“If the vapid writings… did indeed emanate from him, I can only say that this implies a terrible post-mortem reduction of personal capacities. (Survival of death with such an appalling decay of personality makes it, at least to me, a rather unattractive prospect.)”

— Ian Stevenson

Return to Life, p. 13 by Jim Tucker

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