I finished the book about the battle of Toulon I was reading and started reading another one. This was written at the beginning of 20th century and therefore it is less reliable, that is why I left it for later. It is interesting because it is a compilation of the existing historical documents, among them the records of the trials by martial court that took place after the battle or the excerpts of the admirals’ logbooks. However, I also detected several mistakes, for example saying that after my death my nephew took command, when in reality he was my cousin. And the worst of it all is that the author doesn’t mention my death in any way, so it wasn’t very useful for me.
While I was reading, hoping to find something new about my death, I couldn’t stop thinking about the matter of verifications. In general, it seems that having a greater number of verified memories makes your claim that you were such person in a past life more credible. But researchers usually don’t take into account —who knows the reason why— that memory is not exact. And besides, according to the observations of those of us who remember past lives, our mind usually is less interested in specific and verifiable data of that life than in the emotional part. This makes things more complicated. It encumbers our task of researching and finding out, eventually —only if possible—, that this person whose memories we seem to have, existed for real. If that person was someone at the very least moderately known in their time, it is a bit easier. But only a bit.