Yes it is, the psychologist speaks of his hope that we have a larger self without providing any evidence for it and the other guy speaks of his own alleged past life experience demonstrating the two are not sceptical of the conclusions drawn in my view.
Correct, but for the conclusion to be true (ie reincarnation) the mechanism has to be true.
"a lot"? What percentage of these children as a fraction of all children that come from societies without a pre-existing belief in reincarnation are we discussing here.
I don't see how we can know that the information transfer source wasn't simply forgotten by the child which would also predict what we see.
Then there are the various non materialistic paradigms you are hand waving away such as ESP, demon projection etc which are just as accurate a fit for the evidence as reincarnation in my view.
Apparently, to you, merely talking about a childhood anomalous experience (little to do with any past life memory by the way) makes one a believer to your eyes.
The conclusion is that children report verifiable memories from dead peoples' lives without knowing about them from any other source. That conclusion is true (if the work is rigorous which I believe it is) regardless of the mechanism.
As per current surveys 6-10% of children worldwide report past life memories during this period of their lives. Cases have been collected from every continent, though initial research by Doctor Stevenson focused on Asia. Now a lot of work is devoted to places like USA, Nordic countries, Brazil, Israel etc. Results are similar and robust.
Stevenson created an exhaustive method to rule out such false positives
1) All cases where the life recalled was of relatives neighbours or within the circles of the family member were immediately ruled out.
2) All cases where the family have already identified a past life person through some way were ruled out.
3) Only cases were considered a "positive" where the identified past life person was identified by the researchers himself/herself through research of the reports made and when the identified dear person or the associated family of the deceased had any connection with the child's own family
4) Finally all celebrity cases or cases that appeared in the media in some way was ruled out.
There is a reason why, over the last 50 years, the cases collected have not been debunked by any researcher. Because they could not be.
If you do not believe read the case studies in the academic monograms they have written. It's extensive.
I did not know that you thought ESP or demon projection are considered materialistic. But I will make a general comment about PPL who believe that there is some material field behind such anomalous phenomena. We know the physical forces and fields too well for there to be any elbow room inside them to fit such things. I think you know this as well. At our energy scales the 4 fundamental forces account for everything.
Anyways. I am not asking you to believe this on my say so. Read their work, read what others have said about them. Make up your own mind. I am not here to preach reincarnation, the thread OP asked, so I provided something I have found convincing. And I am open to other researchers debunking this work as well.
Cheers