Reincarnation and IFA: Do You Really Need to Know Your Past-Life Identity?

I once asked Ifa whether it matters to know who I was in a past life. Ifa said it is unnecessary. Our spirit uses our body as a vessel to gather spiritual food, regardless of what we remember. Spirits compete for incarnation slots along family lines. Priority often follows the male line, but female-line spirits can also claim slots. Old spirits may accept restrictions to avoid overshadowing younger ones. A spirit lives in heaven for up to a century before it must return to Earth. New spirits wait until around age 101 before incarnating to start earning their own spiritual food. When I asked Ifa, it revealed my past-life self was Sir Herbert Macaulay, an Orunmila incarnate. But Ifa usually ignores such queries as irrelevant to our current life.

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