We are Souls. Amidst the demands of our third dimensional world, it is important to keep this in mind. We are spiritual beings who have chosen to reincarnate, lifetime after lifetime, in human bodies. Yet, the essence of who we actually are is an energy being called a Soul, and as such we have embarked on a very long and sometimes very difficult journey through many lifetimes in the physical world. Essentially, that means the Soul is an energy or light body whose molecular form is much less dense and whose vibrational frequency is much faster than that of the human body it is inhabiting in each lifetime.
Today there is a great fascination with angels.
Perhaps, that is a memory bleeding through into our consciousness of these higher dimensional realms from which we, as Souls, have reincarnated or recycled back into the Earth plane after the death of a body we occupied in a past life and before birth into the body we are occupying in the present lifetime. In my more than 17 years doing past life regressions with individuals and groups, I have found that Souls create ego or personality out of their experiences not only in this lifetime, but also through the memories they have carried forward, consciously or unconsciously, from their past lives. At the end of any given lifetime, the personality that developed in that life continues to exist after the physical body dies. A personality from a particular lifetime is an energy that cannot be destroyed. For every life we have lived, we have created a new spirit.