Quelques petites sources supplémentaires. A propos des souvenirs de vies antérieures retrouvées sous hypnose, vous conseillez le livre de Morey Bernstein sur Bridey Murphy. Je vous conseille d'autres points de vue :
Dans
ce .pdf, qui explique les bases de l'esprit critique, il y a pages 9 à 11 un chapitre sur la mémoire, et en particulier les faux souvenirs. Bridey Murphy y est présentée comme un cas classique :
"A variant of the memory of non-experiences is the notion that a person can remember experiences from past lives. This myth has been perpetuated primarily by accounts of people who in dreams or under hypnosis recall experiences of people who lived in earlier times. A classic example of a false memory of a past life is the case of Bridey Murphy. In 1952, Morey Bernstein hypnotized Virginia Tighe, who then began speaking in an Irish brogue and claimed that she had been Bridey Murphy from Cork, Ireland, in a previous incarnation. While under hypnosis, Tighe sang Irish songs and told Irish stories, always as Bridey Murphy. The Search for Bridey Murphy (Tighe is called Ruth Simmons in the book) was a best seller. Recordings of the hypnotic sessions were translated into more than a dozen languages. The recordings sold well, too. The reincarnation boom in America had begun. Never again would an American publisher lose money on a book dealing with reincarnation, past life regression, channeling, life after life, or any occult topic appealing to the human desire to live forever.
Newspapers sent reporters to Ireland to investigate. Was there a redheaded Bridey Murphy who lived in Ireland in the nineteenth century? Who knows, but one paper--the Chicago American--found her in Chicago in the 20th century. Bridie Murphey Corkell lived in the house across the street from where Elizabeth Tighe grew up. What Elizabeth reported while hypnotized were not memories of a previous life but memories from her early childhood. Many people were impressed with the vivid details of her memories, but details are not evidence of authenticity. Tighe engaged in confabulation."
J'ai aussi trouvé
cet article sur Bridey Murphy, qui casse quand même pas mal le cas, de même que
celui-ci ou encore
celui-ci, qui est plus détaillé. J'arrête là, pas besoin d'aller plus loin, le cas est debunké depuis très longtemps. Quasiment depuis la sortie du livre de Bernstein en fait.