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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
How far back does your memory go? Your early teens? Primary school? Preschool? Sure, some people have amazing memories recalling events from as far back as their years in nappies, but what if you could remember events from before you were born? What about memories of a previous life?
Chapter 2: What incredible claims did Shanti Devi make at a young age?
How can you prove a past life is real? Have we all been reincarnated and we just don't remember? And would your partner still love you if you were a worm in your past life? Answers to these questions and more on this episode of... This Paranormal Life!
Hello and welcome to This Paranormal Life, the weekly comedy podcast where every Tuesday we investigate a different paranormal tale, deciding by the end of the episode whether we think it's real or not.
How are you doing today, Rory? Doing great. Exciting to be talking about the world of memory. As someone whose earliest memory is Wednesday, it'd be interesting to hear about people whose brains can contain more than 30 minutes of information.
I think they say, no, let's take it to a dark place. I think they say if you don't have good long-term memory, that's depression.
Right, because I'm trying to forget all the things.
Right, it's like your brain is trying to do you a solid. It's like, brain, why can't I? It's like, you don't want to know. You don't want to know, chief.
People be like, oh, what did you do on the weekend? Doesn't matter.
I don't remember. So clearly it wasn't that exciting. All right, Eeyore. Yeah. Doesn't matter. What is your earliest memory? Do you remember?
My earliest memory is actually really sad. My earliest memory.
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Chapter 3: How did Shanti's parents initially react to her claims?
We found her. You what? Yeah.
But I mourned her. I buried her. She's been gone for nine years. She's alive. What? She's alive. You're kidding. Where is she?
How do you know this? Who are you? We can bring her to you. Really? Yes. Okay, I'll give you my address. Of course. Her and her parents will be there in a matter of days. Her parents died like 20 years ago. Nope. No, no, parents are alive. We'll be dropping her off with her iPad and her toys. Wait, dropping her off? Could she not drive? She loved driving.
She has a little car with pedals that she uses to drive around the garden. It's like, oh, she's going to be hungry, so have her favorite snacks ready.
Right.
Her bedtime is 7.30 and she's really into the Beetleborgs right now. She's shrunk. She has shrunk since you last saw her. I'd be so offended. I would be like, get the f*** off here. What are you talking about?
Could it really be his beloved wife, Lugdi, is living on in the body of a child? I understand this is like potentially beautiful and paranormal and spiritual, but FYI to anyone this happens to, just say no. You can't be meeting children who say they're your reincarnated wife.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Don't do that.
You're going to end up on an episode of like, what is it, To Catch a Predator?
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Chapter 4: What specific details did Shanti provide about her past life?
It's almost like, you know, also in similar spiritual terms, it's like one of the gnarliest things that we do as humans in the modern age is the whole rigmarole of the Dalai Lama. We don't really think about the Dalai Lama much. We're like, sure, he's a kind of spiritual leader like the Pope. Or it's like, yeah, not really like the Pope. Because the Pope is a regular guy up until a point.
You know, like Pope Leo XIV. He was a guy. He grew up in America. He lived all around the world. He had a career in the church. And then one day, he gets the call as the ultimate servant of God to become Pope. The Dalai Lama is very different. They believe in reincarnation so hard that the moment the Dalai Lama dies, they start looking for the next Dalai Lama. That's pretty cool. As a boy.
Yeah, it's basically the plot of Avatar The Last Airbender. Yes. You are the Avatar. You're born again.
Very cool. And they like, it's like a...
job hire they like put out the well they don't put out a poster but they like search the countryside they're searching in schools for the child with great promise it's literally like god damn jedi academy it's cool i like it it is but it's a i will it's a tough break that's what i was getting to it's a tough break for the kid and their family because what if you're the parents of the child yeah and you're just like bye bye bye bye forever
It's like, who's going to run the farm? That's a bad opinion to have as a parent. No, but well, that's how the world works. It's like you have kids and then it's like, yeah, we want our family to grow up for us to all work together. And it's like, you don't have a son anymore.
Yeah, but you'd be pretty stoked that your son is now the Dalai Lama. It's not like now your daughter is just living with a stranger and a child running a shop in the middle of nowhere. At least it's become one of the most famous individuals in the world. You probably never have to worry about anything ever again.
Although I did watch the documentary about the new Pope Leo XIV and the whole thing. And like, that's what some of the Cardinals were saying. They were like, dude, it's heavy when you become the Pope. Like they were like, there's no more family time. It's like, you're gone. You'll never have a private moment for the rest of your life. You'll never hang out with your family.
You'll never so much as go on holiday. You'll never just live. You'll never be a human being again. You'll be in constant service for the rest of your life. It's heavy duty, bro.
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Chapter 5: How did the community respond to Shanti's story?
They put him back in the goo.
And then he's like, what was that?
Yeah, yeah. No explanation, just has to move on with his life.
Yeah, they didn't wipe all the files before they rebooted her. Yeah, man. There's still some stuff left over.
Which, honestly, you know, I understand we're talking about something so deep now. and philosophical and spiritual and supernatural and paranormal. It's almost like defunct even getting into like, normally on a podcast might talk about theories, what could be happening. I mean, dude, it's too deep.
It's like, it's either we know what's happening and her soul transmigrated into the body of a new child and reincarnation is real. Or what? Like, is it even physically possible for it to be a hoax? We could say it's a hoax. That's the word we use. But would a child, how could a child gather this knowledge of another city and another person in another place?
It's pretty crazy stuff. In my mind, the way to understand this is when you're eating a bunch of really messy tacos and while you're eating one taco, bits of it are falling off into the tacos below. And then you, once you're done, you eat those tacos that unknowingly contain pieces of the first eaten taco.
And it's kind of this beautiful cascading flow of trickle down ingredients, all creating one taco.
I like that this is your, like, Californian surfer bro religion. You're like, my dudes, think of it like two tacos. So you just went to a taco truck in San Diego down by the pier. And imagine the freaking quesadillas. The barbacoa chicken, dude, fell out of the shell for a split second.
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