If I'm understanding you, I disagree. This is my soul's 17,043rd incarnation. You've already said BS to that, but choose a lower number. Choose 6 as a number. In other lives lived, my soul incarnated into a black male slave in 1700s, a black female slave in the 1800s, a male white slave trader in the 1800s, a middle eastern woman gang raped, and a male white airline pilot having an affair. Are you saying that in all those disparate lives the human was the same as I am now because we are always our souls?

As far as convoluted/evasive, I'll give you that as the AAs often answer the questions the way they think is best that often does not directly or simply answer the question asked. That being said, much of what they said corresponds with what I have learned from my spirit guides.