When a child comes in, I believe that it’s a ’multipersonhood ’ and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

In this statement MacLaine articulates a New Age–inflected view of personhood rooted in reincarnation and collective or layered consciousness. A newborn, in her account, is not a “blank slate” but a being carrying accumulated experience—an “old soul”—whose knowledge is stored in a central inner core. The language of “multipersonhood” suggests that identity may be composite: shaped by prior lives, archetypal patterns, or transpersonal memory. The appeal to looking into a baby’s eyes frames the claim as an intuitive, experiential recognition rather than a scientific argument, emphasizing spiritual perception and the continuity of consciousness across lifetimes.