Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives (Michael Newton's Journey of Souls Book 1)

by Michael Newton

The key to growth is understanding we are given the ability to make mid-course corrections in our life and having the courage to make necessary changes when what we are doing is not working for us.

Intake interviews for the advanced souls are conducted with master teachers later. The less experienced entities are usually given special attention by counselors because the abrupt transition from the physical to a spiritual form is more difficult for them.

How can souls be various degrees of "advanced" or "inexperienced"? Does that imply that new souls are created? How would that happen? How often, why? Can souls die? So many questions I hope are addressed later.

The test of reincarnation for a soul coming to Earth is the conquering of fear in a human body. A soul grows by trying to overcome all negative emotions connected to fear through perseverance in many lifetimes, often returning to the spirit world bruised or hurt,

When the initial conference with our guide is over, we leave the place of orientation and join a coordinated flow of activity involving the transit of enormous numbers of other souls into a kind of central receiving station.

What this means is that those souls who are currently incarnated in one or more bodies at the moment may not be actively engaged with welcoming anybody back. Another subject explained, “It is as if they are sleeping on autopilot—we always know who is out and who is in.” Those souls who are not totally discarnated radiate a dim light with low pulsating energy patterns and don’t seem to communicate much with anyone. Even so, these souls are able to greet the returning soul in a quiet fashion within the group setting.

Dr. N: And how does Karla’s yellow color vary from your whiteness in terms of where you are going with your own advancement? S: (with pride) I’m turning into a reddish-white. Eventually, I’ll have light gold. Recently I’ve noticed Karla turning a little darker yellow. I expected it. She is so knowledgeable and good. Dr. N: Really, and then will she eventually take her energy level to dark blue in intensity? S: No, to a light blue at first. It’s always gradual, as our energy becomes more dense.

Learning begins with our creation as a soul and then accelerates with the first physical life assignment. With each incarnation, we grow in understanding, although we may slip back in certain lives before regaining our footing and advancing again. Nevertheless, from what I can determine, once a spiritual level is attained by the soul, it stays there.

Every human being has at least one senior, or a higher master guide, assigned to their soul since the soul was first created.

Created how? Why?

I have learned there seems to be a kind of spirit world maternity ward for newborn souls. One client told me, “This place is where infantile light is arranged in a honeycomb fashion as unhatched eggs, ready to be used.”

Less developed souls are inclined to surrender their will to the controlling aspects of human society, with a socio-economic structure which causes a large proportion of people to be subordinate to others. The inexperienced soul tends to be stifled by a lack of independent thinking. They also lean towards being self-centered and don’t easily accept others for who they are.

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Since this soul is approaching Level IV, I would not have been surprised if his first appearance on Earth had gone back 70,000 years rather than half that amount of time. However, as I have mentioned, it is not an absolute prerequisite that souls have hundreds of physical lives in order to advance. I once had a client who entered into a Level III state of awareness after only 4,000 years—an outstanding performance.

Without addressing and overcoming pain you can never really connect with who you are and build on that. I must tell you, the more pain and adversity which come to you as a child, the more opportunity to expand your potential.

- Case 22

Dr. N: Do all parts of our soul energy go out of the spirit world when we incarnate? S: Part of us never leaves, since we do not totally separate from the maker. Dr. N: What does the part that remains in the spirit world do while we are on Earth in one or more bodies? S: It is … more dormant … waiting to be rejoined to the rest of our energy.

Dr. N: What is the World Without Ego? S: It’s the place of learning to be. Dr. N: I have heard of it, expressed in different ways. Doesn’t it involve the beginners? S: Yes, the newly created soul is there to learn who they are. It’s the place of origin. Dr. N: Are the ego-identities passed out at random, or is there a choice for beginner souls? S: The new soul is not capable of choice. You acquire your character based upon the way your energy is … combined … put together for you.

Case 22

Dr. N: I want you to answer this next question carefully for me. When you acquired your particular identity as a soul, did that automatically mean you were slated for Earth incarnations in human form? S: Not specifically, no. Planets don’t last forever. Dr. N: I wondered if certain types of souls have an affinity for specific forms of physical life in the universe? S: (pause) I won’t argue against that. Dr. N: In your beginnings, Nenthum, were you given the opportunity to choose other planetary hosts besides humans on Earth? S: Ah … as a new soul … the guides assist in those selections. I was drawn to human beings. Dr. N: Were you given other choices? S: (long pause) Yes … but it’s not very clear at the moment. They usually start you on an easy world or two, without much to do. Then I was offered service on this severe planet. Dr. N: Earth is considered severe? S: Yes. On some worlds you must overcome physical discomforts— even suffering. Others lean toward mental contests. Earth has both. We get kudos for doing well on the hard worlds. (smiling) We are called the adventurous ones by those who don’t travel much.

Case 22 Why am I on Earth? Where else have I been?

Dr. N: Do you actually create the basic elements of our universe? S: No, I just use the elements available. Dr. N: In what way? S: I take the basic elements and charge them with impulses from my energy … and they can change. Dr. N: Change into what? S: (simply) I’m good with rocks … Dr. N: How do you form rocks with your energy? S: Oh … by learning to heat and cool … dust … to make it hard. Dr. N: Do you make the minerals in the dust? S: They do that for you … the teachers give us that stuff … gas vapors for water making … and so on … Dr. N: I want to understand this clearly. Your work consists of learning to create by causing heat, pressure, and cooling from your energy flow? S: That’s about right—by alternating our currents of energy radiation. Dr. N: So, you don’t actually produce the substance of rock and wa- ter in some chemical way? S: No, like I told you, my job is to transform things by … mixing what I am given. I play with the frequency and dosages of my energy— it’s tricky, but not too complicated …

Case 22 Using energy to create physical Earth objects

Some subjects tell of being mystical spirits of nature including figures I associate with folklore, such as elves, giants and mermaids. Personal contact with strange mythological beasts are mentioned as well. These accounts are so vivid it is hard for me to simply label them as metaphoric. Are the old folk tales of many races pure superstition, or manifestations of shared soul experience? I have the sense that many of our legends are the sympathetic memories of souls carried from other places to Earth long ago.

Recently, I had two subjects who were best friends and came to me at the same time for regression. Not only had they been soulmates in many former lives on Earth, but were also mated as fish-like intelligent beings in a beautiful water world. Both recalled the enjoyment of playing underwater with their strong appendages and coming up to the surface, “to peek.” Neither subject could recall much about this planet or what happened to their race of sea creatures. Perhaps they were part of a failed Earth experiment long before a land mammal developed into the most promising species on Earth for souls. I suspect it was not Earth because I have had others who tell of living in an aquatic environment they know was unearthly. One of these subjects said, “My water world was very warm and clear because we had three suns overhead. The total lack of darkness underwater was comforting and made building our dwellings much easier.” I have often wondered if the dreams we have at night about flying, breathing underwater, and performing other non-human physical feats relate to our earlier physical experiences in other environments.

Consider, if only a small fraction of one percent of the stars in our galaxy had planets with intelligent life useful to souls, the number would still be in the millions.

When I study the incarnation chronology of a client, I find there is usually a long span of hundreds, even thousands, of years between their lives in Paleolithic nomadic cultures. With the introduction of agriculture and domesticated animals in the Neolithic Age, from 7,000 to 5,000 years ago, my subjects report living more frequent lives. Still, their lives are often spaced as much as 500 years apart. With the rise of cities, trade, and more available food, I see the incarnation schedules of souls increasing with a growing population. Between 1000 and 1500 ad, my clients live an average of once in two centuries. After 1700, this changes to once in a century. By the 1900s, living more than one life in a century is common among my cases.

Dr. N: If you didn’t like any of the options presented to you in the Ring, could you ask for more places and people to look at? S: It isn’t necessary, at least for me. I’m offered enough. Dr. N: Let me be more blunt. If you are supposed to select a life from only the selections shown you in the Ring, how do you know the coordinators aren’t stacking the deck against you? Maybe they are programming you to make certain choices? S: (pause) I don’t think so, considering all the times I have come to the Ring. We don’t go unless our minds are made up as to the type of life we want to live, and I’ve always had interesting choices based upon my own ideas.

What is even more common in my experience, are the souls of young children who die soon after birth and then return to the same parents as the soul of their next baby.

While events, race, culture, and geographic location often appear to come first in the selection process, they are not the most significant choices for the soul’s next life. Aside from all other considerations, incarnation comes down to souls making that all-important decision of a specific body, and what can be learned by utilizing the brain of a certain human being.

Even as victims, we are beneficiaries because it is how we stand up to failure and duress which really marks our progress in life. Sometimes one of the most important lessons is to learn to just let go of the past.

However, as souls who enter babies, we come from a state of all-knowing and thus are mentally able to adjust more quickly to our surroundings than at the end of a physical life. Then too, we are given additional time for adaptation while in our mother’s womb. Nevertheless, having this time inside our mother does not mean we are fully prepared for the jarring paroxysm of birth, with blinding hospital lights, having to suddenly breathe air, and being physically handled for the first time. My subjects say if they were to compare the moment of birth with that of death, the physical shock of being born is much greater.

At some point prior to birth, the soul will carefully touch and join more fully with the impressionable, developing brain of a baby. When a soul decides to enter a baby, apparently that child has no free choice in accepting or rejecting the soul. At the moment of first entry, chronological time begins for the soul. Depending upon the inclinations of the particular soul involved, the connection may be early or late in the mother’s pregnancy. I have had cases where souls timed their arrival at the last minute during delivery, but this is unusual. My findings indicate even those souls who join the baby early seem to do a lot of traveling outside the mother’s womb during her term.

Although I have said souls can be confined by a human in trauma, they are never trapped. Besides leaving at the moment of death, souls may also come and go when the body is sleeping, in deep meditation, or under an anesthetic in surgery. The soul’s absences are much longer in cases of severe brain damage and coma.

Dr. N: As a soul, are you in distress if the baby is aborted from the mother’s womb for any reason before full term? S: We know if a baby is going to full term or not. Not being born comes as no surprise to us. We may be around to just comfort the child. Dr. N: Well, if the child does not go to term, is your life assignment as a soul aborted as well? S: No, there never was a full life assignment as far as that child was concerned. Dr. N: Might some babies who are aborted never have souls? S: That depends on how far along they are. The ones who die very early often don’t need us.

Dr. N: Assuming a baby is going to full term, do you know about the convergence habits of other souls with these children? S: (offhandedly) Oh, some float around more than others, going in and out of the baby until birth because they get bored. Dr. N: What do you usually do? S: I’m average, I guess. Actually, I don’t spend a long time at any one stretch with babies because it can get pretty dull. Dr. N: All right, let’s take this current situation inside your mother and allow some time to pass. What do you do when you are not with the unborn baby? S: (laughs with delight) You want the truth? I’ll tell you. Me—I play! It’s a fine time to leave and purely goof off … when the baby is less active. I have fun with my friends who are doing the same thing. We bounce around Earth to visit with each other … and go to interesting places … where we have once lived together in former lives.

Dr. N: Tell me what it is like being inside a mother’s womb. S: I like the warm comfortable feeling of love. Most of the time there is love … sometimes there is stress. Anyway, I use this time to think and plan what I am going to do after birth. I think about my past lives and missed opportunities with other bodies and this gives me incentive. Dr. N: And you haven’t yet had the memories of all your past lives and your life in the spirit world blocked out by amnesia? S: That starts after birth.