Stage Four: Orientation

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Once we go through the Homecoming process, we go through an interesting series of experiences to help us reorient and refamiliarize ourselves with the afterlife. Our guide is often intimately involved with us at this stage. The first and most important part of this process is an energetic form of healing in which the traumas we carried in from our physical lives are washed away. Dr. Newton thinks of this as akin to a hospital stay, and his clients consistently use similar words and phrases to describe it. The most common phrase is “the place of healing,” but it might also be called a chamber, a berth, or a stopover zone. Once we reach this hospital-like chamber, we go through what Dr. Newton calls “the shower of healing.” Our guide often directs this process. We move into a specific room of light and are bathed in a stream of liquid healing energy that appears like a beam coming toward us and moving through us. Many of Dr. Newton’s clients reported that the sensation is similar to a refreshing shower after a hard day’s work, but in this case the effect is much deeper.

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New souls in particular come to earth in a very positive, loving state of mind and expect to be treated fairly.  We are shocked as we realize how cruel and hurtful people can really be. Negative, traumatic memories, fears, and worries are washed away at this point. We again feel whole. We are inspired, renewed, and restored and are finally able to let go of the emotional bonds to our previous lifetime.

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The second phase of Orientation is a substantial counseling process with our guide. The guide asks us probing questions about how we lived our lives, and whether we lived up to our own expectations, as we had chosen them before birth. This process is done with gentle grace—not a harsh, accusing tone or demeanor—but we are still expected to be honest, soul-searching, and thorough. Our guide already knows our strengths and weaknesses, our fears and fixations, and is willing to work with us as long as we keep trying. It is impossible for us to hide anything from our guides due to the inevitable reality of instant telepathy in the afterlife. This counseling process often seems to occur in a particular room, and the room may have similarities to places we knew from our own lives on earth.

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Some people have a much more difficult time with this counseling than others, and this is due to the overall maturity of the soul. Great humility is required, and we still experience our waking personality, to varying degrees. We are not exalted beings who have reached a state of total soul perfection. We have wants, needs, and desires; we may feel embarrassed, awkward, fearful, and disappointed. Therefore, this process certainly is not easy, but it is often necessary. We also discover the many different ways in which our guide attempted to influence us telepathically to make positive choices in our lives, such as through synchronicity. In order to progress, we must honestly admit how we disregarded those messages and chose to act in weakness, ignorance, and fear instead. This whole process is a private warm-up for a much more significant meeting that happens later on, when we meet with a highly evolved group many people refer to as the Council of Masters, or Council of Elders, at the end of stage five. The more advanced souls do not require any counseling at the Orientation stage and simply move on to their ultimate destination.

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Stage Five: Transition

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Once we are bathed in healing light and have been open and honest enough to move through our initial counseling session with our guide, we go through what Dr. Newton calls the Transition phase. The visions we experience here can be some of the most breathtaking of our entire journey through the afterlife. We move into an enormous area where we see souls coming and going, much like at a train or subway station, but on an utterly vast scale. Gravity does not apply in the afterlife, so there will often be a vast, interconnecting web of energetic tunnels leading souls to their eventual destinations. One of Dr. Newton’s clients referred to this area as the hub of a great wagon wheel—and once you reach the tunnel to your destination, you move out of the wheel and begin traveling down one of the spokes. People are typically very excited by what they see at this stage, and they find themselves traveling along “lines of light.” There is no darkness here—everything is glowing with light at different levels of brightness. We are usually well aware, by this point, that once we move through this tunnel to our eventual destination, we will be reacquainted with those we love the most. As we think about these people, we telepathically connect with them and experience an initial meeting in that form before we actually leave the tunnel. These people are at the same relative level of soul evolution as we are, and we learn from one another’s experiences and compare notes in the afterlife, often with a great deal of humor.

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We do not have much control over our movement at this stage. The tunnels naturally bend as we go along, and Dr. Newton’s more advanced clients reveal that higher entities are responsible for guiding the movement.  These entities are often called “the directors,” or another similar term. As we travel through the tunnels, we see plenty of destinations where other people have gathered. These areas appear as clumps or clusters of light—almost like buds that have grown off the stem we are traveling through, much like a flowering or fruiting plant.

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However, once we arrive at our own area and enter it, the scenery often becomes much more conventional looking, from the standpoint of our experiences on earth. We will often see large areas that are familiar to us, including towns, schools, beloved homes, and landmarks that help us feel safe and secure. We are now fully reacquainted with our soul group—people with whom we keep reincarnating, again and again, as they play different roles. They may appear as parents, romantic partners, siblings, teachers, coworkers, or friends in various lifetimes. Members of our soul group who are incarnate in human forms on earth may seem to be half-asleep, radiating a dimmer light and staying fairly quiet. They may greet us briefly but tend to keep to themselves. Most of us at this stage are immediately aware of who is in a body and who is between lifetimes. Once we’ve taken some time to reconnect with our friends and loved ones and enjoy these familiar surroundings, we are ready to meet with the Council of Elders. Dr. Newton’s second book, Destiny of Souls, goes into much more detail about this group counseling session that occurs at the end of stage five. The process is similar to the initial counseling we went through with our guide—only now we are accountable to a group of highly evolved beings.

 

 

Stage Six: Placement

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Once we’ve completed the group counseling at the end of the Transition stage, we move into Placement. This is where we are reacquainted with familiar groups of various sizes. At this stage, we experience a return to a school-type environment. The classrooms can be quite beautiful and will have scenery chosen from our favorite places on earth. Apparently many Westerners choose a Greek temple as their main location. We study with our own soul group—our closest friends, who enjoy a level of evolution similar to ours. This group can range between three and twenty-five souls, but the typical number is about fifteen. 297 This group will often be called the Inner Circle, and it stays consistent from lifetime to lifetime. We also come into some degree of contact with a much larger secondary group of souls who incarnate with us to varying degrees. Dr. Newton says that these secondary groups are never seen to have less than a thousand souls and can often be significantly larger than that. When we combine this observation with what we find in the Cayce readings, we see that entire towns, cities, nations, or ethnic groups can keep moving, in clusters, through different locations and eras. And, as we are about to explore in Part 3, these eras are organized into cycles of historical events that repeat very precisely until we finally learn our lessons and they no longer need to continue occurring.

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We perform real work in this school setting, which usually comes in the form of sitting down with what Dr. Newton’s clients usually call a “life book.” Although this first appears to look like a typical, large, bound leather book, it acts much more like an advanced holographic projection technology once we open it. Each “page” of this book represents a given period of time in our lives. As we go through the book, we review all the different experiences we went through in our lives—in vividly realistic detail. This process is much like virtual reality, in the sense that we often end up directly projecting into the scenes we are reviewing. Special emphasis is placed on projecting into the minds and hearts of those we interacted with, particularly if we caused them to feel hurt or pain in some way. We now get to personally experience everything we put them through, including the most painful events. The Law of One series reveals that this process can be significantly shortened if we remember events where we hurt others while we are still living in a physical body and forgive ourselves for what we did.

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Not all of the Placement stage involves the difficult work of reviewing our lives and forgiving ourselves for what we have done to hurt others. There are also periods of recreation, where souls of many different levels of evolution gather together for enjoyable activities. This may include forming circles with others to unify our thoughts and feelings more fully and to project energy. Such interactions with others may involve singing, or the energetic equivalent of it. We also interact with our guides, who are on a higher level of evolution, and we feel a great sense of community.

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SEVEN DIFFERENT LEVELS

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Once we reach this point in the book, Dr. Newton begins discussing the seven different levels he discovered that souls move through in the afterlife. This was initially discovered by people describing the colors of their own energy bodies, as well as the colors of those around them. Level I was white, Level II reddish yellow, Level III yellow, Level IV dark yellow with traces of blue, Level V light blue, Level VI dark bluish purple, and Level VII purple—which is very rare. Newton considers Level I to be beginner, Level II lower intermediate, Level III intermediate, Level IV upper intermediate, Level V advanced, and Level VI highly advanced. One client referred to Level VI beings as “the sages,” whereas Level VII beings are the “old ones,” who are rarely seen—and highly mysterious. There is astonishing agreement between Dr. Newton’s independent, hard-earned observations and what we read in the Law of One series about the seven different “densities” corresponding to the colors of the rainbow and the evolutionary level of beings we find there. Dr. Newton found that 42 percent of his clients were Level I, 31 percent were Level II, 17 percent were Level III, 9 percent were Level IV, and only 1 percent were Level V.

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WANDERERS

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Not one of Dr. Newton’s clients was a Level VI. He found that souls at Level V were usually working in the helping professions or working to alleviate social injustice in some form while living on earth. They beam with kindness, composure, and stability and are not motivated by self-interest. 299 The lack of Level VI clients in Dr. Newton’s practice may be because people at this advanced level would not normally seek out hypnotherapy. In the Law of One series, higher-level souls—including those from fourth, fifth and sixth density—do occasionally take on physical incarnations and are known as “Wanderers.” In this next quote, it is important to point out that the word distortion is not a bad thing in the Law of One series. Anything other than “intelligent infinity” is a distortion of the pure awareness that the universe is formed from. Therefore, space, time, light, matter, energy, and biological life are all distortions, as are any choices we make. Some distortions move us closer to unity, while others move us farther away. The goal of all Wanderers is to help us remember who we truly are.

 

12.26 Question:…You spoke of Wanderers. Who are Wanderers? Where do they come from?

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Answer: Imagine, if you will, the sands of your shores. As countless as the grains of sand are the sources of intelligent infinity. When a social memory complex [a group soul usually in fifth density or sixth density] has achieved its complete understanding of its desire, it may conclude that its desire is service to others with the distortion towards reaching their hand, figuratively, to any entities who call for aid. These entities whom you may call the Brothers and Sisters of Sorrow move towards this calling of sorrow. These entities are from all reaches of the infinite creation, and are bound together by the desire to serve in this distortion.

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Question: How many of them are incarnate on Earth now? Answer: The number is approximate due to a heavy influx of those birthed at this time due to an intensive need to lighten the planetary vibration…. The number approaches sixtyfive million. Question: Are most of these from the fourth density? What density do they come from?

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Answer: Few there are of fourth density. The largest number of Wanderers, as you call them, are of the sixth density. The desire to serve must be distorted towards a great deal of purity of mind and what you may call foolhardiness or bravery…. The challenge/danger of the Wanderer is that it will forget its mission, become karmically involved, and thus be swept into the maelstrom from which it had incarnated to aid the destruction.

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Question: Do many of these Wanderers have physical ailments in this third…Earth situation?

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Answer: Due to the extreme variance between the vibratory distortions of third density and those of the more dense [higher] densities, if you will, Wanderers have as a general rule some form of handicap, difficulty, or feeling of alienation which is severe. The most common of these difficulties are alienation, the reaction against the planetary vibration by personality disorders, as you would call them, and body complex ailments indicating difficulty in adjustment to the planetary vibrations such as allergies.

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“WHO DO YOU THINK NATURE IS?”

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In the Placement stage, we also can travel great distances from our original home base as we become intermediate- and advanced-level souls and venture out into exotic locations. Pages 161 through 166 in Journey of Souls reveal a fascinating discussion about what one client called “the World of Creation and Non-Creation.”  This is a three-dimensional, physical world—like the earth—in which biological life is just getting started. Souls begin visiting worlds like this once they reach Level IV. If we extrapolate from the percentages in Dr. Newton’s own client pool, one out of ten people now on earth is pursuing these activities in between lifetimes. One of Dr. Newton’s clients named the planet these individuals were visiting “Earth II.” These souls directly participate in designing the life-forms that are growing on the planet they visit. “Earth II” happened to be larger and somewhat colder than earth, with fewer oceans.

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Such planets are considered “vacation spots,” but our journeys there also serve a valuable purpose; we are learning to become co-creators of life itself. We are able to form physical, living organisms by focusing our own soul energy. Teachers are on hand to assist us with this process. This particular client, case twenty-two, was working only with basic elements—for example, using gas vapors to create water or combining dust, water, air, and fire to create rocks. His soul’s own energy was able to manipulate heating, pressure, and cooling. In his waking life he worked at a charitable organization feeding the homeless, and in the afterlife state he described the process of making rocks as “tricky, but not too complicated.” When Dr. Newton said he thought nature was responsible for the creation of these things, his client laughed and responded, “Who do you think Nature is?”

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Case twenty-two, whose name in the spirit world was Nenthum, was also working on developing plants, but he didn’t yet have the sophistication to create them properly. Sometimes he deconstructed his attempts to make plants before anyone else could see his mistakes, as a form of selfprotectiveness and pride. The reason for these mistakes was apparently that his energy was not applied “delicately enough” to combine the chemical elements to get the desired results. Dr. Newton’s research revealed that souls are not able to make real contributions to the development of living things until they reach Level V, though Level IV souls are the first to begin exploring this process of creation.

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Another client at Level V, known only as case twenty-three, was a woman in her midthirties working as a substance-abuse counselor. As it turned out, she was an old pro with creating life on many different “earth-type planets” and had already worked her way up through a variety of oceanic life-forms. She said that the first biological life souls learn to create is microorganisms—and this is “very difficult to learn.”  Early in her career as a co-creator, she started out with basic forms of oceanic life such as algae and plankton and worked up to more complex creatures such as fish over time. This prompted Dr. Newton to ask her a revealing question.

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Dr. Newton: A soul who becomes proficient with actually creating life must be able to split cells and give DNA instructions…. You do this by sending particles of energy into protoplasm?

S: We must learn to do this, yes—coordinating it with a sun’s energy…. Each sun has different energy effects on the worlds around them.

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This unique energetic method of creating biological life is validated by the new scientific discoveries we have discussed—in which DNA can be seen as a quantum wave and life is written into the basic laws of quantum mechanics. Unbeknownst to him on any conscious level, Dr. Newton’s results have now been independently verified with new scientific discoveries, and this certainly lends support to the overall credibility of his work. After he heard this surprising answer, Dr. Newton became concerned that if individual souls are participating in the creation of life-forms that could live on for millions of years on a given planet, they may be interfering with its overall evolutionary course. Case twenty-three then said that these life-generating activities are a natural part of the cocreative nature of the universe, where souls grow further and further into living embodiments of the Creator. Other souls at higher levels carefully watch over the process to ensure that everything progresses smoothly and in a beneficial direction.

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We also find out that larger groups of advanced souls can create full-scale stars. Case twenty-three revealed that she was already creating “small bundles of heated, highly-concentrated matter.” She told Dr. Newton that if he were to see these creations of hers when they were finished, they would look like miniature solar systems. 305 She had already been able to create suns the size of basketballs and planets the size of marbles. The “concentrated energy of the Old Ones”—those at Level VII—was required to make physical universes—and space itself. 306 This gives us a very interesting way of seeing the living universe—namely, that planets and stars can be created by the focused thoughts and energies of advanced souls, who could also be experiencing incarnations on earth. These Law of One quotes shed further light on what Dr. Newton independently heard from his clients.

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13.16 Each step [of creating a planet] recapitulates intelligent infinity in its discovery of awareness. In a planetary environment, all begins in what you would call chaos—energy undirected and random in its infinity. Slowly, in your terms of understanding, there forms a focus of self-awareness. Thus the Logos [the mind of the galaxy] moves. Light comes to form the darkness, according to the co-Creator’s patterns and vibratory rhythms, so constructing a certain type of experience. This begins with first density, which is the density of consciousness—the mineral and water life upon the planet learning, from fire and wind, the awareness of being…. Picture, if you will, the difference between first-vibrational mineral or water life, and the lower second-density beings which begin to move about within and upon its being. This movement is the characteristic of second density—the striving towards light and growth…. The second density strives towards the third density, which is the density of self-consciousness or self-awareness.

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 82.10 The One Original Thought is the harvest of all previous, if you would use this term, experience of the Creator by the Creator. As It decides to know Itself, It generates Itself into that plenum, full of the glory and the power of the One Infinite Creator which is manifested to your perceptions as space or outer space…. Gradually, step by step, the Creator becomes that which may know Itself, and the portions of the Creator partake less purely in the power of the original word or thought. This is for the purpose of refinement of the one original thought. The Creator does not properly create, as much as It experiences Itself.

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51.10 This Creator is to be understood, both in macrocosm and microcosm, to have, as we have said, two natures: the unpotentiated infinity which is intelligent; this is all that there is. Free will has potentiated, both the Creator of us all, and our selves, as co-Creators with intelligent infinity—which has will.

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75.25 It is well for each to realize its self as the Creator. Thusly each may support each, including the support of self by humble love of self as Creator.

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74.11 The heart of the discipline of the personality is threefold. One, know yourself. Two, accept yourself. Three, become the Creator. The third step is that step which, when accomplished, renders one the most humble servant of all—transparent in personality and completely able to know and accept other-selves. 

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18.13 All serve the One Creator. There is nothing else to serve, for the Creator is all that there is. It is impossible not to serve the Creator. There are simply various distortions of this service.

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TASTY BITS OF COSMIC TRUTH

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Dr. Newton’s clients revealed that souls can visit planets throughout our galaxy—and possibly beyond it—though this notion is refuted in the Law of One series. Many souls develop a fondness for certain planets and continue returning to them between incarnations.  Most people are not able to bring back any clear memories of life on other worlds under hypnotic regression; only the rare and advanced client is able to access this information. Dr. Newton speculates that mental blocks may be put in place by our guides so that we do not recall information that would be beyond our ability to use and appreciate in a positive way.

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One midlevel client described his desire to take a break from life on earth and reincarnate somewhere else. He was sent to a world of humanlike intelligent beings who were quite different from us. They were small and thickset and had chalk-white faces that were incapable of smiling. They did not experience laughter like we do and were thoughtful and somber. The client ended up being quite outside his normal element, did not integrate well there, and decided to return to earth after one incarnation.

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Natural stargates, or “time doors,” are also discussed at this point. These natural passageways, which exist throughout the universe and allow us to travel to different times and places, are routinely used by souls as a basic form of travel. In the spirit world, past, present, and future can all be seen as one continuum. Years can pass by as quickly as seconds—and the events that occur during this time can be observed as if you were fast-forwarding a video. Traveling though different times is as easy in the spirit world as traveling from one place to another is in this world. Much of the second half of The Source Field Investigations is dedicated to exploring the scientific proof that explains how there is a parallel reality in which time is three-dimensional. This, again, was based on the complex discussions in the Law of One series.

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Dr. Newton concludes that time and duration were both created so that we have an opportunity to experience evolution, as souls, at a given rate. If past, present, and future were all accessible at once, there would be no mystery, no surprise, and no challenge that would help us grow. Yet in the spirit world it is very important for us to be able to perceive our greater reality from the “overview” perspective so we can find out where we keep repeating the same lessons, from one lifetime to another, and design lessons in future incarnations that will help us work through these difficulties.

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Another interesting connection between Dr. Newton’s research and the Law of One series is his discussion of “spiritual substance” in the afterlife. In Law of One terms, different planes of existence are measured not by “dimensions” but by different densities of energy. These densities can be physically experienced in the afterlife as different levels of thickness. Dr. Newton’s clients reported exactly the same phenomenon—observing different forms of spiritual substance as being lighter or heavier, thicker or thinner, and larger or smaller.

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THE COSMIC HEARTBEAT

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One of Dr. Newton’s clients, named Thece in the afterlife, described that the universe moves through cycles of expansion and contraction —and this also is mirrored directly in the Law of One series. We are also told that there is no real center of the universe; it is all around us, can be found in any one location, and functions much like the beating of a heart. Both time and space are driven in these regular rhythms. Cycles, therefore, will occur throughout the universe, at all different levels of size and duration, and are driven by a heartbeat-like pulsation. Again, this is exactly how the Law of One series describes the nature of reality.

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27.6 Intelligent infinity has a rhythm or flow as of a giant heart—beginning with the central sun, as you would think or conceive of this, the presence of the flow inevitable as a tide of beingness without polarity, without finity; the vast and silent all beating outward, outward, focusing outward and inward until the focuses are complete. The intelligence or consciousness of foci have reached a state where their, shall we say, spiritual nature or mass calls them inward, inward, inward until all is coalesced. This is the rhythm of reality as you spoke.

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27.13 Love…[is] the great activator and primal co-Creator of various creations using intelligent infinity…Love uses light and has the power to direct light in its distortions. Thus, vibratory complexes [such as your human form] recapitulate in reverse the creation in its unity, thus showing the rhythm or flow of the great heartbeat—if you will use this analogy. 

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In the Placement stage, souls may also project themselves into various natural settings or lifeforms as a recreational or vacation-type activity. Rocks can give a feeling of density. Trees can convey a powerful sense of serenity. Water can give a feeling of flowing cohesiveness. Butterflies can help the soul feel beautiful and free, and whales can help the soul feel powerful and immense. As enjoyable as the Placement stage of our journey often is, sooner or later we have to get serious and plan out our next incarnation. In Dr. Newton’s experience, souls do not gain the opportunity to stop reincarnating in physical bodies until they have reached at least Level V.

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Stage Seven: Life Selection

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Leaving the spirit world can be a horribly difficult process. You are knowingly turning your back on a world of love, peace, wisdom, and blissful happiness to return to a world that can often be filled with suffering, pain, betrayal, and disappointment. Some souls resist this process for as long as they can and genuinely wish they did not have to return—but sooner or later, they must. Some souls move on to other worlds if the world they had been living on is no longer available to host physical human life.  In Law of One terms, once earth has fully transitioned into fourth density—estimated to be between one hundred and seven hundred years after 2011—anyone who still needs third-density incarnation for their evolutionary growth process will naturally end up moving to a new and different world.

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Case twenty-four reveals that he will not be returning to earth in his next life. He plainly states that in the future, some earth people have been moved to another planet and the earth has fewer people and is less crowded. Several of Dr. Newton’s clients indicated that something like this will happen in our future. This concept of “planet hopping” in Dr. Newton’s work precisely validates what we read in the Law of One series about the shift from third to fourth density “green-ray” life on earth. It is also interesting to note that Newton observed every color in the rainbow spectrum appearing in his clients’ souls fairly routinely, except for green—which is almost never seen. In Law of One terms, the earth has to make a quantum leap into the green-ray level before any of its inhabitants can become “activated”—which is when their souls fully transition into the green-ray density. We will discuss this process in Part 4. Higher-level entities, from blue ray and indigo ray, can and do visit earth as Wanderers, usually to help out the planet while massively speeding up their own evolution as well.

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Dr. Newton’s research about the timing between incarnations closely mirrors what we find in the Cayce readings. Dr. Newton found that during Neolithic-type time periods, hundreds or even thousands of years can elapse between physical incarnations. Once we see agriculture and animal husbandry, reincarnation begins to happen more often—but lifetimes can still be separated by as many as five hundred years. Dr. Newton’s clients lived an average of once every two hundred years between A.D. 1000 and A.D. 1500, and after A.D. 1700 they lived once per century. It is very common for souls to incarnate more than once a century as we head into the 1900s. All of this research very neatly parallels what we learn in the Cayce readings.

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THE RING OF DESTINY

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The main responsibility we have in the Life Selection stage is to reach a place that some of Dr. Newton’s clients called the “Ring of Destiny,” which often appears as a sphere of bright light. Moving into this stage, we are full of bright hope and lofty expectations as we think positively about our next lifetime, and we are excited about the possibility of making real spiritual growth. Once we move into this sphere, we often feel like we are stepping into a highly futuristic cockpit. Different screens float around us, giving us visual impressions of the different lifetimes we could choose for our next incarnation. We also have a control panel that allows us to review these different screens, including fast-forwarding and rewinding the events that will happen in these lives. The screens are in dynamic, fluid-like movement within the sphere of light. As we pull up one screen for review, it flows toward us, while other nearby screens move away. We also have the opportunity to project into these different scenes and experience them as if they were really happening to us. Some part of our awareness still remains at the control panel, but most of what we experience is now happening within the scene itself.

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Each lifetime we can choose from has different events, and some could be challenging or difficult, such as debilitating injuries. These events are ultimately intended to help us grow and evolve as souls. We see that choices will be placed in front of us as these events occur, and we cannot be sure what decisions we will make once we reach those points. We are not allowed to see what the consequences of those decisions will be as we move into the future within these lifetimes. We may try to make guesses, but the future reality of those choices is not made visible to us—for a very good reason. If we knew and could foresee the consequences of the events that will happen and the choices that we will make, there would be no real free will and learning experiences as we select a given lifetime. A typical Life Selection process within the Ring of Destiny will involve a choice from among four different lifetimes.  Our guides are not present to advise us at this stage—we run through the entire process by ourselves.

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In some cases, souls volunteer for lives that will end prematurely, in violent deaths, or through sudden, fatal illnesses. One client chose to be an American Indian boy who would die when he was only seven years old. In this case, a short life as a mistreated, starving child gave him a fast lesson in humility, which helped burn off a great deal of karma very quickly.  Another client chose to incarnate at the Dachau concentration camp with three others of her soul group, giving her the chance to comfort the children and try to help them survive. She accomplished her mission courageously, and she undoubtedly created a great deal of positive karma for herself in the process.  Bear in mind that souls do not haphazardly choose missions like this—they will choose them only if they feel they are strong enough to handle them. These missions, of course, don’t always go as planned—but the souls do go in with the highest and best of intentions.

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Stage Eight: Choosing a New Body

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Dr. Michael Newton does not consider “Choosing a New Body” to be a separate stage, since this process also occurs within the Ring of Destiny–Life Selection area. Nonetheless, a separate chapter is devoted to this aspect of the process we all must go through, and it heavily influences our decisionmaking process for whichever life we will choose. In this stage, on the screens that float around in this cockpit-like area, we are presented with various bodies within which we can choose to incarnate. We can see how the bodies will look and feel, how they function, and how they think— throughout the different levels of biological age we will experience. Every human body we see around us, no matter how it looks, is the product of a careful soul choice. A great deal of time and attention is paid to the specifics of each body; there is usually no such thing as a hasty decision. This is generally not the first time we have thought about our next body—we often spend time deliberating which body we will choose in the earlier stages and will talk the choice over with our guide and the people in our soul group.

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Dr. Newton found that most major injuries we go through in our lives are chosen at this stage, before we are born. Choosing a body involves a full awareness of what will happen to it throughout a given lifetime. Again, we are prevented from seeing exactly how these events will shape our personality. Each body has difficulties that come along with it, and we take our time and choose carefully. If we have recently come out of a life that was relatively easy and stress-free, we may well decide to come back into a body and a life that will present us with many more challenges. Dr. Newton’s research found that bodies with physical difficulties of various sorts almost always end up producing an acceleration of our spiritual evolution.

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LETH: THE VIKING’S CYCLE OF KARMA

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Case twenty-six in Dr. Newton’s book is fascinating in terms of showing how wildly a soul’s choice of a body can vary from one incarnation to the next. Case twenty-six was a tall, athletic, well-proportioned woman who had suffered recurring leg pains throughout her life. Doctors could not find any medical reason for her pain, but it persisted nonetheless, and she was willing to try anything, including hypnotherapy, to seek relief. Dr. Newton suspected that the root cause of the pain might be found in a past life, so he put her through regression. In the superconscious state, she found herself in the Ring of Destiny after having requested a life in one of the strongest, healthiest, and most powerful bodies on earth at that time.

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She had the choice between a Roman soldier, who would have suffered through a hierarchical system of control, or a Viking named Leth, who could run free and do as he pleased. She chose Leth, and in this lifetime, from around A.D. 800, she appeared as this brutal and powerful man. As a soul, she enjoyed the experience of the power of the body and all the material pursuits—including drinking, fighting, pillaging, and sexual conquests. Leth never got sick and was unresponsive to physical pain. He could never get enough food, drink, fighting, plundering, and sex. Apparently, everyone in this era had similar behaviors and attitudes, so Leth did not stand out as an unusually aggressive or negative soul. Nonetheless, the infringements he caused to the free will of others came back around—quite strongly. He may well have needed to wait several lifetimes until he was strong enough to balance the karma he had created as Leth. This case also reveals that younger souls do not necessarily understand the law of karma. If they want to go into a life that will most likely involve hurting others, their guides will knowingly allow them to do so. They are offered choices of new life situations and new bodies —but until they become more advanced, they may not realize that the preprogrammed disasters that must happen in those bodies are the direct result of the choices they made in earlier incarnations.

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When Dr. Newton asked this woman to explore the reason for her recurring leg pains, she immediately moved into her most recent past life. She was now a six-year-old girl named Ashley who was living in New England in the year 1871—more than a thousand years after her lifetime as Leth. While Ashley was riding in a horse-drawn carriage that was heavily burdened with weight, she fell out. The wheels ran over her legs above the knees and crushed them. Ashley’s legs never healed properly, and she spent the rest of her life having to walk with wooden crutches. She also suffered frequent swelling in her legs and died at a relatively young age in 1912. By this point she had worked as a writer and a tutor of disadvantaged children and thereby had built a great deal of positive karma as a soul.

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In the afterlife state, she realized that she had chosen this injury to help her develop the power of mental concentration, but she did not appear to understand that it was also a karmic balancing of the experiences she had created for others as Leth. In her lifetime as Ashley, she spent most of her time in bed and learned to read, write, and communicate well. She was then able to see how she had directly worked, from the afterlife state, to arrange the carriage accident and to make sure it would happen properly, at the chosen time. This involved a telepathic coordination between her soul and her body on the subconscious level. She had also given herself subconscious memory tags to know and expect this moment. Although she had a period of time when she could have chosen not to go through with the carriage accident, she knew it was the best move she could make. She had options for other bodily injuries but had specifically chosen this accident because it would limit her ability to walk. This would compel her to develop her mind more fully, since she had long periods of unbroken solitude. She made good use of the experience, with the sole problem being that she was slightly too indulged and pampered in that lifetime. Dr. Newton was able to run her through desensitization exercises, while under hypnosis, that removed her subconscious memory of leg pain entirely. Later, she reconnected with Dr. Newton and happily revealed that her leg pain had never come back and she was routinely playing tennis.

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Dr. Newton also reveals that an energetic handshake of sorts must be made between the soul and the physical body. Without the influence of the soul, a person wouldn’t be very interesting—he or she would be fairly primal in nature and would be ruled by emotions. The soul can determine whether someone is an extrovert or an introvert, whether the person is emotional or intellectual, and whether the person is rational or idealistic in nature. Many of our personality attributes carry over from one life to the next, but there are also personality influences that are a direct result of the body itself, its heredity, and its experiences.

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Some souls consistently choose to return as people who are critical, domineering, and cold, even though they will end up being fully accountable for the hurts they cause to others by their attitude and behavior. Souls like this can offer a great deal of karma and growth experiences to others—and are often needed to help others balance out their own debts. Some souls realize that they need to have people like this in their lives, people who are strong and tough, or else they will end up dominating and manipulating everyone around them. Souls with this dominant, critical personality type appear to have greater difficulty than most in blending themselves with the human body and brain they have chosen in a given lifetime. The soul often cannot get messages through or does not have much influence on the body when the body is going through great stress or strong emotions.

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Stage Nine: Preparation and Embarkation

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In the Preparation and Embarkation stage, we leave the Ring of Destiny and have an intensive planning meeting with the people who will play key roles in our lives, usually from our soul group. This stage of the afterlife is very relevant to our discussion. Many synchronicities we will experience are planned out at this point, in order to ensure that we take certain steps at certain times. Higher-level guides help us plan out the symbols and events that will help steer us through these key moments. If we choose to be in a relationship with someone, we may deliberately plan a symbol that will appear when we first see that person—a particular place, a particular object they are wearing, something funny they say, some specific music we hear in the background, and so on. We struggle at this stage to memorize each of these cues, so that we will know what to do when we see them. Once we have incarnated in a physical body and these signals appear, we generally will not remember the careful and deliberate planning that went into these events, but the memory trigger encourages us to make certain decisions.

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A male client, case twenty-eight, described a pre-birth agreement he made in which a woman he meets as a child will be wearing a shiny silver pendant on a necklace, and the sunlight then gleams off of it. Once he was alive in a physical body, living in his hometown, this same woman walked every day on his street, and she always wore a silver pendant. The first time he met her with it, the sunlight reflected off it, just as he had intended it to in the afterlife—and this event activated his memory trigger. He was immediately drawn to become her friend and engage in conversation, without consciously knowing why he felt so strongly about doing this. Even though he knew her for only a short time before his family moved, she gave him a very valuable lesson in learning to respect others.

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As we go through the Preparation and Embarkation stage, we may be concerned about our level of stubbornness and resistance to the synchronicity and gut feelings that our souls use to communicate with us. In cases like these, we may layer in several different memory tags that will appear as synchronicities in our lives, just to reinforce one particular decision we intend to make. Case twenty-eight describes multiple planned triggers he would experience when meeting the woman he had chosen to be his wife. Both of them agreed on these memory triggers and would cooperate, as souls, to make sure they happened. This included a laugh of hers that would remind him of the sound of tiny bells or chimes, a familiar perfume scent he would notice the first time he danced with her, and the way her eyes would look. Her chosen memory triggers included his big ears, the fact that he would step on her toes when they danced the first time, and the specific way she would feel when she first held him.

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After planning out these synchronicities to keep us on track, we often have another meeting with the Council of Elders before we head into the Rebirth stage. This meeting is used to remind us of our goals and of how important it is that we stick to our ideals in our next lifetime. On page 261, a client of Dr. Newton’s reports the Elders as all being hairless, with oval faces, high cheekbones, and smallish features—much like the appearance of certain types of extraterrestrials people have reported seeing.  These people did have eyes like ours—not black ovals—but many extraterrestrial witness reports do feature this type of appearance. The Elders are bathed in light, and there is a strong sense of divinity. This meeting is akin to a last-minute pep talk encouraging us to have patience, to hold true to our values, to trust ourselves in the midst of difficult situations, and to avoid indulging in anger and negativity. We may also receive an energetic boost from the Elders that appears as a burst of positive power helping inspire us and charge us with love.

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Stage Ten: Rebirth

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The final stage Dr. Newton identified is Rebirth. After the meeting with the Council of Elders, some souls become quiet and introspective before they reincarnate, whereas others joke around with their friends and have a lighthearted attitude about the reincarnation. Once we finally depart, we have a sense of plunging downward, through areas of luminous energy. We may also see another dark tunnel, only this time we are returning to the earth in it, rather than leaving the earth through it. As soon as we exit the tunnel, we find ourselves in the body of a baby within our new mother’s womb.

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Up until our new child begins school at around age five, we still have enough flexibility that we can leave the body for various lengths of time. We may go off and enjoy traveling with our friends to revisit places we lived in other lifetimes. The minute the baby is in any physical danger or distress, we instantly snap back to take care of the problem. While we are in the baby’s body, we work to integrate our own soul energies with the brain of the physical body. We may also get the baby to do things that will help smooth out the relationships within the family. For example, if our mother and father are fighting, we may do something cute, such as poking their faces with both hands, smiling, or giggling, to distract them back into positive thoughts. It is well within the power of the soul to get the baby to laugh when needed.

 

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Cycles of History as the Master Organizing File for Reincarnation

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The scientific proof for a living universe is quite far-reaching in scope. DNA and biological life appear to be written into the laws of quantum physics and manifest as an “emergent phenomenon” wherever and however they can. Stars and planets exert strong energetic influences on our conscious minds, whether we realize it or not. Our waking personalities are the result of a fusion between the body and the soul, and we cycle through many different incarnations to master the same lessons. We ensure that we will see most of our friends in each lifetime, and we also reincarnate within larger groups of people as well—potentially in the hundreds of thousands, if not more. We may very well be tied to them through common bonds of karma, and we need to keep moving through the ups and downs, the highs and lows, the triumphs and disasters of life. Within these secondary groups, we keep repeating the same experiences until we choose, as a collective, to make more loving and positive choices. Our experiences are organized into extremely precise time cycles, as we will explore in Part 3.

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We’ve all heard the saying that history repeats itself, but until I encountered this incredible body of data—and did far more research on it myself to see if it was really true—I had no idea how structured our experiences really are. Global events seem to be completely random, formed by an impossibly complex array of factors. However, it turns out that all the experiences we go through, from lifetime to lifetime, are being guided by a hidden template of spiritual evolution known as the Hero’s Journey. In the Law of One series, these experiences are called “the archetypical mind,” which represents the personality of the galaxy. The fourth and final book in the original Law of One series is almost entirely dedicated to studying this galactic mind.

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90.14 The archetypical mind is part of that mind which informs all experience. Please recall [our earlier] definition of the archetypical mind as the repository of those refinements to the cosmic or all-mind made by this particular Logos [our Milky Way galaxy] and particular only to this Logos. Thus [the archetypical mind] may be seen as one of the roots of mind, not the deepest but certainly the most informative in some ways. The other root of mind to be recalled is that racial or planetary mind, which also informs the conceptualizations of each entity to some degree….

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Each Logos [galaxy] desires to create a more eloquent expression of experience of the Creator by the Creator. The archetypical mind is intended to heighten this ability to express the Creator in patterns more like the fanned peacock’s tail—each facet of the Creator vivid, upright, and shining with articulated beauty.

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This epic story is written into every movie and television show in existence—and I soon found out, through a great deal of pain and suffering, that you can’t even write a Hollywood screenplay that sells without having studied it extensively.”

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