I know that my soul was (part of it is still there, it is what we call our higher-self) with loved Ones prior to being in the physical and that we shared such amazing feelings of Pure Joy! I had a glimpse of it in the physical when my dead brother visited me in a dream and delivered me the message of One.

You do get to choose not only your destiny and your parents but also your gender, race, looks........It is great fun and we can't wait to get into the physical to experience our new selves!

So let's enjoy our creation and make the most of it!

Thank you, namaste

Oh, if only we had a definitive answer to that one Vee. I'd say it's all part of that great big mystery we're all trying to solve. Which ironically enough I think we have to stop trying to solve it, before we have any kind of true realization.

If we believe that our soul is that higher part of our being that remains connected to it's source, indubitably it chooses parents, race etc. to experience what it needs for optimal growth.

Great question Vee.

Up to a few years ago i believed that the spirit was born at exactly the same time as the body,or that it sort of grew as the body developed.

Then the thought struck me that perhaps i was a great deal older than my body was.

Of course the Esther teaching leads towards the belief that we existed long before our manifestation into this realm.Its something i started to believe before i was introduced to the Hicks thing.

Its a topic for hot debate.I would lean towards believing that if a spirit is immortal and cant die....then can it start or be born.If spirit doesnt decay/degrade or wear out as the body does,then does it neccessarily have to have a finish OR start date.

Graham

If I remember correctly, I was you and him and her. Oh and don't forget that frog, I was him too.

I think we were one with oneness like we are now but not with a specific locale that had "certain" characteristics.

I am unique yet the same. I'm dead and alive. All things, people and events with all possibilities happening all at once in ONE instant.

yum

I think we were in heaven with God and we choose to have a human experience with whom to share it with like our parents because we needed to experience a certain experience or situation because maybe we need to learn and understand being a human better and sometimes we have not learn what we needed to have learn and you know experience is always the best teacher.

Example if I was rich at time, a queen, a king, and I did not learn of God and how to treat people right with respect and love and just common courtesy and respect than maybe I have to experience poverty, or miss treatment in order to learn just how bad it feels to the other person.

Our souls I believe enter our bodies just before we are born or right afterwards and we are touched by the angels just before we are born as the soul enters our bodies to forget to a point not completely, if we look hard enough we will find it,who we really are and our purpose here and once we know who we are to know and love God, one another and to live life abundantly in our human body or our spirit experience living in a physical body experiencing life to the fullest as our true spiritual selfs and loving and helping where ever we are and can and becoming one with God again. Loving and understanding mother nature and what she means to us as well and how to treat and take care of her as she takes care of us.

I think when we go so long without finding the connection back to God that is when we become very confused because we know deep down there is something we suppose to know and do. We know this is not all there is more there is someone we are suppose to be a part of because deep down our spirit knows even if we can't remember.

If we are connected back to God experience life as a human can be the most profound experience with all of the facets of emotions and feelings we can feel and living life can be exhilarating.

I personally have found God and Jesus but I am still trying to learn how to enjoy life to the fullest or more abundantly as Jesus said he came here to teach us how to.

Maybe there are many souls or maybe there is only a sole soul. Or maybe there is one soul with multiple soul experiences. Who knows.

maybe waking from a long rest, not unlike 'Rip VanWinkle', and realizing that it's urge to reincarnate has been granted.
after a deserved rest from the closure of the prior cycle manifested in earth experience,
having sorted out its past with the most resent wisdom, ready at the bit with a new game plan,
waiting to be the soul force of another human being again. try it on for awhile

yes it does you chose to be here! you chose the hurdles in your life to make your progression! but sometime we took alittle to much it seams so easy when you are not stuck in matter!and you exist as counscient energy! you are a spark of light with colors and shape in you that change depending on your though and emotion! you are the experiancer and the creator! every one is! we are all child of god made in is image!