The reason for incarnation
QUESTION: Masters I am confused about our purpose for a life on earth: I understand we are here to experience things that we cannot experience anywhere but the duality of earth. But since souls live in only total and complete love, why are we expected to “work through or resolve” the negative feelings we experience? It isn’t enough to go through negativity and just deal with these situations the best you can while here? I mean, sometimes there is no resolution other than to put people out of your life. Is that in itself learning or resolution? ~Robi, US
ANSWER: Source was all alone and existed in perfection. He/she/it wondered what was the opposite of its own perfection, so pieces (souls) were broken off to get answers. Since everything that existed at that time was unconditional love (that is, all positive with no negativity at all), planet Earth was created to be a place where opposites existed, and creatures populating it could choose a positive or negative experience.
Once a soul enters a body and comes to Earth, it doesn’t remember that it exists in unconditionally loving perfection when not in this domain. We say that the soul is having a human experience in which it is subjected to the rules and regulations comprising the duality of its chosen home and must find the unconditionally loving energy at its core in order to “feel” it.
We call this place of duality the third dimension; it is ruled by the ego with everything being graded, rated, and judged. Souls make the choice to come to Earth to see if they can figure out the lessons they have chosen. It is impossible to work on lessons deciding between negative and positive choices while in the arena of love, because no negativity is available there; all lessons are set in negativity because that is the opposite of love and perfection. If one has never lived in the arctic or the desert, they do not know what it is to freeze or boil.
Just acknowledging the chosen lesson and dealing with it the best way you can does not give you an understanding of all the things in your life that it affects. It is only by resolving the issue through choosing its opposite (positive) activity that you can gain the wisdom of the situation and never have to repeat it in this, or any other, lifetime.