Please excuse me for interrupting here, but from what I've read on Shamanism (including of course your own book, Crowan), I was under the impression that souls do actually have an input regarding their next lives before they're born again. Surely that's similar to what Paul believes?
Assuming all goes well and the soul gets to the Land of the Dead, then it will be able to heal from the previous life. It can review what it has learned, enjoy life in the Land of the Dead, and plan for the next life.
Sadly, all does not always (or even, these days, often) go well and the soul is frequently lost. In this case it can be reborn, with no plans and no healing. And often with soul loss. The more soul loss, the more chance of getting lost.
Yes, I appreciate what you're saying, but the principle seems the same.
Recently, Paul posted:
The circumstances in which we chose to be born only gives us a starting point in which to begin forming our life experiences.
We can be born with a silver spoon in our mouths and end up starving to death as a vagrant under a bush at the side of the road, alternatively we can be born into poverty and end up as a multi billionaire, with every comfort that we could desire, nothing is set in stone unless we choose to make it that way.
We come with a free will, it is our personal choices that are directly influenced by our underlying thought patterns and beliefs, which dictates how we make use of it to create our own realities.
I understand from this – and I’m sure he’ll correct me if I’m wrong – that he believes (though I know he doesn't like the word) that our life path is fixed by our thoughts during this life. I don’t think Paul believes in the Land of the Dead. I have no idea if he believes in reincarnation. (Maybe we could have a forum for ‘What Paul believes’, so we had a central place to ask him!)
Even if we have been to the Land of the Dead last death, we have not planned much. Just along the lines of, ‘This life, I want to learn patience’ or whatever. We don’t plan many circumstances. I know one soul whose only plan was to be born to particular parents, because he knew that he could learn a lot from them – while knowing that the foetus had a physical problem that would lead to an early death (I’m using ‘he’ because he was male in this last life). And even that isn’t available to the many souls that don’t make it there. They can make no plans at all.
Hi Jane, thanks for the nod.
I understand from this – and I’m sure he’ll correct me if I’m wrong – that he believes (though I know he doesn't like the word) that our life path is fixed by our thoughts during this life.
Personally I do not believe that anything is fixed in stone, and although our underlying thought patterns and beliefs form our experiences within this reality, I understand that they can be changed, which in turn will change our experiences,so no, everything is in flux.
I don’t think Paul believes in the Land of the Dead. I have no idea if he believes in reincarnation. (Maybe we could have a forum for ‘What Paul believes’, so we had a central place to ask him!)
Personally I understand that our physical bodies die when we have finished experiencing whatever we have come to experience, but an aspect of our consciousness does not, it just becomes a part of the oneness of consciousness, so no, I do not perceive a separate place where dead people go to await renewal or reincarnation, for I do not perceive time outside of this reality, only oneness within consciousness.
Hi, Paul,
Thanks. 🙂