For most people with past-life memories, their minds may not preserve memories of more than one or two lives in enough detail for their past identities to be confirmed, although they might retain fragmentary memories of traumatic or otherwise emotionally salient events. Present-life memory is pruned in this way, and why should past-life memory be different? For Brazilian Spiritism, past-life personalities resemble MPD/DID alters in the subconscious mind (Krippner, 1991). From this perspective, past personalities lie within all of us, affecting us with their unresolved conflicts, but as their
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