Inherited Memories

I often get letters, emails etc., asking how I can write so much about the past?

On a strictly intellectual level I suppose I can put this down to a long period of rigorous education! And I have still got the bruises to show! On the other hand I sometimes wonder about the theory of reincarnation.

I know it sounds an easy way to explain life but I have always found it fascinating. I never did very well at school until I came across Latin and then my progress was incredibly swift. No, I don’t believe that I am the reincarnation of a pharaoh or a mediaeval king but it is possible we lived before? Could that explain people’s behaviour? Or again, is it possible that we inherit memories?

Professor Dawkins talks of ‘Memes’, basically folk beliefs inherited, do we also inherit memories? Not the traces of former lives but those of our ancestors?

I must admit when I plot a novel sometimes the descriptions comes thick and fast yet it is so hard to sift what you’ve learnt from what you inherit.

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