Kristopher :) said:
I wonder why it is not more common for children to remember supposed in between life memories than it is for them to remember past lives.
In this physical life we tend to lump anything pertaining to memory into one big compartment in our physical brains, and then try to understand it in physical and practical terms. Whereas, I tend to believe that there are many quite different and sometimes quite distinct forms of memory which can only be analyzed on each of their own terms. There is, for example, the kind of memory that remembers how we felt emotionally, even though we cannot remember the circumstance. There is the type of memory that enables us to remember language or numbers, yet we cannot remember where we first learned them. Then, there is the kind of memory that may enable us to remember some aspect of a past life, while another related aspect is totally hidden from us.
The ancient Greeks held many spiritual beliefs that are very similar to our own and many of them were incorporated into early Christian teachings. They also believed in Reincarnation. Grace F. Knoche writes in,
"To Light a Thousand Lamps":
Greek mythology tells us that we drink of the waters of Lethe — Unmindfulness, Forgetfulness — which blots out sufficient memory of our past so that we enter earth life with a clean slate on which to inscribe the thoughts, emotions, and deeds that will determine the quality of the life to be..
I have also read about some cases in which children remember being given something that made them forget, although, apparently, not completely.
Speaking only from the viewpoint of logic, and assuming, hypothetically, these children are speaking without an element of fantasy; one would assume that past lives are easier to remember on earth than between lives, because earth time is more relevant. It would seem that between life experiences would be very difficult to describe in earthly terms.
