One day A woman I was having a conversation with brought up the concept of "Warrior Spirits". She explained it was the pinnacle of what humans can reach spiritually, and it's what every ascended master has as a base.

-- M Warrior Spirit? Mmmm. Oh, I have one of those...

-- H You can't! You wouldn't be here if you did, they aren't of this plain anymore, and they aren't something you can pick to be...

-- M Well, where do they go then? They gotta go somewhere?

And besides, time is just a form of increasing repetition. Like, a bunch of cups that all get bigger by the drops or rain filling them over a storm. It's not _exactly_ just evolution... And I see no way for the the energies of the universe and the battles of the ones who are the holders of those energies to go on forever without reincarnation, and a good rescrambling of our backgrounds and our histories and positions with no inherent memory other than instincts, and love.

Eh, maybe love is just an instinct. Maybe that's how we are 'picked'. (And this was to the woman that was only interested in flirting if we were using the high speech to do it with. =o)