Well...I think that most, if not all souls are "upwardly mobile". That seems to be the intention behind spiritual as well as physical evolution. Of course, there may be the occasional setback, in the case of certain individuals... :-)

It doesn't take a soul any time at all to reach a place, even if it's on "the other side of the Universe". Souls do not travel under time restrictions (so to speak). This is as hard to explain as it would be to explain 3 dimensional existence to a creature that was only aware of 2 dimensions, but souls exist in a condition that is beyond both time and space, in our terms. You could say they move at the speed of thought...which is instantaneous (it's not instantaneous when passing through the mechanism of a physical brain...but pure thought is instantaneous). If they want to be there, they ARE there, the moment they think of being there.

This is one reason why spiritual studies focus so much on disciplining the mind. As you think, so you are. Your patterns of thought make your reality...as you see it. Someone else sees it differently, because they have different thoughts.

Now, let's say that your soul decides to incarnate on a planet called...Andor (made up name). Fine. Let's say that intelligent Andorians are creatures resembling both a human being and a kangaroo, but with a biology radically different to ours. Let's say they don't even breathe oxygen. Fine. You would then simply be born (or hatched or whatever) as an Andorian, and it wouldn't disturb the situation at all, and you wouldn't notice either, but would be entirely comfortable with your new role.

As an Andorian, you would be perfectly well set up to continue working with the kind of concepts that interest a developing soul, such as: trust, loyalty, love, courage, coping with boredom, being inventive, taking on challenges, developing intellect, making good use of your body, procreating, politics, fun, etc...ad infinitum. All the stuff we work with...

Compatible lifeforms? Hell, they're probably all potentially compatible, but that's entirely up to you.

Plus, when you've got all of time to work with, and can show up anytime you want, then it's not all that hard to find a "vacancy" somewhere. (And I do not mean between my ears, I might add...knowing about the wisenheimers on this forum...).

If Wolfgang is reading this, I bet he's getting sooooo aggravated with me... He's completely above all this kind of speculative spiritual "nonsense". :-)

- LH