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I don't believe or not believe in past lives. With that type of thing I just have faith that this here and now is not the only here and now and that nothing is a waste (which if we only lived one life and had no after life, what would be the point?). So such a reality could have reincarnation.
My aunt does believe in reincarnation and if such things do exist I believe her. She seems very sensitive to those sorts of things. She doesn't remember being anyone important, she mostly remember odd tidbits and how she was murdered.
My aunt has said she feels that I must have been some kind of samurai or other warrior. I don't remember anything as extravagant as details from such a life, but I have always had an affinity for martial arts. My aunt and a few other people have also told me I have an asian feel/look (though physically look nothing like). I was also one of those kids that was very adult like at much too young an age. I have a few other personality traits that could be nicely explained by a past life as well, but I don't want to get into that.
So like I said, past lives could fill a gap of knowledge that we don't have, but I don't rely on such a belief. For practical application I use psychology to explain or modify and not the belief in past lives.
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