Repeating lives
QUESTION: Masters, when we have not fulfilled our purpose on Earth during one lifetime, necessitating us to return again and again, does this invite us to gain a deeper, richer, fuller learning experience? How does returning to the beginning affect us in terms of gaining maturity for the soul? Is there pressure for us to learn our lessons as quickly as possible?
ANSWER: To answer each of your questions simply: freedom of choice, freedom of choice, freedom of choice. In one lifetime you may want to get a sampling of mathematics so you can learn enough to work in a clothing store-mostly addition and subtraction with a little multiplication and division.
In your next life you may want to understand algebra to apply it to more complex sciences. Then you may decide you want to be able to figure trajectories of planets and other objects, so you study advanced mathematics. In each of the last two lives the early stages came extremely easy for you so you could jump right into the complicated calculations.
Your purpose in learning all about mathematics may have been to go all the way to advanced work in the first life, but once you learned what was needed to complete your other purposes, such as working and providing for a family, you stopped at simple math. Each additional life did provide you with a deeper richer understanding of math, but it didn’t affect other things you did in that life, such as learning about self-worth, or hatred, or betrayal.
Souls come down with multiple lessons, some of them distinct and separate and others interconnected. Everything, however small, that you learn increases your maturity or enlightenment. The only pressure that is ever placed upon a soul is by that soul itself-and then only while it is incarnate. The pressure to perform that you speak of is a judgment of right and wrong, and that exists only in body form.
So, as they say, “don’t sweat the small stuff” and just enjoy the life in which you are currently engaged.