We’ll meet again
Think twice: Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates was a believer saying: “I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again.”
Battling on: British General Charles George Gordon, left, who died in 1885, reckoned he’d fight another day saying: “This life is only one of a series of lives which our incarnated part has lived.”
Boney part: World War Two US general George S Patton swore he’d seen combat many times before. He was told: “You would have made a great marshal for Napoleon if you had lived in the 19th Century.” He replied: “But I did.”
Rein-car-nation: American motor mogul Henry Ford, below, said: “I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life, in the next.”
Mahat-more:
Indian freedom fighter Gandhi said:
“I live in the hope that, if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all humanity in friendly embrace.”
Get back: Beatles star George Harrison said: “Friends are all souls that we’ve known in other lives.” Fellow Fab Four member John Lennon thought death was “just getting out of one car and into another”.
We’ll meat again:
Pop star Lady Gaga, famous for wearing a meat dress, believes she’s the reincarnation of her dead aunt Joanne, who she named an album after. She said: “I believe you can be reborn over and over again. I believe I was my father’s sister.” Chopping and changing:
Hollywood legend Sylvester Stallone reckons his past lives include being a wolf and a monkey. He added: “I’m quite sure I lost my head in the French Revolution.”
Ex factor: Singer Jake Quickenden said: “I’ve accepted I was a soldier called Simon. It’s weird to think there was a battle on the land where my house is now and that I was involved in a past life.”
Thor thing: Marvel actor Chris Hemsworth said: “I’d like to think there was an afterlife or reincarnation or something”
Re-generation: Appropriately, former Family Fortunes host Les Dennis said: “I believe that we come back in some way in our families.”
Stealing time: Actress and singer Kate Nash said: “It was confirmed to me when I had a past life regression and was told my friend and I had been train robbers in a past life.”
One more fight:
Singer Phil Collins, right, reckons he might have fought at the Battle of the
Alamo in 1836: “I don’t want to sound like a weirdo, but I am prepared to believe. It is a possibility that I was here in another life.”
Good god: Actress Shirley MacLaine thinks her dog was an Egyptian deity and that she’s led multiple lives herself asking: “How did I know and recognise streets and temples when I first went to India?”