Earned Respect

[PastPilot]

There is something I have wondered about for a long time. You meet someone for the first time and you will often have an instant feeling about that person. It can be a good feeling or a bad feeling. What is this based upon?

I have memories of having been in the First Crusades. I survived to see the fall of Jerusalem and the following battles and I was part of the garrisons that were formed afterward. I noticed that a number of my close friends have a keen interest in the Crusades in general, which I assume is because we lived and fought together during that life during that period of history. We were brethren in that past life. When you meet someone who, say, also lived and fought in the First Crusade but were not part of your inner circle and were not connected with you other than having been in the First Crusade, do you pick up on this that they too were at one time brethren? Can you get a sense of comradery, or even disdain from another soul merely by such past life associations? Do you feel such impulses?