How can events or memories from a past life affect people in this life?
There are a number of ways in which people claim that the events from a past life are somehow affecting them in this life. Resonance Often the first hint about a past life people have is an inexplicable interest in a particular country, language, time period, historical event, etc. And often when presented with photographs or movie footage which related to their past life, they might feel an emotional rush and even identify themselves somehow with what they are seeing. For example, an English TV documentary showed a American who had become so fascinated with the American Civil War that he had turned his house into a Civil War museum. Not surprisingly, under hypnosis he remembered being a soldier in the Civil War. This can be viewed by the sceptic as wishful thinking, but conversely it follows that a Civil War veteran would always have a fascination for that period – probably even into their next incarnation. And an example of these obsessions with history which often seem irrational to
