Amitav Ghosh

Hi, Claire.

Thank you for having me.

It's a great pleasure to be with you.

You know, I'm not sort of keen on using the word reincarnation because reincarnation is a kind of metaphysical term.

You know, it implies that there's a soul that migrates from one body to another and so on.

And that, you know, you can earn your future life by what you're doing in this life and that kind of thing.

Maybe that's the case.

I don't know.

I'm agnostic about that.

But what I do know is that a surprisingly large number of children are born every year with memories of past lives, which they suddenly awaken to at about the age of two or three.

And these memories are very powerful for a while.

And then around about the age of five or six, the memories begin to fade.

as they grow into their bodies, as it were.

And eventually the memories just fade away altogether.

But there's just so much, there's so much that's been collected on this that really, I think it's pointless to talk about it as something that one believes in.

I mean, it's just a reality.

Yes, there's an enormous number of studies.

A lot of them are conducted by the University of Virginia.

They have a department there, one part of which is dedicated to these studies.

And literally they've collected tens of thousands of cases and not just in Asia.