The Veil and Learning, Remembering

[Lavazza]

That may explain why deep insights can occasionally come to a person without any obvious catalyst; we are simply remembering something from our "past" incarnations that may be valuable in this one.

I agree. I've read about many people who have sudden flashes of the distant past, or flashes of inspiration from seemingly "nowhere" just when they need it most.

I think this could also explain to some degree where some of our talents/weaknesses come from; our talents may be (in some cases) the rewards/gifts of our other incarnations (on this world or others or elsewhere). For instance, if I had been deeply involved with learning/understanding music in another life, either as a musician, or in some other form, I might find that in this life I have certain amount of musical talent.

This may be true (who is to say?) but I can offer at least that this would not hold up from the perspective of Michael Newton, an in-between lives hypno-therapist who has written a few books about the topic. According to his research, we are given the freedom to choose for ourselves (before incarnation) what talents, weaknesses and so on we will have for the next life, in order to best learn whatever lesson there is for us to learn. Not to say of course that we couldn't endeavor to learn whatever we wanted to, such as a musical instrument, free will always exists.

As to Karama however, that may well be a different thing altogether.

cheers!