TurquoiseB wrote: > <snip> > > Or, for that matter, if you've got some idea who *you* > might have been in a previous incarnation, do tell. How do you know that it isn't genetic memory (if there is such a thing) or a "past life" non genetic. For instance if you somehow wound up with talents your parents didn't have and believed that it came from a past life and then discovered your great great grandfather also was a master in that field it could be genetic. Maybe we are able to remember some of the experiences our ancestors had. When teaching music I would have an occasional student with extraordinary abilities when neither parent were musically inclined. At the time I had to credit that to reincarnation.
I may well have studied tantra in a past life as I seem to have come into this one with some techniques that I didn't know were tantric until I learned tantra. And know at least to what I've been able to ascertain of my ancestors non of them learned tantra. :) There is also an interesting theory about reincarnation that when one dies the atoms scatter and creatures when born pick up these atoms and they are what are giving one the sensation of a "past life."
