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Accountability and Reincarnation
“It is your resistance to 'what is' that causes your suffering.” ~ Buddha ~
After you passed from your previous lifetime, and before you incarnated into this particular life, you made choices. You spent lots and lots of time contemplating your actions from the past life. You were given all the time you needed to evaluate, discuss with your between-life guides and mentors, and plan for your next growth opportunity.... your next lifetime. Between lives you had full awareness. You knew where you had been, the things you had said and done, the mistakes you made, and the good you had contributed. You learned lessons from the school of hard knocks while in earthly incarnation. And between lives you evaluated your progress. You knew whether you were a beginner soul or an advanced soul, and you knew what kind of life you needed to have if you were to become more advanced. Some folks learn lessons slowly; others are a quick study. Thus some souls require many more incarnations than others to learn what they came here to learn. Some may require two million incarnations to reach enlightenment, i.e. complete awareness and liberation from the karmic wheel of reincarnation. Other souls may reach that level in only one thousand lives. The period of time one spends in earthly existence is like the grades of school. The time between lives is like summer vacation. One may rest or have an enjoyable holiday, one may attend summer school, or one may work. The choice is yours. This period of time between lives may be short, or it may last the equivalent of hundreds of earthly years, but it is 'evaluation time'. When you have rested, learned, and planned for your future, you are ready to incarnate again. You will choose the circumstances of your life right down to the minutest detail. You will choose your parents, based on karmic ties and the environment they will provide for your formative years. You will choose who your brothers and sisters will be, your friends, teachers, bosses, neighbors, and everyone you plan to interact with. You will choose the circumstances of your life, too, for you will need many challenges if you are to grow. You may choose to be born with a serious disease, or you may choose to have an accident. In previous lives you may have been an abusive person, and to learn how that feels you may choose to be an abuse-victim this lifetime. You may choose to die young or to live long in order to learn even further hard lessons. Choosing an easy life is a waste of time. A soul who chooses wisely will take on challenges that test them greatly, but not kill them off early. All souls have free will to choose their life patterns. All souls want to grow. Yet most souls do not remember their between-life choices, and so they may resort to blame and retribution for their earthly experiences. It is vital to a soul's growth that they accept accountability for their own choices. If they do, they will grow exponentially. If they do not, they will come back again and again and again. To attempt to end that forever-cycle, they will then make between-life choices to make their earthly lessons harder, in order to finally get the point. While a soul is in earthly life, they are expected to learn, to heal themselves from their hard lessons, to expand their consciousness, and to help others to learn and grow. If they do they will know they are on track because they will feel 'light'. They will have a sense of inner peace. They will be healthy. They will be free of addictive habits. They will begin to have awareness of why they are here. If they do not, they will just keep coming back over and over again, and making the same unconscious mistakes. During one's earthly existence, a soul will meet friends who can be a shoulder to cry on, teachers to guide them, healers who may briefly help get them un-stuck. But these people are only a 'rest-stop' and not to be leaned on or relied upon indefinitely, for they have their own life-lessons. Your karma is yours to deal with! To avoid your own karma prevents you from learning, and from becoming empowered, thus defeating what you came here to do. Be grateful for the friends, teachers, healers, and associates who have helped you to get on your feet. But do get on your feet! Do not become addicted to the crutches in life. Do not lean on others when you are expected to stand up straight. Learn to heal yourself of your own issues, for those are the very things you chose to deal with before you took this body. This is what 'accountability' is all about. And being 'accountable' means you are on track... it means you are beginning to remember why you chose to come here... and it means you will not have to repeat these same lessons again. Rejoice! (c) copyright 2003
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