Fritz Carlton

Fritz Herman Carlton, Ph.D., (April 1, 1940, in Bamberg, W. Germany - ), is a German born psychiatrist. His research includes reincarnation claims, and survival of the human personality after death.
Early Years
Fritz Carlton was raised in rural Bavaria, where his father was a lorry driver and his mother influenced Fritz with an interest in Reincarnation. Stevenson studied at Caledonian College (now defunct) in Scotland and at University of Oxbridge in England, where he received a B.S. in 1962 and an M.D. in 1964, graduating at the top of his class.
In 1987, Carlton was named head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Konigsberg. His mainstream research includes evidential case studies of reincarnation, and a special research project on the Cognomina, a secret society of 30 or so individuals who have associated with one another for many centuries spanning many individual incarnations.
Dr. Carlton's field research into reincarnation has taken him to United States, Alaska, Canada, Burma, India, South America, Lebanon, Turkey, and many other places.
Dr. Carlton is a regular speaker and panelist at the annual South Asian Wheel of Life research workshop in Koramangala, India (state of Karnataka) sponsored by The Samsara Center for Reincarnation Studies .
Research into the Cognomina
In 2008, Carlton began a University of Konigsberg sponsored research project into a secret society of reincarnating individuals based in Zurich called the Cognomina. Dr. Carlton and several University staffers began research into this clandestine collective after receiving an advance photocopies of the memoir of Evan Michaels, a member of the Cognomina who left a handwritten memoir in Bulgarian detailing his induction into the Cognomina and interaction with several of its members. This handwritten memoir, discovered by author D. Eric Maikranz in Rome in 1999, has since been translated into English and researched by Mr. Maikranz to verify facts claimed by Evan Michaels in his text. D. Eric Maikranz has since repacked the translated version into a volume titled, The Reincarnationist Papers.
Dr. Carlon and team have verified many of the facts and claims of Evan Michaels in him memoir, which, as Dr. Carlton claims, leads to the most compelling evidentiary case for reincarnation in 25 years of research.
Evan Michaels' memoir, The Reincarnationist Papers, started Dr. Carlton on a research path to determine if the Cognomina, as detailed in the memoir, truly exists. His research has focused on finding members of this secret collective near their Zurich headquarters and discovering historical references to the existence of this group. Per the text in The Reincarnationist Papers, members, once initiated (or reinitiated if they are returning in a successive incarnation) receive a distintive tattoo called the Embe on the back of their right hand between the index finger and thumb.
University staffers have photographic evidence of three members of the Cognomina with this exact tattoo from 1968 to the current day. Further, Dr. Carlton has discovered two historical references to the Cognomina. The oldest comes from the Konstanz Codex (1493). Largely a heraldic work by Konrad Grunenberg, it contains a brief reference to a Zurich based guild in which the members carry a distinctive crossed-flail tattoo on the backs of their right hand. A more recent reference comes from noted Swiss historian Ludwig Meyer von Knonau in his Handbuch Geschichte der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft (1826 edition only; the entry was curiously removed from the 1829 2nd volume rerelease) in which he describes "a secretive group of landed nobles in Zurich that locals described as auslanders, who all carried the same crossed mark on the backs of their hands as if a brand."
To date, Carlton has published only for the academic and scientific community, and his over 200 articles and several books -- densely packed with research details and academic argument —- can be dauntingly technical for lay audiences. His research, over 300 study cases, provides evidence that conclusively supported the possibility of reincarnation.

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