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from Jesus:
This is a very intelligent
question, and it is a question that is difficult to answer so that it
can be understood by people who think in linear terms. If you study
some of the many books on near-death experiences or people who have
been regressed and have remembered how their souls planned their current
embodiments, you will see that the totality of the soul is far more
than the conscious awareness of most people. In other words, before
you come into embodiment, you can look at the big picture of the evolution
of your soul, and you can do so in a detached manner. Therefore you
can make a very rational and detailed plan for what you want to accomplish
in your next embodiment.
When the soul enters a physical body, it usually loses the memory of
the big picture, meaning its total soul awareness. Some people can remember
having certain experiences or memories as young children, but they are
often forgotten later, as the soul becomes involved with daily living
in the material universe. Only souls who have attained a high degree
of spiritual maturity in past lifetimes will retain a high degree of
soul awareness and memory. Yet most spiritual seekers will have a strong
intuitive sense of where they want to go in life.
So one can say that when your soul enters the physical body, its sense
of awareness and identity becomes far more limited than before the soul
enters the body. Yet the conscious awareness is not actually separated
from the soul; it is simply a smaller portion of the soul's total awareness.
One might say that before the soul enters the body, it is standing on
top of a house and enjoying the panoramic view. After it enters the
body, the soul is looking at the view through a small window.
When you are born,
the individuality and personality of your conscious awareness has many
of the characteristics of your soul’s individuality, although
it can to some degree be affected by inherited factors. Yet these factors
were – within certain limits – chosen by your soul before
coming into embodiment. As a baby, your free will is largely the free
will of your soul, albeit with limited opportunities for expression.
As you grow up, your outer personality can be deeply affected by the
circumstances you encounter. It is therefore possible that you can lose
most of your soul awareness, and it is possible that the personality
you develop in this lifetime can deviate to various degrees from the
individuality of the soul. Therefore, you can gradually develop a free
will that is potentially quite far removed from the choices made by
your soul before you took embodiment.
Regardless of what happens to them, most mature souls will eventually
discover the spiritual path, and the most immediate task on the path
is to reestablish an intuitive connection to the totality of your soul.
Your conscious mind might not attain the full awareness that your soul
had before coming into embodiment. Yet all sincere spiritual seekers
can quickly develop a strong intuitive sense of the goals that their
souls wanted to accomplish in this lifetime. Through your intuition,
you can also draw on your total soul awareness.
So when you discover the spiritual path, your first task is to realign
your outer personality and your conscious free will with the broader
awareness and deeper choices of your soul. Once you have brought your
outer awareness and personality into alignment with the true individuality
of your soul, you can then begin to build from there to fulfill your
divine plan and express your God-given creativity.
Many spiritual seekers have experienced hopelessness, and the reason
is that you are going through an experience or phase that causes you
to move away from the fulfillment of your divine plan. The outer awareness
is losing contact with the deeper choices of the soul. The outer awareness
cannot understand why, yet the soul still experiences this as a pain
that can be felt by your conscious mind. Likewise, when you feel sincere
and eager it is because you are now in alignment with the deeper choices
of your soul.
It is true that the broader awareness of the totality of your soul is
making far more sense of your life than your conscious awareness. Yet
as you bring your conscious awareness in contact with your soul, you
can also make sense of your life with your conscious mind. This is the
key to manifesting peace of mind and a true sense of happiness and fulfillment
in life.
It is correct that it is the same soul that continues to reembody. However,
the soul will hopefully evolve, although it can potentially fragment,
as described elsewhere.
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