“I want you to imagine your soul as a unique thread-like path that connects all moments of all beings in time and space. You are a living extension, an embodiment of this strange thread. Some of the beings to whom you are directly connected, those you are living with and among in space and time, are your closest and most complex relations. But you are an instance of -all- moments of all beings. A unique instance, and your ‘soul’ is the intelligent ‘strand’ whose tangles are the sum of your ‘connections’. All past lives are your past lives. And all future lives, as well. Uniquely. Personally. Completely.”

— an anonymous informant