buntaro said:
My religion teaches that no new souls have been made for a long time. If so, everyone alive today has had many previous lives, and I agree with that idea. I believe that no one is in their first life here on Earth.
Question is, Buntaro, is it their first
human life here on Earth?
I tend to towards the notion of old/young/new souls in people. There are some people, with whom I have a soul affinity, who definitely carry insights and preferences from the past. Most people though do not have this. There's six and half billion plus humans living today. Eighty years ago, there was only two billion humans. From this, I deduce that an extra four and half billion souls have come to take on human form
for the first time during the past eight decades.
But what were they before? I believe that consciousness is everywhere - even within the atom - and that it does not depart the universe, but evolves, from atom to single-cell organism to plant to animal - to human (and thence to angel and finally becomes part of God - the Oneness, the Everything, the Ultimate Consciousness and Purpose).
It's difficult telling someone that they've not lived a human life before - but I think it's very true - most people haven't!
How can you tell? They have little or no interest in history, they don't much care for the music, art or styles of past eras, they're generally less reflective or philosophical, are in more of a hurry, are more materialistic, less worried about the environment ("I'm not going to be around to suffer the effects of global warming").
I get on better with the "old" or "young" souls and find I have little in common to share with "new" souls... If you have soulmates, keep them close!
Michal