Is Reincarnation Linear? Why Your Next Life Might Not Be in the Future

Healing in this life ripples through every lifetime your soul has lived.”

Your next life might have already happened

Here is one thing I wish everyone knew: reincarnation isn't linear.

When this life ends and your soul chooses to come back, your next life doesn't have to come after this one.

It might be in 2150. It might be in 1400. It might be in a time and place that hasn't been written into any history book. It might even be unfolding right now, alongside this one.

Your soul chooses its next life by the experience it needs, not by the next date on the calendar.

We've been taught to picture reincarnation as a line. Born, live, die, return a little further down the road. Past lives behind you, future lives ahead of you. But that isn't what I see in the Akashic Records or in any session I do.

After more than 20 years of channeling the Records for clients around the world, one truth keeps showing itself:

the soul does not move through time the way the body does. And once you understand that, everything you thought you knew about past lives starts to shift.

By the end of this, you'll see why the life you're living right now may be healing a life you haven't lived yet.

Past lives are not linear

What kept showing up in my sessions

In my sessions, a past life often comes forward. In your last life, you were... This is what happened... And this is how it's shaping your life now.

The Records are always clear about it. This was your last life. This is the one still echoing through this one.

BUT I could often feel something else underneath it.

Sometimes that "last life" sat hundreds of years back in history. And in time logic, the kind we all live by, that didn't add up. Between that lifetime and this one, there should have been others. Centuries of them.

Then it dawned on me. Of course it doesn't add up. Time, as we know it, doesn't work like that at all.

Your "last life" isn't the most recent one on the calendar. It's the one your soul lived just before this one, wherever it happened to sit in time.

Have you ever felt this?

  • Homesick for a place you've never been?

  • Like you know something you were never taught?

  • Drawn to a time in history as if you belong there, or to a future you can almost see?

  • That you're older than your life, or somehow ahead of it?

These aren't random. They're the soul remembering lives that don't sit where your mind expects them to.

I personally know this for myself…..a lot of my inner wisdom and guidance has come from my previous lives. When MAINSTREAM SPIRITUALITY left me feeling like so much was not right about this, when I knew there was more…..and so I went on my own path many years ago.

The conveyor belt we were taught to believe in

Most of us inherited a simple picture of reincarnation: born, live, die, return. Each life is the next stop on a train moving one way, forward in time.

Down here, everything runs on a clock. So we put our lifetimes in order too.

Time is a construct, and a necessary one. It's how we organize our lives and our reality. How else would any of us ever get anywhere on time?

But we also know that in the quantum field, time doesn't operate like that. There is no straight line running from past to future. Everything exists at once.

The soul lives in that field. The clock belongs to the body. It was never a rule of the soul.

Healing in this life ripples through every lifetime your soul has lived.”

What the Akashic Records actually show

When I open someone's Records, I don't see a neat timeline of lives lined up from oldest to newest. I see a field. Every lifetime is held there at once, the way every page of a book exists at the same time, even though you read them one after another.

The soul lives outside of time. So when it chooses its next incarnation, it isn't choosing the next date on the calendar. It's choosing the next experience it needs.

And that experience could be anywhere.

  • A soul finishing a life in 2026 might choose a lifetime in ancient Egypt next, because that's where the lesson lives.

  • It might choose a life centuries from now that none of us can imagine.

  • It might choose a life that runs at the same time as this one, somewhere else on the planet.

The soul isn't asking when is next. It's asking what is next. Which lesson is still unfinished? Which gift is ready to be refined? Which contract needs to be completed?

Time is simply the setting it chooses for the story.

What this changes about everything you thought you knew

Can your next life be in the past?

We call them past lives because they happened in the historical past. But from your soul's point of view, a lifetime in the 1600s might be one you live after this one.

That medieval life you keep sensing? Your soul may not have lived it yet. It may be where you're headed. (Discover the hidden story of your soul →)

What are simultaneous lives?

Because the soul isn't bound by time, it can hold more than one lifetime at once. This is why some people feel a strange closeness to another country, another culture or another way of life that has nothing to do with their own history. Part of them is living it.

You may be remembering the future

Some of what feels like a "past-life memory" is actually a pull from a lifetime that sits further along the soul's journey: knowledge you've never been taught, a calling that seems to come out of nowhere, an unshakable sense of something you're meant to do.

It isn't imagination. It's bleed-through from another point in your soul's story. Many time during session I have someone’s “FUTURE SELF” join the session. Which sometimes start becoming a mind bend because as some point you and I are both in the past and this is your “FUTURE SELF” doing a session on the past. Oh so many brilliant things happen in session.

The lives aren't stacked. They're woven.

This is the biggest shift. Your lifetimes don't sit in a pile with the oldest at the bottom. They're woven together like threads in one fabric. Pull on one, and you feel it everywhere.

In the Akashic Records, every lifetime is held at once. Your next life could fall anywhere in time.”

Why this matters for your healing

If lifetimes were a straight line, healing would only move forward. You'd fix something now, and only your future lives would benefit.

But that isn't how it works.

Because every lifetime is held in the same field, healing moves in every direction. When you release a vow in this life, it loosens in every lifetime it touches, including the ones that sit in the historical past. When you break a karmic pattern now, the thread unravels across the whole fabric.

This is also why something from "another time" can feel so present. The pattern isn't old. It's active, because in the field of the soul, it's all happening now.

And it's why this life matters so much more than you've been told. This isn't one small stop on a long road. What you heal here ripples through every life your soul has ever lived, or ever will.

You are not just healing your future. You're healing your entire soul story. (Why You Can Understand a Pattern and Still Be Unable to Change It →)

What we can discover in your session

When I open your Akashic Records, I'm not reading a list of lives in date order. I'm channeling your whole soul story at once, so we can follow a thread wherever it actually leads.

In a session, we can explore:

  • The lifetime behind a pattern, whether it sits in the historical past, somewhere else in time, or alongside this life

  • Why you feel drawn to a certain era, culture or place, and what your soul is still connected to there

  • The vows and contracts carried from other lifetimes that are still active now

  • What this lifetime is for in your soul's larger story, and what it's healing across all the others

You don't have to understand how time works for your soul to benefit from it. Your questions are the key, and the Records reveal what you're ready to know. (20 Questions to Ask in Your Akashic Records Session →)

Book your private Akashic Records reading →

Sessions are held live and privately over Zoom, so you can join from anywhere in Canada or around the world.


Frequently asked questions

Is reincarnation linear?

No. The soul exists outside of time, so it doesn't have to reincarnate in chronological order. Your next life could take place in the historical past, the distant future, or alongside this one.

Can my next life be in the past?

Yes. A soul chooses its next lifetime based on the experience it needs, not the next date on the calendar. A lifetime in an earlier century can come after this one from the soul's point of view.

Can you live more than one life at the same time?

The Akashic Records show that the soul can hold more than one lifetime at once. This can explain a strong connection to a place, culture or way of life that has no link to your own history.

If time isn't linear, can healing in this life affect my past lives?

Yes. Every lifetime is held in the same field, so healing moves in every direction. Releasing a vow or pattern now loosens it across every lifetime it touches.

Can an Akashic Records reading show my other lifetimes?

Yes. In a reading, Jessica channels your soul story as a whole. She can follow a pattern to the lifetime where it began, wherever it sits in time. Sessions are held live over Zoom for clients across Canada and worldwide.

Jessica Green

Jessica Green is a psychic medium and Akashic Records reader based in Canada with over 20 years of experience. She has been featured on Gaia and Hay House.

https://www.jessicagreen.org
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