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It may seem strange to hear this, but there is a connection with past life’s and mental health. In America, and perhaps Europe, to make such a claim would be to risk a practice. Imagine for moment, if past life are real- one might be able to measure a higher rate of PTSD within children than might be explained by present life trauma. It is also possible, perhaps being born allows a transition time to heal from past trauma, as opposed to just jumping into an adulthood.
Granted, measuring PTSD due to a traumatic past life’s death may be difficult. If epigenetics is correct, there may also be a genetic transference of PTSD to children. Could epigenetics have come about because people wanting to explain PTSD in children but they didn’t want to believe in past lives?
Epigenetics found evidence for PTSD in children from holocausts survivors It was inexplicable PTSD like symptoms noted in children and grandchildren that had not had their own trauma. One explanation might be that children of survivors may be more anxious because their parents were anxious, but then you have to explain the grandchildren.
There is enough evidence here for a thing to make it worth studying, regardless of what you want to use as an explanation. It does make you wonder about the Biblical statement that the sins of the father…
