Hmmmm.. is he sure he hasn't picked up on someone else's memory ?
These mystical things are so untestable almost anything could be an explanation.
And again maybe everyone is everybody else and we are destined to experience every life :-)
There you go, take some powerful visual media, a young impressionable mind that hasn't yet learnt to distiguish fact from fantasy and you have instant re-incarnation.
mrs_o: perhaps I should rephrase my previous reply to yours: 'perhaps you were a slimy ground crawling spineless blob in a previous life... or a slug'.
erin-x; that was an extraordinary story. I remember somebody on AB a few years ago mentioned about their son saying he'd lived in William Wallace's Tower, quite extraordinary really.
i was having a chat with my 6 year old grandaughter a while ago. we were talking about my hip replacement i said i would need the other one doing in the future as my bones were going.i said i needed new bones.she looked at me and said i know where you can get new ones nan,in the afterlife.how do you know that i said i just know she said.i was speechless.