I have no personal experience with previous lives, I have arrived at my current beliefs (or I should say strong suspicions) through research and common sense.
That we live through several successive life-experiences learning and growing as we go is the most rational explanation for it all that I have come accross.

Having said that, both my children were born with a wisdom in their eyes so deep it was intimidating.
I don't believe it was a trick of the light, I believe it was true wisdom, which has since been at least partially smothered by education.

BigPinkLad,
I suspect your name may result from your having lived or perhaps been born in the house in the Overlook Mountains, NY, where The Band developed and recording much of the material for their 1967 album "Music From Big Pink"
What say you to that, my man?

John