[d82nsjk9]

> The basic concept is that the soul or spirit (what makes you who you are minus your physical body) is eternal (has always existed and will exist forever) and that you will continue to live various lives or forms of existence.

If they have always existed, wouldn't that imply that there is an upper limit to the number of souls and therefore the number of physical life forms?

From this one could further deduce, for example, if human population goes up then other animal population must go down?

[yur3i__]

Another way I have thought about this, coming from a religion that believes in "Oneness" and in Reincarnation (Sikhism), does reincarnation have to necessarily happen linearly in time? If not then there is no reason that there would have to be an upper limit on the number of beings as you could have multiple of the same soul existing at different points in time, satisfying both oneness and reincarnation.

(Not that this is something I necessarily believe, it is just something I thought about).

[staticman2]

There's no population upper limit if the soul can travel throughout the timeline. I.e. when it's done being me it can then become a cave man next or vice versa.

[jrc2022]

only if earth is the only place with physical life forms