[Bruce Paine]

The idea and belief in reincarnation keeps being bandied about here and elsewhere.

If the zillion or so souls came from a zillion or so previous souls souls, then when did it start and with how many souls?

There are those who would have us belief that we (humans) reincarnated from other kinds of creatures, and that they all reincarnated from other creaturs and so on and so forth, by that would imply that time began with the same amout of souls.

If the creator of the universe is one soul and all that is including the zillion souls, how was that accomplished?

Certainly the argument that one human became two and then multiplied into so many trillion human (including the so many billion in existence today) would seem to conflic with the argument of the same sum of souls now equals the sames sum of souls in the beginning (you would also have to have started with the same sum of other creatures as well).

For myself, I like the idea that everyone I touch and/or influence, who in turn touches and influences someone else is a form of spirit being carried on.

Some of that sprituality is through parenting, others through discourse, friendships, teaching and other forms of communication.

But maybe that is just too mundane.

Maybe talking of the supernatural is the only way some of us can capture others attention and imagination.

Thank you, very much.

With warm regards, love, and peace.

Bruce Paine