Such an important subject and - bearing in mind I am not a static ! as we both know - my views have shifted over the years. As you also know, this is also one of my keen interests https://medium.com/@simonheathcote/some-loves-are-more-than-hypnotic-a11768e44618

Now that I am an Advaita wallah and this an old piece, I tend to see the whole of life as rather dreamy, including past ones, that when the knot of ego is dissolved, the mind returned to the spiritual heart, our phantom sojourns are seen for what they are - no-thing, the kinder cousin of everything. Why come back? I wouldn't unless there my friends are here to play with, then I might!