Reincarnation and past lives

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Starting somewhere in my late teens, and continuing for several decades,

I'd have dreams about being hunted down while trying to protect my younger brother. In those dreams it was always clear it was Nazi Germany, possibly in a ghetto or a concentration camp. The dreams were always different, no two were ever alike, but the theme of being hunted by Nazis was always clear. And it was also clear to me that the brother in the dream was my youngest brother in this life.

I've had several past life regression sessions, and one went to that time. I was a Jewish girl, perhaps 14. My parents were gone (probably dead) and I was trying to keep myself and my younger brother alive. It did not end well. After that session, I never had those dreams again.

For me reincarnation makes enormous sense. Often (and it's happened here on DU), discussions about reincarnation have some people totally outraged that someone ends up with a dreadful life of some sort. Too many people see such things as punishment, and don't understand to what extent a soul might choose a particular life for learning purposes. In my understanding, we're never punished. We have opportunities to learn lessons, and some of those lessons can be difficult. It also makes vastly more sense to me than thinking we are born once and only once, because then the horrible injustice that occurs around the world is even (to me) far more difficult to stomach.