The late Dr. Ian Stevenson was a Medical Doctor and Psychiatrist who spent much of his adult life and career studying cases of childhood memories and birthmarks suggestive of reincarnation, mostly in India, where such memories are not as quickly dismissed as they are in the Western world. A commentator said, “Dr. Stevenson was not upset that critics dismissed his work, but that they did so without ever reading it.” A skeptic wrote of Dr. Stevenson, that his work “is full of errors, flaws, gaps, messes, and difficulties. It does not correspond to the sort of work required in courses on research methods given to third and fourth-year college students.” And with that broad stroke, the skeptic dismisses a man’s life’s work, amounting to the study of some 2400 cases! What is Creator’s perspective of Dr. Stevenson’s efforts, and is the late Dr. Ian Stevenson safely in the light?

Dr. Stevenson is safely in the light, and for that he is most grateful, and his life work was not only valid but divinely inspired. He was engaged in a mission life to bring forward truth about the phenomenon of reincarnation, in particular, and that is why it became his passion and his life pursuit of greatest importance and overall meaning of benefit for people today to know about and understand. His was an uphill climb as your description describes. Reincarnation is still considered an oddity of cultural artifact, primarily, that is simply subconscious expectation from the cultural beliefs of Eastern religion, that one might have a prior history, perhaps as an animal. But this is not taken seriously by scientists or the medical community as fact or even possibility, but rather a kind of folktale only believed in by the gullible and those culturally conditioned to do so, and that is essentially a bias that has reigned supreme over Dr. Stevenson's work, to see it through the lens that is the distortion of the academics who criticize him and not Dr. Stevenson himself—it is cultural bias labeling something it doesn't understand. This cultural bias, ironically enough, is the reason individuals in the West and psychologists and other researchers are probing the mind and things that intersect on the question of genealogy, genetic history, and the possibility of family lineages having some kind of energetic component that is outside the beings themselves. And so what has been toyed with by science through the ages, when it comes to Dr. Stevenson's work, in seeing that people in India have many stories of people recalling such prior lifetimes, it is simply dismissed as a cultural phenomenon from prior belief within the citizens of that region. And so they are simply making up fantasies based on culturally acceptable norms, as it is readily explained as a kind of byproduct of primitive Asian beliefs that would not occur in the West where there is greater "cultural sophistication" and people are not conditioned to hold such ideas, and so will not have such fantasies and will not concoct stories, accordingly. This is a reverse bias in action because it is the Western scientists who are closed rather than the Indian mind that is too open and gullible. The lack of awareness in the Western thinker creates closed minds, and any glimmers, any inner sense of prior awareness or experience, are simply discarded and disregarded by the mind itself and rarely relate to anyone else simply because it is not a part of the Western culture so is presumed to be some kind of inner fantasy, perhaps a recalled dream sequence, but could have nothing to do with reality. Because people in the West are trained and educated to be dumb about such notions, this is ignorance prizing itself and its own seeming logic that is only a kind of myopic view based on limited knowledge and restricted thinking as a consequence.