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https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/our-research/children-who-report-memories-of-previous-lives/
Dr. Jim Tucker was Child Psychiatrist and a Bonner -Lawry professor of Child Psychiatry and Neurobehavioural science . He has been researching children who make claims of past lives since 2002, and before that he worked with Ian Stevenson who pioneered this research.
Look up some of his presentations on you tube where he presents his findings.
Something is going on.
Indeed there is. Children love making up stories, and people love seeing patterns where there are none.
I will confess reincarnation makes the most sense.
I always found it weird have in a universe where nothing is truly ever created or destroyed, but instead changing from one form to another, that consciousness would be the one exception; created at birth, destroyed at death.
But is this something taken seriously or is this like when Deepak Chopra tells me I can opt out of aging by believing I can and saying "Quantum" enough times?