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Dear KellyC,
I am certainly no expert on eastern philosophy, but I will give you my understanding of the process (with the understanding that others may step in and correct me).
My understanding is that animals are a part of this process, so if you are a particularly bad person (bad karma), you might come back as a cockroach, and conversely, if you are a particularly good cockroach (good karma), you might come back as the Prince of Wales (well, maybe that is a bad example).
Anyway, it still doesn't address the problem of generating new souls for cockroaches, so it seems to me that souls must grow as they move from lesser creatures to higher creatures which means that they must originate from some cosmic energy (perhaps the same energy/state that the Buddah sought).
Ultimately of course, no one will know until they make that great journey, and perhaps, not even then, so it becomes conjecture and guess work on our part.
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