Is history a purely academic study of the dead past? Or is it rather a study of human behaviour, and therefore a biological science? I put it to you that history is a living material out of which we are made, and is therefore a study of our "past lives".
What you are
Open yourself up to who you are, to what you are. Look to your causes, look to the past, look to what makes you. You are what makes you. True eyes do not see things themselves, but their causes, their totality.
You are what you do, what is within you, which is what you have been, and what you will become.