The Reincarnationist Papers

By D. Eric Maikranz

Author’s Explanatory Note

The Reincarnationist Papers came into my possession while living in Rome at the turn of the millennium. I titled the compiled and translated work myself as the original notebooks came with no title and were only numbered one, two and three. I noticed the three plain notebooks in an antique shop on the medieval via dei Coronari, just off Piazza Navona. At the time I was conducting research for my first book, Insider’s Rome, Marshall Cavendish - publisher, a travel guide to some of the city’s more obscure but interesting sites. They seemed out of place in an antique store, weathered but not quite old enough. Idly picking up the first notebook, I was surprised to find it filled with Cyrillic handwriting. Being a Russian speaker, the pages intrigued me; I purchased them for a meager 20,000 lire, about $10 US at that time.

Despite lengthy efforts, I could not fully translate the text of the notebooks and eventually determined that they were Serbian, Bulgarian or Ukrainian, but definitely not Russian.

Following a hunch, I first went to the Bulgarian Embassy on Via Pietro Rubens north of the Borghese. I struck up a conversation with a receptionist and she confirmed the handwriting was Bulgarian. Intrigued by the first few pages, she agreed to help me translate it. Over the summer Marina Lizhiva and I set to work, she translating aloud to my typing accompaniment. We became enthralled as the story unfolded in those summer evenings in my apartment on Caio Mario near the Vatican. When the translation was finished, I set to work to verify what I could of Evan’s claim. That research is detailed as footnotes to the text, the only editorial work required after translation.

D. Eric Maikranz

Foreword

The entirety of my academic career, and the majority of my life, has been dedicated to searching for, examining and providing scientific proof of the survival of the individual personality after death. This field of endeavor has afforded me hundreds of blinded and controlled past life memory experiments in Europe, in South Asia, and in the Americas. In this multitude of case studies I have found a majority of false or imagined accounts, a number of cases that could be neither verified nor discounted and a smaller number of cases offering conclusive and scientific proof of a subject remembering facts, skills, experiences, and relationships back beyond their own [current] lives. It is into this last category that one must file The Reincarnationist Papers. This work first came to my attention in early 2008 at a past life research conference in India and became a windfall to my ongoing research in two specific areas: the possibility of subjects remembering more than one additional lifetimes of experiences, which is very rare, and the possibility that such unique individuals might seek out one another and fraternize collectively.