Is reincarnation the most logical (explanation) for the things Tenzin supposedly knew as a three-year-old boy? Most western researchers don't believe so. “These are all what I call ‘comforting beliefs’, they're things that people want to believe in. And I have to admit that I'm not (hostile to) the idea. I mean, I would like to think that I and the ones I love would (live on) after this existence. But I can't see any reason to believe that and it (flies) in the face of everything that I do in my work in the lab.” (Extensive research) into the human brain has helped scientists better understand the nature of memory. The brain doesn't work like a video tape recorder, (storing life experiences) in chronological order so that we can play them back at a later date. Instead, memory is stored in fragments and can easily be (distorted) by emotion, the passage of time, and new experiences. One of the most common forms of memory distortion is known as crypto-amnesia or source amnesia.
“We can all (pick up stuff) that, say, we are exposed to and it can lodge in our brains and it can come back to us without the tags that tell us where and when we learned it, and therefore it can feel like it's spontaneous and like we must have picked it up in some (previous existence) because we don't remember picking it up in this one.” Even young children, researchers explain, have the ability to pick up (on subtle cues) and details and commit them to memory. They say this is most likely what occurred in Tenzin's case.
“We've got the parents who have (converted to) Buddhism at the time of the birth of the boy. We've got Tibetan lamas coming to the house. Who knows what language they might have been speaking in front of the boy. Who knows what movies might have been played. Who knows what books might have been (read out loud).” A combination of earlier exposure (coupled with) unintentional coaching from his parents could explain how Tenzin came up with names and places, how he was able to speak Tibetan words at age 3 and learned the language (with ease) at age 14. The Ary family does not totally dismiss such arguments but believes they don't explain everything. “There is many things that, in the world that we don't (have the capability yet of knowing), because we just haven't (developed) the technology or whatever. I think we have to be (open-minded) to these things.”
“There's nothing to (prove perfectly) hundred percent that reincarnation exists, that I am the reincarnation of such and such a person. There are similarities, physical similarities, between me and my (predecessor). How do you explain that? It could (be coincidence) if you believe in coincidence. I don't know of any other explanation than the explanation of reincarnation.”
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