Hello James:

I've heard of F.W.H. Myers, but haven't read anything about him. When it comes to the relationship between disks and soul groups, I look at it two ways.

On the one hand, disks can form together to make soul groups.

On the other hand, perhaps disks are a kind of soul group (smaller soul groups can exist within larger soul groups). Consider how a disk starts with just one incarnation, and eventually it might have a large number.  Does it have the energy for numerous incarnations right from the start, or does it receive more energy from source according to need?

If it gets more energy from source, does it get energy that hasn't been utilized in a particular way, or does it get the energy of a being who wants to hook up with a group it can learn with? I had a dream that seemed to suggest that the later possibility is true, but I'm not certain. My memory is unclear on this>>did BB join Robert Monroe's I-there?

Going by what I've been able to figure out by thinking about it and considering the spirt messages I received, each self (probe) incarnates just once, and eventually rejoins its disk. For example, one time I saw my disk members connected with each other, they represented my past lives, yet they still existed in their own right (albeit, in a unified state), even though I'm here in this world. It is as if a form of tag team is in place, except you get only one turn. Perhaps there are exceptions.

What you shared above seems to support what I just said. When sources of information speak about reincarnation they don't tend to speak in this way, but there are some that do.

It seems to me that the sources that speak of reincarnation in the way I'm doing so, speak of it from a higher perspective. If after we return to our disk/soul group we share information with it completely, where is the need of reincarnating again?  When it comes to the core of our disk, our higher self, it never has to incarnate again. Only a small extension of itself, a probe, does so. 

When it comes to earth based attachments that would require us to incarnate again, perhaps we don't rejoin a disk until after we've overcome most of these attachments, and do so within various spirit realms.

It isn't as if this world has more to offer than our disk's connection to source. If some sort of attachment based issue needs to be worked out, another probe/extension of total self can be sent out. I figure it's more about collecting information than overcoming attachments.

Another way to look at this, if souls are merged as a disk or soul group there isn't much difference when it comes to the unity that is experienced. There might be some historical differences.

That's an interesting way to put it, "rush of acknowledgement." 

I did write that perhaps there are exceptions.

I'm really happy you all found this source to be interesting!  I just received my print copy of The Road to Immortality today in the mail and started reading it.  Meanwhile you have given me more food for thought in your discussion... (Thank you!)

James