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... bearing traits through all of the beings they inhabit, a self transmigration is confirmed on the Bhagavad Gita: "Just As a person casts off worn out garments and puts on others that are new, even so does the embodied soul cast off worn out bodies and takes on others that are new" However, although my present body can remember my past lives the traumas of death and birth generally erase these memories, reprising them to deep and normally inaccessible level of unconsciousness. For example, can remember life in the womb or up to the age of 16 months? I think not. Discoveries have been made where people have supposedly had recollections of a former life and can pin point specific moments in history. Although this cannot proved empirically using the scientific method many claim it is evidence for rebirth and explains what is meant in the doctrine. John Hick, in true Hick ...