(01-13-2009, 05:08 PM)3D Sunset Wrote: Recall that after the second minor cycle a whopping 150 souls graduated. At that time there were around 345,000 people incarnate. Using a similar percentage (.0435%), this would give us around 2.8 million graduates in this Harvest (excluding Wanderers). A valid estimate? Who knows, but it does establish a yardstick and hopefully a lower bound.
Hmm, interesting but I think I disagree with the idea of these percentages being constant across multiple harvests. In the first harvest there was a 0% graduated. The next time, .0435% graduated, which in itself indicates that the graduation rate is not tied to a percentage so much as it is to the state of the entire world's mind / attitudes / actions at that time of harvest. This is probably why Ra stated that on mostly negatively polarized planets it is almost impossible to graduate in a positive sense. And at any rate, 2.8 million seems like a low number of people who are >51% in service to others at this time.
I do wonder though how many people are graduating positive. Even if we got to 10%, that's still a LOT of entities.