Past Lives (A24)As a little girl in Seoul, I fully absorbed the myth of chut sarang from the K-dramas I watched with my aunt and my grandmother. I daydreamed about who my first love would be. The ...

Some believe that every soul has had a past life, and the experiences from those lives shape the person, while others believe that past life is a myth forwarded by cons to mint money.

P erhaps these myths and the better-informed truths all make perfect sense to you. Even so, they can be devilishly hard to remember and practice as you go about your complicated life.

Wells explains this past life archetype as: “You have lived as the healer and the mystic. You instinctively know what it is like to dissolve, let go, and merge with others in this way.

In ‘Myth America,’ historians set out to battle misinformation. While setting the record straight about the past, these essays also point to the malleability of how we think about history ...

But that ties into another myth: that you have to be a trained expert to do that. Of course, we have trained experts in the field who do suicide prevention education.