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Key Finding 158 - 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.

Key Finding 163 - In the past the typical times between death in one life and birth on earth in another life could have been centuries. 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 the case in the past to help those who are struggling with their spiritual evolution.

Afterlife 101 Section, Chapter 5:When reincarnation takes place

Question: What factors determine when a spirit will reincarnate on earth?

Spirit Guide: 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.

Question: How does a spirit learn its lessons in the afterlife if it does not want to incarnate? What does the learning process involve?

Spirit Guide: The learning process as a spirit being, learning lessons that are much accelerated as a human being, are very slowed down as a spirit being. For life upon earth or other places of life move at an accelerated speed compared to the lessons of life in heaven. Lessons that you learn in life in Heaven don?t always have the full impact because not all spirit beings that you will come into contact with upon earth to accelerate this consciousness are available in heaven. If they were, you would not need to come to earth. So your process of evolution in heaven is much slowed down.

Question: Does free will play a significant role in the concept of reincarnation?

Spirit Guide: 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.

Question: Are all spirits similar in their first incarnation?

Spirit Guide: 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.

Question: Who decides when it's time to reincarnate?

Spirit Guide: 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.

Question: After I make my transition from this lifetime and if I returned in a reincarnation afterwards, would that reincarnation always be at a later date than when I died?

Spirit Guide: 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.

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

Spirit Guide: 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.

Question: Does the frequency with which a human experiences deja vu relate to the number of times a soul has reincarnated, thus determining an old soul?

Spirit Guide: 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.

Question: 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?

Spirit Guide: 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.

Agreements

Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth? by Schwartz

Question to Channeled [Valerie's] Higher Self: You mentioned earlier that a physical incarnation provides a way to learn that cannot be accomplished otherwise. As I understand it, there are many beings who choose never to incarnate. If incarnation is the only way to learn certain things, why do some beings choose not to have physical lifetimes?

Higher Self: The human experience does not encompass every experience that is important for a being's growth. There are no words to explain some of the concepts that can be learned when a soul never incarnates on Earth or in a human personality.

Seth Speaks by Roberts

At the time of choosing, therefore, the personality is already preparing itself to leave for another existence. In your terms of time this in-between period can last for centuries. It can last only a few years. Again, however, there are exceptions. There are cases in which a personality goes very quickly into another physical life, in perhaps a matter of hours. This is usually unfortunate, and is caused by an obsessive desire to return to physical life. Such a quick return, however, can also be taken by a personality who is charged with a great purpose, who disregards or discards an old physical body, and is reborn almost immediately into a new one in order to finish an important and necessary project already begun.

Seth Speaks by Roberts

In this time of rest and choosing [between life state], all counsel is given. Some personalities do reincarnate before they are advised to, for many reasons. This is usually unfortunate in the short run, for the necessary planning has not taken place. But in the long run great lessons will still be learned from the 'error'. There is no time schedule, and yet it is very unusual for an individual to wait for anything over three centuries between lives, for this makes the orientation very difficult, and the emotional ties with earth have become weak.

Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth? by Schwartz

There are many opportunities for them to experience their own limitations, as well as to expand awareness, both for themselves and others around them. This is a time for exponential growth in your realm. Many who have chosen to incarnate at this time are finishing the reincarnation cycles and becoming ready to move on to other realms.

Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth? by Schwartz

The planet is experiencing a systems breakdown. At those points in time when old systems break down, chaos is created. Chaos is a component - a very necessary component - of limitation and growth. It is perhaps the most fertile space in which to learn. - Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth?

Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth? by Schwartz

They have chosen their paths with a true purpose in mind, the angel responded. There are times in life in your realm that true purpose becomes clouded with values and judgements thrust upon you from those around you. The pressures of the culture and family contribute to that. There is movement now in the lives of young people to move beyond the generational values and allow those old systems of religion, education, science, politics - those things that are rulers in your realm - to either expand or collapse completely to be rebuilt anew.

Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth? by Schwartz

From the way the Earth is constructed, negatives for millennia have been most of the way personalities learn. Now that you are moving forward, time is speeding up, and vibrations are higher, inspirational conduct may be of more service.

Disagreements

Journey of Souls by Newton

Older souls incarnate less, regardless of the population demands of their assigned planets...Cycles of incarnation for the eternal soul seem to be regulated more by the internal desires of a particular soul, than by the urgency of host bodies evolving in a universe of planets.

Journey of Souls by Newton

Once our souls advance past Level II into the intermediate ranges of development, group cluster activity is considerably reduced. This does not mean we return to the kind of isolation we saw with the novice soul. Souls evolving into the middle development levels have less association with primary groups because they have acquired the maturity and experience for operating more independently. These souls are also reducing the number of their incarnations.

{Still in Planning: Prospective Question}

Question: 158,163

What are the considerations which govern the time between incarnations for a spirit and how important is the degree of evolution of that spirit?

KEY FINDING 173 - It is an infrequent occurrence that a child would die, go back to heaven, and then be reincarnated back into the same family. If it did occur, that spirit returning a second time would have the benefits of the experiences that the family went through in losing a child.

Afterlife 101 Section, Chapter 5: Reincarnation in same family

Question: What circumstances would lead a spirit to be reborn into the same family that they lived in during a previous life on earth? In other words, if a child should die, go back into heaven, and nearly immediately be reborn into the same family--under what circumstances would that happen, if ever?

Spirit Guide: 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.

Agreements

Journey of Souls by Newton

In my practice I rarely see souls repeating the same genetic choices in past lives because this would inhibit growth and opportunity.

Seth Speaks by Roberts

There is an overall pattern to relationships within lives, and yet this does not mean that you travel through various existences with the same limited and familiar number of friends and acquaintances, merely altered like actors with a change of face or costume. Groups of individuals come together in various lives for certain purposes, separate, and may or may not come together again in a different time or place. Again, however, there is no rigid rule. Some families are literally reincarnations of their ancestors, but this is not the general case by any means. Deep relationships will continue in one way or another. Others will simply disappear. The point I want to make is that the opportunity for development and knowledge is as present at this moment, in this life, as it will ever be. If you ignore day-by-day opportunities for development now, no one can force you to accept and utilize greater abilities after death, or between lives. The teachers are there in after-death experience, but there are also teachers here in your existence now.

Seth Speaks by Roberts

The relationships for the next life have to be settled upon, and this involves telepathic communication with all those who will be involved. This is a time, then, of many projections. There are those who are simply loners, who reincarnate without any great feeling for earth's historical periods. There are others who like to return when their contemporaries from some particular past historical time return again, and therefore there are group patterns that involve reincarnational cycles in which many, but not all, are involved...There are personal cycles of course, in which families may reincarnate, taking different relationships to each other...

The Wisdom of the Soul by Ian Lawton

A soul who agrees to take the body of a baby who dies at a very young age can reincarnate again very quickly, and it would have been agreed beforehand...so if the first life is to teach other souls a life lesson, then the second life may be agreed at the same time...When babies die very young the soul can reincarnate in the same family, or nearby.  Because the lesson of the first, short life is for the parents, the soul may reincarnate as another relative of the same family, to be in the same environment to continue helping the parents with their life's lesson.  It's not a lesson for themselves but for others....a swift return might also be made if a soul needed to be in a similar timeframe for a particular lesson, or with particular souls who were already incarnated.

Disagreements

Destiny of Souls by Newton

When a mother loses her child for whatever reason, I have found the odds are quite high that the soul of this baby will return again to the same mother with her next child.

{Still in Planning: Prospective Question}

Question:  173

What are the odds that the spirit of a child who died early will return to the same family as opposed to reincarnating in a different family?