Past Lives

[Arda]

I am not an expert on this topic but I post my gut feeling on this questions. I read some books and I am really interested in this whole topic.

I have more questions than responses.

What is the significance of knowing what you had been in your past life?

If you dont see any so there is nothing significant about that
Everybody has its own path what for me might be right, could be something completely wrong for you.

How does knowing your past life aid you in working through your distortions in this current life time?

I think you could see a greater picture of your souls evolution and could see some pattern in past lives with wich you got troble and this time you go another direction. The Endgoal is the same for everybody but each path is unique.

Why does it seem like people choose to 'remember' heroic and/or glamorous past lives (e.g., queens, kings, spiritual adepts) instead of more ordinary or non-glamorous ones (e.g., maid who emptied chamberpots, village idiots)? This is my personal bias around this topic. There appears to be more fascination around 'who I was in my past life' than actual work done around one's 'remembrance' of past life. It seems to me like we create our personal myths around what we believe we had been in our 'past life'. Could maybe use this personal myth to understand new things about oneself?

I think it's an ego issue nothing else. It will make proud that you were some really great guy in the past.It has some good sides and bad sides like everything in this duality The Bad one it creates a dangerous kind of thinking. Your focus is the NOW in this incarnation and how can you evolve more as soul. If you need this catalyst so be it. Everything is useful.

Short story: I have a friend who is really obsessed that he is an the next incarnation of Bob Marley. He visited Jamaika and tried to contact the relatives and nothing worked. Recently he asked another friend of mine if he wants to do a threesome with him and the current girlfiend of the "other friend" He is in a really bad place right now mentally. But nothing happens without a reason through this suffering the soul will learn too. Sadly You learn more from the bad things then from the good ones.

Another example is David Wilcock that he is the recent incarnation of Edgar Cayce. Is it a good thing, does it give him more credibility?
I'm not sure about that one.

Namaste, Arda