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KEY FINDING 171 - 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 and also to help others to understand their inner beings as well. This effort is more important than acting in a way which would help humans generally to progress in their earthly existence.

Afterlife 101 Section, Chapter 5: Goals of reincarnation

Question: Is it a goal for all reincarnating spirits to generally help humans progress in their earthly existence? In other words, is it a goal to help humans as a total group of people as well as each individual reincarnating spirit helping themselves to learn their own personal lessons?

Spirit Guide: 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.

Agreements

Journey of Souls by Newton

During our lives all of us will experience opportunities for change which involve risk. These occasions may come at inconvenient times. We may not act upon them, but the challenge is there for us. The purpose of reincarnation is the exercise of free will...karmic destiny means we are not just caught up in events over which we have no control. This also means we have karmic lessons and responsibilities.

The Spirits Book-Modern English Edition by Kardec

Each spirit selects its own trials and requests to be reincarnated. The spirit who is to animate a given body, however, is always assigned beforehand...

The Spirits Book-Modern English Edition by Kardec

Purification, to redress previous mistakes, and to effect human progress. Otherwise, there would be no justice.

Seth Speaks by Roberts

The answers to the nature of reality, the intimate knowledge of All That Is that you all seek, is within your present experience. It will not be found outside of yourselves, but through an inner journey into yourself, through yourself and through the world that you know.

Seth Speaks by Roberts

Consciousness is an attribute of the soul, a tool that can be turned in many directions. You are not your consciousness. It is something that belongs to you and to the soul. You are learning to use it. To the extent that you understand and utilize the various aspects of consciousness, you will learn to understand your own reality, and the conscious self will truly become conscious.

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

Spirit is love. The universe is love. We are love. When we look beyond the personality to the eternal soul within, we recall who we really are. The temporary loss of that identity and its subsequent rediscovery-and the contrast between the two-give the soul a more profound self-knowing and self-appreciation. For the soul, this kind of stark contrast cannot be obtained or understood without a physical incarnation.

The Wisdom of the Soul by Ian Lawton

What is the purpose of reincarnating on the physical plane?  My central theme...is that the underlying karmic dynamic for all souls--without exception--is one of learning, experience and growth.

Disagreements

Seth Speaks by Roberts

Each entity who is born in flesh works toward the development of those abilities that can be best nurtured and fulfilled within the physical environment. He has a responsibility to and for the civilization in which he has each existence, for he helps form it through his own thoughts, emotions, and actions.

The Spirits' Book by Allan Kardec

Question: Why do spirits incarnate? 

Spirit: God has established incarnation as the means through which spirits eventually become perfect...Besides purification, incarnation has a second and no less important function.  It allows spirits to perform their proper share in the work of creation.  To accomplish this work, the spirit must take on bodily form...Under these conditions, the spirit benefits doubly.  It contributes to the universal good through performing its own particular work, and at the same time, it furthers its own advancement through the process of purification.

{Still in Planning: This may not be a disagreement. We are going to have a discussion as to whether this is a disagreement or not.}

Question: 171
This is not really a disagreement because there is agreement that both learning of one's own spiritual lessons and a contribution to human-kind in general is valuable, except that the key finding shows the priority of these two goals.