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Don’t worry, playing with this doesn’t necessarily imply that you believe in past lives. It’s fun whether you do or not.

1. Do you have memories of past lives? Who were you?

My strongest feeling is that I was a woman in medieval Japan.

2. How does that past life manifest in this lifetime?

I have always had a strong love for Japanese art, architecture & culture, even as a kid growing up in suburban Massachusetts. When I’ve seen objects or images from that time, they always seem familiar to me.

3. Do you have specific memories of that time?

No. More a fleeting memory — as if remembering a dream. Lots of memories of evenings, the way the grass smelled, the quality of the darkness.

4. Do you have memories of other lifetimes?

Again, fleeting ones. Definitely one in the deserts of northern Africa, and one in Eastern Europe.

5. Have you had past lives where you were a different gender?

Yes. In the Bedouin lifetime, I think I was male. All in all, I imagine it’s been about half and half, gender-wise.

6. Have you had past lives where you were a different race?

Yes. In fact, I don’t think I’ve been Caucasian for the majority of my past lives. It’s always seemed a little sad to me, that I only get to be one gender and one race for this lifetime.

7. Do you think you pursued spiritual practices in a past life?

Yes, a little yoga, I expect.

8. Can you sense the past lives of any of your family or friends?

My husband was around in medieval Japan; my daughter was a Tibetan monk and an Indian yogini.

9. Any previous-life intuitions about your pets?

For some reason, I always believed my cat Donut had a previous life as a cab driver in New York. Scotty was a deer.

10. Have you had any previous lives as an animal?

A bird, for sure. And probably a factory-farmed animal. I imagine that’s where middle-of-the-night-inexplicable-anxiety may come from.

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I asked a visiting Tibetan lama if he thought reincarnation was just a metaphor. His delightful reply? “What difference does it make?”

Fair enough.

Happy Friday. Enjoy your current lifetime.