Reincarnation and the Soul

[Accipeveldare]

So, I have come across a fork in the road. I have been of the belief that I am an individual soul that will keep some wisdom as it continues through its incarnations. However, now i have found a new theory. What if we were all the same people in our past lives? This would correlate with the idea that we are the universe experiencing itself (which i believe) but it also makes me question what my soul is. If i have an individual soul, what does that make me?

I always sort of believed I was an "old soul" because for my age I feel old. If not, then what would that mean for me? That im just lucky to be awakened? What significance does my soul have if I was everybody and so was everyone else?

I am not wholeheartedly decided on which theory to believe but I am having a hard time integrating either theory with the idea that we are the universe experiencing itself. How would I do so if I had an individual soul and I was responsible for individual past lives?

 

[Mars]

No we are not all the same people in our past lives.

If you have a soul you have an atman which is a drop of the ocean that is the Absolute. You could say you are a part of the Universe that is experiencing yourself, yes.

No, you are not an "old soul". Souls are without birth nor death.

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[akenu]

The concept of the oversoul. This is honestly my favorite theory.

You can imagine it as a big pot with multiple plants sprouting from it. Each plant grows from the same soil, but neither plant can really claim they are the soil.

However, as they die and decompose, they do become part of the soil; they become the nutrients for new plants.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

Personally I don't believe in a soul that survives death - although people are not always as firmly glued in time as we might think.

I will never cease to find this title funny.