Our souls are always evolving and growing. With each incarnation in a body, we learn lessons. These can include lessons on forgiveness, self-love or compassion for others. We work with “Masters/Council of Elders” (in the Akashic Records primarily) to decide what lessons we want to focus on in a particular life and with whom we will incarnate to help us learn those lessons. We experience evidence of reincarnation through things like déjà vu (the feeling that we have been somewhere before even though we have never been there in this life). In addition, the unexplained skills of children (musical prodigies, speaking a foreign language) can be attributed to their proficiency in that area in a past life. Deep, irrational fears/phobias or vows (of poverty, chastity, etc.) can also come from past lives. Old souls are those who are said to have experienced many lifetimes! Even though we may set out to learn particular lessons and various events may unfold in a predestined way, remember ...