recoverer wrote on Feb 12th, 2008 at 1:36pm:Alan:
We recently discussed this issue on another thread, so I won't say much. My understanding of the disk/I-there/over soul viewpoint is that selves don't get eaten by a larger self. Each self continues to exist. Also, as I stated on the other reincarnation thread, selves don't have to reincarnate over and over again. This World might present a unique learning experience, but there are ways to grow in the spirit World that go beyond what we experience here. For example, we learn from the incarnational experiences of our disk/soul group mates.
My guess is that you would agree with me that once we experience the glory of a higher realm, the concept of earth based attachments are hard to believe. Perhaps we might have some energetic kinks to work out, but there are better solutions than numerous incarnations.
Alan McDougall wrote on Feb 12th, 2008 at 1:53am:Trethian
I get your point, what you are saying if we do not remember our past life when we reincarnate that individual is dead, this is what i do not like about the concept of reincarnation. There is a belief that during the long cycles of incarnation and reincarnation one deposits each life experience in some larger pool higher consciousness. Like after each lifetime pouring that life memories into an external hard drive until when enlightenment is finally reached. You then to supposedly consolidate all your multiple lives into this one source and finally become the potential higher being. I don’t like this idea, as I believe when we die we progress as spiritual beings upwards toward the divine without returning to earth
Alan
I also believe that an individual "probe" doesn't have to incarnate over and over again. At the same time, i can't help but notice that Bruce Moen, Bob Monroe, Rosie's guidance, Edgar Cayces, all seem to suggest that on average, many Disks project QUITE a number of individualized aspects into space/time.
Moen and Cayce both directly speak on the issue of karma, in the sense of balancing. In Bruce's Curiosity story, part of the reason of what Curiosity the probe gets stuck in relation to the physical, is because of the "debts" and emotional issues its constantly creating in relation to other Disk selves. Curiosity innately seems to feel that it needs to correct and balance these out.
Different words and terms, and non linear, but basically the same message that the Cayce readings repeat time and time again as well, except that in that case, it was put in a linear perspective.
Rosie's guidance also talks about the issue of balance, and it being part of the reason for Earth lives.
So, its not that we have to incarnate over and over again. At any point, if WE DECIDE to stop treating others with negativity (meaning in our hearts i.e. our intentions, motivations, deepest core desires, not necessarily the outer actions as casually observed by the unawakened), and Retrieve all our other stuck selves, and dedicate our selves to service, THEN we don't have to live hundreds or thousands of lifetimes in physical.
No one is making us do it, it's totally a freewill thing, except that when you put out something, you have to experience its effect.
I'm quite sure that there are and have been some Disks who for whatever reason, decided to apply more Will power, kept from getting too addicted to Earth lifetimes/experiences (another motivation and cause of Earth lifetimes for some that Bob Monroe talks about a few times), and holds to love more than not, who don't and haven't had that many in physical lives.
For example, Cayce's source mentions that the Disk which projected Yeshua only had some 30 lifetimes, which isn't really a lot, when Bob talks of possibly a thousand or so contained within his Disk, and other sources seem to indicate that on average and in general, many Disks who became directly involved with Earth have quite a few overall, though they in the "present" may be only actively working with say 6 to 11 main lives and karma (memories and tendencies) from same.
So, when my own guidance and
experience (in finding out my own other lives and general patterns), along with 4 other sources i've come to trust more than not, are all saying basically the same thing when you boil it down to the bare essentials and core, yup i would be a stubborn personality indeed not to listen more deeply and consider it as truth.
But again, its relative, and it doesn't have to be a lot of numbers involved. It's whatever an individual Soul, and its connecting probes make of it. For less spiritually mature Disks, sometimes i think they just get addicted to the novelty of Earth lives and experiences for awhile, and they tend to manifest a lot of negative karma to balance later on--i say this believing it is both non linear and linear at the same time. This
tends to lead to a lot of Earth lives for a percentage.
Either way, while an individualized probe may not be attached to the physical after its phases out of same, and thus doesn't want to get back in there, the Greater self that is the Disk, still wants and needs to balance certain things especially if that indivdiual probe generated less PUL than not, in that life. So at some other point, a more aware and intune probe is created who will take on imbalance issues from its other selves.
Like with me, one of my selves who is strongly connected to my "present" psyche, really treated his temple like crap even though he knew better and had wiser beings than he teaching him differently. Hence in my life-- health, diet, exercise, and discipline along these lines has been a major focus and i'm re-balancing what he, my other self, unbalanced. I've learned to have a lot more discipline and consistency in those areas. Funny enough, this other self had a huge focus on Pisces in his chart--a sign/pattern well know for concentration on spirituality, psychism, and is a natural mystic type--can represent spiritual or psychic service. Me, i have a huge focus on the opposite sign Virgo (with my Sun in the 6th house), but with karmic indicators like South Node in Pisces. Virgo is the sign which deals with health, diet, assimilation, practical C1 service, etc more than any other sign in the Zodiac. I'm trying to integrate and balance both at the same time, to get a Greater Whole than the sum of the parts (in this case, Pisces and Virgo).
To branch a bit, Monroe also indicates that some who have concentrated more so in other systems different than the ELS, decide to only incarnate a couple of times or so, in the Earth during periods of collectively faster vibratory patterns, when "physical" isn't as "physical" and dense as it is now and has been for awhile from a linear perspective.
I guess these essentially "E.T." types, decide to do it in a smarter, more efficient and organized way... Chances are, they are already probably fairly spiritually developed to begin with, but want to concentrate on emotional energies, patterns, tendencies, which physical Earth is known for, for whatever reason. Maybe the systems they originally come from, just don't have much emphasis on the feeling and emotional aspect. A lot of E.T. literature, including some of Bruce's work, suggests that quite a few other groups from other systems, tend to be much mental and logical in nature, though with a more expanded awareness than most humans.
Sorry T, i didn't answer your question specifically i know. I can't because i don't remember, and either way i get the sense that its pretty relative and many experience it differently, and to different degrees. For me, i'm fairly sure that i will become aware of quite a bit of the rest of my Disk when i die, because i've already started the process Here.