I can't even suggest that I have any level of expertise in this matter.  Your phobia of bugs could range anywhere from having a past life from being attacked by killer bees or ants to no incident that involves bugs at all.  And let's just face it...Bugs are just plain ole creepy to whether or not they are have any connection to your past lives or not.  LOL  I don't see anyone sittin on the couch wit a pet scorpion on their lap watching tv but hey you never know :-P

I'm not a huge fan of bugs either but I respect them as God's creatures.  Like us they are his children and they have very important roles to play in the Circle of Life.  That doesn't mean I'll go diving head first into a pile of grasshoppers for a group hug.  That also doesn't mean that I don't call the exterminator to come and spray my apartment once a month either.  Bugs do have a role to play in the cycle of life, even roaches.  I just prefer that they don't play out that cycle in my kitchen. HAHA

Fear of insects are conditioned just like every other fear.  Our own mind is pretty much the culprit.  When you think about it, it makes absolutely no logical sense that we humans should be scared of something that is thousands of times smaller then us and that we can easily do away with very little to no ease with the swat of a shoe.  But we very often don't act on logic.  We act on emotion.

The best way to overcome fears is to face them.  If you want to get over your fear of insects take iniative.  That doesn't mean try to grab one and pick it up.  Pick up a book about them and read.  In the process you may dispell a bunch of myths and increase your own confidence.  If you don't and decide to stay afraid of bugs then that's your choice too.  It's really no big deal.  You will never have a dangerous incident with a bug in your lifetime at all.  It will just be an occasional annoyance to you because you are the one who is giving the fear the power.  Bugs will always be here on Earth.  You can't control that.  But you can change your reaction to insects  

For instance, you can see a spider in your house and make one of two choices:

1) Freak out and panic, run around the room screaming and wait for a hero to come and rescue you;

OR

2) Stay calm, take off your bedroom slipper, and squash it!

My point is that you are the one who gives the power to the fear not the insect.  The insect isn't trying to scare you on purpose.  They don't think on human terms.  They are only trying to survive.  YOU are the one that chooses to be scared.  Just as you choose to be scared you can choose to be unscared.

To address your last question, it can be any number of reasons why people don't receive flashes or memories from previous lives.  The expansion of the Universe is never ending, constantly growing and getting larger, so new baby souls probably do enter the scene all the time; however, it it highly unlikely that that would be the reason why someone wouldn't get any flashes or memories.  Even baby souls are predisposed to some forms of spiritual teachings and events before they choose to manifest in a physical realm.  

I think it's more of an issue of connectivity and receptivity to the spirit realm.  Certain steps have to be taken in order to prepare our minds for the knowledge.  The spirit realm is in a constant state of connectivity and communication with us.  We very often are just not listening.  We are too distracted by the physical world and our own incessant mental noise to be able to hear it.  Once we quiet our own negative and delusional thoughts the spirit realm can better communicate with us.

Mr PL

Oh hi!!! Sorry about wasn't reply back.  Anyway, well from what I read, I have one more thing to tell....... how true that I ran around in panic until I found my friend and brought him to save the day.  Jee. It happened when I was on campus.

About last message, mmhmm.  interesting.  It's keep bigger and bigger!  I never think of it!  Cool!