The human mind is a house of mirrors. It is a reversible reality transducer. Just like a speaker can function as a microphone, the mind can not only take in imagery from reality, it can generate imagery as convincing as reality itself. This is why we created the scientific method to serve as our eyes. Its job is to filter out the many biases that the mind is virtually made of.

We are motivated reasoners. We are built to be disgusted at every level, both conscious and unconscious, at any schema that includes our total destruction. The mind will do any gymnastics necessary to avoid oblivion, including pretending not to object. It has served our survival well.

But it is a formidable obstacle to objectivity. When we consider an idea that looks on the surface to be supported by evidence, and incidentally just happens to include a potential get-out-of-death-free card, we should immediately consult our artificial eyes. If it has not passed the test of long-form science it is not only unnecessary but likely dangerous to include in a worldview.

Unnecessary because total peace of mind can be had without it, and dangerous because a faulty map can lead us onto ice too thin to support our weight.

Maybe it’s like this:

Our sense of self as a separate body is an illusion. We might share memories with a previous person, now dead, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we ARE that person. That person as a separate entity never really existed. Our common true self is Universal Consciousness, existing outside the realm of time and space, immortal and omnipresent.

Could past life regression be something like remote viewing where we might share memories or sensations with someone in a distant place?

People have vivid imaginations that cloud reality. I have a recurring dream from my childhood that in reality I don't think ever really happened.....or did it and I have repressed the memory.