Hello Lou,

You asked,
Were we created "in the beginning" and are as infinitely old as the Creator with countless incarnations previous to the earth experience? Alternatively, are we beings that had a definite start time that evolved into eternal entities?

I've never heard someone from the other side explain that. They do suggest that we all have had many lives. They never refer to a person as a "new soul."

Time exists only on the Earth plane. That means when we speak about a beginning or origin, that's purely a physical realm term. It's probably more true to speak of simply "being." During this Earth period, we are having experiences that seem to be the middle of something that had an origin. However, that's just part of the time illusion. It's more likely that we'll be experiencing all possible existences and growing from them in an infinite process. As such, we've always "been" (a time word) and always will be. It's just that during these Earth periods, we settle into a set of experiences that have continuity, and from them, we grow and add to the eternal self that we are.

The short answer is that I've never heard anyone speak of a "new soul" and time is entirely an Earth phenomenon, so I would expect that we have always existed and are experiencing things by incarnating in a great variety of "times" and "places" and will continue to do so.

As an interesting side note, I have heard one person in a Flint seance refer to humankind when we were primitive, implying that we were part of that evolution from primitive beings to where we are today, which undoubtedly will seem primitive to people living in another 75,000 Earth years.

Love and peace, Craig