Each "life" is actually a projection of the Oversoul into a particular space/time environment. It is connected to the Oversoul by the "silver cord," a filament that directly connects the physical body to the Oversoul and which acts as a communication link between the Oversoul and the body or "life." The Oversoul exists outside of linear time, and so from its perspective, all of its projections are going on simultaneously. It is free to terminate a life, in which case it simply disconnects the silver cord, or create one, in which case it extends a silver cord into a developing fetus. Time is a vector quantity, associated with material reality. Since the Oversoul exists in non-material reality, it is outside of linear time.

The Oversoul  resides outside of time and so all of its projections are simultaneous. But from within time, each life is experienced as being separated across time. You speak of "past lives" and sometimes "future lives," but those are expressions of the experience of being bound by linear time. You can "remember" these other "lives" by accessing the information in the Oversoul. The Oversoul is the repository of all the personal memories, from all of the "lives" it creates. When it is appropriate, one of your sub-programs kicks in and you "remember" something from these other "lives," to assist you in unfolding your "program" for the "life" you experience yourself as living.

There is no such thing as "re" - incarnation. There is only "incarnation." The Oversoul projects itself into a space/time locus and clothes the tip of that projection in a "body." It is like putting a finger in a bowl of pudding. The finger is part of you. The pudding represents the space/time environment into which you put your finger. The fingertip can feel the pudding. It can tell if it is warm or cold, soft, wet, dry, or firm. Just so with you. You are the sensory tip of a "finger" of your Oversoul, thrust into the "pudding" of your present space/time environment. You interact with your environment, which includes the presence of "fingers" from other Oversouls, each sensing and interacting with the same environment, but from their own perspective. The experience of reality is totally SUBJECTIVE. There is no "objective" reality that everyone can agree upon, because each point of awareness has its own perspective, and sees things from a slightly different "angle." That is how the Creator gets to view Itself from all possible "angles" at once.

When the silver cord is withdrawn by the Oversoul, the soul is pulled back up into the Oversoul and merges into it. All of the experiences of the "life" flow up the silver cord during that life, so the soul does not contain anything other than its capacity to assist that life in fulfilling its purposes.