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I would recommend getting started with Newton's books, this one and this one. Newton's work is written with what I thought was a surprising no-bullshit approach, and it's packed with information. If you're anything like me, this will lay a decent foundation for any other reading you might want to do later. I'm currently reading Weiss's work, which is interesting, but written in a sparser, more subjective, more speculative style. For me at least, I couldn't take Weiss half-seriously if I hadn't read Newton first.
The following responses are my current speculations, and so to be taken with a lot of salt:
> For me it would seem that in order for reincarnation to exist it would require the presence of a higher conscience being.
I have no idea whether this is theoretically required or not. However, reports from regressions do indicate the presence of not one, but countless more highly evolved spiritual beings, who are like us, and incarnated in the past, but have progressed farther than we have so far (perhaps because they are older). It appears that we are working to be like them, too, and that the purpose of this is to become like, and perhaps eventually merge into, the universal soul (God). The universal soul described in regression reports appears to be unlike the personal god described by Abrahamic religions. We don't interact with it overtly, but we sense it, we exist in its presence. There's no point in praying to or worshiping this entity, for in a way, you are already one with it.
> Second what is the reson or purpose of experiencing multiple lives if we cannot consiously remember them?
To take each life on its own merits. To take it seriously. To not treat it like a video game, from which you can log out at any time. To wipe the slate clean, to keep us from blaming each other in this life for injustices done to each other in previous lives. The point is that we learn compassion and wisdom, and this is not helped by remembering indefinitely how your current brother was an abusive father, or someone who stabbed you in the back in a past life. Each soul needs to be given a new chance.
My understanding is that Earth is a particularly harsh part of the universe, for souls learning difficult lessons. I suspect that, if we were allowed to remember our experience as spirits, many of us would want to quit our Earthly lives as soon as possible. Our yearning for spirit life would sabotage the lessons we came to learn here.
Apparently there are other planets, and non-planet environments, where existence is not as harsh, and the souls inhabiting them have full awareness. It's possible that Earth could become like that if we work together to learn our lessons and develop in that direction, but it's possible also that we may destroy it, having to resume our incarnations somewhere else.
We have also abused and distorted knowledge given to us. Tibet had a brutal feudal regime based on Buddhism - they knew of karma, yet instead of this helping them become kind and compassionate, they used it as an excuse for the upper classes to treat others poorly. They figured, being miserable in this life must be due to something bad the person did in a past life, so there's no point for a well-off person to worry about it.
> Third whats the point in the end once we have completed our journey?
Becoming like the universal soul, possibly merging with it. I'm not sure that we can even fathom the end goal. We can fathom the intermediate goals, e.g. to become more like the advanced souls who are ahead of us in learning.
> Fourth us it our soul or oyr conscience that is reincarnated or are they the same thing?
It seems to be the same thing.
> And lastly are new souls generated to replace ones that have achieved enlightenment?
I can't say I understand the universal cycle, but it seems like souls are constantly being created. Newton describes how one of the available activities as spirits is to care for new souls being born.
check out this book
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Journey of Souls By Michael Newton, is the book you are looking for. It outlines life before and after embodiment. A lot of it resonates and feels true to me
Hmm. Sounds like a good book actually. I'd love to read another view on that. Off too check that out. Ive found the more I "explore" this area, the more fascinating it becomes.
Check out the journey souls
Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001MTENOC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_NIj1CbVVHRR2R
This is the concept of pre-birth karma. It is not only responsible for people born with genetic diseases, it is responsible for situations/families that you are born in, your personal circumstances, and everything else.
In many life-after-death experiences such as in these books...
... They all share very similar stories in which you "decide" your current lives' initial conditions prior to birth. The concept is that the "soul" wishes to learn a lesson and chooses an appropriate time, place, circumstance that exercises the best suited probabilities for learning the lesson. The Buddha often talked about common karmic implications: Such as criminals often get reincarnated as animals or humans that suffer as victims of their own crimes. Nothing in the world can beat karma because essentially, it IS the LoA that you have performed on yourself prior to birth. The LoA is law.
For example, the greedy person rebirths as a person in poverty. Maybe the lesson for him is to learn the value of not being greedy. A murderer will become a murder victim. The LoA is not unfair, because essentially, it is your own "soul" which had decided for it to happen through the LoA - you just have had soul amnesia.
In Eastern divination, there is something known as the I-Ching. They believe that a person's "destiny" comprises of both a free-will component as well as a "capacity". Everyone is born with a capacity, and it is their own decisions in life that will decide how far within that capacity the person will be able to develop to.
In my opinion, prior to birth, you develop a mental-astral body that embodies these handicaps. For example, you might be deaf, blind, having a genetic malformation, etc. Then this mental-astral body (or the "soul) is attached to the physical body being developed within the womb through the "silver cord" at the Throat chakra. This is where life sparks, the soul occupies the nervous system and adapts to it. But realize that the DNA, the circumstances, the parents have already all been "selected" prior to the occupying. It is only because the "soul" has chosen for a Down syndrome life. Well, so here are the two common interpretations of the LoA with respect to reincarnation. Of course, there is a subtle difference.
In Buddhism, reincarnation is treated more like a domino-effect, rather than a "soul" travelling from one body to another. It is more like a candle lighting up another candle. The previous candle can die independently without affecting the second candle. (This might account for the eternal damnation/judgement that Christianity advocates. ) The thing is that the second candle is ALSO caused from you, so there really isn't a "soul". (A bit of a digression, I apologize.)
To answer your question more directly, well, it is the soul's own choice to be born in that way. The second thing is, it could very well be possible to improve the situation. However, due to the "capacity" mentioned when I talked about the I-Ching, it might or might not be possible. (Maybe a cure/suppression of the symptoms is invented in the era? Who knows.) What we can do, is to influence the present with our decisions and use the LoA to better ourselves right now. However, we must also realize that everything "bad" that happens is essentially just another lesson for you to learn.
Hope this helped.
Take a look a this book it's one man's life time research into the subject. It's seriously the most amazing book I've ever read.
My wife has been reading Journey of Souls, which compiles case studies of people who have died and were recovered. It has some interesting stories and theories on what happens after we die. The book compiles similar events together and draws conclusions from them to learn things about the afterlife. Even if you don't believe in the afterlife, you can read the stories and draw your own conclusions. It's a good book if you are interested in these types of things.
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives-ebook/dp/B001MTENOC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420733537&sr=8-1&keywords=journey+of+souls
read this book. maybe it will change your mind.
also
http://www.amazon.com/Life-After-Investigation-Phenomenon-Survival-Bodily/dp/0062517392