You exist. That's it. No beginning, nor end. You are.
As for many of the so called Christian beliefs, along with many others....They are more like something you have to scrape from the bottom of your shoes after a walk through the park..

I begin to think the soul is eternal, whatever the soul is. I begin to think the soul has many other personalities than the one presently considered as 'existing'. However, ultimately, they are one. When the oneness is recognized, happiness is present.

When it comes to the examples Bruce provided, these were souls who are so closed to love, they couldn't be helped.  It is a shame that such a thing happens, because an eternal life of glory isn't something a soul would want to lose.  Why would a soul take the chance of incarnating into a life that has a lot of negative influences, if it understood that it might get so lost it would be eventually destroyed?

I've written before about how I help cleanse lost souls so they can move on to a higher level of being. These souls include souls that get lost in the way the souls Bruce Moen spoke of.  One time I was shown the image of a famous evil man who shall remain nameless.  His energy was connected to my energy and then a stream of light energy was run through the two of us.  A couple of weeks later I had a dream where a negative minded person wouldn't listen to what another person had to say. Then the person who tried to do the explaining saved the life of this negative minded person. This being the case, the negative minded person decided to listen to the person who saved him. At the end of the dream I experienced the spirit I helped at my side, and the two of us looked back at the dream. He said: "You receive from me." This statement puzzled me until I understood what it meant.  The spirit I helped had become a part of the light, and I receive from the light.

I figure if the spirit I helped the light cleanse could be helped despite the kind of person he was, then just about anybody can be helped.  Why the spirits Bruce Moen and Howard Storm speak about don't get helped I don't know.  Perhaps there aren't enough people who are willing to allow themselves to become vehicles for cleansing. One thing that has enabled me to have the courage to do so is that I feel so good about my connection to Christ and beings like him, I know they wouldn't get me involved with a process that isn't safe. This has been proven over and over again.

Regarding what Hawkeye wrote, I know there are some imperfect things about Christianity; however, I figure a lot of people have avoided lower realms partly because of their Christian faith.  If it is possible for somebody to know years ahead of time that 2012 will happen (?), perhaps it is possible for the divine powers that be to know ahead of time how Christianity would evolve, yet they went ahead and had Jesus do as he did. Perhaps because they understood that in the long run things would work out for the best.

A late P.S. The spirit that was helped was stuck in his self-created darkness for a while before he was helped.

For what it's worth (because i'm only repeating what i've been taught by others) both Buddhism and ACIM are quite clear and teach very specifically that everybody gets there (drops the obscurations of ego) in the end. That the variable is time, or number of incarnations it takes to reach awakening.

Now on the other hand neither teach the existence of a soul in the sort of individual form that most of us imagine or were taught in school. Buddhism teaches that the perception of self has no reality, that it's in practice the result of the coincidence of a number of aggregates that create the appearance of self hood, but that viewed more carefully these have no permanence. That universal mind is in effect the only permanence.

I'm actually quite cautious about writings that claim to have explored the full afterlife cycle from death to birth. Robert Monroe for example writes of individuals reincarnating, but i think there are big questions as to just what exactly it is that is brought into the new life. Many of the writings i've seen may refer only to the initial stages after death and before dissolution of the self, and may only give a partial view - one which anyway is distorted by the beliefs of the viewer.

Sorry if that's not very satisfactory, or even very encouraging so far as the personal self is concerned, but i guess maybe in the end we've got to drop the need for a finite understanding of these things in the relative conceptual and 'scientific' terms we are used to as it's simply not possible. i.e. we simply don't know enough, or aren't at the intellectual level most of us operate at wired the right way to support understanding.

Perhaps the good news is that it seems we can trust that there are loving forces (by whatever name) working on our collective behalf. Maybe our task is to become able to rest easily in this knowledge.  Perhaps excessive striving to tie the situation down is itself just an impediment, and another manifestation of ego...

But for me Don, I don't need Bruce, Bob , or Howard to believe in something. Verification by Storms visions seam a very distinct possibility of a connection with an ET. Most likly his belief that this meeting was with Christ was moved in that direction because of indoctrination through the church. The unfortunate thing is that Christianity turned into a breeding ground for homosexuals ands child molesters. And the Church was and is still willing to hide them away from prosecution. People seeking power over the weakness of others. Christianity... No thanks, you can keep it. Wouldn't that put those so called "good men" on an equal level with hmmm....Hitler? I will stick with us all being aliens, thanks. You can be a Christian if you feel the need. Again that's not saying that its all bad as I do agree that it has kept many from the lower realms, making them far easier to reach so in the end they can even be brought from that entrapment. But even the Christions speak of an existence without death of soul, in their heaven or even in their hell. I will pass on both of them and continue through to the upper levals  thanks.
We have a neighbor who has a brother who was in a bit of trouble a few years back. Hooked on heroin he robbed a bank. His get away was on a bike and needless to say he just couldn't peddle fast enough. After serving his time in jail he reunited with his brouther for Christmas. My wife and myself had them over for Christmas dinner. After dinner I turned to him and asked him if he knew what we were. He looked at me and said in a low voice..Christians. Well I never laughed so hard in my life. "Christians" I said! No, we are your neighbors.  

 Vajra my friend, have you ever noticed a pattern in your posts of the word and concept of "ego" getting mentioned time, time, and time again, sometimes more than those words which represent concepts like love, Oneness, and Source?  What is real, and what is worth concentrating on more?

One of the belief systems you mention a lot, i really got into awhile myself.  I stepped back from it because i noticed a similar thing happening to me.  It was like my subconscious was getting programmed towards that of polarization.   Polarization leads to imbalance.

 That and a dream helped me to detach from it.  


 What we focus and concentrate on, we become.  It's that simple really.  

Really more focus should be on Love, Oneness, positivity, and NOT on the problems and limitations.  

 Not that it is helpful to repress the latter, but why so focus on it?   Every spiritual minded person knows what the problem is, and that it boils down to separatism/fear/selfishness in its various form and expressions.  

 Please know that i write you as a friend, and as someone who went down the same path with certain belief systems.   I know first hand how deceptively attractive certain teachings are, because of the very fact that they DO contain much basic truth.    

 Why not directly ask Yeshua himself, if he was strongly involved in the creation of certain belief systems and books?  

 Those of us who have, have gotten "no" in various ways and manners.   He did not speak and teach like that while alive, so why would he speak in such a polarized manner in a channeled book?  The more we "fight" against, and concentrate on "ego" as some kind of monster we need to slay, the more we keep it well fed and alive.  Instead, if we put our core focus on what's real and expanding in nature, eventually the lack of light aspects within us, get starved and eventually completely fades away.  

You are so correct Matthew. It not the belief, its the weakness of morality of some people, both homosexual and heterosexual. Both RC priests and nuns committed these horrible acts. Along with a score of others following other religions. Its the fact that heads of the churchs were, and are more than happy to hide the problem, that is even worse.  And the real facts are that we are not talking about the few. There were many and it was spread across many of the organised religions. Faith in God is not the problem in my view. I believe in God. Its organised religion, and indoctrination that is the problem in my view. God is there for the asking. There is no need of a building or of set doctrines.
But Don...
You may need your belief of soul annihilation. Bruce may need it and so may Howard Storm. But I surely don't. You can follow your "bone" for as long as you need to. I don't believe that faith, love, belief in God needs the fear of annihilation to have God come into our lives. This twisted form of doctrine has been the problem for many years. The thought that "You must do what my religion says or you will be struck down or go to hell", or even worse. That's the dog doo. Finding God through fear...what cr-p.
What makes this Howard Storms book or visions or story truth? At one point it must have been "new age" also. Did Christ come directly to you to confirm the story? What is this evidence youtell us about? Evidence?
I did say something wrong and you make a good point. It is a breeding ground for child molesters I still say. But, "Gay" has nothing to do with it at all. I know plenty of Gays who are not child molesters.  And yes, heterosexual perverts are there also. Just like everywhere. But having the church hide them from prosecution,... ya thats a good thing.(Not) And why do you say a few. We are talking of hundreds over the years. Its time to face the facts Don and quit hiding behind a collar and a cross. Hundreds, if not thousands! To me it seams like the hiding of this problem is going on right now. ( By the way, I forgive Hitler, as I know God has also.) As I have said, and perhaps your just trying to protect you personal interests, but many "people" involved in Christianity and organised religion seek power over the weak. Just like many cult leaders do. That's the truth Don. Some people even start their own faiths. Open there own Church's. Try to put the fear of God into the poor sheep that feel the need to follow blindly to the slaughter house. Or Bank perhaps.
You comments about "mindless hatred" may be better served as you gaze into the mirror. Tell us all what you see. Even Christianity was a New Age Religion only a few hundred years ago.
There has always been those who led and those who follow. Follow all you need to Don. Some will follow you. Do as what you believe is right. But don't be thinking that your truth is true to anyone more than to yourself.
I stand with God. I am not still searching for a truth that may never be found. I know the truth and the truth is with God. Not religions. Not fear of him. New Age truth, not Old World fear.
Perhaps I will see you at some point in F25 as I pass by you on my way home.