The Search for Past Life

A couple of Saturday nights ago, while everyone else in the Chicago area was dining at fashionable restaurants, stretching out in front of the tube at home for a rerun of ''The Golden Girls'' or chugging beer at Comiskey Park, more than 200 people, including this reporter, were seated in a large room in a suburban convention center with our eyes closed, trying to get in touch with what we were doing a few centuries ago when we were somebody else.

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