I am an old soul who came into this world already knowing certain things. I felt, even as a young child, that I was an observer. I was watching the absurdity and beauty of human behavior from a detached point of view, as if seeing it all over again. Certain areas of knowledge and experience were available to me that were beyond my years, based on other lifetimes.

Old souls are beings who have incarnated many times, through many lifetimes on this and other planets. Young souls have not incarnated as much, for a number of reasons. Even people who are not spiritually intuitive can detect a young soul. No matter what their chronological age, they seem like an empty room, with the breeze floating through. Whereas an old soul, no matter if he or she is only a baby, gives the impression of having seen it all, having experienced it all, and knowing it all too.
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Many different stages of incarnation distinguish old and young souls, for each person is a unique individual. Each has karma, each soul has a journey. Some of us have a lot of karma to balance out. Some of us are at the end of what the physical experience can contribute to our soul’s growth and expansion.

We never know when we are going to meet our soul mates. We think we can plan for it, or conjure them forth. But the Universe has its own wisdom and its own timing.

I knew a woman who met her soul mate when he crashed into her front yard and living room with his car. He had fallen asleep at the top of a hill and his vehicle hurled through her living room where it destroyed her TV and other furniture but did not crash into her.

As they met and talked over what they needed to do to solve their problem, they recognized each other as if from another lifetime. They fell in love once again, rekindling a flame that had been alive within their hearts for centuries. It was an interesting situation because she was agoraphobic and was afraid to leave her house. She never went out, so the Universe brought her soul mate to her.

Do not think that the setting for meeting your soul mate must be romantic, ideal, and beautiful. I met one of my soul mates in a grimy city, known for its crime and lack of glamor. It was that instant recognition, well known to those who have had the experience. It was almost as if I fell into his eyes and he into mine. I saw deeply into his past, I saw his mother looking out at me through his eyes as well, blessing us. Many things happened during that one instant.
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One thing is for certain. When soul mates are meant to be together, they will be brought together by circumstances beyond their control. But they will definitely know when it happens!

Certain memories stay with us lifetime after lifetime. They are part of the aggregate that comprises our Soul. We come into this life remembering some things from past lives. Sometimes we don’t consciously remember these things but they play themselves out in our lives anyway.

Mozart was 5 years old when he created whole symphonies with no mistakes. He credited this miracle to past lives in which he was already an accomplished musician. He was tapping into memories to bring forth this amazingly complex material, even if he didn’t know precisely how this phenomenon operated. He was humble enough to acknowledge this.
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It doesn’t work for us to remember every event of every past life. We are meant to be in the present moment and not continually dwelling in the past. We don’t even remember much about this life on a detailed level. But the overall pattern of our Soul and its unique expression is for all time in our Akashic Records. Whether we access them or not, they are still there.

Many people have come to me, as a specialist in past lives, claiming that they were once Napoleon or Cleopatra. They don’t want to hear that they were a street sweeper or a servant. They believe their value as a human being comes with having a huge impact on history or being written about for future generations.

But I say to them, “Napoleon was responsible for more than six million deaths due to his wars. Cleopatra has been discovered to be one of the most cold-blooded monarchs of ancient Rome.

“The lowly street sweeper was helping others by keeping the streets clean. He may have been an enlightened man who was happy with his lot in life. Is he of less value than Napoleon or Cleopatra? Karmically, he will be cleaner.”

We might say that all the psychopaths and murderers in and out of prisons today have no “value.” This is a mistake too. Many people have emerged from incarceration with an enlightened attitude, having learned from their mistakes. They may help out in shelter for animals and people, they may quietly live their lives and want to make their contribution to a better life.

The hardened criminals are an indication of what needs to be healed in our societies and on our planet. They are a result of a primitive mindset that is not appropriate for this stage of the earth’s development. In that sense, they are also of value.
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Humans are very complex and do not fit into a system that evaluates them as to their worth. We all serve our function in a larger picture than we are capable of grasping with our minds. We must enter the world of the Spirit for that and in the world of the Spirit, there is no judging, only allowing what Is.

To become a “proficient” astrologer, you don’t need to be spiritually advanced. But that is just proficiency. It means you are good and can do your job ably. You can study the charts and all their permutations and interpretations, memorize the signs and their ascendants, and have all kinds of book knowledge.
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But to be an inspired and excellent astrologer, you must be spiritually advanced. Astrology is only one component of a complex system. It includes past lives (where Saturn was on your natal chart in this lifetime), your aura, your energy fields, and so much more. Therefore, to be a truly gifted astrologer, you need to have a psychic gift that turns it into an art, even more than a science.

“Deja vu” is a way of ascertaining the eternity of our Souls and the existence of our past lives. It is sometimes the only way people can be convinced that they have lived before. It is an undeniable feeling that surprises us because it cannot be planned.

We feel that we have been here before, seen this person, heard their voice, felt this feeling. It is distinctive and pronounced when we go through an episode of deja vu. This is because for one instant, we have witnessed “the crack in the cosmic egg” that gives us a glimpse into our eternity.

One of the reasons we don’t remember our past lives is that it is too confusing, as we navigate this current lifetime, to have images of other lives obtruding on our consciousness. We are meant to focus on the now in this lifetime and not be dazzled by who we were centuries ago. Yet it is still important to understand who we were in past lives. Knowing about them can explain many of our talents, predilections, choices, inclinations, loves, hates, and even illnesses and pains. But we are not meant to cross into that territory on a daily basis.
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Every once in a while, however, by whatever grace or confluence of energies beyond the scope of the human mind, we catch sight of another life. It is brief and stunning and a reminder that we have lived many times and will live again in the never-ending miracle of existence.

NPD, or Narcissistic Personality Disorder, can be seen as evidence of a “young soul” as opposed to an “old soul.” Old souls have cycled through many lifetimes and have a firmer grasp of, and familiarity with, the world of the Spirit because of this depth. Young souls have few past lives compared to the highly-diversified past lives of the Old Souls. Therefore, they may not display the soul-filled qualities of empathy and concern for others, the humility of a spiritually committed person, and the serious intention to discover who they are in the eternality of their Being.

Narcissists are deeply absorbed in the image they are trying to project to the world. They want others to worship their image to fill a void within. This is not a spiritual journey or even the first step into egoless-ness. It is a mis-step. It is a journey into the pitfalls of the human mind and its constant need for validation due to fear and insecurity. It is a pit of need that can never be filled and offers no real satisfaction.

Narcissists do not think there is a problem with their approach to life. They will rarely seek the egoless state that is the center of spiritual practice.
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All souls eventually awaken to their union to Source Energy, Cosmic Creativity, and Expanding Bliss. Narcissists take more lifetimes to get there because they are on the completely opposite path to the one that leads to the egoless state of spiritual awareness. Yet even those with NPD are just delaying their eventual awakening in a future life.

You will know immediately when you meet your twin flame. I have found that if people have to ask whether their partner is their soul mate or twin flame, they usually are not. Because when twin flames meet, it feels like a very familiar being from many past lives. And you just know, deep down inside, that this is you in another body. There is no question about it.

Some signs are: That you complete each others’ sentences. You think the same thoughts at the same time. You feel when the other is in trouble. You know that you don’t have to explain yourself to them. These are just a few indications. The rest are not describable in words. It is a mixture of feelings that involves comfort, goosebumps, and an exchange of love that feels like overwhelming light. Your soul has come home and is at rest with this person, is another feeling.
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Soul mates and twin flames are different levels of spiritual relationships. Soul mates are more common than twin flames. Yet both share the characteristic that you have crossed paths in different lives and you are brought together for the mutual growth and expansions of your souls.

When we think with our brains instead of using our spiritual senses, we are limited by seeing time as a liner measurement, with one thing happening after another in a progression. But when we see with our spiritual senses, time does not exist and everything is one big simultaneity. It is all happening at once. This is too much for our brain to handle and so most are blind to this.

Parallel incarnations refers to the phenomenon in which all your past lives are actually occurring now. But just to organize it in a way that makes sense to the brain, we say they were in the past. This is how the Twin Flame phenomenon works too—but with regard to space. Your soul is in two places at the same time.

Einstein showed, through his Theory of Relativity, that time is an illusion. Time is a convenience created by humans so we can communicate with each other and organize physical reality. But in metaphysics, all things are simultaneous. All of our lifetimes are occurring now. We are just putting them into sequence to get a grasp on them and derive meaning.

It’s like going into an imaginary giant multiplex cinema where thousands of movies are all playing at once. And you want to see as many movies as you can. All the movies are there and it your choice which one you want to start with and which one you want to see next. But they all will be playing forever.

Your lifetimes are that way. You have past and present and future lifetimes all in the same space as you. The illusion is that they are in different times. And so it goes with parallel lifetimes, or twin souls, which are in the same time, but in a different space. In some cases you can even be a soul triplet.
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Parallel incarnations show us that time is an illusion. All lifetimes are simultaneous -- past, present, future, parallel, overlapping. All of them are happening at once.

Some things cannot be proven in a laboratory yet we know they exist. Love is an example. A scientist may be able to pinpoint centers in the brain that are activated when we feel love but love is so much more complex than chemical and electrical impulses in the brain.

The same situation applies to the soul. We know we have a soul. We feel it. It is that part of us that is eternal and exists in a vibrational dimension that is a different frequency than the material world. How can researchers prove something that is in a different dimension that the laboratory setting can encompass?

Dr. Ian Stevenson, in his research-based book 20 Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation, performed studies with children and others who remembered past lives, employing a team of scientists. They investigated these findings thoroughly and came up with the closest thing to hard evidence that is possible. It is worth looking through because he uses the scientific method with integrity.