The Book Journey of Souls is bumming me out
I'm currently reading Journey of Soul by Michael Newton and it is really bumming me out. What is the general consensus in here about this book or what are your thoughts on it?
Here is what is bumming me out: I don't want to go to that afterlife. If you read the book closely, even Newton has his reservations about it which you can subtly pick up in his questions to his clients. I'll start with the things about this conception of life and the after life I find comforting: 1) It creates in me a healthy sense of detachment from others. If we are all going to end up as balls of energy and have to return to this place anyway then there really is no need to want to help anyone; everyone is where they are at and they will have infinite tries to improve and there really is no gain in helping them because there is no reward for anyone. 2) The meaning of life is not within our control, we just enjoy the ride if we can because we are going to have to do it again anyway, whether we like it or not. The things I find disturbing that bum me out: 1) I don't want to be a ball of energy, I kind of like this body and of some divine for can do it here in the Universe they can also do it there. 2) I don't want to come back to this place. I see no value in reincarnating. I'm a humble, polite, loving person there is nothing for me here or I would be doing it right now and there is nothing I can think of I would rather do. Maybe I have intimacy issues but really why do this whole thing to get over one issue. Why not just get over it there? 3) There is no conception of Evil in this system. Theoretically, after Hitler died he got a lecture on why genocide and conquest is wrong and off to the next life. Same with Stalin and the rest. Well, what about the souls who experienced it themselves, do they not at least get a turn to give them a beat down...at least...it seems like being a ball of energy rewards Evil by not allowing it to be given a beat down and the rest of us just have to chalk up as a learning lesson. 4) What is the goal? I don't want to be elder or an old soul or anyone more than who I am. I rather like myself and I would be more than happy just peacefully enjoying myself with others. I don't believe pain teaches much other than pain itself which is not a valuable lesson. Trust me, I've been through some pain and I've lucked out in this life in avoiding other pains but I don't think I or anyone else is better for experiencing it. I'll present more issues I have that are bumming me out. Please, please, please, have an open mind. I'm not saying Newton is wrong. What I am saying is I fear Newton is correct. If he is correct, it shouldn't be this way and I would like to change it somehow. |
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Maybe when you let go of corrections and should be's and wrong and right around the greater mystery of life and just live it, you wouldn't have to worry so much, more enjoy it for what it is. |
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I got the opposite from the book. We work in soul groups and are very much intertwined with others. We help each other to learn and grow. We learn to love each other and ourselves unconditionally. We grow in the spiritual traits of compassion and empathy which also make us more involved with others. We suffer from our own actions and choices and karma. So while we may have infinite tries, we certainly don't want to suffer infinitely. So we will try our hardest each life to improve to make better futures for ourselves and those we love. Not sure why you concluded there are no rewards for spiritual growth. Quote:
You may think differently about your body when you are elderly and things are going wrong with it. The body, while often great fun while you are younger, can become a source of a lot of suffering when you are old. Don't want to come back to this place? Well that's the point of reincarnation. To advance enough that you don't have to come back. There is evil and those who do it will suffer from it. Anyone who intentionally harms others will pay karmically for that. The payment is not as simple as a lecture. For example, if you disfigured someone you may come back in a disfigured body. Quote:
Love does not come easily. Have you ever passed someone begging for a dollar and not felt a thing? Have you ever laughed at someone hurting themselves on some tv show? Mother Teresa, who devoted her life to helping the poor and lepers, said she was walking down the street one day and noticed the poor who were suffering all around her and she thought, why does god allow such suffering without doing a thing about it? Then a thought came to her, if we are all a part of god, why do I allow such suffering and not do a thing about it? That thought led her to becoming a nun and devoting her life to helping the poor and sick. We are all potential angels. My friend hates the whole idea of a god and the astral world. He says it sounds like a prison forcing people to some future they don't want. They way I see it is it's like a child who sees the world of adults and wants nothing more than to live in that seemingly magical world. The child thinks, some day I will ride a bike, decide for myself what I will eat and do, drive a car, see what is beyond those mountains in the distance. In the astral world, you feel the presence of the advanced souls and that also creates a longing in you to achieve that. Video games are a simple example of that. We always want to get to the next level, the next zone, get the next achievement. That longing to reach higher is part of our nature. But yea you have to get a taste for it. A glimpse of something higher. Once you get a glimpse of something higher that you can achieve, you will seek it. |
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The way I see it is Newton has his bit to say, fair enough, but as soon as anyone presents their novel ideas as a truth or a knowledge, read with a critical eye and don't believe things wholesale. |
You've left out emotions to your entire post OP. You see the afterlife as a drab, boring place. It's not! And on top of that, there are many planes of existence. Exciting ones! Where you go has everything to do with your vibration. You will go where the vibration exactly matches yours and you can go no further up.
There are no shortcuts. We can't just blink our eyes and be god-like. In order to be a god we have to experience every nook and cranny of life on places like Earth in the physical. And yes, I do believe we learn through pain. I don't think we have to learn through pain. But usually we ignore our lessons until there is enough pain to get our attention. I agree, Newton's books are a bit dry and regimented; there are other authors who I might suggest. Choices in the Afterlife by Gretchen Vogel and The Last Frontier: Exploring the Afterlife...by Julia Assante. Both excellent reads. Each author brings a different angle on the afterlife. So I have quite a collection on the subject. |
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Your right it took many incarnations :D .. (couldn't resist .. my bad) .. :hug3: x daz x |
I've never read the book but I can't help but wonder how he or anyone else know these things. I have my thoughts on the subject and I really am not sure why I think reincarnation is probably what is, but I can't know this for sure. Probably the only thing that troubles me about coming back (and really if life only gets better with each life, that's a fine thought...) but my concern would be this earth itself. I wonder if there would be any real nature left or would the soils be raped to the point they can't produce, would most animals be extinct? Would robots be controlling most everything, would wars be even more prevalent than they are now? Those issues give me the shivers and I think about another life thanks but no thanks, unless there's better planet out there. :-)
That all said, I don't remember other lives, so I guess if there are other lives to be had, I won't recall this one either. |
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That's a good point Sarian. The concept of the book is that Newton is a Psychologist who has been trained in Hypnosis and chanced upon previous lives with a client. From there he devoted himself to regressing people into past lives through hypnosis and then ultimately in what he terms their, "life between lives," i.e. where we are in between reincarnating between lives. The concept of the book is that he has hypnotized thousands of individuals and they have all returned similar accounts of the after life. That is what is supposed to give the book credibility; the idea that there is, "evidence," for this reality Newton is exposing. |
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Newton, probably unknowingly, describes a soul farm in the book, over and over. Your instincts are conveying to you that you don't buy into the hierarchal game their selling. It is not part of your genetics. Search for what is true for you. |
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Hey, thanks, for the insight. Can you elaborate on your comment. Can you describe what a soul farm is further? I'm being thoroughly honest my instinct is to want to liberate the souls there. I'm saving up for a hypnosis session by one of Newton's associates so that I can see what that place is about. |
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