The soul is essentially a seventh dimensional construct.
Within the first seven levels of the universe, souls who wish to experience a given realm must create (or have created for them) a vehicle suitable for experiencing that level.
In your third-dimensional world, that vehicle is an animal-like physical body with similar characteristics to the common mammals that naturally inhabit your world.
It has been mistakenly believed that your human form evolved directly from the apes.
While your DNA is very similar to the ape, your physical form is not the result of a mutation occurring along the natural stream of animal evolution.
The human form was βseededβ from a DNA blueprint created by a group of Extraterrestrials.
All life forms that exist in a given plane or dimension are programmed to be able to withstand the environment into which they are incarnating.
Think of the physical form as being a bit like choosing a car to drive.
Before incarnating into this world, you select a model and size appropriate to what your soul desires to learn while on Earth.
Unlike a mechanical vehicle, your soul embeds itself into the physical form by extending a small part of itself into the main centers (chakras) of the body.
Although soul energy is distributed throughout the body, it tends to concentrate around a point above the heart and a point near what is commonly called the βthird eyeβ in the center of the forehead.
There is also a significant amount of soul presence in a region of the solar plexus.
Source: Sal Rachele (Life on the Cutting Edge)