Anne Elizabeth Matthews

A Past Life Memory

This is a short essay on the topic of past lives. When I was a teenager I learned about the theory of past lives from reading books by Alan Watts and others on Zen Buddhism, and Theosophy by a variety of authors. The philosophy was that we have a soul that incarnates in the physical world to experience physicality and to learn soul lessons, and in each lifetime we create karma. In these Eastern philosophies they claim that we come to earth thousands of times as both males and females, but we never regress to animal forms from the human.