[maskedmelon]

Another thought: soul dilution. Obviously we have an increasing population and if souls are recycled it is unreasonable to assume their population is not finite. That means eventually we would Eventually reach a point where there were no more souls for new people as someone has already pointed out. I suggest that souls manage this sort of population growth by splitting upon death. This is most likely where the concept of soulmates stems from and also accounts for things like people with similar personalities. This leads us to another exciting revelation.

There are really only a handful of unique personalities, perhaps a dozen or so. This suggests that perhaps there are only really 12 original souls by which man may know life. 12 is an incredibly important number and often represents completeness, both the Greek and Chinese zodiacs have twelve signs, a circle is easily divided into 12 parts, 12 is the product of the number of sides of the three basic geometries of reality: circle x triangle x square, and in Hebrew numerology 12 means everyone.

Obviously human population hasnt always been increasing and at certain points fell very low with some estimates as low as 10,000 individuals at certain points. If we are to assume that souls split as population increases, it is reasonable to conclude that they also combine as population decreases. This easily explains why ancient architecture rooted in times of such low populations continue to baffle even modern men. Simply put, the men who made those structures were vastly superior to those today because they were far less spiritually diluted. This is important an important point because it directly establishes mans aptitude as a function of his spiritual energy.

Presumably for we were to travel far enormous th into the past, we would encounter the source of humanity, the 12 individuals from whom we are all descended.