Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway: a case of reincarnation?

The English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, who lived in the 16th and 17th centuries and is known for works such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth e Othello, among others, was married to Anne Hathaway, coincidentally the name of the American actress who made films such as The princess's diary, The Devil Wears Prada e The miserable, among others. The actress was named after Shakespeare's wife.

In any case, for some years now, a theory has been floating around the Internet: that Anne Hathaway's husband is a reincarnation of the English poet William Shakespeare. There have been several posts on social media dealing with the subject, and the actress herself has spoken out, as can be seen in an article by UOL, which also dealt with the issue recently.

Would that be possible?

We spoke to Alexander Moreira de Almeida, Professor of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), founder and director of the Research Center for Spirituality and Health (NUPES) at UFJF, to discuss the case. “Ian Stevenson's cases that suggest reincarnation are of events that took place shortly after the person's disincarnation. We don't see mentions of physical similarities, as would be the case with Anne Hathaway's husband mentioned on the Internet. But there are mentions in his research about birthmarks, similar habits and xenoglossy, which consists of the act of speaking, supposedly spontaneously, in a language or languages that have not previously been learned,” he says.

Suggestive cases

Ian Stevenson was born in 1918 in Canada and died in 2007 in Virginia, USA. During his lifetime, the professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine left several works on the subject, the result of more than 2,600 cases suggesting reincarnation researched in different cultures.

His most popular book, Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation (Twenty cases suggestive of reincarnation), was published in 1971 in Brazil. Newly studied cases of xenoglossy, published in 1984, were translated into Portuguese in 2012. Dr. Stevenson's line of research into cases of birthmarks, related to memories of previous lives, has a direct relationship with biology in his work, published in 1997. Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect (Where reincarnation and biology intersect). These cases relate to injuries suffered in a previous life and transferred to the present existence, documented in deformations or marks in places that correspond to them on the body.

Here in Brazil, we have Dr. Hernani Guimarães Andrade (1913-2003), who even communicated with Dr. Stevenson and also researched reincarnation. His works are a reference in the field of Spiritist science, among them: Reincarnation in Brazil, which has eight cases that suggest reincarnation - they are proven memories and documents that allow comparisons, as well as testimonies with many events or details that suggest it; and Reborn out of love, The article, also the result of research, tells of a case that suggests the reincarnation of a priest who, in his new incarnation, while still a child, told his mother about memories from a previous life. Dr. Hernani was one of the most illustrious columnists in the Spirit Sheet, He has collaborated with us from the start.

To remember Dr. Hernani's legacy, in an article published in the Spirit Sheet in April 2020, engineer Ney Prieto Peres reminds us that “the knowledge developed in the works of the codifier Allan Kardec about the ‘perispirit’, as a garment with electromagnetic characteristics, which models cellular aggregations in embryogenesis, a field of biological organization, makes us understand this cause and effect relationship. The traumas of the distant past, in a molecular relationship of a double nature, biological and subtle, can imprint on the perispirit the marks that will be reproduced, by modeling, in the new organism being formed from fertilization”.

These works are worth reading!