Only problem with that is remembering. I really do not remember much prior to age 5.
I remember once I took up an axe and started felling a big pine tree. Of course I did not much damage, but my father got mad and ran after me, I remember was running hell for leather but my father caught up with me soon.
Conclusion: Perhaps I was a woodsman in the past, very familiar with teh axe. Most probably I lived outdoor in forests, even now I live amidst tree.
Alterantive hypothesis: I hope the axe I swung in my previous incarnation was not an executioner's axe!
i remember mimicking some of the things I would see around me. For instance my parents we're parked on a mountain hill they got out to use the restroom and I put the gear shift into neutral and the car started rolling down the mountain with a trailer behind it. My father luckily caught up before it got very much speed. I also remember getting quite a bawling out because I acted out the service station attendant by putting 'gas' in the tank of a car actually it was from a water hose. Perhaps even then Yogananda might have thought that I was a bit mischeivious.
But I can recall very clearly demanding seeing a program which would come on the TV called 'Johnny Yuma Was a Rebel'. I wanted to see that program so bad I could taste it and I think that it clearly pointed to a life during the Civil War.
I also remember as a youth having inordinate interest in having an Indian headress. At one point I actually had one. Or did I just imagine it?
Although I was not aware of incense till I was in my early teen years (parents try to keep kids away from lighting things). I do recall having a keen interest in candles and incense. I began my early meditation without any specific instruction lighting candles, staring into the flame and lighting incense almost as an obsession.
Mccoy I find it a point of interest that you and I both have such a strong interest in music and I did not know your interest till just recently. We also are both kriyabans. hmmm.
The tendencies that we exhibit up to the age of 5 come from our past lives after that age they become diluted with newly acquired tendencies of this life. Think back as far as you can remember, then enumerate your first unalloyed tendencies. Did you feel attracted two incense or oriental furnishings or pictures of saints? Or did you love mechanisms and mechanistic instruments? Those early tendencies separated from your acquired tendencies of this life, reveal your past.
~Paramahansa Yogananda
