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Meta TitleDo You Believe in Life After Death? These Scientists Study It. - The New York Times
Meta DescriptionIs reincarnation real? Is communication from the “beyond” possible? A small set of academics are trying to find out, case by case.
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The University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies is one of the most prominent parapsychology research units in the world. Credit... Matt Eich for The New York Times The Great Read Is reincarnation real? Is communication from the “beyond” possible? A small set of academics are trying to find out, case by case. The University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies is one of the most prominent parapsychology research units in the world. Credit... Matt Eich for The New York Times Jan. 3, 2025 In an otherwise nondescript office in downtown Charlottesville, Va., a small leather chest sits atop a filing cabinet. Within it lies a combination lock, unopened for more than 50 years. The man who set it is dead. On its own, the lock is unremarkable — the kind you might use at the gym. The code, a mnemonic of a six-letter word converted into numbers, was known only to the psychiatrist Dr. Ian Stevenson, who set it long before he died, and years before he retired as director of the Division of Perceptual Studies, or DOPS, a parapsychology research unit he founded in 1967 within the University of Virginia’s school of medicine. Dr. Stevenson called this experiment the Combination Lock Test for Survival . He reasoned that if he could transmit the code to someone from the grave, it might help answer the questions that had consumed him in life: Is communication from the “beyond” possible? Can the personality survive bodily death? Or, simply: Is reincarnation real? Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 5, 2025 , Section ST, Page 7 of the New York edition with the headline: Accounts of Past Lives Peer Beyond Death . Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT
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The University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies is one of the most prominent parapsychology research units in the world.Credit...Matt Eich for The New York Times Supported by [SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/style/virginia-dops-reincarnation.html#after-sponsor) - Share full article - 931 [![Saskia Solomon](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/03/16/reader-center/author-saskia-solomon/author-saskia-solomon-thumbLarge.png)](https://www.nytimes.com/by/saskia-solomon) By [Saskia Solomon](https://www.nytimes.com/by/saskia-solomon) Reporting from Charlottesville, Va. and Amherst, Va. - Jan. 3, 2025 [Leer en español](https://www.nytimes.com/es/2025/01/07/espanol/estilos-de-vida/vida-despues-muerte-ciencia.html "Read in Spanish") In an otherwise nondescript officein downtown Charlottesville, Va., a small leather chest sits atop a filing cabinet. Within it lies a combination lock, unopened for more than 50 years. The man who set it is dead. On its own, the lock is unremarkable — the kind you might use at the gym.The code, a mnemonic ofa six-letter word converted into numbers, was known only to the psychiatrist Dr. Ian Stevenson, who set it long before he died, and years before he retired as director of the Division of Perceptual Studies, or DOPS, a parapsychology research unit he founded in 1967 within the University of Virginia’s school of medicine. Dr. Stevenson called this experiment the [Combination Lock Test for Survival](https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2019/09/Combination-Lock-Test-for-Survival-1968.pdf). He reasoned that if he could transmit the code to someone from the grave, it might help answer the questions that had consumed him in life: Is communication from the “beyond” possible? Can the personality survive bodily death? Or, simply: Is reincarnation real? [Subscribe to The Times](https://www.nytimes.com/subscription?campaignId=8WXW7) to read as many articles as you like. A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 5, 2025, Section ST, Page 7 of the New York edition with the headline: Accounts of Past Lives Peer Beyond Death. 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![A man is seeing blurred in the background as he stands in front of a window in an office. The foreground of the photo is a collection of filing cabinets.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/01/05/multimedia/05UVA-PASTLIVES-01-klqw/05UVA-PASTLIVES-01-klqw-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) The University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies is one of the most prominent parapsychology research units in the world.Credit...Matt Eich for The New York Times The Great Read Is reincarnation real? Is communication from the “beyond” possible? A small set of academics are trying to find out, case by case. The University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies is one of the most prominent parapsychology research units in the world.Credit...Matt Eich for The New York Times - Jan. 3, 2025 In an otherwise nondescript officein downtown Charlottesville, Va., a small leather chest sits atop a filing cabinet. Within it lies a combination lock, unopened for more than 50 years. The man who set it is dead. On its own, the lock is unremarkable — the kind you might use at the gym.The code, a mnemonic ofa six-letter word converted into numbers, was known only to the psychiatrist Dr. Ian Stevenson, who set it long before he died, and years before he retired as director of the Division of Perceptual Studies, or DOPS, a parapsychology research unit he founded in 1967 within the University of Virginia’s school of medicine. Dr. Stevenson called this experiment the [Combination Lock Test for Survival](https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2019/09/Combination-Lock-Test-for-Survival-1968.pdf). He reasoned that if he could transmit the code to someone from the grave, it might help answer the questions that had consumed him in life: Is communication from the “beyond” possible? Can the personality survive bodily death? Or, simply: Is reincarnation real? [Subscribe to The Times](https://www.nytimes.com/subscription?campaignId=8WXW7) to read as many articles as you like. A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 5, 2025, Section ST, Page 7 of the New York edition with the headline: Accounts of Past Lives Peer Beyond Death. [Order Reprints](https://nytimes.wrightsmedia.com/) \| [Today’s Paper](https://www.nytimes.com/section/todayspaper) \| [Subscribe](https://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp8HYKU.html?campaignId=48JQY) Advertisement [SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/style/virginia-dops-reincarnation.html#after-bottom)
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