The conversation moves into the territory of past lives and soul journeys. Dr. Sprinkle references the work of Dr. Ian Stevenson on children who recall previous incarnations and describes workshops he and his wife conducted with thousands of participants exploring memories of periods between lives. He explains that early Christianity accepted reincarnation until church councils and political authorities suppressed the teaching to maintain control through fear.
Art shares his own recent experience of vivid dreams in which he inhabits entirely different lives in unfamiliar times and places, complete with specific names, schools, and relationships. Dr. Sprinkle suggests these could be glimpses of parallel or past lives and encourages Art to document them, noting that the evidence for the continuity of the soul is far stronger than most people realize.
Key Moments
Workshops point to a 'waiting room of souls': Sprinkle describes 20 years of in-between-life workshops with thousands of participants, building on Helen Wambach's and Michael Newton's research, and finds consistent cross-cultural reports of a planning stage between lives.
Credibility versus integrity in UFO research: Sprinkle recounts colleagues warning him not to talk about his own UFO experiences for fear of losing credibility, and his answer: which matters more, credibility or integrity? He cites Hynek's Brazil 1979 remark that flying saucers are both physical and psychical.
Why we don't remember past lives: Bell reads a skeptic's challenge -- if reincarnation is real, why can't we remember? Sprinkle answers that recall comes through dreams, coincidences, visions, and that the lesson recurs life after life until learned, like a student who hated math in third grade meeting it again in sixth.
Abduction versus adduction: not all ETs are gray: Splitting from David Jacobs, Sprinkle distinguishes 'abduction' (taken away) from 'adduction' (drawn toward), citing Bill Baldwin's CE-VI work and arguing that some experiencers report uplifting contact alongside the negative gray scenarios.
Past-life readings clients rate 9 out of 10: Sprinkle describes his private practice doing past-life readings, including long-distance, and reports that on a 0-9 scale most clients rate the scenarios 9 out of 10 in similarity to their own personality, values, and life direction -- even when uncertain whether the past life was real.