I read most of the post through #100.I can tell all of you believers and none believers.I will be 70 years old my next birthday i remember my demise in a past life.But i found out in my early years you did not tell people about it.If you tried to you would get laughed at.In later years i told my wife and my brother just older than i.If they believe me i did not ask because i do not want to know.
When I was a child I remember arguing with my mother. I was SURE that I'd been in a chopper and she insisted that I hadn't. We dropped it for years, but it came up again when I was 16. I was very confused aobut the whole thing. I remember being in the helicopter, sitting by the door. I remember looking at the back of the seat in front of me. I remember my thoughts at the time as I looked out the open door to the tree tops below. ("I'm actually riding in a helicopter!") I remember the feeling that I was on a grand adventure and I was very excited.
The problem: it didn't happen. I've never been in a helicopter in my life. But the memories are as clear as yesterday. I don't know if I'm remembering a past life, or somehow tapping into another person's memories (living or dead), but I do know that something is there.
I guess that it really doesn't matter to the big picture. All we can do is live in the now and work on doing our best to be better.