Purpose of Reincarnation.

Here Walter Semkiw and host, Jeffrey Mishlove, discuss in further depth the implications of the notion that Mishlove was William James in a past lifetime. Mishlove points out that he remains skeptical of this identification that was made more than fifteen years ago – and that William James also would have been skeptical. He brings up the work in “artificial reincarnation” by the Russian psychiatrist Vladimir Raikov. Semkiw claims that Raikov’s work is best explained in terms of spirit possession or mediumship. Semkiw argues that, over time, evidence of reincarnation is going to create a new world in which people will understand the futility of harboring hostility to others of different ethnic backgrounds.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He serves as dean of transformational psychology at the University of Philosophical Research. He teaches parapsychology for ministers in training with the Centers for Spiritual Living through the Holmes Institute. He has served as vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and is the recipient of its Pathfinder Award for outstanding contributions to the field of human consciousness. He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities.

(Recorded on November 22, 2015)