Our generation merits to have certain knowledge that even the biggest rabbis of history did not merit to have. We are at a different point in history, closer to Mashiach. G-d could have created us and expanded our physical perceptions, and yet He chose to create us with limited senses. Death is a super expansion of consciousness. The soul also remembers all of its many past physical existences, all the way back to when there was one single soul in Adam.