Events: detail
Many Happy Returns? Investigating Reincarnation Claims in the Lebanon
- Hosted by:
- The Skeptic Magazine
- Speaker:
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Prof. Chris French, Goldsmiths', University of London
- Starts:
- November 20, 2007 at 07:30 pm
- Ends:
- November 20, 2007 at 10:00 pm
- Location:
- The Penderel's Oak, The cellar bar, High Holborn, London, WC1V 7HP United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
A Skeptics in the Pub event.
Prof Chris French will be giving us an investigation into the reincarnation claims of the Druse. The Druse are members of a religious sect founded in 1042, who live mainly in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel, whose key belief is that, at the very moment of death, the soul is reborn in the body of a baby. Most Druse do not remember their past lives, but it is said that those who met a violent and traumatic end carry those troubled memories with them. Reincarnation is central to the way the Druse live, their word for it meaning to “change one’s shirt”.
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- Yes
Additional information
A £2 donation is requested to cover speakers expenses and sundries.
For more information
- Contact person:
- Sid Rodrigues
- Email:
- pub [ at ] skeptic.org.uk
- Website:
- Many Happy Returns? Investigating Reincarnation Claims in the Lebanon
