In 2023, I was invited by some Sudhangshu Biswas to scientifically investigate in India a case of the seeming Jatismar, an Indian word for “Person Remembering Their Past Life”.
There being no corresponding English word, I coin the term “Memocariate” for convenience.
Meeting me coincidentally at Kalyani (my hometown) and hearing my having written a Bengali book on a subconscious therapy officially invented entirely in the Australia, he asked if I was interested in the Jatismar topic too! Me saying “Yes”, he outlined such an account of a next-door-neighbor at his village in somewhat Kalyani’s outskirt. He in turn heard it from his mother first.
What She Reportedly Told Sudhangshu
A next-door girl suddenly started running away from her residence into a vast field on way to a neighboring village where she claimed to have lived a life before. Behind the girl ran an increasing crowd of the villagers too. It has been a sensational event of the day!
Subsequently what he knew — said himself
The girl identified enough people from the alleged previous life and told other matching statement too and, whatever she uttered was verified to be true. She said to have died in her previous life as a girl too and at an early age by drowning in a pond at that neighboring village, as her elder brother shoved her into the waterbody perhaps out of play.
Further special information that day
When I asked “How much in past, this running away happened?”, he answered “About 30 years ago.” He told me that in this life she was later given a Marriage so she lived in yet another village since.”
Decision-making about Investigation
Even as Sudhangshu the First Informant of the Case (FIC) welcomed me to verify, later I thought what value is there if the Subject, an adult now, cannot remember the previous life significantly or even at all? I asked him, over phone, to enquire if the Memory was lingering, and if so, then howmuch.
He eventually, over phone, told me that the Memory was still lingering vividly. This he knew from the Subject Suchitra Biswas’ younger brother Gour with whom I also talked over phone in the same call. Then I initiated the Investigation.
The primary research question of what I call a Case Of the Seeming Memocariate (COSM) is whether the Seeming Memocariate is Memocariate indeed. Put alternatively: Whether the Extra Identity (EI) – Ian Stevenson called the Previous Personality – and the Subject (S) are the same person or not?
[To be Continued…]
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A NOTE ON MY TERMINOLOGY:-
1. “Memocariate” (English language would be unfortunate in resorting to a ‘marathon’ phrase for it such as “Person Who Remember Their Previous Life”). In Bengali, my vernacular language, it is pronounced as JATISWAR but popularly written as JATISMAR [জাতিস্মর], the sound of M not happening though.
2. “COSM” (University of Virginia hitherto used — and still perhaps continues to use — the Alternative abbreviation CORT i.e. Case Of the Reincarnation Type, which I still endorse as Google still works on it, to supply you the maximum information about such cases) stands for “Case Of the Seeming Memocariate”.
3. “EI” stands for “Extra Identity”. (Ian Stevenson called this Life “Previous Personality”. Jim Matlock calls instead “Previous Person”. I personally endorse Stevenson’s term in addition to “EI”.)