didn't go to no university, maybe I'm from a different cosmos?

The question begs how open is one's mind. How much of the non tangibles are they willing to accept? How much are we willing to share? We can accept fire is hot, ice is cold, vehicles can transport us. Anything we can validate by our five senses most can accept. Sounds we can hear, light we can use and see, people, skunks we can smell, apple pie we can taste. All good so far, now let's step off into the, you gotta be yanking my chain world a few of us take as fact.
Growing up in a home where things moved by themselves, disappeared and reappeared, where someone was there but they weren't, some of us have a different take on life than most. It was dark, my uncle was helping daddy milk. He walked around the corner of the barn to bring in the next batch of cows. "Your friends are here." He walked back to his pickup and never put a foot on the farm after dark, after that night. Daddy had those "friends" all his life, even as a little boy. A lot of people wouldn't visit after dark. Cowards! Ever watch a table lift up in the air when no one was around it? Fascinating. There is no way to convince anyone else these things are real. It begs the question what is real?
Now we come to your question. Daddy had a choice between two families before he was born. One them was on the east coast. The other one was here. My son was five when he came in from playing outside. He crawled up on my lap. "Daddy, do you love me as much as I loved you when you were my little boy?" It's not as quick and easy now as it was when I was younger. When I touch people I see pictures or movies. Thought everyone did so I never questioned it or talked about it until about forty years ago. I realized I was looking at the past lives they had lived. (past lives as in plural) The real history of this world isn't exactly what the history books claim. Most people change genders when they reincarnate over several life times. I met one woman who never had which was extremely rare. One woman had a phobia about water. Getting her face wet was a major step. She never told me until after I told her what I had seen. She had died in six previous lives. All by drowning. I explained why she was scared of water and described each event when and where it happened. She carried all that over to her present life.
I'm not here to convince anyone reincarnation is real. There are those who believe the earth is flat, men on the moon was a movie put out by the U.S. government, God doesn't exist. I've seen and experienced time shifts, material things move through time itself. We make rules, laws we as mortals can understand without going insane. Many have died who rocked those beliefs. Many advances in medicine and science have been left behind hidden under bodies and sacrificed in blood because those in power weren't willing to share their power with the peasants. The population is easier to control if they are kept ignorant and our world leaders point at other nations, other colors, other races to hate for all their misery. Rome, Egypt, Russia, China, Laos, etc, every nation has sacrificed the greatest and brightest to build kingdoms of a few to control the masses.
Watch the TV, play the movies, play the games, it's easier if one doesn't know or want to know and the biggest worry is who brought the beer?
hugs people
always
Barb
Life is a gift. Treasure it.