You’ve heard the term old soul and new soul countless times, and possible even used them yourself when referring to children. ‘Look at those eyes. Such wisdom, such an old soul’, you’ll hear. Or, ‘What an innocent, naïve, happy baby. Must be a new soul’. Relatively harmless assessments, just completely inaccurate.
The truth is, all souls are exactly the same age. It’s not an easy concept to grasp in this earthly dimension where we’re so deeply ingrained with measuring and tracking everything by a yardstick called time. We know exactly how many years old we are, how many hours of sleep we get from one night to the next, how many minutes we live from our work and our shopping centres and our favourite local restaurants, how many days per week we work – name the activity, we attach a time increment to it. Don’t take this as my invitation to throw the whole idea of time out the window and use me as an excuse for being chronically late, missing deadlines and ignoring scheduled commitments. As long as we’re here, we have to play by the house rules. It just makes it difficult to fathom that nowhere else in God’s creation, including the other side, is there anything else but the perpetual now, the always was and always will be of eternity, which makes every spirit on earth the same ageless, timeless age.
The difference we sometimes perceive between those seemingly old souls and new souls is actually a difference in the number of times they’ve incarnated ie the number of times they’ve experienced life on earth and moved to another level of advancement. And make no mistake about it, we absolutely get to choose whether or not and how often we’re willing to put ourselves through this boot camp. My Spirit Guide Francine incarnated once, was killed by a spear in Colombia in 1520 while trying to protect her infant child during a Spanish invasion and decided that was quite enough incarnating for her. She’s a kind, loving, brilliantly wise woman, but I can only imagine her arriving on earth as an infant and her parents trying to make sense, just for starters, of the guilelessly literal way her mind works. Ask Francine the question, ‘Can you describe yourself?’ for example and she will answer ‘Yes.’ Accurate and inarguable, but not what the person asking the question had in mind.
Those of us who’ve been here repeatedly and have done battle over and over again with the countless forms that earthly human-made negativity takes, are bound to have a certain air of resigned acceptance about them, not from their age, but from the relative inevitable street-smart wisdom of a spirit who’s so determined to advance along their path that they just keep coming again and again and again.
And just as there are different levels of school – having nothing to do with age or the value of each student – there are different levels of advancement our spirits can achieve toward our own highest potential.
*Please note that this is an exact excerpt from Sylvia Brown’s book. It does not necessarily reflect the beliefs of Spirit Connection.
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