By Deborah Lindemann, C.H.T.

Do you feel life is moving too fast? Are you overwhelmed with too much to learn and do? At the same time, do you feel an inner urgency to life and for completing what you came here to do? Everything seems to be accelerated, and although we know it isn't physically or emotionally healthy, it somehow seems important to grab it all. Does that feel familiar?

Woven into all this madness, some describe what they call a "quickening". It is as though a time capsule has gone off within, and there is an awakening that seems to accompany this feeling of urgency. Part of this awakening involves cleaning up old patterns, relationships that don't work and getting on course with your life's path.

Just how does the study of your past lives fit in with this sense of a quickening? Many questions remain unanswered surrounding the subject of reincarnation including: how do we account for the population explosion? This is one of the larger questions or mysteries often asked by skeptics and even reincarnationists . Many experts believe that there are more people alive today, than lived in all the generations of human life, prior to the 20th century. Is there a fixed amount of souls that were somehow all created at the beginning of time? Or are new souls continually or occasionally created to fill a need? If there is a fixed amount of souls, why is there this sudden burst of humanity here at this time? Where were those same souls when earth's population was lower?

According to many ancient writings, including The Bhagavad-Gita, and philosophers such as Plato, there were much longer intervals between death and rebirth than is commonly reported today. In my own work as a clinical hypnotherapist, and in the work of others, we are finding that the time period between incarnations is much shorter, as the world seems to be accelerating. My clients report much longer intervals between their very early lives, sometimes several hundred or even a couple of thousand years. These early incarnations may go back tens of thousands of years on earth. It does need to be pointed out however, that part of the reason for the population explosion today is that people are simply living longer than before. However, that is only part of the mystery.

My clients report their early lifetimes as much simpler and the pace of life slower. By comparison, everything is speeded up in our modern world. Even children mature faster. Perhaps it was necessary for longer periods of time to pass between lives earlier in our history, so that the evolution of knowledge and life could accelerate sufficiently to offer the incoming soul a challenge or opportunity for growth. With knowledge now doubling in less than five years, the intervals between lives can be greatly shortened, while expediting the soul's evolution at speeds never known before. It is quite common for my clients to report shorter intervals between their more recent lives, ranging from only two to forty years.

Whether there is a fixed amount of souls or new souls are continually created, no one knows, but perhaps it is due to this "quickening" that you and so many other souls all find themselves incarnated at this time together. Look around you and you will recognize many of them from your earlier earthly dramas.