MARTHA:  Similar to what I’ve seen in the Internal Monad Reports, please tell me about my “personality” arc for my Old soul lifetimes in terms of how many lifetimes, etc at each level, etc (especially this 6th level). I believe I have “backtracked” through  many of these lives already with you through past life questioning, as well as the 4 concurrents I had when I asked a while back, so if you are able to tie the arcs to the particular past/concurrent lives that would be interesting. If that kind of tie-in would take too long, I’d rather get the progress arc and follow up later as far as the particular lives as needed.

MICHAEL: At this point it appears that we can account for approximately 40 lifetimes as an Old Soul.

MARTHA:  that sounds like a lot :)

MICHAEL: It is not. It is fairly low in terms of the population of fragments, and fairly normal for our students.

MICHAEL: The shift into your Old Soul Age happened approximately 6000 years ago, and the First Level appears to have taken 7 lifetimes; Second Level took 5; Third Level took 4; Fourth Level took 9; Fifth Level took 11; and 6th has taken 4.

MICHAEL: In terms of the Concurrents, it appears there have been a rather steady stream of incarnations over those 6000 years, as there have been at least 3 bodies overlapping in any given lifetime.

MICHAEL: Though this fall outside of a linear backtracking of "past lives," they contribute as meaningfully as "you."

MICHAEL: These Concurrents are playing out the patterns of "Adjacent Lives," and have trajectories that are tied to nonlinear aspects of the Essence's evolution.

MARTHA:  I'd love to lay out the whole picture of how that works!

MICHAEL: This is difficult to convey:

MARTHA:  uh huh

MICHAEL: If you were to imagine a sphere with lines around it like latitude lines, these are lifetimes that fit into the linear understanding of lifetimes;

MICHAEL: Or rather, the longitude lines.

MICHAEL: The number of lifetimes is the count of longitude lines.

MICHAEL: Imagine superimposing, then, the latitude lines, creating a grid. These latitude lines might be considered the lines drawn as natural connections of resonance across specific points of the longitude lines.

MICHAEL: "Adjacent Lifetimes," or non-linear lifetimes, then, are lines drawn diagonally across these boxes, connecting intersection after intersection.

MICHAEL: These may, or may not, circle the sphere.

MICHAEL: We offer up this crude beginning visualization so that we can expand upon why there are Concurrents.

MICHAEL: They fulfill a manifestation of Essence that is born of linear explorations, and resonances among those.

MICHAEL: As the Soul gains Levels and Ages, so then does it accumulate these "longitude and latitude lines," giving rise to more possibility for Concurrents, than in earlier Ages.

MARTHA:  oh, that makes sense!

MICHAEL: These Concurrents, then, tend to be born of the intent for exploring quite specific themes that were either left behind, missed, or are desired to be explored from a multitude of angles reflecting all of the "intersections" that the Concurrent is born from.

MICHAEL: In the same way that one might be in a 4th Internal Monad, but be working through what was left to do from the 2nd and 3rd, so are these incarnations working through what will close the gaps, if you will, in experiences relative to themes across Soul Ages.

MICHAEL: We are responding to your question as best we can in terms of count of lives relative to the Soul Age and the Levels, and to explain a bit about how Concurrents fit into this. Concurrents "count" as lives, as well, and this would bring the Old Soul count of lives to approximately 70.

MICHAEL: With approximately 30 being Concurrents alongside the linear incarnational flow.

MICHAEL: Clarification: with approximately 30 of these being Concurrents.

MICHAEL: To explore in more detail, we would require more questions, or specific questioning, to allow us to clarify where necessary.