Soul Age

Soul Age varies from the first-time soul all the way through to someone who is living the last lifetime in a long cycle of several hundred lives. A non-physical teacher named the Michael Entity identifies five soul ages:

Infant Souls: “I just want to survive.”

Infant soul lifetimes account for maybe the first 5% of a soul’s incarnations, and they make up about 1% of the population. These lifetimes are about learning how to survive on the planet and may be set in non-challenging circumstances such as among a remote South American rain forest tribe. Because of limited soul experience, Infant soul age has a simplistic perspective based on a superficial understanding of life. They are wrapped up in their own little arena of events and cannot easily cope with our complex society. They live in the moment and limit themselves to the simple things of life such as home and family, and a routine job or a series of menial odd jobs.

They accept death as an inevitable part of the life-death-life cycle, usually without emotion.

Baby Souls: “Will someone tell me the rules?”

These lifetimes account for maybe 30% of a cycle of Earth lives, and because these souls are still fairly new to the Earth plane, their incarnations are eager to learn the rules. However, towards the end of their block of Baby soul age lifetimes, they turn around and try to impose the rules on the rest of us. In countries driven by fundamentalist religions, Baby souls can make up the majority, but in the US, they account for only about 20% of the population.

According to Michael, the motto for Baby souls is, “Do it right or not at all.” With this perception, typically they are clean and neat. They keep the house, their desk and automobile tidy, and they follow the rules of etiquette. They do things the “correct” way, often with a black-and-white, right-and-wrong perspective, especially when it comes to obeying “the laws of God,” to which they adhere zealously. Being inexperienced, they lack sound ethical principles and tend to be inherently self-righteous.

Young Souls: “He who dies with the most toys wins.”

These lifetimes also make up about 30% of a cycle of lives, and are characterized by collecting the most, the biggest, the shiniest of whatever denotes status in the culture. Young soul age lifetimes make up over 40% of the population in the United States, which means that, overall, the U.S. is a late Young soul country.Young soul lifetimes epitomize the pursuit of materialism. They have the understanding of Infant and Baby souls, and seek to tame and control the world at large. They are the architects of civilization, the builders of empires, the leaders of business and economics, such as the Donald Trumps of the world.

They work untiringly for their material achievements, and are the soul age most likely to be workaholics, constantly seeking materialistic success. They feel at home in the physical body since the flesh is their playground, and will work out at the gym for hours. They strive to win other people over to their own point of view, making them conform to their own image. They perceive “you” and “me” and work to change “you” into “me.”

Mature Souls: “Help, I need someone!”

Making up another block of 30% of lifetimes, Mature souls are at the peak of their lives – between the folly of youth and the decay of old age. Like people in the fifth and sixth decades of life, much of their experience is behind them. Mature souls make up about 35% of the population in the US, but form a higher proportion in countries with strong social concerns such as Holland and Denmark.

Disillusioned with the Young soul “Grab yours while you can” mentality, they are searching, looking to “find themselves,” which they never quite do because of their own complexity. Being psychologically sensitive, those of Mature soul age are a confused bunch, and often seem neurotic as they work through their emotional stuff. Their lives are epitomized in TV’s Lifetime channel movies and the daytime soaps, with all their drama and emotional turmoil. Often their angst is public, as with Blues singer Janice Joplin, Jim Morrison of The Doors and Jimi Hendrix. We saw a classic Mature soul love triangle with Princess Diana, Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles.

The vast majority of people who go to shrinks are Mature souls, and most shrinks are themselves Mature souls. And if therapy doesn’t work, they may turn to alcoholism as an escape. Being very relationship-oriented, they seek the camaraderie of like-minded companions as the most important thing in their lives.

Old Souls: “Just leave me alone.”

Accounting for the final 5% of our lifetimes, and 10% of the US population, these lives are storehouses of wisdom and understanding. And although Old soul age types cam do pretty much anything they choose, usually they opt to not accomplish very much because of the soul tiredness and cosmic boredom that prevents much expenditure of effort.

They have largely given up on the world because spending a lot of energy on things that do not last just doesn’t seem worth the trouble. Material things just decay and break, so why bother? The other problem is that they are advanced in their perceptions to such an extent that the genius of their contributions would go unappreciated by the younger souls, so they don’t even try to get them to see it.

"Soul Age" is excerpted from "Living with Soul" by Tony Stubbs

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