I believe you. People give me shit about 17,043 for the reasons you mention, and sometimes I say it's not even a vast amount. I'm sure I've shared my intuited explanation with you before: “I believe that souls are time travelers in that we can choose to improv-script our masterclasses at any point in time. I do not believe an already-lived life has to have taken place in the past nor that a yet-to-be-lived life has to take place in the future. I do not believe that the paradoxes of timeline crossing as discussed in science fiction present an issue. Each chosen setting is an alternate reality.” Another explanation would be while a soul can only incarnate into one person in any given reality, it could have simultaneous lives going on in different alternate realities