Thanks for your comments!

I didn’t know that about the Fear acronym – interesting!

Hmm, so regarding suicide – souls commit suicide when their vibration is so low that they can’t see a way back up in the physical. They do it in the hope that that will solve their situation BUT then they find it’s just as challenging to raise their vibration in the non-physical and added to that, they have to start from scratch again in a new incarnation.

However, it’s not that they couldn’t handle that experience or the circumstances which caused their suicide – it’s more that they doubted they could, lose a connection to who they really are and out of lack of consciousness, perceive a ‘way out’.

They can and they do handle such experiences later on, because they go back and do them once again in their next incarnation anyway and break out of the pattern of running away via suicide. The suicide is all part of the handling process, I guess. It’s not ‘game over’.

In response to this: ‘Do our spirits willingly accept that we, as human beings, shall remember nothing of the spiritual world while incarnated?’

We are meant to keep a connection to our spirit. It’s just that we haven’t so much in recent generations because our Western culture has been out of alignment with the spiritual. Life IS about having a balance between the physical and the spiritual aspects. If you look at many native cultures, like the native North Americans, they have a culture and a long history of connection to Spirit and that’s how we thrive when we’re incarnated here.

And life is not about learning to become really good at living, so we can get into Heaven and be ‘enlightened’. (You can only be enlightened in the moment, anyway.) Our task here on Earth is: to be the spiritual beings that we are, while incarnated IN THE PHYSICAL. Abraham-Hicks says it’s about being in alignment with the expanded, great spirit that you’ve become over many many lifetimes and attracting life circumstances which align with your own spiritual greatness.

Your blog posts are certainly eye-opening and good to read. I have an important question though. If we, in spiritual form, send experiences which we’re certain we can handle in our physical incarnations, then why do people commit suicide? How do negative spirits (demons?) factor into all this? Do our spirits willingly accept that we, as human beings, shall remember nothing of the spiritual world while incarnated? Do we go through the tumult of living multiple lives to get enough experience to merit entry into the “Heaven” of the spiritual realm? Enlightenment can only be attained on this Earth.

I’m picturing the spiritual realm as a video game bureaucracy filled with souls worrying about their life “experience points” and wondering how much more training on Earth they’ll have to do before they can enter into Heaven and transcend. I view Earth as a sort of Purgatory in that sense.

I just got it in the mail, funny you should mentiont hat.

Akemi – I also feel like I’m saving my sanity. I’ve been going part time for more than half a year now, but it’s still not enough to make me feel good about what’s happening. And like Paul, even though I’m not in university, it feels exactly like meaningless padding. I’m not learning at all at school, and I have no drive to. But when I think of what I can learn on my own, I get really motivated…

My mother has said yes to unschooling! And my father seems to be on the fence (hasn’t said yes or no yet). I’m nervous, admittedly, but I can’t wait to get started. Just a few weeks to go!

Zora

Hi Akemi – thank you!

In answer to your question, I feel that even when we make a choice that is not what we consciously want, it is still part of the soul’s plan. Choosing what we don’t want, helps us to see what we do want and propels us towards that in a stronger way. I really feel we need to experience the opposites – the positive and the negative in order to know what the positive choice really represents.

Hi Paul – I agree – every job I have had, even the ones I’ve hated, have been just what I needed at that time in that, often my last job sets me up for something that is better.

Actually, I’m in the process of doing something similar at the moment, I am leaving the job I dislike (sound familiar?) to go travelling. But from the perspective of leaving, I can see that this job was just what I needed at the time. Life just works like that I guess!

Great post as usual. When I wrote about the Law of Attraction recently on my blog, some commented that they believe it but something is not working, that they are getting negative results. Now the standard response to this is to point out that they are focusing on NOT attracting what they want, and this may be true. However, my feeling was that they are getting exactly what they need, even though the situation may appear bad.

Our judgment of what is good or bad is so limiting. Like you mentioned in your post, getting sick may be the blessing. And indeed it is.

The only things that is on my mind now — what do you think when we ignore our intuition and make a choice, which proves to lead to “negative” situation? In this case, we — our ego — is overriding the spiritual guidance. Do you think it is still part of the soul’s big plan?

To Zora,
I left college halfway, which was a very unusual thing to do in my home country. But it saved my life, or at least my sanity.

Akemi

It’s very reassuring to remember I have total control and responsibility – even if there are times when I shy away from that and prefer to wallow as a victim instead.

Tomorrow, I’m going to propose unschooling to my mother. I’m terrified, because if I succeed, it means I’ll leave the safety of school forever, even if it feels like school’s been killing me in a way. It means I’ll have far more control and responsibility for my life – while at school, it’s very easy to hide from that. And I’m scared of taking that control. I’m scared of stuffing things up.

Frankly, I’m amazed that I’m still considering doing it. There are times when I’ve wanted to just forget about it and hide somewhere and keep going to school, but I know that’s not the right way for me. But so far, I’m still sticking to this, and I’m amazed at that. I’m confident that tomorrow, I won’t back down.

Thank you for this post. I’m going to bookmark it – I really needed to hear this.

Zora