We come to believe what we believe through personal experience. When we believe the experience, it becomes a very personal knowlege. Attempts to share this do not become another's experience, knowlege or belief. Its only what you know.

When my daughter was very young, she astounded me by telling me that when she was born, she knew everything and that each day she forgot more and more.

That fits with my belief that our souls are individual and when our bodies die, we join other souls in an all-knowing, spiritual consciousness until its time to be re-born. When we are a part of the spiritual consciousness, we appear as stars in the sky.

I also believe that our ancestors guide us. This may be a part of our genetic make-up or it may be that we can access our guides through 'prayer'. It may also be that they are able to access us to guide us or intervene in a crisis.

I think we all get glimpses of our past lives and that it is our sense of wonder that stimulates our minds. Philosophers have been probing these questions for a very long time. Some have even tried to bottle and sell it as religion.