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I not sold on the past life memories thing. Take for example something very specific that is engrained in your head. A telephone number, or an army personal id number. Assuming the persons previous life was in recent times. Surely they would recall the name and the number and their exact birth day etc. The facts are too vague to persuade me.
I think it was in the 1980s there was a boy (aged about ten or so) from the North East of England claimed that in a previous life he'd been a Luftwaffe pilot who'd been shot down over Britian and had died of his injuries. As well as the pilots name, rank and number, he was able to provide amazing details and the mans life, every part of it could be confirmed by official documents and surviving witnesses. So powerful were the memories from his previos life that despite ever having a lesson in either he was from ayoung age able to speak German and knew how to fly an ME-109.
I also recall a similar story of a girl born in England who in a previous life lived in Ireland. She not only should people were she had lived, but because the dead womans children were still alive, she knew things which n=only theior mother would know and which where confirmed by the dead woman's children.
Richard whilst you are a trained scientist you have base your conclusions from the evidence you have, could your atttude also be because you're a new soul?