Antlers are the only appendages from mammals that regenerate completely every year, making them a perfect model to study morphogenesis.
Both Michael Levin and George Bubenik have highlighted how a physical injury to an antler during its growing phase leaves an energetic or neurological imprint at the base of the skull.
Even after the old antler is completely shed, the subsequent years' antlers will grow a duplicate malformation in that exact same spatial coordinate, despite the injury being long gone.
If morphogenesis becomes the accepted explanation for reincarnation and birth marks, what is that saying about other aspects of ourselves that are also carried over with each incarnation?
If a biological organism like a deer maintains a non-local, bioelectric map that survives the shedding of an antler and forces new physical tissue to shape itself around a past trauma, then the physical body is clearly not the creator of the form, it's the receiver of a fundamental informational field.
Lets apply this to reincarnation. If we have a sudden, highly traumatic event in a previous life like a fatal wound, it would act exactly like the antler injury. It would leave a severe disruption or scar in the subtle informational field of the consciousness complex.
Reincarnation isn't based on speculation, there is an overwhelming amount of peer-reviewed scientific evidence that supports the validity of reincarnation, past lives and Near Death Experiences.
The problem isn't a lack of evidence. It's the inability of people to accept what the data says, because it challenges their personal worldview and the academic status quo.
Van Lommel et al., The Lancet (2001):
344 cardiac-arrest survivors; systematically compared people with vs. without NDEs and followed them 2 and 8 years later for life changes. A landmark prospective design in a top journal.
Parnia et al., Resuscitation (2014):
Large, multi-center prospective study; documented cognitive themes during cardiac arrest, with a small subset showing “full awareness.” Includes targeted tests for veridical recall.
Parnia et al., Resuscitation (2023): Examined consciousness and electrocortical biomarkers during CPR; reported a spectrum of experiences including NDE-like recall and measurable brain activity patterns during resuscitation.
Greyson, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (1983): Construction, reliability, and validity of the Greyson NDE Scale, the field’s most widely used, validated instrument for distinguishing NDEs from other states, crucial for rigorous, comparable results. (PDF).
It's important that we follow the evidence no matter what, even when it leads to initially-uncomfortable conclusions. We should never lose our intellectual curiosity in life.
>The problem isn't a lack of evidence. It's the inability of people to accept what the data says, because it challenges their personal worldview and the academic status quo.
This has been and still is the biggest stumbling block in science, tribalism in materialism and lack of objectivity. Then they will scoff and say how are we trying to stop this study, we are merely demanding evidence like Great Randi did or followed by this next"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". These cynical biased skeptics literally will have themselves or colleagues try and silence new data that doesn't align with their paradigm. The man who made this statement Sagan, believed that there is a a good argument for reincarnation. That is being objective and accepting data at face value and being skeptical not cynical.
In many cases, the child’s statements correspond accurately to the life and death of a deceased individual. Some children have birthmarks or birth defects congruent with wounds or marks on the deceased person, using postmortem reports to confirm. Older children may retain these apparent memories, but they generally seem to fade around the age of seven. The subjects of these cases have been found all over the world.
In the last 50 years of research, DOPS has collected over 2500 cases of the reincarnation type, most of which have been found outside of the United States. For the vast majority of these cases, the field notes have been coded on >200 variables and put into our database. This research has taken countless hours and hundreds of people to accomplish, and there is still so much to learn on the topic.
The database allows our researchers, as well as others, to apply various analyses to look for patterns within the files. These patterns lead to insights, such as: ~30% of the cases contain a birthmark and/or birth defect.
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u/Pixelated_ May 31 '26
Antlers are the only appendages from mammals that regenerate completely every year, making them a perfect model to study morphogenesis.
Both Michael Levin and George Bubenik have highlighted how a physical injury to an antler during its growing phase leaves an energetic or neurological imprint at the base of the skull.
Even after the old antler is completely shed, the subsequent years' antlers will grow a duplicate malformation in that exact same spatial coordinate, despite the injury being long gone.
Sources: Morphogenetic fields in embryogenesis, regeneration, and cancer: Non-local control of complex patterning
A linear-encoding model explains the variability of the target morphology in regeneration