The Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell You (19 page)

Then there’ll be all the choices of where you might live: which planet, which country, which culture. And in each life you’ll get to choose your parents, just as they will choose you, which friends from other lifetimes to play with again, and so on and so on. And everyone else is going to be in the same boat, wanting to come back again and again and again! Perfect! You’ll return with those you learned well with and you’ll avoid others. They’ll be doing the same. Come on, you have forever. Why not?

Whoa … perfect … your celestial mind is churning!

Now to repeat, words slip and fail when it comes to painting pictures of reality. For instance, the simple idea of reincarnation immediately implies,
given your typical, bogus, one–time line worldview,
that after John Doe passes, he might come back as Jane Deer. The failed implication of this is revealed as soon as you wonder: Is the new Jane actually the old John, or is she Jane? Right, Jane is Jane! So where is John? John is still John! But didn’t he come back? Yes, as Jane!

Consider, perhaps, that maybe one’s personality is like a leaf on a soul-tree from which other leafy incarnations grow. And consider, perhaps, that since time is an illusion, all leaves play out simultaneously even though they also belong to different time eras. Now there’s a bit more clarity
and
more slippage. Now we can see that John and Jane are not actually the same person, even though one has evolved from the experiences and wishes of the other and possesses some memory and
carryover of the other’s lessons, experience, maturity, talents, and charms
. So there
is
something like reincarnation going on, but it’s not just a linear progression of consciousness, with one incarnation ending so another can begin. Instead, each incarnation maintains its own perspectives eternally while simultaneously adding to the others. And while your mind is racing, let me add that it’s quite possible—in fact it happens all the “time”—that someone’s next incarnation will take place at an earlier point in “history.”

Even now you live your lives within God, yet you remain you.

The Fam’

Something of relevance and likely interest is that those presently “alive” in any planetary civilization inevitably belong to the same spiritual family, with far more in common than anyone ever suspects during the planet’s primitive times. Even the stranger on a street corner is your spiritual relative, closest of kin. Even the stranger on a street corner halfway around the planet is your spiritual relative, as you two share the same approximate time and space from an infinite number of possibilities. And as your life unfolds, you find there are some “family members” you particularly like to hang with (as was true with friends you like to learn with) and others you’d prefer not to see (or maybe even cause bodily harm to). Which is pretty normal in any family, right? And together, as a civilization, as one unit, one family, and just as One, you’ve ventured into the illusions and co-created your earth to be the playground and laboratory of your spiritual evolution—during which you’ll live out some cool stories, reexperience your majesty, fall in love again and again and again, and have some fun.

Where Is Everyone Coming From?

As you begin assimilating the information extravaganza you’re receiving in “the unseen,” you’ll immediately wonder cute questions such as “Where are all the people coming from?” For instance, if the earth had a hypothetical population of 1 million people 12,000 years ago, and now there are 7
billion
and counting, “Where did they come from? Wouldn’t there always be the same number?” Or you may wonder things like “If I am just an emissary of my soul, will I cease to exist upon my ‘return’?”

But you’ll quickly find that in this new, heightened afterlife perspective you can often spontaneously answer yourself:

“As if,” your first question innocently presumes, “there were no other life-sustaining planets.”

“As if there were no parallel and tangent realities.” g “As if there were no other realms I could ‘occupy,’ like the one I’ll actually be in upon my dazzling arrival.”

“As if I hadn’t just read and understood a moment ago that the desire to ‘return’ as Jane Deer does not diminish John Doe.”

“As if time and space weren’t some sort of holographic, multidimensional dream.”

And finally, the coup de grâce: “As if there were only one time line to put everyone on!”

Similarly, you’ll see that the idea of being swallowed into oblivion by your soul could only happen in the finite (and not real) world of time and space, with its dichotomies of here or there, now or never, and the like. This fear implies you cannot be in two places at the same time; that you must either be the “you” that you know or be absorbed by your soul. But blending does not have to also mean dissolving, as if you were to suffer the same fate as a sugar cube dropped into hot tea. In the case of “soul reunification,” the personality remains intact while simultaneously adding to the entire whole. Both existing, eternally,
internally.
After all, there’s no such thing as external in terms of reality. Even now you live your lives within God, yet you remain you.

Soul Ages

As you might imagine, as an individual or, perhaps better, at a soul level, this cycling in and out of time and space may get rather tedious after 10 to 50
thousand
lifetimes. Goals are achieved, patience acquired, empathy cultivated and whatnot, and a complacent attitude develops. You will have fallen in love and been of service a million times, deeply, passionately, and genuinely, so you’ll eventually think about moving on. This only makes sense, right? Not that you must “leave”; besides, you can only “leave” if you believe in “space.”

You will ultimately try on for size every hat imaginable, progressing in maturity as you go. Starting out as a baby soul, comparable to a baby human in terms of awareness—helpless, confused, and often having no concept of right and wrong. Maturing into a young soul, comparable to a human child—bright, clumsy, and eager for life. Then on to becoming a mature soul, like that of a young adult, with dreams and newfound challenges—a highly productive and wisdom-fertile time of life. Finally moving into the phase of old soul, like that of a wise and seasoned veteran of life—reflective, tranquil, and highly considerate. Each incarnation bringing with it the lessons, experience, maturity, talents, and charms acquired earlier, just as a young adult will maintain skills learned in his youth, until, with mastery, you no longer have the same interest in the jungles compared to the new opportunities that lie beyond.

There is no better or worse soul age, as there is no better or worse human age. Each offers possibilities that the others do not, and all are necessary for the others to exist and have meaning. And while over your recorded history you will usually be able to see the slow evolution of the masses into “higher” and more refined living, making wiser choices centered in love, your time line does not have to contain your evolution. Meaning that one new soul’s first incarnation could conceivably be in the year 125,589
B.C.
and another’s might be in
A.D.
2014.

Collective Ages

Just as an individual matures, so does the collective. And in case you were wondering what the 2012 hubbub was all about, it marked a turning point in our mass spiritual evolution, passing through the tail end of the exciting “teenage” years of soul wisdom into the “young adult” years. A weighted average, if you will, of our fam’s progress through the ranks. Naturally, some individuals grow faster, others slower; some gain more in a single lifetime than others will in 500. Consider also that we’ve not all lived the same number of lives. Yet all in all, we’re still a bunch of big kids.

We’re moving from the “Rah, rah, I rock! Hey, everyone, watch me!!” phase to the morning-after, hungover, ego-bruised phase. And for the first time understanding that we and we alone are accountable for the consequences of our every decision. Thus now, as we emerge from the formative years in which we learned to exercise our power, we’re learning to be responsible with it. The inner mental resistance to such a transformation is what created—and still could create—the physical turmoil that’s manifested in the form of earth changes and sociopolitical upheavals. Because, of course, the weather gets its drive, as all things seemingly inanimate do, from us. People don’t much like change, especially if it challenges their worldviews and calls for them to be more responsible. The greater the inner storms of resistance, the greater the outer storms upon the planet, not as retribution, but as a plain and simple manifestation of the tension that’s brewing within.

With a planet of newly matured souls (not
that
mature), and of course some new and old ones, too, there’s still lots of drama, imparting lots of lessons. All in all we’re moving along at a healthy clip, given the countless advances and relative calm on the planet. Sure, there’s massive room for improvement, and there will be improvement. That’s what this is all about. Although it’s fascinating to speculate about where it will all lead, which not even the dead know, what’s most important is honoring the forgotten choices that have brought you to each day by living with an open mind and an open heart, following your dreams. Wonder about the bigger picture, daydream and consider, but not to the degree of allowing what you don’t know to distract you from what you do and can know.