Familiar Feeling or Just a Fantasy? The Truth About Past Life Beliefs

While we all get that weird sense of deja vu from time to time - the feeling that what we’re experiencing is so familiar we must have been through it before - some people take this feeling one step further and believe they’ve quite literally lived a previous life.From fairground fortune tellers to tarot card readers and online physics looking to delve into your past for a sizeable fee, the idea of a past life is a bizarre yet interesting phenomenon. So is there any truth to this concept of having already existed in some bygone era? Or is the idea of a past life nothing more than a phoney figment of our imagination?As exciting as it would be to think we may have lived out a glamorous previous life as a Roman gladiator or an ancient goddess or maybe even a 1920s movie star, the fact is that past lives are more than likely just a delusion created by overactive minds.Yet the fact that past lives aren’t a proven phenomenon doesn’t make the belief in them any less common. From doctors to psychologists, medical professionals regularly encounter patients who truly believe they’ve experienced past lives (for a while, the most common past life figure people believed they’d been was none other than Jesus Christ!).