At a certain point in one’s spiritual development, the seeker usually begins to question the whole incarnative process. Why am I here? Why do we keep incarnating? Who or what makes us keep coming back? Do I have any say in the circumstances I’m born into? Do I have to come back again?

The gist of my thoughts on this as of now is that exercising more control over one’s incarnative experience is simply a matter of realizing that you can.

In the early stages of one’s incarnative cycle, this is pretty much an automatic process. Between lives, the soul is drawn into the first available situation that most closely matches whatever it is reflecting at the time. A single life lesson can be learned in any number of ways, from fun to harsh and even horrific, but unfortunately at this stage what one gets is largely up to the luck of the draw. Lifetimes are spent believing that experience is random; we’re stuck having to make the best of what happens to us, but don’t have much of a say in it.

When the soul begins the awakening process, it reclaims its ability to exercise more control over its experience. At this stage incarnations are planned out more consciously. Many sources refer to the assistance of guides and other entities in this process, though I can’t personally confirm or deny that aspect (yet?). These lifetimes are spent learning how the law of attraction, and other universal laws can be utilized to exercise increasing creative control over one’s experience. It becomes possible to be the teacher and the student, to create one’s own life lessons and then live them, whether between lives or during. In other words, the divine within is beginning to become self-aware, and exercise self expression.

Finally, the soul begins to question the cycle itself, and seeks liberation from having to reincarnate. I’ve been giving this subject a lot of thought — I may or may not want to come back next time around, but either way I want to know that the choice is mine to make. How does one get to this point?

The theme that keeps coming up for me is “personal responsibility.” When we take personal responsibility for all our thoughts, words, actions and experiences (that’s the toughie for most I would imagine), past and future; when we own all our incarnations, we are free to do with them as we will. If that means choosing to come back, or taking our experience somewhere else, then so be it. I don’t believe there is any “higher authority” with the inherent ability to force people to incarnate against their will. My post You Are Your Only Authority should give more insight on that side of it.

Thinking more on this I received this bit of inspiration that I’ve formulated as a logical argument.

Premise 1. There is only ONE power in the universe.
Premise 2. That power is part of me.
Premise 3. Divine power is persuasive, not coercive.
(Conversely: anything in the universe that operates via coercion is not aligned with divine power, and thus has no true authority.)

Conclusion: Nothing is forcing me to reincarnate, and if it has been, it was only because I (probably unknowingly) gave it the power to do so. I will be expanding on these premises more in the next posts.

That said, obviously I haven’t fully figured all this out yet, because I’m still here. At this point I’d like to open the floor to my readers: what do your thoughts and experiences have to say about all this? If your belief system doesn’t include reincarnation, that’s perfectly fine too. I have no interest in “proving” reincarnation; I’m simply speaking from where I’m at in my understanding at this time.

–Palehorse

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