@catherine_whitaker: Most of us were taught that consciousness begins at birth and ends at death. That what happens in between is all there is. But there is a fully funded academic department at the University of Virginia that has been challenging that assumption for over 60 years. Maybe the fear you cannot explain may not have started in this lifetime. The instant connection you felt with a stranger may not be coincidence. The place that felt like home before you ever arrived may have been. We have been handed a very small map of human experience. Research like this suggests the territory is much larger. Follow this account for more on past lives, trauma, spiritual experience, and the research that connects it all.