The Memocariate person is very rare it generally seems. To the layman it feels like one or more zeros need to be placed to the right of the decimal point if ever expressed as a % of the human population.
In the Indian mythology/epic of Mahabharata, Krishna told Arjuna in the Gita (Chapter 4, Verse 5):
You and I, Arjuna
Have lived many lives.
I remember them all:
You do not remember.
“Still another example occurs in Buddhism: the Jataka tales purport to narrate the Buddha’s previous lives as remembered by him.” — wrote the late Dr. Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia, USA, at the page-269 in his 2001 edition of the book Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation.
But Krishna and Buddha were said to be God or highly spiritually advanced persons, the Buddha having reportedly recalled his previous lives through Meditation.
Ian Stevenson continued: “As Peris (1963) pointed out, in all these examples we are concerned with a claim to remember previous lives on the part of a god or great sage; we seem a long way from the idea that ordinary people might remember previous lives. Nevertheless, the examples mentioned contain the germ of the idea that memories of previous lives come with spiritual discipline and attainment.”
