Help advance the next generation of reincarnation research.
Why we’re recruiting
The Institute for Life Continuity Studies (ILCS) is the modern successor to a body of work built by Dr. Walter Semkiw, MD and the ReincarnationResearch.com archive — hundreds of documented cases, an evidentiary framework, and a community that has taken reincarnation research from the fringe to something with measurable weight.
We are picking up that work in a world Semkiw didn’t live to see: one where AI can read every biography, every genealogical record, every archived newspaper, every recorded interview — and cross-reference patterns that a single human researcher never could.
The methodology is mostly already in place. What we need now are the people to run it, refine it, and tell the story to a wider audience.
If you’ve ever read a case study and thought “I could do this — I just needed a door,” this is the door.
Who we’re looking for
We’re building four working groups. You can raise your hand for one or several — they overlap constantly.
Writers & Case Authors
You’ll draft case studies in the ReincarnationResearch.com format — measured, evidentiary, respectful, generous with sources. You’ll work from raw research (Ryerson–Semkiw session notes, past-life regression transcripts, archival material) and turn it into publishable articles that hold up to a skeptical reader.
Good fit if you: have written non-fiction, essay, or long-form journalism; can hold a claim to a citation; enjoy the puzzle of assembling evidence into a persuasive narrative without overselling it.
Content Creators
Video, podcast, social — everything downstream of the published case. You’ll take finished cases and translate them into short-form video, Reels, YouTube segments, podcast episodes, and social threads. Semkiw’s mission was popular accessibility over academic rigor; that’s the lane you’d own.
Good fit if you: already make content in adjacent spaces (history, mystery, paranormal, biography, personal development); understand a platform’s format; can produce on a cadence.
Researchers & Case Investigators
The heart of the operation. You’ll propose new cases, run historical/genealogical verification, conduct or transcribe past-life memory intake using our PLR-First Protocol (raw memory logged before historical exposure — the highest-integrity evidence we can gather), and evaluate candidate matches against Semkiw’s evidence categories: physical resemblance, personality, karmic groups, talents, birthmarks, xenoglossy, split incarnation.
Good fit if you: are comfortable in archives, genealogy databases, and primary sources; can hold a hypothesis loosely; are patient with negative results.
Methodology & AI/Data Contributors
The most under-explored role, and possibly the highest-leverage one. You’ll help refine our methodology for the AI era — working with the Reincarnation Case Map (public visualization of the case corpus with confidence tiers), the Case Builder (our private research folio tool, currently in BETA, moving from Vibe to Hardened Platform), and the broader Continuity Platform vision. Age-mapping across lives, soul-group tracking, split-soul hypothesis testing, blind intake time-capsules, LLM-assisted historical cross-reference.
Good fit if you: have a data, ML, product, or engineering background; are comfortable working on early tools; want to help design how a mature research operation should function.
What you’d actually do
- Take on one case, one series, one channel, or one methodology problem at a time.
- Work at your own cadence — this is volunteer work, not a job.
- Coordinate over email, shared docs, and periodic calls.
- Get named credit on published work (Case Builder folios support co-authorship and audit trails).
- Access working tools: Case Builder for structured case folios, the Case Map for the public corpus, the archive for prior research.
What we won’t do
- We won’t ask you to sign anything before you know us.
- We won’t publish anything with your name on it that you haven’t signed off on.
- We won’t present speculation as proof.
The frame
Reincarnation research sits in a strange place: it’s dismissed as fringe by people who haven’t read the work, and treated as settled by people who don’t examine the evidence closely enough. Our job is to occupy the honest middle — evidentiary, curious, measured — and make that middle findable.
Ian Stevenson at UVA documented ~2,500 children’s cases before he died. Jim Tucker is continuing that work. Semkiw contributed the adult-life, celebrity, and karmic-group dimension. Between the three archives there is more material than has ever been properly indexed, cross-referenced, and made public in a form the modern reader will actually engage with.
That’s the work. If you want in, tell us who you are. (and maybe also, who you believe you were before this incarnation).
Get in touch with our team
Email: mail@reincarnation.info
Prefer email? Send us a note at mail@reincarnation.info with a few basics so we can route you to the right group:
- Your name and general location (city, country)
- Which role(s) interest you — writer, content creator, researcher, methodology/AI, or a mix
- A short paragraph about you — background, why this work, what drew you in
- Links to your work — writing samples, video/podcast, GitHub, LinkedIn, or anything else that shows how you think
- How much time you can realistically give each week (a couple of hours, a full day, project-based, etc.)
- Anything you’re already curious about — a case, a methodology question, a person you suspect is a previous personality, a tool you’d want to build
- How you heard about us — helps us learn what’s working
We read every one. Expect a reply within a few days.