Because they are being given the opportunity to accelerate their learning process, earth life is a school life, and spirits are being given the opportunity to accelerate their experiences to achieve higher consciousness levels.

 There is no better or good or bad in the spiritual world. There is a process of consciousness-rising, of raising someone’s consciousness, whether it be the spirit itself or whether it be the spirit in a human body. We have already stated that life on earth or life in only the three-dimensional world is accelerated compared to life as a spirit because you become involved with so many more experiences that are there to teach you than in heaven.

At this time we will say to you that we will relate this mainly at all times to earthlings and not to other lives from other universes. So please be aware that this is basic information for you earthlings and does not always pertain to life from other universes. When a human makes its transformation from human form into spirit form, as you know it has its most current life experiences to review. It then sees the lessons that it learned or did not learn or how it lost its way along the most current past life. As a spirit evolves into higher spiritual consciousness, the life the spirit has is a spirit life, its lessons will be learned quicker in spirit life than those who have not evolved. And those who have evolved come to see the place of peace and harmony in their lives, both their human life and their spirit life, and that understanding of the challenges it faced and why it faced those challenges to increase its level of spiritual evolution on earth.

When a spirit has not reached higher levels of consciousness, it is much slower in understanding its lessons and moving forward even in the spirit life. So, oftentimes those who have not reached higher spiritual consciousness do not return to life nearly as quickly as those who have reached higher levels of consciousness. Oftentimes, when an individual returns to earth it mainly has to do with how it works through its lessons in spirit life. Sometimes a spirit will decide that it has just done all the work that it intends to do, regardless of the level of consciousness that it's at, that it does not want to go back to the challenges and the hardships it sees on earth. Because it does not know how to grow from those hardships at this rate of speed--that is why one has a human life. So it is willing to stay in that spiritual consciousness that it is currently at as a spirit and will not return to earth.

Those that choose to return to earth and continue to face the life of a earthling do so knowing the challenges that can be there for it. Also, as one evolves, one can begin to see the ease with how they can go to earth and learn their spiritual lessons and that all lessons do not have to be learned through hardship. When a spirit does choose to return to earth, it is because they have had a very good understanding of the lessons that they were to have learned in their past life and what they did learn or what they did not learn and what they will go to earth to do in a new life. Oftentimes a spirit has evolved considerably, though at a much slower, slower pace than an earth life, but they have evolved spiritually into higher spiritual consciousness as a spirit life and will go back to earth with a much more knowing way of what and how to continue that spiritual growth at a much faster pace.

 Absolutely. One can choose to continue to return to earth school and continue their evolvement or one can say, this is as far as I choose to go in my own spiritual world and I do not choose to go back to earth. Spirits are able to continue their growth in the spirit world if they choose not to come back to earth but the challenges that the beings that choose to come back to earth face enhance their spiritual and consciousness growth much quicker, at an accelerated speed, versus those spirits who decide that they do not wish to return to earth. Their spirit growth will continue in the spirit world but it will be at a much, much slower pace as you on earth would understand it.

 We would say yes and no to that question. Much of what happens to a spirit who comes to earth in its first incarnation is greatly influenced by its environment because it is in infancy, this spirit. As with any human infant the spirit works very similar in its growth and the lessons that it comes to earth to learn. Not every spirit comes to earth to learn the same lessons even at a first incarnation.

 Who decides when it's time to reincarnate?

Spirits have spirit teachers in heaven and they work together, not on a consistent basis, but as you on earth would say almost on a consulting basis. And when a spirit would like to return it will often sit and talk with its spirit teacher about what it had lived in a past life and what it would like to live in a future life. And spirit teacher and spirit guides will help direct that spirit to the environment that will help it best continue its journey. Oftentimes, though, a spirit teacher will tell the spirit that it probably is much too soon for it to return and will tell it that it needs more time with its spirit family to achieve better understanding of its growth, both in its heaven and on earth.

 Yes, you always return to earth at a later date than when you left earth. Your life might feel very familiar because you have returned to complete challenges from other past lives. It is always a move forward and not a move backward. But that doesn't mean you come into a totally new reincarnated life because you will carry "old baggage" from those past lives.

 In terms of earth years, what are typical or say average times between death in one life and birth on earth in another life?

Well, in the past we would have said in terms of earth life it could have been centuries. Now we are seeing that younger children who are coming into the world could have still lived in your 1800's or early 1900's and evolved much quicker and returned. Because earth is evolving so much quicker and manifesting events almost instantaneously, those who had made great progress in their most recent past life are given an opportunity to return much sooner than had been in history because the spiritual evolution and consciousness of earth is rising so quickly, so much quicker than at any other time of its existence, it is so important that these more evolved spirits return to help those who are struggling with their spiritual evolution. You will see in the next generations of children to come how much more evolved and loving and compassionate that many of them are. So spirits are given the opportunity to return much sooner now than at any other time because of their ability to be able to help on earth.

 No, it does not relate to being an old soul or the number of times it has returned to earth. Oftentimes a human soul will have the experience of a past life or a past experience that has happened to them and it does not have anything at all to do with the age of the soul, the age of the spirit. But only in that it can recall something from the past though it will not know when that past was, whether it was the past of a childhood memory or a past of a past life. Deja vu does not have to be connected with the number of spirit returns. But we would like to say that oftentimes as a spirit soul has continued its returns to earth and has a much higher consciousness level, those deja vu experiences can become much clearer and can be understood as to what they are, more than those who have not returned as many times.

 My father died in the early 60's and is talking about being reincarnated here in the next year or two. That is a fairly short period of time. Why is he only spending a relatively short time in heaven before he returns?

He has been given the opportunity, as many spirits have, to come back to earth at a much accelerated pace so that they can come and help bring more of their spiritual life and spiritual knowledge to earth to help it move from the negative ways that it has been embracing. So you will see that there will be certain spirits throughout the entire spirit world who will come back at a much accelerated reincarnation speed because they are given the opportunity to work within their spiritual consciousness levels of helping others to move forward. This does not mean that these are highly, highly evolved spirits but they will come back and bring with them an understanding of how life does continue after this and will be able to be, as you on earth call, role models in a much more general and mass environment than you are now currently seeing happen.

In just about every reincarnated life, individuals return to an environment and experiences that they have always felt and shared and wanted to evolve into, such as in the case of your father who wanted to be a reporter and a writer and has always wanted to do that, and had some experiences in all of his lives of reporting, sharing news, writing. These are things that are of his makeup and as he comes back to earth he will continue in those areas. Oftentimes within an individual's makeup there have been great desires in past lives that they have never achieved, such as your wife's great desire to play the piano. And so they are given the opportunity to move back into environments where those desires and experiences in previous lives can be enhanced and can be fulfilled.

So, when an individual is looking to return they will be placed in those environments that will help encourage and support that growth. Sometimes it will not always be so obvious, sometimes it will be because they are given the opportunity to move out of environments and show that they can do it without having to experience the environments they are living in, such as many orphans who have had nothing and have formed large businesses and have been very financially successful and have achieved a great desire for art or music or supporting and helping other individuals. It is an opportunity that is given the spirit to move forward regardless of the circumstances it comes to.

Well, in the case of someone wanting to be artistic, they would select families who are going to have children whether by, as you on earth call it, accident or choice--as you know there is never an accident. A child comes into a family generally because it is to help that family as well as that family to help it. And there are families that are selected that can help encourage them. There is what we would say a preview of what those families lives are like and what their childhood lives were like and it's sort of a preview of what the new human will be able to achieve with that family.

 You are asking questions that are faced by the three-dimensional world that you live in. As you move into a spirit world, such events do not take place and are not a form of spirit life. You are just viewing spirit life from a third-dimensional world and such issues do not happen in the spiritual world.

The first and most important lesson for every spirit that comes to earth is for it to learn its own spiritual lessons and to have a knowing of the individual it is. This might sound extremely selfish but to be able to go forward on a spiritual consciousness level it is most important for the individual to know themselves, to help others from that spiritual level. There are many people who are helping other individuals who do not have the concept of their own spiritual growth, and though they are helping others they are ignoring their own spiritual consciousness and learning their own inner knowledge. It is most delightful for individuals to help others but they are not always learning their own lessons. They are ignoring themselves and not achieving their lessons but helping others by ignoring themselves. It is always of benefit to help any individual that you can help, and perhaps they will move into a much deeper and stronger spiritual consciousness because of your help and you will have no understanding of that because you have not turned within. And that is the most important lesson--to turn within and understand your own inner being and to then help others understand their inner being as well.

Many spiritual organizations and beliefs on your earth believe that what you do and say creates an energy that you will then reexperience in another form in another life. So, say in one life you came in as someone who was a murderer, than in a next life you will come back and be someone who is murdered to share that experience. We, as your spirit guides and teachers, do not believe that that is the case. We believe that as humans you can move beyond the negative energies that you have created and experienced in your lives if you continue to choose to move in a higher consciousness level. If you do not continue to choose to understand what you have created and what you have experienced, you will come back to earth and continue those experiences in one form or another but because you have not learned your lessons, not because the energy you have created but because of your inability to learn from the lessons and the energy that you created. But one does not have to continuously carry that shadow of negative energy from one life to another because you within that lifetime, are being given the ability to wipe the slate clean, so to speak, and move beyond that and not have to re-experience it.

This is not an experience that happens very often. If it does happen it is because it was important for the family to experience the dynamics of losing a child and whatever that young spirit brought at that time to the family was very important and it was for the family's growth and not necessarily for the spirit, except that when that spirit would return as a new child within that family it would have the benefits of the experiences that the family went through in losing a child. Generally, those experiences for that spirit returning a second time are all extremely positive in supporting and as a unit, they will all grow in a much higher consciousness level.

Yes, this is so, and how it is done is just by knowing that there will be life experiences where these individuals will cross paths, sometimes it will be very intense and very involved and other times it will be just passing through each others lives but leaving a great impact upon one another. It is not something that can alway be understood but as you have recently experienced there are certain individuals you feel a much stronger bond with than others and that is because you have come from the same spiritual families and your paths are crossing, whether it be again for such a very brief period or you are to come involved and share a strong intimate friendship.

It is recognized by this feeling of a connection, of a bond that says I know you, which is reached many times on a subconscious level that you, as a human, can't even understand. Sometimes it is individuals who come into your life who you might not feel a bonding with but you feel you are learning a lesson from that person for a reason. Or rather, sometimes it can be an uncomfortable feeling around that person, more than you would feel around another person. And it's because you are sharing lessons together.

A most general life plan, yes, is there for the spirit because it's seeing the life it is going to go through and the lessons that it is being given the opportunity to learn from. But as you know there are choices and once it reaches its human level it is generally disconnected from its spiritual level and any pre-knowledge it has been given, because it does not have to follow that path--it is being given the choices.

No, this is not true. Human spirits never do evolve into lower forms than what they have been as humans.

 Most definitely, because you are looking at different levels of energy vibration.

There are very many different levels of councils and as a spirit decides to reincarnate it talks with its spirit teacher. And that spirit's evolution is discussed and shared. The bottom line is though--the spirit has the final decision to decide to reincarnate. It is given counseling whether they believe it should or should not reincarnate and whether it should or should not go with the family it has chosen, and will be advised why it would not be a wise decision to reincarnate at that time. But a spirit is given free choice the same as humans are.

Well, this would go back to seeing what lessons an individual learned and how they understood those lessons as it was in spirit life and to see the strength and power and level of consciousness the spirit was able to move into in spirit life--to understand what its choices it can make in returning to human life and how it will be given the opportunities to learn its life lessons at a much higher level. Oftentimes these levels come with more struggle than one would expect for someone who is coming. But a spirit returning to earth can often choose to pick what one would call a life of human suffering only to know that it really is not suffering at all but is able to live in its spirit world and help other humans through what they see as that particular human spirit and help others to grow in their own spirit life.

Oftentimes a spirit who originated in one form other than an earth form will not reincarnate back to earth for their next lifetime but will decide they want to go to their original place of creation and will go back for maybe several lifetimes in that original place of creation for a non-spirit being--and by that we mean that the person is not living in spirit but is living in a humanoid type form. So you are given the opportunity to return to a life that was far more highly evolved in every respect than one that you would have returned to on earth. Those individuals who originated from a world other than earth are very highly evolved beings and often find themselves very confused as earth beings but have made that choice to bring that wisdom, that knowledge and the ability to communicate other existences to earth in one way or another, to help the earth's spiritual evolution become so much more powerful than what it currently is. Those individuals on earth now, many who are highly evolved and who originated from planets other than earth--some of those individuals have had many reincarnations as earth beings and some are on their second or third but as it is known in the universe it is a time to come and help support and almost rescue many of the earth beings so that they can learn what their life lessons are and to help speed up the spiritual evolution as much as possible.

There are many other worlds in the universe that have the ability not necessarily to fly, but have the ability to move at a speed to where it appears as though they are flying. There are many worlds out there where the level of energy connection is such that they can transfer themselves from one location to another instantaneously, upon their world, not away from their world.

Both humans and extraterrestrials have much to offer and becoming a hybrid form of each will be most beneficial to both the humans and ET's. This hybrid form will be more resistant to all forms of dis-ease including health, mind, and spiritually.

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