I would guess, that if you saw the Earth, fresh from the "other side", somehow arriving here, you would see it as a cloud of probabilities, you might not even see the planet itself.
Although I think you would know there was a planet beneath the clouds.
My reasons for that are suppositions that time for someone outside of a body isn't a real thing, which is something that floats around Mystic circles.
Parts of Journeys Out of the Body by Robert A. Monroe describe the exploits of some designated soul, he called him AA, who arrives on a tour and falls in love with incarnating in one life after another.
Obviously, an addict.
Oddly, some people love the experience of each life so much that when it's over, they have to have another. To those people, the whole superstructure of souls who dispatch people into bodies doesn't really matter once your new life is locked and loaded.
In Journeys, Mr Monroe explains that some of the early lives can be difficult, unfair and painful. He does this almost in passing with examples.
Of course if you have gone to the dispatcher a number of times, and you have a list of requirements for the new life, things can be different. You might arrive in a place where individuals are treated with respect and have possessions that grant them some freedom of movement.
So then, all of Earth, in the sense of time, is available for incarnation, so if you dream up something nice for your next life, you can enjoy it whenever it might be.
Just imagine what you want and who you want to be, and keep your list handy.
