Eventually, he realizes that the woman was his lover in a previous lifetime in Taiwan.
Banks couldn't help feeling he must have been a train-spotter in a previous lifetime, if not in this one.
"The ballerinas are visiting a previous lifetime," she explained, "longer than anyone else has lived."
They were able to describe 5 previous "lifetimes" and the point where she was "created".
That sealed it: We were soul mates who had been together in previous lifetimes.
When a woman has a difficult time becoming pregnant, some people believe it is caused by misdeeds that took place in a previous lifetime.
But the final, qualitative difference between this and all previous lifetimes is the one most easily overlooked.
No practical amount of exercise could wholly replace the field work of the lifetime previous.
To begin life anew, from the womb, but with the understanding of a previous lifetime's experience!
The truthful answer was, because I suddenly knew we have loved before, more than once, in previous lifetimes.