I just listened to about half of this episode and had a memory resurface of a past life haha no fuck that, of when I was into new age shit when I was in my early-to-mid teens, and read a lot of books about new age shit in general. I don't remember what book this story was from specifically, but the author recounted an experience of attending/running a "past life regression" workshop of some sort that was at a location that had a cat, and one attendee started freaking out about the cat, and by TOTAL COINCIDENCE it turned out that in a past life the cat was a prince and the lady was a servant woman and they were in luvsies and died together or whatever, and supposedly using telepathy or cat whispering or something (?) the cat told her that they would meet again in a later life where they could be together. As fucking bullshit at all of it sounds, I will say as someone who has been into new age stuff in the past and with my mom and many of her friend still being into it, that a large majority of the time when people talk about this kind of stuff, they absolutely believe it, and it would not sound that far off that everyone at that workshop genuinely believed that shit was real.
Another "I used to be into new age shit and read a lot of books on the subject" story: There was another book that I remember more specifically, one that was like a new age version of the chicken soup books (I actually managed to refind the title googling around, it's "Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Soul"), that included a story from someone who talked about them being horrible to their spouse and not knowing why they were doing it, so they and the spouse did a past-life regression thing and apparently uncovered that in a past life they were both warriors from some unspecificed indian tribes and past life spouse had killed past life writer in a battle between their tribes, so the explanation for the writer being a dick to their spouse was that they were still suffering from that death. Apparently the writer and their spouse came to terms with this because they agreed that past life spouse was doing them a blessing by giving them a quick death rather than a slow painful death as a captive. In retrospect I wonder how fucking many unaddressed problems this couple had, because if the writer was being a dick and then blamed it on their spouse killing them in a past life, there was probably a lot more going on than they wanted to admit to.