[foxyshaman]

Originally Posted by Bit

I believe in reincarnation, and for a long time I have believed that people who know they are in the wrong bodies know it because their spirit/soul remembers who they were before, in other lifetimes.

I too have come to embrace the idea that we remember who we were and that can affect who we are. I do remember lives as both men and women. I remember lives as good people and the not so good people.

I remember living as a male warrior who went crazy and killed people for fun. My tribe gathered and I agreed to die. In my agreement to die I also agreed never ever to enter that tribe again. I even can still hear the three shamans that gathered to sing my soul over the other side...lest I stay as an angry ghost and inhabit the body of another. I did not understand this for a very long time in this life I just knew that certain people made my throat close and I was never treated very nicely by them, even strangers. Since recovering that knowledge I have become a bit more comfortable, but still steer very clear. It has really affected my spiritual life this time around. I have more compassion for mentally ill people I think than I would have otherwise. Perhaps not, but I like to think that it made a difference in my life.