Abstract

95 published past life memory cases in which the previous person was identified were analyzed for the relationship between the S's age at the time of first speaking of the previous life and the presence of a stimulus to the memories on that occasion. These factors also were analyzed in subseries of 30 Indian and 65 non-Indian cases, and the results of the analyses were compared. The proportion of stimulated to unstimulated cases was found to vary significantly between younger and older age groups in the main series, the Indian subseries, and the non-Indian subseries, using chi-square tests. In a 2-factor analysis of variance (ANOVA) with age as the dependent variable, the main effect of type of case (stimulated vs unstimulated) was significant, but the interaction between the type of case and culture (Indian vs non-Indian) was not significant.