What if reincarnation is real after all and we live not just one life but many lives, more lives than we could ever conceive of?

What if in those past and future lives we were “someone else” meaning not in the same form as we are now: not the same skin color, hair color, stature or gender? Not living in the same town, same country, or same family?

What if we had an entirely different worldview—Republican instead of Democrat, Socialist or Communist or Anarchist?

What if we practiced a different religion, we were a religious zealot or a person with no belief at all?
What if we were the oppressor, or the victim, or the arbiter of conflict?

What if we have been all of these possibilities or are on our way to becoming them? Would it change our perspective on this life?

Our experience of life, as it adds up for us, may be fleeting—in the scheme of our full life story.
Ian Stevensen, MD in Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation and Jim Tucker, MD in Life Before Life, both researchers from the University of Virginia, recorded more than 2,500 incidents in which a previous life was known to an individual to the degree that they could name names, places and describe the exact event that cost them their life.

I myself have experienced the memory of a previous life in which I was, at age 16, finding myself on a battlefield littered with dead bodies, in a tattered grey uniform and bare feet. I am hardly the one these days raising my voice and putting my body in harms way to preserve monuments of Robert E. Lee. Too many lives have passed since then, quelling my southern fervor.

That life as a Confederate soldier was only one (or maybe several) of many thousands or perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives I have experienced, which have taught my soul balance and understanding of many kinds of lives, many different worldviews.

In this time of polarization, of affinity for one worldview over another, one affiliation over all others, one compelling fight against all, I suggest considering the possibility of reincarnation and how having many lives keeps us unstuck from devoting too much energy and emotion to the experience of one.

Annette Goggio, MPH, EEMCP, holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in the health sciences and is the author of Healing: A Conversation. Her practice in energy medicine is based on the teaching of Dixie Yeterian, renowned clairvoyant and healer, and Donna Eden of Eden Energy Medicine. To learn more, please visit www.healingaconversationbook.com and www.aquantummoment.com.