Another question would be: Are past lives desireable?
Total recall.. Whole Track Recall.. Scientologists believe they can 'gain' this ability...
When all their overts and withholds have been pulled.. And then all their engrams and implants cleared.. And then all their indeterminable numbers of Body Thetans needs to be 'audited'.. And they have to stop comitting Present Time Overts too of course. (And it's AMAZING what constitutes an overt these days!)
However.. Whole Track Recall means recalling your past lives.. It doesn't mean
vaguely remebering something or other about having been Baron Von Münchausen.. It means really recalling.. Educations, languages, experience... Hubbard has explained this several times.
(Erh.. I think the cult now says it does mean vaguely. They backed down a bit on the claims.. We have to ask ourselves if 'vaguely' is worth our money and time?)
Whole Track Recall is really 'Living forever'.. Just that we need to accept that the body dies now and then. No big deal as we are reborn. We can even choose ourselves by whom we are to be reborn! Indeed Hubbard envisions that we don't need to 'forget' past lives when born again.. A scientologists learns what to do in the 'between lives area', and is born with his Whole Track Recall intact.
You'll know when your newborn baby 'sloshes' wetly out of his mother, and immediatly remarks: "Ha! - I just evaded a gawdawful crapload of tax debts! - Damn! - I need a smoke and a cup of coffee!"
And living forever might be boring... Indeed scientology scripture seems to indicate that it's much better to waft about amongst the galaxies as a dimensionless point..
Doing what?