But what if it is something different? What if the memories are fragments of someone’s soul from another life which gets passed down genetically along with innate instincts such as fear of height (which infants all carry despite being unable to grasp the concept of impact from falls, or danger, or death)? What if these soul fragments have energy of their own which can force or trick your body or mind to act the way it once did? It would be like a possession–not a devil as such, but a spirit in some form. It might be malevolent, it might just act the way it always did without thought or need for goodness and morality. Who says the spirit inside was a historian? Who says that some orphan in a debtor’s prison has any knowledge of the outside world? Who even says the spirit in you wants to be
