Reply to the Nahm and Hassler commentary on Jürgen Keil's paper 'questions of the reincarnation type'

Based on reports and publications, I do not find it difficult to agree with Hassler and Nahm that my psi-based interpretations of CORTs may not be justified. However, based on fieldwork investigations of many cases over a number of years, the reincamation or survival interpretation tumed out to be less and less in agreement with the case studies as I experienced them. This is to some extent a subjective assessment, but one which I did not anticipate. I have some general doubts about survival views when they are expressed with a high degree of certainty, but on account of my association with Ian Stevenson— who encouraged me to investigate CORTs—and my high regard for his work, I expected that the results from my fieldwork would generally support the reincamation or survival hypothesis.