I read somewhere that when the soul has reached the highest stage of evolvement sometimes will choose to go back to God.
It does not mean death in any shape or form. The soul is conscious but would lose its identity and just be part of God. This is an irreversable process.
Have any of you, who can experience in other realms, ever get any information to confirm or disagree with this?

Peace, Love and Light.

Sandra.

There is no 'right' or 'wrong', only a sharing of perspectives. The phrase 'incorrect', that you see below, is then only a matter of relativity, ie. the concept is incorrect *as seen from the perspective* of the author, ie. whoever is saying "that idea is incorrect or inaccurate from our observation" in any discussion. Thusly, the opinions expressed herein do not necessarily bear any correlation to the 'correctness' of the reader's own ideas. That is for *only* the reader to determine for him/herself. No one else can tell you what is right or wrong. You must decide that for yourself, based on your free will and choice of perspective.


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Incorrect, or to be precise, statement is based on misconception on the matter. All souls are equally close to God.


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Incorrect, or to be precise, statement is based on misconception on the matter. You've never left the One.


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Incorrect, or to be precise, statement is based on misconception on the matter. There is no 'highest stage of evolution', evolution is endless. Futhermore, the higher the evolutionary level, the more the soul realizes he/she/it has never left God.


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Incorrect, or to be precise, statement is based on misconception on the matter. 'Merging' of consciousnesses (not with 'God', who is all consciousnesses simultaneously), whether small scale (ie. individual, oversoul groups, etc) or large scale (ie. entire civilizations, across races, worlds, dimensions, universes, etc), do not entail any loss of personality or individuality, but rather the creation (to be precise, *realization*) of a greater interconnectivity, collectivity or universality, in addition to the personalities and individuality (that always existed and always will, as natural expression of the greater whole).

This ('merging' of consciousnesses, not 'with God') cannot be properly understood from the perspective of the individual who fears (False Evidence Appearing as Real) losing its individuality, but can only be understood (in Love) by the Collective (ie. OverSoul) who realizes it is also the individual(s), was always (all) the individual(s), and will always be (all) the individuals.


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The following two threads of mine (Kyo) are relevant to the above discussion, and perusal of the ideas communicated therein may be useful to the interested reader :


Reincarnation, Evolution and Serenissimus
http://infinity.hispeed.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1113602332

Incarnations & OverSouls (AFK Forum discussion)
http://infinity.hispeed.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1113196507

its like this from studying my own life and those perceptions which start at childhood. those perceptions I had made me feel separate from all others, especially my family as family are the first relationships you work with. much later after a lot of living, I go back and retrieve the childhood perceptions which were both illusive and produced allusions I was separate and not a part of anything which felt good. it all felt bad to be separate; it was always my fault. that was the allusion. later, I'm 58 now, which means not a whole lot in the grander scheme of things, but I agree with Kyo here that I have never left the heart of God. I had to read ACIM to discover this, which is true for me. I never went anywhere from my place of origination. the way I deal with this idea is to see life as a movie, I am in the film, I am the probe, I am the adventurous one, I take the risks because it's fun. as I go along I forget about my former wishes to merge with anything at all. it is life and life only. great chunks of allusion fall away, or I may have belief system crashes...the crashes come less and less often but I do not lose my ability to give myself a surprise, so I don't get bored. the ego, a devise which would tell me I am superior, or inferior, or guilty of something, or tells me I should do this, or I should do that (it shoulds on you ) the ego gets more quiet, but it's always there mumbling about something it may fall away. it may hurt. it may not even be there when I search for it. I may channel something in this case, from another being who is perhaps closely associated with myself. I may do many mind melds, vulcan style, with many others; in this sense I could be said to merge with the collective mind also. when the communication is complete I may fall back into my usual C1 smoothly. I may notice my ego jumping up and down saying ooouuuweeee! look what u just did! I may allow it to have a bit of fun then tell it to shut up after awhile, we have some work to do, something like that. in any case these two worlds, the afterlife and the life now are far too intricately intertwined to be able to divide them and say, this is what will happen on this level, and this is what will happen on that level. you create your afterlife on a daily basis within this now moment. it's all the same. you make your bed and u lie in it. it's a very practical and sublime intermix of energies, this thing called you. you will take all of you with you when you go. every thought, every feeling, none of it gets tossed out as unimportant. you get to see and feel the whole life all at once   not just this moment, but all your moments at once. nothing u thought was important turned out to be that important. the little loving acts you committed turned out to be your best successes of all, for in those moments you had loved well and changed the course of another's pathway for the better. they did not forget it, but passed on the kindness, whatever it was, to thier children or another, and it had the 100th monkey effect. the world was a better place to live, just from one little tiny smile. much love and light to you all, remember to give yourself a surprise today!

Thank you for this Kyo. The points you have made are very good.

Love, Mairlyn

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And thank you, too, Mairlyn. These opportunities for networking with you, as well as with everyone else who have also expressed their willingness and friendship, is indeed respected and appreciated.


Love, Kyo


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Ryan, hello friend. ACIM = A Course In Miracles, channelled by Helen Shucman, a psychologist. the material comes in the first voice of Jesus, thus, my pov, is the 2nd coming all those Christians think is still yet to happen. he came back in a book  unbelievable of course...but not to me!
there are 3 parts to it: The text, the lesson study plan, and the teachers manual.
the lesson plan has 365 lessons to study, one each day of the year. there are a list of miracle principles  I forget the number exactly. it's not that hard to get through because if you understand just one principle of a miracle, everything else the book says becomes understandable just like a stack of dominos falling over. but it does take a year, otherwise the temptation is to throw the thing out the window!
you don't just sit down to read it like another book. you sit down to have a chat with God, and I tell you, God is not a flatterer type guy. (I'm not like a literal person here, I'm trying to make a point) I repeat, God is not a single, flesh and blood dude above it all; he walks around in our bodies in the weirdest diguises I've ever seen! This book is one such disguise...but it's the real thing..One of the things it said to me that got to me, was "this world is not your home." far out! I was sure glad to find that out! 

you said: I believe that every life form is precious. Therefore, the existence of each form should be revered, not squashed like a bug.  
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this is true. there are some bugs I will not allow to live in my house though;D  when man gets to this point, of the above reference, wars will cease. that doesn't mean we have to set up housekeeping with every intelligent form of life though, just allow them their space.
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You said: Some people who think along Eastern lines, claim that God realizes himself through us. Does he really need us to realize himself? And why would he have to realize himself in such a way, over and over and over and over again.
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well, God is a concept. try and imagine God as a flesh and blood man. its so difficult, its impossible. so we can take Jesus, and say, he was a man, yet he was a God. but we say, he is different than us. he walked on water. we could never do that.and we say, please come back, teach us how. he says do it yourself, I already showed you how. now it's up to you.
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but getting back to your question of self realization. what does that mean to you? to <become>? are we not always becoming? is there an end when you are becoming? should there be? do you dance to get to the end of the dance? or is it the journey we would enjoy, not the goal itself of self realization. we could call this getting with the now moment.
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We’re probably going to reach a level of consciousness where we will feel God thoughts inside us so clearly that it will be like being one with God.
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yes, I can see this.
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another said: (forgive me for mixing up posts)
It makes much more sense that he has a really big heart, and he wanted to give other beings the opportunity to enjoy life.
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this is where my vision takes me: in the above reference. Life, is a gift. but don't take this gift back to the department store; if you do, you will insult the one who bore the gift to you.

love, alysia

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Thank you for that post Kardec. It was so uplifting to read.

Peace, Love and Light.

Sandra.