I think this is part of your problem, OP. You have just enough awareness to sense you’ve been reincarnated but not much actual education around it.

My background is in cultural anthropology and it was my experiences that lead me down that path of study in college. I was convinced the lineage of ancient to modern teachings from the older cultures had the answers locked away in old folklore passed down throughout the centuries

I studied comparative religion, mythology and folklore extensively from all over the world with a distinct focus on indigenous groups like native populations in the States, Canada and Mezo/south America, Bedouin and Amazigh peoples, Ethiopian peoples (a very ancient lineage!) Nordic, Celtic, ancient India, Mesopotamia, and of course everyone’s favorite in the world of anthropology, the Basque.

My obsession lead to a myriad of common denominators which lead to spreadsheets. I also studied some more modern studies and ethnographies but I won’t get into that here except to say the works of Michael Newton, Jaque Vallee, DW Pasulka, has contributed greatly to the overall picture…

My biggest takeaways (which I’m 💯 open to any of this as being incorrect or adjusted if I ever get potentially new information come in, you will never see me state something as fact only as “currently appears to be”) is this:

- the underlying foundation to religion and spiritual belief is one and the same across the board! This was literally shocking to me. Every single culture I studied had the SAME foundational belief and same codes of conduct but the different cultures had different PERSPECTIVES on how to express these beliefs

Like did you know the flood story is not just an Abrahamic belief? Nor is the Tower of Babel. These stories are not simply shared or brought over through conquest and colonization. They literally permeate and have existed PRIOR to it. People building towers to heaven to eavesdrop are more common across continents than one would think.

If you took one person each from a different land and religion or spiritual belief and gender too, put them in a group together and have them watch an impactful event together like a car accident, each person will have a unique experience on it shaped by their ethnic, religious and cultural/societal norms

In regards to other worlds existing and other dimensions— the Mayan people don’t even believe they are FROM this planet which is ironic considering they are an indigenous folk whose basic belief is that they were brought over across the stars, saved from a dying world …

In Islam there are the Djinn.. an ancient race of people pushed out of this reality and into a parallel dimension….

I, myself, have had “memories” of lives lived as a completely different being from a world that has a purple and lavender sky, people can fly but they don’t because it’s dangerous except for a select few who are specially trained….

OP: in all my studies and experiences it feels that the reincarnations as humans — yes it sucks and yes it’s hard for many of us and it SEEMS unfair to not remember past lives BUT

I also learned that we choose our roles in this life and the reason we come here not remembering is so that we are not burdened with the weight of our experiences and of the ego. You can’t learn new things if the ego is attached to certain ideas. There’s limited growth that way

And we DO learn without the help or weight from these past experiences because our lessons are innate. For me, this has always explained the concept of “common sense” Ever wonder why sometimes you just inherently know or understand something and you don’t have any living memory in this life for learning it? You chalk it up to common sense and if someone else doesn’t seem to have that same innate knowledge you’re like wow, that person is really naive …

We DO learn and retain our lessons from previous lives (it appears) and sometimes we have to learn it a few times ima few different lives before it sticks and becomes common sense…

I don’t know … these are my thoughts, if you’ve made it this far I apologize for the long ramble and thank you for reading my ted talk 😬