Old Soul vs Young Soul

[Jade]

As an anecdote, in Destiny of Souls, Dr. Newton says that just about everyone who came into his office proclaiming that they were an "old soul" actually fell toward the youngest end of the spectrum (from the point of time/space that he viewed the relative 'age' of the soul in the incarnation they were experiencing). Of course he also said that he had a bias toward younger souls in general because he usually saw people who were in extreme emotional distress and karmic entanglements, and truly "old" souls have less of that stuff going on, or at least are able to handle it on their own at a higher capacity.

Also I believe that souls probably age/learn at a different rate, so that some "young" souls may be more mature than "old" souls, so age really is pretty ambiguous. I guess we just need better descriptive words for the dichotomy... semantics fail us on this one.