Pseudoscience can weaponize past-life claims against living relationships

Evidence

This psychic told my wife that she had been a priestess in a past life and I had been a crusader, and I had raped and killed her. She said that the two of us were karmically connected and would meet again in each life. My wife’s task was to free herself from me. She should separate from me by all means. How can I defend myself against accusations that are not even from this life? — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 375

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: The last line — defending against accusations not even from this life — is a powerful premise for a domestic drama or satirical short story about esoteric abuse.
• FICTION: A wife turned against her husband by a past-life narrative is a natural setup for a story about belief systems destroying marriages.