Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect · 胎記的秘密

About this book

This is the Chinese translation by Zhao Yue of Ian Stevenson’s Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect, an abridged version of his two-volume Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects.

Stevenson investigates children who report memories of previous lives, focusing on correspondences between birthmarks or congenital defects and wounds or bodily marks attributed to deceased people. The book discusses medical documents, including autopsy and surgical records, in selected cases.

Topics include possible explanations for birthmarks, pigmented moles, congenital defects, twin cases and the author’s interpretation of the relationship between personality and the body. Reincarnation is a hypothesis explored in the book; readers can assess the cases, methods and evidence for themselves.

the book contains 26 chapters, 15 colour photographs and appendices with a translation glossary and additional sources.

Author and translator

Ian Stevenson was a Canadian-born American psychiatrist and a professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He chaired its psychiatry department from 1957 to 1967, held the Carlson Professorship of Psychiatry from 1967 to 2001 and founded the Division of Perceptual Studies.

His 1997 work Reincarnation and Biology examines birthmarks and birth defects. He subsequently produced the shorter Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect, translated into Chinese in this edition.

Translator Zhao Yue holds a doctorate in development economics from the University of Alberta and founded Oriental Wisdom Academy. He has taught EMBA programmes at institutions including HKUST, Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, and has served as a business adviser.

Features

• Investigates birthmarks and congenital defects as a starting point.
• Combines field investigations across regions with case narratives.
• Discusses medical records and methods of case verification.
• A shorter presentation of a larger study, with Chinese translator material and a terminology glossary.

Contents overview

• Translator’s preface Author introduction Preface Acknowledgements
• Chapters 1–3 Introduction and possible causes of birthmarks
• Chapters 4–9 Birthmarks, wounds, skin injuries and pigmented moles
• Chapters 10–15 Predictions, changes, correspondences and interpretation
• Chapters 16–24 Congenital defects, illness, pigmentation, physique and posture
• Chapter 25 Twins reporting past-life memories
• Chapter 26 Synthesis and implications
• Illustrations, glossary and additional sources

Who this book is for

For readers interested in consciousness and the body, philosophy of life, parapsychological case research and life education.

Book details

Publisher: 千尋出版社

Original English edition publication date: May 1997

This Chinese edition publication date: April 2026

ISBN: 9789622551527

Price: HK$208.00 · Stock: 498 copies

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