BEFORE YOU WERE BORN

[Guest guest]

Before You Were Born THE WHOLE PURPOSE of this Earth game is for you, as part of the Creator Source, to learn everything about yourself. That's why you need all those lifetimes and not just one. And you can do that only if you don't know you are part of Source. It's easy to be loving in a loving environment. So, to really test your understanding of love, you've got to go where love is in short supply. Therefore, you come down here, put on a disguise, forget your true identity and play your part. In the midst of all the hatred and fear on the Earth plane, how does your love stand up? Can you walk your talk? As a soul, you've done it hundreds of times-slip into a new body, live out a life full of experiences on the physical plane and return home to digest those experiences. Why go to all the trouble? Why not just "play it out" on the soul plane? Simple. Because you would know two crucial things: 1) that you are just playing a game, and 2) that the goal of the game is to express unconditional love in every situation. Knowing this, where's the challenge and growth? Just like an actor who "dies" in Act III, you would get up, wash off the fake blood and go home, having learned nothing. The physical

plane is a brilliant plan when you think about it. You-the-soul deals a hand for a lifetime, and you-the-soul and you-the-ego together play that hand, usually taking it oh-so-seriously. Who are the other players in your game of life? Usually, other souls from your soul group (of maybe a thousand souls) incarnate to be supporting actors on the stage of your life, just as you are a supporting actor in their life play. You normally draw the more intimate players, such as your parents and lovers, from your soul family, a band of maybe a dozen souls whom you get to know really well over countless incarnations. You also hang out with your soul family members between lifetimes. Complicating matters in your life plays is the fact that every actor is reading from a different script, as if one is doing General Hospital and the other All My Children. In the resulting confusion, missed cues and fluffed lines are inevitable, so it's really amazing that we communicate at all, let alone so well. A famous teacher used to teach by telling stories-he called them parables-because stories allow you to couch truth more softly and in ways that people can relate to. In the same vein, I'm going to tell a story about you-the-soul and a lifetime you could easily have led if you'd so chosen. (Because souls don't "do" time, please forgive me if I don't begin with "Once upon a

time …") Imagine this scenario … You're a soul entity on the soul plane, busy playing with advanced mathematical formulas when your spirit guide appears. Because you're both telepathic, you know that he's come to tell you that it's time for you to reincarnate once again. You protest that you have a lot of projects underway. Your soul family is working on a huge peace project for the Balkans that will take at least ten Earth years, but your guide insists because it's been over fifty years since you were down on the Earth plane. You grudgingly admit the truth of that and ask your guide what options it and the

advisors on the Reincarnation Committee have come up with. It tells you that the last two lifetimes were high profile lives in which you showed the trait of arrogance so they think a humble birth would limit the potential for that to happen again. Also, your guide tells you that, since you have already developed a music aptitude in many previous lifetimes, the advisors will let you take those skills with you into the new life. You agree to preview the options the advisors have selected for you. So you both set your intent on being with them and are instantly before them. Because of their elder status, they may appear initially as sparkling indigo balls of light and then slowly manifest their

preferred appearance of wise, aged counselors. In fact, the advisors are such wise, old souls that they've long since stopped incarnating. They tell you that they have two possibilities for you. The first is a female, born of poor parents with good, sturdy genetics. The musical abilities you will take down with you will win you a scholarship to a top music school, and you'll end up playing with a world-famous orchestra. They tell you that the agreements with the souls of parents and music teachers are already in place for that to happen. All are members of your larger soul group. The body of the baby would be available in 1910 in London, England. The second

possible lifetime is as a male born in San Francisco during 1970. Your parents will be from your soul group and will be with a non-profit organization working to combat inner city drug addiction, so they won't be able to pay for your tuition. However, another soul from your soul group owes you a favor and will become your mentor. He will own a music recording company and will sign up the rock group that you will form. A member of your smaller, more intimate soul family has already agreed to be your principal soul mate. The advisors ask if you're ready to preview the lifetimes and, on your agreement, a lifelike, three-dimensional hologram materializes before you. Like a movie on fast-forward, you watch the birth of a little girl in a drab London row house and follow her life as she grows up from being schoolgirl to a world-class concert pianist. She begins giving small concerts at the age of fourteen, wins scholarships, attends music school, and joins the London Philharmonic, ultimately becoming their piano soloist. Slowly, the hologram fades. After a moment, a different scenario appears, and you watch your parents-to-be working in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. In 1970, they have a son but, because they are so busy, the growing boy has few boundaries, spending much of his early teenage years skipping school to play keyboard with a rock group. His brilliance is recognized by a retired recording company owner, and his band makes an album that achieves platinum sales in its first week. His parents die when he's 17, he gets involved in drugs and is rescued by his mentor. Under this benign influence, he cleans up his life and attends the nearby Institute of Performing Arts, all the time his music becoming more proficient. As the old man dies and leaves his huge fortune to his protégé, the hologram fades. When the advisors ask which life you prefer, you reflect briefly and announce telepathically that you choose the second option. Your spirit guide agrees and tells you that you next need to work on designing the personality for the incarnation. You both return to the area frequented by your soul family and select the personality trait overlays you think you'll need. Next, you greet the two souls who will be your parents and discuss how you will be raised. Then, with another soul family member, you discuss the mate agreement the two of you will share, and the body types you will choose so that you're attractive to each other. The souls who will be your parents are ready to leave for the Earth plane to be born in 1952 so, after settling a few last minute details with you, they leave with their guides. Your guide telepaths to you that it's time to meet with the Council of Elders. Instantly, you're transported to them, and they tell you of their great hopes and

expectations for your lifetime. With their words ringing in your fields, you split off part of your energy from you-the-soul, grab your personality overlays and find yourself spiraling down a tunnel that ends in the body of the baby now growing inside your mother-to-be. Over the next few months, you spend several hours a day in the baby's body to synchronize your energy with its brain chemistry and neural activity. When you're not in the body or hovering around your mother, you hang out with your soul mate's soul, planning your future life as a couple. Once the baby is born, your out-of-body sojourns are limited to when the body sleeps. Your life goes exactly as the

preview showed, and by age seven, you're emulating rock and roll keyboard artists. At ten, you're composing your own songs and form a rock group when you're 17. A recording company signs you up, and you meet and fall in love with your soul mate. She manages to curb your tendency towards arrogance, but can't prevent you from getting into drugs. When the retired owner of the recording company hears of your self-destructive spiral into drug use, he becomes your mentor, and the two of you form an almost father-son bond. Five years later, you inherit his vast fortune, move to Hawaii, build a state-of-the-art recording studio, and produce a steady stream of exquisitely synthesized "celestial symphonies" that enrich millions of

lives. After long and worthwhile lives, you and your soul mate die together in your sleep and return to the soul plane, just a heartbeat after you left. Does this little scenario sound far-fetched? Not at all. Every detail has been reported by hypnotherapy subjects regressed to the interval between lifetimes. My extensive contact with the other side has allowed me to personally validate it. Before we go any further, suppose I take a boat trip up the Amazon and encounter a tribe of primitive rain forest Indians. I pull out my laptop computer and put it through its paces. Imagine their alternating surprise and disbelief as the images flash by. How would they explain what they see? Gods? Spirits? Demons? And how could I even begin to describe the technological marvels inside the gray box? Next, suppose I pull out my satellite uplink and tap into the Internet. More confusion for my baffled hosts. How can I convey to these people, whose idea of high-tech is the blowpipe, the notion of satellites in geo-synch orbit 25,000 miles up in the sky and wireless communication? As Arthur C. e says, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." I propose that the truth about our larger selves, the Divine Architects, is as far ahead of our conscious awareness as I was ahead of the rain forest Indians, technically

speaking, of course. Similarly, I believe that what you are about to read of the soul plane is as real and tangible to you at the soul level as the technology that I demonstrated is to my conscious mind. Of course, the technology was incomprehensible to the Indians, just as life on the soul plane may be currently incomprehensible to our poor brains. However, that shouldn't stop us from taking a peek inside the box and seeing what goes on. In our fascination with what happens during our lives or what has happened in past lives, the period between lives is often ignored. Most sources report that the number of incarnations in a soul cycle lies between 50 and 400. If the typical life lasts an average of, say, 50 years, that only accounts for between 2,500 and 20,000 years. Our souls have been around infinitely longer than that-millions, even billions of years. So, if Earth lives account for only a tiny fraction of our total existence, the obvious question is, "What do we do when we're not running around down here?" We'll revisit this fascinating topic in later chapters, but for now, let's explore the reality behind our story. Souls Can Be Reluctant to Incarnate Life between lives is a blast. There, we are limitless and unlimited, free to exercise our full creativity, but eventually the time comes to incarnate once more. Often prompted by your guide,

you-the-soul must face the fact that incarnation is a tool to expand your capabilities and potentials and to actualize your soul identity. Or, as the recruiting posters put it, "To be all that you can be." After all, souls are created expressly to gather experience on behalf of Source during the long journey back to full merger with Source. This in turn creates fulfillment for Source, enriching its diverse expressions. And getting "down and dirty physical" is the only way to know about things instead of just knowing of them. So the day comes (not that souls care much about days) when you-the-soul must face it: it's time again to leave the warm, loving environment of the soul plane, and test your learning by going down to the

Earth plane and walking your talk. It all looks so easy from the soul plane, at least until you hit the constricting vibration of the Earth plane. Ouch! The Interlife Has No Fixed Duration We are indebted to hypnotherapists who specialize in regression, not to childhood or past lives, but to the period between lives and in their sessions obtain fascinating information. One such pioneer is Dr. Whitton, who with Joe Fisher, authored Life Between Lives (see Reading List) . According to Dr. Whitton, the duration of the interlife (a term he coined) varies from a few months to several centuries but averages 40 years.

However, that average is coming down since, historically, life didn't change much from one century to the next, and the static cultures didn't offer much variety in challenges. However, recent scientific progress and cultural change make incarnating sooner more attractive. Also, today's weapons of mass destruction offer new ways of dying that used to be the sole province of epidemics such as the Black Death that once wiped out a third of Europe. And the soaring population provides more host bodies for souls. After living a life on the Earth plane, you return to the soul plane exactly where you left off. In fact, the other members of your soul group may not even have missed you. Life

Purpose or Theme and Soul Age The soul works through a number of ages during its Earth cycle, each age bringing its own understanding and insight. By virtue of wider experience and increasing wisdom, the older soul comes to view the world with greater compassion, more flexible belief systems and a larger philosophy as the influence of personality diminishes, allowing the true nature of the soul to manifest. Website design by: ph E. Website content & development by: Home | News & Info | Buy Books | Lectures/Events | Biography | Motion Pictures Public Service | Photo

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