This is my 17,043rd human life. I recently commented in someone's story: "The fact is no one dies. We return to Heaven and the cycle of soul, to soul with body and back to soul repeats as many times as soul wants." He asked how do i know that as fact? I responded by writing this story: https://medium.com/about-me-stories/my-journey-spiritual-and-otherwise-9d5f6aca18ee
Now you might say that 17,043 lives is hard to fit in 200,000 years of homo sapiens sapiens. I agree. Please see this piece I posted in MJ's awesome publication not long ago: https://medium.com/my-unpopular-opinion/no-physicist-has-yet-to-understand-the-concept-of-time-be3b33506ea6