I've always been fascinated by the idea of reincarnation, but I've never bought into all the Cleopatras, Merlins, and Atlantean kings that I have heard and read about.

I do have a few memories that could be from a previous life. He wasn't a "great" man, he was a smith, and he was a fairly happy man. The memories of his joy have gotten me through some rough times.

I've no proof, but I suspect that on the Other Side we help choose what we are going through This Side.

I also suspect that time isn't necessarily linear there, so a choice we have yet to make from our current perspective may have created the situation we find ourselves in now.

Ain't metaphysics fun?

The bottom line is that whatever choices we made or will make on the Other Side, we don't have all that information with us when we have to go through stuff on This Side.

So we have to go through it the best way we can, trusting our feelings and what we do know.

And we don't lay claim to titles and power earned in a previous life, because they can't help us now.