Uh, I think the idea is that the higher self knows and decides these things, not the concious mind. That's a big difference.

That doesn't mean the the concious mind isn't going to suffer if you see your beautiful little child's body destoyed by falling debris. All the communications I've read from different sources over the years sort fo portray the idea that the bliss of the other side kind of wipes out the pain thing.

We are taught to fear death. Fear is the motivation, not love, behind alot of so-called good works. I didn't think it was a new age message to not fear death. I grew up seeing an empty cross displayed for all to see on Sunday, the glory of Christ's triumph over death. Knowledge  that we all had anyway but we just had to be reminded of it. The reminder failed.

The people who need the most help are not the ones who have died but the ones who are left behind. Sometimes it's just hard to be a human. Peace to all the moms and dads....

The quake is where Osama is.  How would my higher self decide that I should be a 3 year old at daycare, and have the building fall on me, and be crushed?

I just don't get that part of it.  I don't fear death, but I don't understand.

Matthew,

I can feel your distress at what is taking place, but  for a minute think in these terms, there is no death. The children who have passed have lived many life times, there souls will be returning to there over-souls re-merging back into, there all that is, there lessons from this incarnation will be absorbed ,and the process will continue.

These things are all planed ,they are not accidental, the souls agree to partake,the reasons are many and varied they maybe teaching others through there sacrifice, the value of each and every life. I know the lessons are extremely painful, and my heart goes out to all who are in pain.

I think we can all see there is real movement on our planet, the transition is in process. May all who pass in this time, move over with peace. and may those who remain love our mother earth the way we where designed to.

love to all

we just don't have the whole picture yet, but one thing I feel is true, no life, even if the life is very short is a waste...something there...and energy never dies.

This is difficult Matthew,

but to have existed is perfection.  There is nothing else.

love, blink

I have to think about this question about the relationship of the individual personalities to the whole...I am used to it so it seems feasible to me...but it seems to me that you are asking a legitimate question about how do you know the relationship of the individual to the whole.

If I see myself as the child who transitions early, I'm not sure it is a big deal. If I see myself as the parent of a child who transitions, that's a big deal. How can you stand to be here without your child? But to experience leaving here early is no big deal. Life is not that much fun, but then if you leave early, you have to give up opportunities for growth. But maybe that particular life doesn't have opportunities for you. Maybe your role was to provide opportunities for someone else to experience some things. Besides, as a child, you haven't invested alot in a life, maybe it is easy to just come back again.

But I personally don't have any of those in-between-lives experiences that might shed some light on this. I don't have any memories of how the soul might experience the early demise of one of its personalities. Given all the things that humans can go through, I don't see any reason to think the souls are wringing their hands about individual suffering. They seem pretty detached from it to me. I mean, sometimes angels show up and help people (at least I hear they do) but most of the time we get to suffer through or enjoy  consequences all by ourselves.