The Children Who Remember Past Lives

[wnylib]

27. I've never been able to believe in reincarnation

for a few reasons. First, it would mean that consciousness lives on after death, which might be true, but there is no way to prove it. Then, if consciousness does survive death, how and when would it enter into the body of someone who is born later? At the moment of birth? By what process?

People who speak of past life memories in children say that the memories fade by age 5 or 6. Why? What happens to such memories? If consciousness is strong enough to survive death and reenter life in another body, why wouldn't it be strong enough for the memory to persist throughout life?

Would reincarnation mean two consciousnesses existing in one body and one fades as the other grows? I can't wrap my mind around that idea.

OTOH, there are times when I could almost believe in reincarnation since Hitler died on 4/30/1945 and Trump was born on 6/14/1946 with the same character and personality traits since childhood. Hmm.