As I have tried to understand what comes after death, there seems to me to be several schools of thought on reincarnation.

1. Our separate personality leads many lives. This seems to come mainly from past life regressionists, some mediums  and some who have had many OBEs. Apparently, we sit around between lives and plan our next life and the lessons we want to learn/experience with the help of our friends. This, according to some, involves soul contracts with every living thing we come into contact with. Its a bit fuzzy to me when we actually escape the cycle of "live, die, repeat"in this model. It is also a bit hard to see where one could get "lost" in some focus level or need to be "retrieved" in this scenario as it is all planned out to a large degree.

2. From others, mainly after death communication and some NDEs and OBErs, come the thought that reincarnation is not linear and our separate personality experiences it relatively few times. Rather, it is the Higher Self/Soul that sends out more "copies" of itself. After we die, we move on and evolve through many more dimensions and eventually merge with the God/Source. I can see more with this model the necessity of growing out of belief systems and the possibility of personal hells and whatnot as we work through what we have experienced in this life. The idea of "planning" doesn't seem to come through as strong here.

I don't see how they can both be right, and frankly I'm confused why the real truth shouldn't be more evident after so many claim to experience the non physical reality. Why the disparity and what really happens?

Recoverer ,
What about our separated  aspects of self ? ...Some sources say , we need to reincarnate again and again to retrieve the separated  aspects of our selves   .... These aspects are our own smaller versions from many lifetimes which are living in a narrower reality and sometimes in traumatic situations .... So in order to become a more whole being we need to reincarnate again and again to retrieve these smaller versions / aspects  of our selves .....What is Your opinion about this theory ?......

doodad- You make some excellent points, which is why I have concluded that either there IS no "ultimate truth" or, if there is, we sure won't find it on an internet conversation board.  Personally I don't accept that reincarnation, however we define it, is real, but of course I have no more proof than anyone else.
Basic math tells me it can't be true but those who believe will insist that we lived lives elsewhere in the universe, either as aliens or as fish on a watery planet.  So basic math doesn't matter as far as they are concerned.  We can rationalize virtually any belief.

Arguing these things is a dead end road.  For me the points made by 1796 make the best sense.  We should focus on living a good life, helping those in need, being compassionate, and just being grateful for our life and our human consciousness.  All the rest is just background static and meaningless noise.

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  As regards Earth change type information, the fact that such a wide variety of different sources and people have picked up something about the subject, indicates to me that there is likely something to it. 

As far as so many being off about the exact timing, there can be various reasons for that.  Such as showing the fluidic and flux like nature of time and the future. To some extent, the future is always changing as to exact timing and manifestation.  While the most probable timelines can be pin pointed sometimes, just as often, especially talking big, collective events, can change some as to timing or exact manifestation. 

Two, how hard it is to perceive and translate well information from the nonphysical that is expanded in nature into accurate human-physical understanding.  Talking to your dead grandma is one thing, but tuning into the destiny of a world is another.  Takes a lot of clarity, inner balance, and expanded perception to accurately perceive and translate such information.

   Another factor: Preconceptions and conscious, "left brain", interpreter interference.  For a great example from my own experience--the G2 cloud-Galactic Core event/interaction and Dr. Paul LaViolette's information. I assumed because of this event and it's unusual nature, that it could be "the event".
  The testing and experiments that the military did with remote viewing indicates quite clearly that the less you consciously know about about a subject, the better and more accurately you will tend to perceive it nonphysically and/or translate it physically. Which is why they set up the random numbers being assigned to targets, and that even the "control" people guiding the remote viewing often didn't know what the target was, and definitely not the number sequence someone picked for it.  Not always the case, but often enough. 

   Getting information from both expanded and hindering sources.   Your Expanded self/Exec committee Disk level might give you general information about possible or probably earth or civilization changes, but then later on, once you're open minded to it, more hindering and limiting sources like a negative ET group, might slip you some inaccurate info to mislead you.  One reason might be, to get you discouraged or disbelieving about the whole subject. 

  And lastly, maybe the huge majority of individuals are just not meant to know the more exact timing of this, even if it can be pin pointed?  2000+ years ago, Jesus talked about massive changes happening, but he said that even he didn't know the exact timing and how exactly the events would manifest.  Granted, the way time and the future works, is that the closer you get to the most probable time lines, the more set and probable they become unless variables are introduced, and thus the more exact timing and kinds of events can be narrowed down. 

  Speaking for self, i've been consistently been saying for many years now, that the period of 2013 to 2016 was going to be an especially change filled period.  I think it's quite possible that civilization as we know it, may collapse before 2017 begins. 

   I've also pointed to the conditional, relative nature of the future and how choice affects timing and material manifestation.  For example, awhile back i was getting that there was a possibility that US and Israel was going to aggressively start warring with Iran and other countries.  I was told if that did happen, then likely large Solar Storms would happen that would fry the grid and collapse civilization earlier than later.  I wasn't told that it WOULD happen no questions asked, i told it was a potential development and it could go either way. 

  Thankfully Russia stepped in and brokered peace and diplomacy at these volatile times.  Some power mongers within the US and within Israel, wanted nothing more than a war with Iran, but Russia made it difficult for these. 

  So if 2017 arrives, and current civilization is still going on strong, then i will, like many in the past, have egg on my face. But, i would be very surprised if the collapse doesn't happen by then.   

For the record, I tend to believe that our civilization exists on a knife edge. It really wouldn't take much to bring it all crashing down. A freak solar flare, an economic crash, a well-planned crippling cyberattack on electric or internet infrastructure, a pandemic, nuclear terrorist attack, any one of these could set us back a thousand years. There's definitely potential. I suppose if one keeps predicting this year or that year, eventually they'll get something right provided they live long enough. 

As per your post yesterday, Rondele: I have been considering that idea. I guess my fundamentalist wrong/right upbringing has me very reluctant to accept that there might not be THE ONE answer.

Rondele, yes that's basically what I meant. I thought I should probably have added "THE ONE answer available to us in this lifetime" to my post. Ultimately, there is a truth and the puzzle pieces fit together. But when? Who knows? We work with what we have and are responsible for that, not?

Justin:

I'm not certain, but I think 1796 directed that lady with egg image towards you.

I for one appreciate the time you took to write your posts.

Even if I didn't agree with them, the love in my heart wouldn't allow me to poke fun at you.  1796 and Roger (Rondelle) with his applause can justify such kindness lacking posts for as long as they want to, but eventually they will have to face the fact that such insensitivity will need to be dealt with and is contradictory to the spirit growth they sometimes speak of.

If one truly views others as precious divine beings, then one doesn't make jokes towards others just for the fun of it.  The part of self that takes pleasure in making such jokes includes some real non-Christ like darkness. Perhaps out of the interest of free will, God gave us the  possibility of choosing fallen angel like aspects of being. Perhaps it isn't wise to develop such aspects, not even just for the fun of it, such as when we poke fun at others.