If You're on Earth, This is Your Golden Opportunity...
I've always scoffed at this... the idea that we are spiritual beings having a temporary physical experience, and there are long lines of souls waiting for their chance to incarnate on Earth because it's the fastest way of evolving due to its denseness and difficulty. I always thought, 'Yeah f#$@!ng right! Like I chose to be this crazy, disabled person incapable of building anything resembling a normal, happy life'
Well unfortunately (or fortunately?), I've read a lot and reflected and experienced a lot, and I've learned that it is in fact, true.
The literature and content out there by people who have had near-death experiences, who are psychic and regularly receive downloads from higher dimensions, all suggests that:
1) We choose to incarnate on Earth
2) We plan our lives prior to incarnation
3) We incarnate with a 'soul group' that we come back with again and again to play different roles in each other's lives.
Film maker, 'Hacking the Afterlife' podcaster and author of Flipside book series, Richard Martini, describes our earthly life as a performance (very apt for a film maker) in which everyone has a role we were assigned before birth. Some of us play disrupters or villains. It's all for the purpose of spiritual growth. 'Evil' people are really just playing a role. I know that sounds ludicrous to those who have suffered abuse and horrific treatment. But this seems to be the truth. Challenges like mental illnesses and disabilities are best looked at as props. At the end of the play, 'we drop the props and go home,' as Martini likes to say.
So I'm operating from the assumption (as pissed off as it makes me) that we indeed choose our lives and the people in them. We also choose challenges that are going to help us experience what we came here to experience. If this is true, then you know that you can't possibly f**k anything up that badly because chances are that your f*ck-ups were planned on the other side. Isn't that liberating? It's all for learning, so why take anything that seriously? Even me just putting out words on the internet is making a ripple effect in the collective consciousness we are all part of.
I used to keep this blog where I just puked up all my anger and misery every time I felt pissed off at the way this world treats autistic people. This is a valid expression. And while people often read my words and call me nasty names, I know that our words and actions are all significant. Doing any type of physical expression, whether it be writing, speaking, composing, creating in any shape, is something that non-physical beings crave more than anything, because PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION IS THE MOST DIRECT AND 'SOLID' EXPRESSION IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE. From my readings, it appears that non-physical beings continue to live in the higher realms. They are not all-knowing, but they have a sharper intuition and can give and recieve information telepathically. They develop empathy beyond what we know here on Earth. And they work (yes, even in the afterlife there are jobs!) and they vibe with their friends and family who are still in human form, and they create with the energy of their thoughts. Artists keep making art. Builders build afterlife buildings. Writers write, and inventers invent. It's just that everything is made of non-dense, non-physical substance. And while that's wonderful to them, they still crave physical expression. So they inspire and transmit thoughts and ideas to living people, hoping to use them as physical instruments to shape their visions. It's a collaboration you don't even know is happening. If you're a creator, have you ever woken up with an idea that just seemed to come to you spontaneously? Some musicians (I think Paul McCartney said 'Yesterday' just came to him one day) report feeling that their music doesn't feel like it comes from them, but from some source beyond.
So, I figure we are here to create and manifest physically. You don't even have to write songs or anything to do this. Write, type, scribble, scream, pluck out discordant sounds on a ukelele or bang on a piano. It's all expression. Beyond fulfilling our 'roles,' It's what our souls came here to do. Imagine being a non-physical being, vibrating so highly and feeling so light--and yet not being able to do so much as speak their thoughts into the physical realm. Well, there are physical spiritual phenomena, but that's a topic for another day. Life can be miserable. But remember that every time you speak, create, or bring anything into physical existence, you are doing something that millions of disincarnate beings wish they could do. Every one of our actions creates ripples, carries energy. Live that truth every day.
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