I have to comment about pre-existence. I don't claim to have any memories, so that's said. What I'm going to recount shows why I do not accept the Mormon idea of celestial pre-existence and instead am far more inclined to the Asian idea of a rebirth cycle.
I moved to Vietnam when I was about 55, soon after my retirement (I was always careful with my money and had a well paying job and so was able to do so comfortably, and I always had an attraction to Vietnam, a sort of curiosity, although I did not serve in the war).
The attraction fulfilled itself and I fell in love with the place. As you know it is a dictatorship, and although they want foreigner's money they don't want foreigner's making friends and therefore contaminating the population with Western ideas. But I digress.
One day I went with a bunch of Vietnamese friends to visit DaLat. The experience was unbelievable. Talk about deja vu!!! I knew the place and could predict what was around the corner and so on. Of course much was new and not in my "memory," but much was -- the older buildings. I was at the time quite certain and still am pretty convinced that I had once lived and died there.
Now this is just a personal experience and I don't expect anyone else to think it as evidence of rebirth or anything similar. Now when I revisit the place the original experience doesn't recur -- I think it can only happen once and then more recent memories replace it.
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