[HitmanLV]

Consider what I think are two more likely explanations for this and similar claims of reincarnation.

The collective unconscious - at some level, everyone alive is 'connected' at an unconscious (or subconscious) level. We can (and sometimes do) tap into the memories and thougts of other people. This is not bound by time or space. The memories this child has may legitimately be of the downed pilot, but that's not to say that the child and the pilot are any more the same person as I am the same person as either the child or the pilot.

Race Memory - Most of the grey cells in our brains are for storage of information. It's the most sophisticated compter in existence. In it, all the events of your life are recorded in super high-fidelity. Almost everyone's memory is perfect (except those who have chemical problems in their brain, or have sustained physical injury that harmed the brain). Indeed, when we 'forget' something, it is our recall that is failing, not our memory.

Anyway, I am convinced that the grey brain cells do more than just record our own life experience. They contain the complete collective life experiences of all the past people in our ancestry and lineage - indeed, because of the nature of the extended family tree, for practical purposes the memories of the human race are represented in this matrix.

On top of that, it has information they knew of historical or fictional events, books, songs, stories, etc.

The subconsious mind has difficulty distingishing (and I think simply can't distinguish, but the jury is still out on that one) from very vivid visualizations/imaginations and memories of real events. To the extent that particularly vivid images are part of the collectve race memory, they form legitimate 'memories' that are still stored in our DNA and our grey brain cells. Indeed, these can be memories of things that never actuially happened.

It's easy to see then how someone could have legitimate 'memories' of events that they never experienced. A sense of 'deja vu' for example, or detailed dreams of past events before their birth. These are esentially recollections of memories of the human race.

I have studied reincarnation and other related phenomena, and this explanation is the best in my estimation.

Also note that the collective unconscious and the concept of race memory are not mutually exclusive - they can be (and I suspect are) both at work to explain what is commonly called 'reincarnation.'

Of course, I can't prove any of this. :-)

[Quix]

I think I'll stick with the demonic explanation.

I've often pondered the possibility of atoms transmitting information. God knows our thoughts afar off etc.

Certainly I had to study Jung. And, in terms of Holy Spirit, He is certainly everywhere. But I don't believe in the Junian concept of the collective unconscious.

And while our minds are awesome in structure and function, the amounts of data you are positing to reside in them via ancestral genetics--it's just tooooooooo massive a collection of data, imho.

But certainly unique and creative!

Thanks