I like that you put past in quotation marks--I have come to use the terms "already lived" or "already experienced" incarnations as I believe that souls are effectively time travelers in that we can set our improv scripts at any point in time with their own sets of circumstances and time lines. I formulated this theory based on knowledge given me of lives lead that would seem to me to have overlapping time lines. https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/cosmic-strings-of-time-526824bdd58c Quantum or inter-dimensional or whatever probably not right or past my comprehension terms one can use for time may also explain how I wrote things 7 years ago that I saw last year described things that I had not yet experienced this life