Souls and population growth
QUESTION: Masters, I am perplexed about one aspect of reincarnation which has to do with past lives and exponential population growth. As the population on Earth is always growing year on year the numbers of humans will always exceed the numbers of souls to fill them. Where do the extra souls come from to meet the population explosion? I don’t quite follow how some souls stay at Home, others reincarnate, yet all those that reincarnate seem to have had past lives. How do the numbers work on this? ~Milos, UK
ANSWER: Just under seven billion souls are incarnate on your Planet Earth at this time. We have visited this question in the past in our writing of the book Exploring Reincarnation. The question (found on page 203) was: “How many souls are there currently in existence? Is the creation of new souls ongoing or has it already met a target number?” Our answer now, as it was then, is: “Using your numbering system there are approaching a trillion souls in existence. Take your known Earth population, consider there are hundreds of other places souls can inhabit, understand souls come and go daily (birth and death), some souls are in places where they have the option of popping in and out of bodies as they experience different activities, and the answer is that the number changes constantly. (The number that are on Earth at any one time, not the total number of individual souls.) The creation of individual souls has no specific target number. All the fragments that are needed to sustain the current learning processes exist now. Will more be needed in the future? There are too many variables to say with absolute certainty, but we do not anticipate the creation of any additional souls.”
Your question implies that the souls who are particles of Source can always be accounted for in relationship to Earth. That is not true. There are those who choose to stay at Home and observe what others are doing on the planet so they can decide what else they want to experience. Some agree to act as guides for those incarnate, and some choose to experience existence on other types of planets. Then there are the few who desire to experience the physical characteristics of animals and spend some time in those bodies.
A soul never dies. It spends less than 100 years on Earth in a body and returns to its spiritual energetic form. Take just the past 2012 years and you have a minimum of 20 lifetimes for our hypothetical soul. Some decide to spend much shorter times in a single body and some just “pop in” to a body for a brief period. You can then see how just in these 2012 years a soul could have many past lives.