Our overleaves are part of a comprehensive life plan we create for each lifetime. Our life plan also includes agreements with other souls to help us carry out that plan, and a life task, which is our plan's centerpiece, the most important thing we want to accomplish. As we progress from lifetime to lifetime, we experience a developmental process that takes us through five soul ages, each of which has seven levels. Infant souls focus on survival. Baby souls are learning about structure, discipline, and rules.
Young souls are interested in having maximum impact on the outer world.
Mature souls are working on relationships and emotions. Old souls look at things in terms of their larger context. Mature and old souls are those most likely to be drawn to the spiritual path. To develop, we need all the steps. In fact, nothing in the Michael teachings is, of itself, good or bad.