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Originally Posted by iamthat
So what about all the cases of children who have clear memories of their last incarnation, their families and how they died. And if the previous life was fairly recent, they may be taken to where they say they lived and they recognise people and places.
This suggests that memories are not stored in the physical body but are instead stored in a more subtle vehicle which can still be accessed in a new body. But such memories tend to fade by the age of 7, presumably because consciousness is now fully anchored in the new body and no longer has access to past memories.
Peace.
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In the theory of the "block universe" (the non-growing variety) past, present, and future are all equally real. And of course if we consider
Everett's many worlds theory, then it is not just one block, but perhaps infinity many blocks with infinitely many pasts, presents, and futures, all equally real. Under such a scenario, we must ask, "Who's past life are we remembering?" Perhaps what we are "remembering" as our "past life", some other consciousness is experiencing as their present life (or will experience as a future life?). Bob read a book, Jan is reading that book, Sally will read it later? Are we really remembering our past life, or just experiencing a different life, one in a different part of the block, at the present moment.
Perhaps it is best that for most of us any such "memories" of "past" lives fade away by age 7 ( BTW, an important transformational age in the development of the ego ), as it is difficult to read more than one book at a time, the story just does not have the same intensity and the experience is not as moving.