Don in your view,where is the best place to grow.The spirit world is all around earth.All we have to do is stick are arm out,and were in the spirit world.So where is your best place to learn.George

George, the best place to grow no doubt varies from person to person. For some, growth might be best achieved on another planet with a different culture, level of intellect, and quality of consciousness.   For some it might even be Hell because of their low vibration and hateful lifestyle.   Of course, growth there would no doubt need a retrieval to help one move on to the next stage.  For others, the intermediate realm that Swedenborg calls the World of Spirits, Monroe calls Focus 25 and 28, and the Bible calls Hades and Paradise.  For the more advanced, maximum growth might be achieved by the many challenges of the various heavens. 

I'm just saying we must we careful not to overrate the value and uniqueness of the earth school.  Swedenberg has convinced me that there is no reincarnation of the ego on earth.  I'll be giving his reasons in a future post on my Swedenborg thread.  So if you're interested, stay tuned.

Don

I heard this message today.As the rain falls from the heavens and onto the earth,and in time is drawn back into the heavens,so shall we who are borne in earth,be taken back into the heavens.Those who have done good well stay.But those who have not been fruitfull, shall be cast back onto the earth to try once again,for God is a loving God who does not want to lose even one of his sheep.George

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This is a very beautiful message that you got George.

With Love, Mairlyn

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George, I agree this is beautiful what you got. this is the first time since I've known you that I see how loving you are.  alysia

Jean,

In a genuine spiritual quest, there is no love without integrity and no integrity without a passion for verification.  Without this passion, our feel-good dialogue is like two ships passing in the fog, with each ship's passengers intoxicated by the harmony of their common direction and blissfully unaware of the danger of colliding ships and sunken belief systems.   You asked me how I felt when I gave you my response to Joan Grant's anachronistic error.  I felt a sense of release from my horror at the gullibility manifested on this site that has driven many away.  I don't mind bristling disagreement.  But when people abandon all pretense to critical engagement of issues and equate the truth with any stray voice in the back of the head (e.g. recently George) or accept implausible messages just because thye might resonate" (i.e. feel good), I feel unclean at the thought that some might take my silence as an endorsement of such New Age kookery.  I feel an obligation to give a voice to those few who really acknowledge the elusiveness and complexity of the itruth about the afterlife.

In George's case, I ask him not to reject his belief in  reincarnation, but to explore the alternative perspectives on this complex subject in both eastern religions and the New Age movement.

Don

Jean, I don't know what you said but it sounds good to me. ROFLOL

Love, Mairlyn