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Consider me highly sceptical.

How Aija once dramatically declared to her parents, “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the end of the world!” and curtsied.

“It’s a little disturbing to hear that from a 2-year-old, especially in the middle of a pandemic,” Marie says with a slight laugh.

Tucker nods. “You kind of wonder where she even picked up the expression.”

Because, yeah, there were absolutely no individuals on TV or radio who sarcastically remarked during the pandemic "ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the end of the world!" Just because the parents didn't remember hearing it, doesn't mean the child didn't hear it and emulate it. Childrens' brains are wired to pay attention to their surroundings in ways that adults aren't, because that's how they learn. It seems massively more likely that the children in these cases are echoing things they have heard and absorbed that their parents simply paid no attention to.

Unless the parents can categorically prove that, for example, they never watched a film or documentary about the Holocaust while their child was nearby and able to hear it, that seems a far more likely explanation than reincarnation. For that matter, I'd be more inclined to believe that the child was remembering details from a documentary the parents watched when the child was still a baby, and thus considered unable to absorb anything at all, than believe the child was remembering a past life.

The fact that they can never be pinned down to a specific historic individual is also suspect. The article gives a generic "Presumably there were a lot of Ninas in concentration camps", but okay, has anyone checked how many there were, and what ages they were, and what other details might match up with the child's story? A bit of research would prove it one way or another, and the reluctance to follow through on that research makes it hard for me to take the claims seriously.

Between confirmation bias, human pattern recognition even where there are none, under/in-development brains, higher fantasy and creativity in children, less separation and knowledge about inner and outer experience, and dreaming/dream-like hallucinations, I'm skeptical any of it to be true.

Every discovery and connection they make read like possible fallacies, misattributions, confirmation-bias.

The sheer mass of humans means random hallucinations will match adult knowledge and sometimes deceased people. 2.2k across the world, and a third of them without a deceased match doesn't seem implausible to that.

a mechanism that might explain how a person could recall living a past life

For centuries Europe knew and experienced witchcraft and other demons. The U.S. experienced aliens and abductions - but only after they became popular in the media. The human race is great at hallucinating, even on a broad societal level and with confidence.

We can explain many misattributed traditions, hysteria, and other behaviors and hallucinations. We hallucinate more of what we heard of than if we hadn't. I don't see why we would find a past-life remembering more likely than faulty human nature. Which I guess requires some knowledge and awareness about human history and perception.

There have also been numerous cases of people lying for the hell of it or publicity. I'm certain some people make use of this theory / legend too.

I'm reminded of AI hallucinating facts, which seems like an interesting analogy. :P (In a more narrow and artificial, trained system. If it can happen there, why would it not in more complex systems/the human brain.)

The article was too long for me. I only read through the first two sections.

Appreciated your post very much. Thank you! In a society and Internet where rational thinking is extremely common, it is, at least for me, unusual to come across these kind of public posts. I can, to some extent, relate to the actual content and it does remind me of an old friend (RIP) who told me a memorable anecdote about his moments of clairvoyance. It also reminds me what I've read in several books : Children grow up and almost always parents tell them to shut up about their imaginary friends or the colors around persons they see. And that is actually not that very bad because in order to "survive" in society and to cope with all the impulses that our senses have to deal with it is useful to be able to filter some of the input. It should however imho not make the world even more rational than we need to.

I read the article and I'm, fairly, open minded about subjects such as this (as well as OBE, NDE, Remote Viewing, etc).

What do you think/feel about this subject in particular?

I'm getting paywalled and can't be bothered getting around it but I've read a lot about this from the researchers who study it, it's quite interesting. Is it possible that cells can have memory? Of course. Could energy persist beyond the physical? Sure.

I wouldn't call myself a believer but I'm definitely a curious observer.

The Dorothy Eady always stuck with me. It's fairly well documented.

After falling down the steps at home, she nearly died. When she came back to life, memories were unlocked of a prior life in Egypt in which she was a priestess in an egyptian temple. She would go on to have a very successful career working in Egyptian antiquities.

As for the really really weird shizz, anyones guess. I try not to just arbitrarily cut someone down, but it's unlikely there would be proof of her having a conversation to an ancient diety.

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