The question which arises so naturally in the mind
and which is so often asked:
"Why do I not remember my past lives?"
is really based on a misconception of the theory of reincarnation.
"I," the true "I," does remember;
but the animal-man, not yet in full responsive union with his true Self,
cannot remember a past in which he, personally, had no share.
Brain-memory can contain only a record of the events
in which the brain has been concerned.
-Annie Besant (1847-1933)
Theosophist, Writer and Orator