Question on time and past lives

[Golfnut2609]

I have a question and it is probably because my understanding is limited in this dimension. I see people on here saying i have had 2 or I have had 5 past lives. My question is this... did they exist before these past lives ? I was always under the impression that we are eternal beings ? So were they something else or residing somewhere else. Thanks,

[kris]

One can say he remembers 2 or 5 or 8 past lives. To say that one had 2 or 5 or 8 past lives does not make sense. If you don't remember 12 past lives it does not mean you did not have 12 past lives.

[Mitodin]

I remember about a handful. But I was also left with the distinction impression that the chain of previous lives goes back beyond what any of of us can count.

[lostsoul13]

My past life’s have been in memory- I hadn’t had space or loss of memory I was consequently the same atom ; just receiving suspended animation- yet death hadn’t occurred yet/ the cause and affect hadn’t effected my core atom to see me pass over- just suspended animation… but from what I recall these life’s were in memory (RAM memory space- if I must… so I remember them- anything out of memory and RAM would be deemed a space or clause in the atom—- or observer…