Romulus Crowe asked the other day, “Are we making decisions, or are we simply following a predestined route?”
When you ask one set of questions, one set of doorways opens before you, and when you ask other questions, other doorways open.
~ Gary Zukov, Seat of the Soul; page 101
According to some philosophical, theological thought, The Law of Karma must, by necessity, include the theory of reincarnation. Don’t confuse reincarnation with
transmigration. Transmigration is the theory that once a life escapes the bonds of a physical body, it is reborn into another, which can include mineral, vegetable, or animal life. My study has led me to believe that while all human souls may have existed in these forms previously, that once they have graduated from one to the next, there is no going backwards. Animals that may be about to graduate to human souls appear to be dogs, dolphins, and elephants.
Reincarnation is the theory that the human soul is born into another human body, but this doesn’t appear to happen immediately. There seems to be some inbetween time. Therefore, the question arises, where do we go during that time? According to the Tibetan and Egyptian Books of the Dead, the soul leaves the body and enters a place called the
Bardo. I don’t believe in the terrifying hallucinations reported to take place there, simply because it doesn’t appear to me that anything like that happened to Bubba. As much as I loved him, a saint he was not, so why would he be spared?
By reading many different texts, I have come to the conclusion that when we enter the Bardo, we are first welcomed home by the loved ones who have gone before us and led to a place where we meet with a council of Wise Souls, twelve in number. There, we are presented with our
Akashic Records (The Book of Life), where everything we have ever done is magnetically recorded and played back for us (our lives flashing before our eyes). Here is a good place to remember that time and space do not actually exist, but were designed by man in order to measure, and that in reality, all things may coexist simultaneously.
Here’s the big surprise: We are not judged. Nothing but love exists in this nether plane of the Bardo. Instead, as we review our lives through the Akashic Records, we experience exactly what we have made others experience. We feel whatever we made them feel, whether it was love, hate, envy, jealousy, compassion, pain … etc, and based on those experiences, we see where we succeeded, and where we failed. With the loving guidance of the Wise Council, we then plan our new lives on Earth, based on those things we need to get right. Because we have developed karma with certain other souls, and have some issues that need to be repaired, we tend to reincarnate with the same people over and over again; the same families, the same friends, although not necessarily in the same relationships. The child may become the parent; the friend may become a sibling. In the Bardo, we are all souls aimed at bettering ourselves, and we are all cooperative. We choose our gender, race, nationality, religion, and status in life based on what we need to learn and accomplish.
The light of your soul is instantaneous. There is no time between an intention toward one, and the understanding of that intention by the other. ~ Gary Zukov, Seat of the Soul; page 96
In our plans for our new lives, we enter into contracts with other souls to return and play the roles that are needed to help each other. Subconsciously, we recognize these souls in this life, and we get the feeling we’ve met them before, or sometimes we’re struck with a sense of déjà vu, that odd feeling that we’ve done this before. Could it be that our souls are remembering our plans and contracts, and that we’re preparing to carry them out?
Some souls agree to come back as users and abusers, as murderers, as despots, as starving children in third world countries. By now you must be asking why anyone would volunteer for such a mission. The answer is: for love. All God wants from us is to love each other. Period. We are here to learn to love and to treat each other with compassion, so it’s necessary that some souls return in a capacity that invokes our pity. They know what they’re in for. They know fully well how much they will suffer, and how hard it will be. They volunteer out of love.
Every time you ask the Universe, “Help me to see,” help comes. You may not always be capable of hearing the answers to your questions when you ask them, and the answers may not always come to you in the ways that you expect, but they always come. Sometimes the answer comes in the form of a feeling - a yes feeling or a no feeling - sometimes in the form of a memory, or a thought, that at the time may seem random; sometimes a dream or a realization that is prompted by an experience that will occur the next day. No question is unheard, and no question goes unanswered. “Ask and you shall receive” is the rule, but you must learn how to ask and how to receive. ~ Gary Zukov, Seat of the Soul; page 82
Sometimes in our plans for a new life, we’re seeing way beyond the next one. As an example,
Corn Dog, who is challenged by many serious illnesses in this life, may be preparing to become a doctor, scientist, or researcher in her next life. It would make sense that her father in this life was a doctor. It may also be the case that he was abusive to help her learn the compassion and gentility she will need for the life she may be working toward. She also may suffer in this life to help others learn compassion.
If a daughter who harbors resentment toward her father, for example, evolves into a deeper understanding of her relationship with him, such as an understanding of the karmic role that he has played of activating within her a major lesson of love or responsibility, and if her intention to heal herself and her relationship with her father is deep and clear, do not think, even for an instant, that her father is not aware of this, even if she does not speak to him. He is not aware consciously, but his whole being feels what she is doing. His conscious mind may feel it through sudden moments of sentimentalism about things that he had not thought about before, or he may suddenly look at pictures of his daughter as a young child and feel a pull in his heart although he is not consciously aware of why he is feeling what he is feeling or doing what he is doing. ~ Seat of the Soul; page 93
God does not give us more than we can handle. He doesn’t put the kindergartners in college. Those who are suffering through difficult lives have chosen their own lessons. Sure, some people don’t make it. Some decide it’s just too hard and commit suicide. It happens. They fail in their plans this time, but they will have the opportunity to return and try again. Don't get any bright ideas, however; it will be even harder next time.
So far it seems as though much is predestined, but we still have free will. We can choose not to listen to our inner compass, and not to honor our contracts – which in turn, creates more karma to be balanced. There’s a good reason we all possess intuition, and a good reason we dream, just as there are reasons why people go into comas, or have near-death experiences.Next time, hints to help you know where you are standing on the ladder of the evolutionary journey of your soul.
