Daria Doering

Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss, M.D.

• We must learn our life lessons, in order.
• Time is not really measured in terms of time, but in life lessons learned.
• We all plan a blueprint for our life before we are born.  We plan what encounters we will have.  These do happen, but there is also free will – how we react to them.  Destiny (the plan) and free will interact throughout our lives.
• We are all born with a dominant problem to work through.  If we don’t do it, we will have that problem plus another one in our next life.
• Groups of souls tend to reincarnate together again and again, as family and friends, paying karmic debts to each other.
• We must repay all our spiritual debts to individuals.  If we don’t, we will have to wait and incarnate with them in another life to pay the debt.
• Souls incarnate first to learn; then to teach.
• We must go toward those of a different vibration than ourselves, whom we feel wrong with, as well as those with the same vibration as ourselves.
• We should not stay in abusive relationships.
• Through knowledge we become closer to God.
• We are not all equal, but will be equal in the end.
• Killing is wrong, no matter what a person does; only God has the right to punish.
• Nothing can be rushed.  Our lives will unfold as they are meant to.
• Whether you help a few people or many people does not matter.
• Living alone and independently is a virtue, as well as living in a marriage.

Dannion Brinkley book:

• Spirits vibrate at different frequencies.  It feels bad to be among those below or above your own frequency.
• At one point he was watching a presentation by spirits, each of whom represented a different one of the 13 basic human temperaments or qualities.
• He had to agree to forgive all those who had crossed him in order to progress to the next spiritual level.
• In heaven he was able to absorb all knowledge.
• At one point he was in a hall with other souls, only they couldn’t see each other.  He realized this was so they would not be distracted from the presentation.
• He gained the ability to read people’s minds.  After touching their hand, he would see movies of their lives, particularly recent fights with others or sources of sadness.

Bettie Eades

• All life is governed by laws (good chapter in her book about laws)

Notes from various web sites:

• What we think is the least important may be the most important events in our lives.
• Love is all that matters; particularly love shown to the unlovable; not earthly wealth, fame and accomplishment.
• Those with physical disabilities may be the most highly evolved spiritually, and/or may have taken on the largest challenges in order to attain faster spiritual progress.
• There are different levels of spiritual existence.
• Meditation is important as well as prayer, according to Edgar Cayce.
• Praying for others is the most highly evolved form of prayer.
• Music is important in the spirit realms … there is incredible music, and the spirit realms are very related to harmony and vibration in general.

My reactions:

I can understand biblical injunctions much better after reading these books.  I’ve always been a “work your way to heaven” type person, and couldn’t understand the doctrine of “saved by faith alone.”  Now I see that spontaneous small acts of love are what is important in life; not big projects.

Likewise, my mother couldn’t understand the “judge not” injunction.  Now I see that we can’t possibly know that much about another person: the circumstances of their past lives as well as their present life; what life lessons they are supposed to learn.