Rondelle:
The experiences of some people have found differently than what Don contends, including my experiences. A combination of experiences and spirit messages told me that the disk viewpoint is true in some way. These experiences and messages happened in a way where it wasn't a matter of my imagination spinning out mullarkey.
There are near death experiencers who have found the same thing in their own way. Consider the below words of Thomas Sawyer. What do they add up to? P.M.H. Atwater found that only one finger of our soul incarnates. What does this imply? Also posted is what Ron Kruger experienced during his NDE.
Perhaps disks join with other disks to form soul groups. When people find out about souls within a group, they sometimes don't find out how extensive each soul, as a disk, is.
The disk viewpoint doesn't need to be viewed as an unpleasant thing. If your higher self and disk members live according to love and divine will, why would this be a problem?
From Thomas Sawyer's NDE:
"Reincarnation is not a linear thing. One of the problems in defining it is that there is no analogy to it. It is outside of time, yet we can't help but think of it in terms of the past and the future, and this incarnation. The whole story is so big and so involved.
Reincarnation is an opportunity to reach a goal. The goal is true self-realization. Self-realization is to know that you are a soul, a part of God, yet also the Whole. Perhaps no one has a very good image at all of his or her soul - the whole self. And they have no idea of what proportion their personality is in relationship to their soul.
As an example, a characteristic of your personality is one percent of all of your personality characteristics put together, and all of your personality characteristics make up your personality, and your personality is only about five percent of your soul, then we are blinding ourselves to 95 percent of the rest of our soul in order to reincarnate.
Reincarnation is an opportunity to evolve through many personalities. The definition of reincarnation is that your personality is who you are in your current lifetime, and that it can be reincarnated as an entirely different personality with the characteristics of the previous personality and previous personalities including even characteristics of another soul altogether. That is, characteristics of your present personality may be the reincarnation of other characteristics of personalities from your previous lifetimes as well as characteristics from personalities from other souls."
FROM RON Kruger's NDE:
"THE HEAVENLY PLAINS
What I’ll call the “Heavenly Plains” was full of loving peace. An infinite expanse of glorious light enveloped and permeated everything. This light was evenly distributed and seemed to undulate gently with a force field.
Directly in front of me, but slightly below, stood a group of spirits: less than 100, but more than 50. Each spirit had an identity of sorts, but they were part of each other–a single entity, a single awareness, all part of a single force. In the center of the front row were three oriental women. I realized that all of the spirits comprising the entity were my past lives, and that the oriental women were my most recent lives.
Their faces were clearly humanoid, but from their shoulders down, their forms blurred gradually. Their arms and legs dissolved near their ends. Hovering on the same level, in rows, they seemed loosely joined at the shoulders. Their identities were of both sexes and all nationalities. None were deceased relatives, and I recognized none of them from my recent life.
Each of the spirits had lived once, but the truth and experience and wisdom of each lifetime was integral to the entire group. When each soul returned, their lives were absorbed by all, so there where no distinctions between thoughts and attitudes within the group. Each of them shared completely every experience and every knowledge of every lifetime into a single conscience. Like spices and other ingredients added to a Mulligan Stew, each added to the mix, but the resulting flavor was one. I was them, and they were me. There were all of my past, and they were my present.
They communicated with me as one, not with words, but by a kind of telepathy. Every thought, whether it was one simple emotion or volumes of information, came packaged with instant and complete understanding. No message could suffer misinterpretation, the problems of syntax, or the variance of intelligence."
rondele wrote on Apr 21st, 2009 at 2:13pm:Don said: "The notion of a "soul disk" is not only false; it is incoherent and therefore meaningless. Both ES and classical channeling experience the phenomena of a group soul, but recognize it as several distinct souls bound together by the principle of like attracts like, not as one over-soul attracting reincarnational lives or combining soul fragments. In my view the "soul disk" notion is a New Age preconception imposed on an misunderstood astral experience. "
Don- In Lighted Passage, page 215, Rea (the deceased daughter of Rev. Vincent) tells her father about her own persona: "I-the Rea you know-was only a small part of the being that I am in eternity. Like a flower, you saw only the visible. Well, the real Rea is the whole past with all its journeys summed up in being, and now there is another new journey concering which I can only surmise."