I always thought it amusing that some people say when reincarnated, people forget their past lives. What is the point, then? That would be the same thing as dying. Without a sense of ‘I-ness’, what part of ‘you’ would carry on?
That's a good point. But at least "you" would get to enjoy another life and not just be dead for ever.
I would think it would be impossible to remember a past life if one was born again. At best, one would be able to know about their past life but not be able to "relive it". For example, I believe that I am the reincarnation of Christ, but I don't remember ever being Jesus 2,000 years ago. I do remember fulfilling prophecy of stories about what Jesus allegedly did in the Bible, and I actually did some of these things in My own life. Maybe that's as close as its going to get to remembering reincarnation.
If I was born again, I would just want to focus on that life and not worry about all the problems I have in this life. It might be nice to know that I had a past life but that life would be over with and I would want to know how I could make the present life as comfortable as possible.
But the point of reincarnation is getting another chance to live, and enjoying that life even fuller than the ones we have now. I'm sure the next life would be just as real as this one except times and places would be much different and maybe much better. But who knows how many past lives we have had, or how many future lives we will have?
But this is all speculation, of course.
EDIT- God could have set it up that we all are immortal and not even know it YET!
~PEACE~