Okay.

Where are all the souls stored?

Sheesh. Gimme a break! I might ask you: Where is all the electricity in the Universe stored? Same answer. Everywhere and nowhere. Souls do NOT take up physical space!

How is the soul of a dead person assigned to another body?

A soul is not exactly assigned to a body. It builds a body, one cell at a time, through normal biological processes after conception, fertilization or whatever is needed has occurred to start off the process. This would be as true of a plant or a jellyfish as it would be of a human being. Life, in the form of spiritual energy, coalesces and builds a body one cell at a time.

Are there a finite number of souls in existence?

No. There are an infinite number of souls in existence, just like there's an infinite amount of potential energy available at all times.

How does the sytem adjust to population growth (ie. are new souls created out of nothing)?

No problem whatsoever. Yes, new souls are indeed created out of what you would term "nothing", but you only call it nothing because you can't see it with your physical eyes. Population growth is of no significance whatsoever in the larger picture (beyond this planet), because there are probably a billion different worlds available on which to reincarnate, not just this one tiny little planet here.


Do other forms of life have souls (including bacteria and viruses)?

Yes, because everything is made of spiritual energy which could be called "soul energy" if you want to call it that. Soul energy is consciousness. More advanced levels of consciousness produce more advanced lifeforms.

If the answer to this question 'yes' are souls exchanged between species as Buddhists believe?

Some buddhists do believe that, and so do some Hindus. It may occur. If so, it would be rather similar to the process of evolution that occurs in the development of physical creatures, which gradually change and evolve into new forms. If that's believable on a physical level, then why not on a soul level? It seems unlikely to me that a highly advanced consciousness like a human would reincarnate as a simple consciousness like an ant...because it's too big a shift. Likewise, it's too big a shift to expect ants to evolve into human beings too, isn't it? But it's not so big a shift to expect apes to evolve slowly into human beings...our science community subscribes to that. I think it is quite probable that spiritual evolution mirrors physical evolution in a number of ways.

If only humans have souls what happened before humans existed and how and when did the re-incarnation 'system' come about?

Humans are NOT the only ones. Everything has a soul. Even a planet or a rock has a soul...but way different from yours or mine.

What happens after the human race (inevitably?) becomes extinct? Will there be lots of 'redundant' souls with nowhere to go?

No big deal. Life will move on and take new forms. Intelligent species will still exist in various place, but they might look very different from us. We would probably reincarnate AS them, in that case. We wouldn't BE "human" any more, and it wouldn't matter in the least.

If there is life elsewhere in the Universe does each inhabited planet have its own self-contained system or can souls be exchanged between planets?

I think souls can probably be exchanged between planets, no problem, but I do think that most souls get accustomed to a certain place and tend to keep coming back to it repeatedly for that reason. They don't HAVE to, but they do.

I can probably think of lots more questions - does anyone have any answers?

Shoot. This is fun. Besides, it drives Bill D wild when I say all this stuff. ;-) I hope I got the darn italics codes right this time.