Past Lives and the Infinite Soul

Whenever I casually bring up the idea of what I might have been in a past life or the fact that I am a very old soul, friends and family immediately stop taking me seriously. 

The same friends and family who believe that we do indeed have a soul and that our souls continue to live after our physical bodies die. Most believe that the soul goes to Heaven for all of eternity. 

I believe souls find a new home after each death. The body is just a shell or a vehicle of the soul. The body can be destroyed, but the soul will remain. So this soul will continue to reincarnate into other physical shells until the soul is ready for the divine afterlife to live with God in paradise. 

If the timing of the world is infinite, and the Universe is infinite, why is it that most people believe we only get to experience a small fraction of its infinicy? If you compare the average lifespan of 80 years to the age of the Universe, we're really only really living on Earth for 0% of the time. Anything measured with infinity is zero, simply because, there is no comparison. 

0 percent? Do we even exist? Are we real? Yes we are. Our souls, at least, are. The soul is your energy. It's your feelings, your love, and your wisdom. The soul is that ball of energy that ~most~ religions believe ascend to Heaven/Paradise/Nirvana/The Afterlife or whatever you wish to call it. 

I believe in Heaven. But I also believe it takes a while for our soul to reach that sacred home of paradise. 

Astral Projection

Astral projection has been deemed a real thing. This is the idea that when you are sleeping, you give your soul the opportunity to roam freely outside of your body. Your body, while asleep is still able to breathe and swallow, etc because that is performed by the brain. But when one astral projects, the soul leaves the body and can watch its body sleep or roam around its house and even (for advanced Astral Projectors) travel far distances beyond the walls of its sleeping body. 

This is how many people claimed to have watched themselves sleeping or have seen other souls around the vicinity of their travels. 

The movie Insidious plays with the act of Astral Projection in a sinister way (it's a great movie!) so in case you're still confused with AP, refer to that film. 

Strange Memories?

Being that the soul is endless, similar to the universe and eternity, we, as infinite souls, have the option of deciding when and where we want to go next after our current physical shell dies.

This is why people remember their past lives. This is why people get Deja Vu. It's also why people can feel attracted to a certain time period in history or see an old doll, some China, or even an old watch from an antique shop and feel connected to it somehow. Maybe you had one similar in another life. Maybe it was that exact one. 

Introversion vs Extroversion in Relation to the Age of the Soul

There is a theory I once read that people who are more introverted and quiet are among the older souls (simply meaning a soul which has lived a greater amount of Earthy physical lives). 

This is because these older souls have lived so far in the past, have made so many connections with other souls as humans they have lost, that they feel unconnected to the present, longing to live in one of their many other lives, and that they are afraid to connect with more humans because they know they are eventually going to lose them just as they have lost many others. 

Extroverts are often younger souls. They could have lived only a couple lives or the present life they're in could in fact be their very first life. These people are more open to the world and people around them. They're not as much into history or antiques as the average introvert or old soul but they are more open and prone to follow the modern culture of their time-- such as the latest music, dancing, electronics, and styles of the present.  

Be Open

Past lives are fun to think about. If you believe you possess a soul and that soul carries on into an afterlife when the body dies, you should not completely dismiss the idea of past lives and reincarnation. If your mind allows you to even believe in souls and in Heaven, then your mind should also be able to accept other mystical ideas such as magic, mythical creatures, the supernatural (ghosts and hauntings) and many other ideas on afterlives and other realms. Anything is possible with a magical and powerful god and an infinite soul.