Anything is possible, but I'm of the mind that our soul is living all of its lives simulatenously, now. So you can be a sheepherder and an astronaut 300 years into our future, all at the same time. So, under those circumstances, no you can't "come back" cuz you are already there. But anything is possible!

There are sources that claim it is possible to relive specific events from one's previous life in the afterlife, the purpose being to have the opportunity to make different choices and learn from them.  Of course, it would be more of a mental recreation of events, rather than an objective experience.

Just wanted to add here, my views towards this are based on journeys I've experienced through the higher dimensions.

I've been privileged to see the patterns and the repeat programs of souls I presently know, I've even seen and experienced my own last incarnation and seen through this that I was on the same road the same story was unfolding right before my eyes. I too was just repeating what had been in the past until this time I got it right I endured what I had been unable to through the past.

So this cycle is endless and even if the players are changed the story remains the same until you change.

Like it or not, that's how the whole thing works

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Perhaps Balance's take on it is true of his recent lives but not true for all souls at all times --?

I also have a personal answer to this question you ask. I think that when a life experience is strong enough to make an impression that changes our attitudes, we progress or devolve based upon what attitudes we take on. Those attitudes then continue to accompany us into our next life where we are given the opportunity to improve them, if necessary. We improve them by successfully meeting challenging situations that have been set up for our betterment. Betterment comes when we add more caring and concern to our attitudes and hopefully even PUL and compassion.

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You mean that you would lose the ego. The individuality. The self-consciousness.

I do not think this is so. I believe that because if you were not to carry your self consciousness with you, then you could not carry your experiences, knowledge, and everything in your life which contributed to your being. You would simply become something else entirely, without an reflection of YOU. If this occurred, then death would have no meaning to YOU but only some being in or outside of this world. If your self consciousness dies, YOU die. Therefore there wouldn't really be an "Afterlife" because there is nothing of yourself to experience it with.

Some people seem to believe (and actually are content believing) that we do lose the self consciousness/ego/you and merge with the connection of energy that is everything to become one whole being or something like that. What they don't realize in this belief is how similar it connects with atheistic beliefs and what people are most afraid of involving death---which is that there isn't anything better from here. Sure, something happens and your "soul" experiences wonderful things but what is your soul without you?

I hate the belief that the self consciousness and the consciousness have to be separate. The point isn't making one better than the other. The point is equaling them to perfection.

Part of the beginning to that is even recognizing what all of us are talking about. Do you have any idea how many people in the world do not and will not understand the importance of consciousness? Our ability to just go "Ok. I am way more than what I thought I was, and life is much much bigger than what I perceived it to be" is an incredible thing. That is a really big, big step to figuring out what you need to do in this life.

The main thing is just knowing that it is about improvement. Self improvement, improvement of others, and improvement of your environment. Having that understanding is like a gift in itself. We should all consider ourselves incredibly fortunate.

I think that the concept of reincarnation, whether its true or false, is pretty silly. The way I always imagined it and thought it made sense is that every soul is new and develops through the experiences of its human life. There are tools everywhere to make that experience easier. Developing the consciousness for one is part of this.

Then I figured you die and you see the truth to existence and understand eternity. Your development continues here. If you made one too many mistakes, you will go through experiences in the Afterlife to absolve yourself. If you don't want to accept your fate, then of course thats your free will and you become a ghost until you move on. I've seen ghosts so I know they're real. They obviously didn't reincarnate, nor did they move forward.

Now the only way reincarnation might make some sense to me is if each soul had to experience each lifetime of the human consciousness. Though it only takes some observation to see there are a ton of people which obviously haven't learned anything or given any institution to living before their one life. So if new souls exist, then clearly it isnt required to experience all of time.

And the way which has reincarnation make the most sense to me is that it is always decided by the soul and never forced. They can continue to develop in the Afterlife, or experience Earth again. There will always be souls which choose differently.

"Change" "Improvement" "Evolution" are what I have understood best to describe the purpose of life. I think that if you can live out a full life and be on your death bed and be able to say that you are completely satisfied with your life experience and with who you are, reincarnation is probably no longer required. You transcend and the next stage of your development begins.

I think we have discussed this before with your metaphor in that I also believe it is possible to become the actor in this life. You won't have to wait for death. The experience of increased consciousness is so life altering that the character changes entirely to what I could only conceive to be the actor. It's not a widely common thing, but it does happen. Then the actor can continue the role as itself and improve from there on. A person who is all character is most certainly one living strictly with the ego. But once the character and the actor merge to one individual, all aspects of the consciousness can develop and improve (including the ego).