Reincarnation

“Are you experienced”
- Jimmy Hendrix 

Reincarnation: believe it or not! Well, rather than pander to
the doubt inherent in the "not" part, I will assert that a soul
has incarnated onto the Earth in you. You are the incarnation
of your soul. As it is the soul, rather than the ego, that
enlivens the body with spirit, you should not expect that you
will reincarnate. Too often, our Earthly ego would have us
believe that somehow, Brenda-May Bashful will miraculously
reappear at some other place in another body. It just does not work that way. The poor ego gets one lifetime and no more. The soul, however, gets many life times __ hundreds, even thousands. The soul is incarnate on Earth (Roger Joyeux in my case) for the purpose of evolving a third dimensional consciousness. Soul sticks its toes into the waters of the Earth to experience the hot and cold of physical life.

Take inventory for a moment. Have you ever experienced depression, joy, fatigue, elation, deceit, beauty, hesitation, pleasure, and so on and on? Each experience that you, in human form, go through is imprinted upon your Earthly consciousness. Each drama in life that you participate in, each sensation that carries energy, offers a variation in conscious experience. As all of your experiences in
the incarnate form are conducted on the physical plane, the record of the consciousness provides the
soul with the understanding it needs to fulfill its evolution on Earth.

Consider that when you dip your toes into the lake of life, you are only experiencing the temperature of the water at the edge of a very small part of the shore. The soul, in its purported vastness, is just as hesitant about jumping in as you might be. Earth is like the Hudson River in October. Not only is it rather mucky, it is very cold. The third dimension is a very low-level, slow, and dense vibration in relation to the enlightened universe where the soul resides. For the soul to jump in would be like going polar swimming on New Year's Eve. Some souls who would do anything!

For the rest of us, just getting our knees wet can be enough. To go so far as to get its ‘knees’ wet, the
soul incarnates. It checks the water in one incarnation, then incarnates again to check how deep the water is. Each incarnation is conducted for the purpose of accumulating experience on the physical plane. Each experience adds to the sum total of a soul's third dimensional consciousness. When enough Earthly consciousness has been acquired, the soul graduates from this plane. That is, all the lessons have been learned, all the experiences have been accomplished, and all the consciousness, needed to master the third dimension, returns to the soul. The soul’s contract for Earth comes to its conclusion and it ascends from the bonds of Earth. Liberation! 

There is only so much that a single human incarnation can experience in any one lifetime, and nowhere near enough to give the soul all the physical consciousness it needs. It takes at least several lifetimes as a serious dancer to become a prima ballerina. And, it takes several lifetimes
as a soldier to lead a victorious army. Each role requires the completion of numerous lessons and the accumulation of a measure of consciousness. To complete the full round of Earthly experience takes hundreds and thousands of lifetimes.

So how does this apply to your own spiritual journey? When you come to the realization that you are here on Earth as an extension of your soul and have been given the responsibility of a free will, you might also realize that using the free will to honour and serve the evolution of the soul is the essence of your existence. You are not the ego who would shrink in disappointment with its own insignificance, but a droplet of pure consciousness manifest on Earth. As you conduct your life, if you can wilfully surrender yourself to the wishes and directions of your soul, the spiritual journey unfolds before you. When you align your Earthly intent with the intent of the soul, all of the conscious experiences needed by the soul can be acquired easily. The spiritual path then accelerates
significantly, as the soul creates the events that give you physical consciousness. When you are fully in tune and compliant with the energy flow of your own soul, the heavens open for your knowingness. 

By the time you become fully in tune and compliant, you already know. The way to align with the soul is to repeat the mantra: "It is my will to align with my higher self in
truth." When you infuse the energy of your soul into your daily life, prepare yourself for change. As my guides said to me, "Get a captain's chair and a four-point harness, then strap in tight and brace for the ride."

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This article first appeared in the Angels And Ancestors Newsletter Volume1 Issue 5.  See www.thestoryoflight.com for information on Roger’s books.