Amazink, thanks. One last word to the skeptics and then I hope to hear more past life posts: As Amazink intimated, not much on earth is linear. Science says that nothing is destroyed, that everything changes into something else, nothing is wasted.

Spring turns into summer, summer into fall, fall into winter, winter back into spring, ad infinitum...Seeds turn into plants, plants give seeds, seeds turn into plants...helpless infants turn into vigorous adults, adults ripen, ripe adults turn into helpless infants... Who is to say the cycle does not continue?

One sensation that I have occasionally had is of being buried. There is a heavy weight on my chest and I feel I have no recourse. I remember one time I drove past a mountain slope that had been stabilized with netting and boulders. I had an instant response as though I were buried in dirt, unable to breathe.

I used to think that perhaps I was afraid of being buried prematurely- who isn't- but if I were to explore into the dim past I might come up with a different explanation.

Ebbie