Column Chronicles: Past-lives tales, part two

Past-lives tales, part two

Frank Cotolo
October 18, 2018

Here are more transcripts from recent studies of people claiming to be living in the scheme of a traveling soul are currently in progress-claiming reincarnation. We are fortunate to have the transcripts of some interviews of people describing their experiences as the studies ensue. The names of the subjects have been changed. Please do not share these stories with anyone else.

Mr. M, age 22

I get these feelings like a stone has been surgically placed inside of the skin on my left arm or as if someone has shoved an ice cube up my nostril and then I am given to an uncontrollable urge to visit a museum that is featuring an exhibit of a mummified Egyptian prince. It's frightening and must be an experience from a former life.

Miss Q, age 55

When my smart phone doesn't charge quickly I feel like a woman during the French Revolution, one who has starved on the streets of Paris where disease has riddled the homeless, the poor and destitute. I have to take six showers to feel like I wash away the filth and the stench from that environment.

Then, when my smart phone eventually charges to one hundred percent I have to sit down and have a liverwurst sandwich. It's frightening and must be an experience from a former life.

Miss R, age 35

My husband tells me often that I look like his great-grandmother. I don't agree with him at all. I think I look like my father if he were my mother. My husband doesn't agree. He is convinced that the soul of his grandmother is in me and that is one reason why he was attracted to me. I tell him that is sick because it insinuates he wanted to have sex with his great-grandmother. He says I am sick because I feel that way and often we get so upset about this that I start a fistfight. Well, recently we learned that his great-grandmother was a boxer before she was married. It's frightening and must be an experience from a former life.

Miss QQR, age 76

I don't know what I am doing here talking to you but you make me feel as if I have been here before and I was talking to someone who looked like you. It's frightening and must be an experience from a former life.

Mr. PZ, age 43

I never knew how to dance until I turned forty-two years old. On that birthday I was suddenly able to do the Cha-Cha, the Tango, the Hokey Pokey and swing-style tap dancing. It's funny, though, because when I dance I fall a lot, as if someone is trying to move my body, as if I am not in control of the dances, and I can feel a force within me that tries to stop the dancing by moving my bowels. It's frightening and must be an experience from a former life.

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.