Hi Kim,

You asked, “When we have decided not to incarnate what are we doing?”

We’re always incarnated, in the sense that we’re always on some spiritual plane. Right now, we’re on the Earth spiritual plane. The next plane we enter keeps our senses of the Earth plane because that’s what we’re accustomed to. Our minds, with our expectations and what we’re accustomed to having in our lives, participate with others in having the next plane that is just like the Earth plane, but without any of the negatives. Through eternity, we are in the environment we are in because of who we are, what we need to grow spiritually, and what will give us bliss. We don’t have to work to create it. It is just there. If we grew up in first-millennium BCE China, the next plane would be just like first-millennium BCE China, with our friends and loved ones living with us just as we did on the Earth plane. We wouldn’t have to make that happen. It’s just that because of our expectations and what we’re accustomed to, life would be like that, and we would be there with others who expected that out of their lives as well.

And so, when we’re not incarnated on a plane like the Earth plane, we’re in a very pleasant plane with our loved ones and others who share our expectations for the way life is. There, we may live as long as we wish: centuries if we want. When we’re ready to learn more lessons, we’ll temporarily forget those expectations and go into a fresh, new life where we start over as children, grow into adulthood, and continue our spiritual growth. That incarnation might be in first-millennium BCE China. So then when we left that incarnation, we would enter a plane that was much like first-millennium BEC China, but without the negatives because we would have new expectations for the way life is. There, we could stay for centuries again until we decide to incarnate on another plane.

Our higher selves, the accumulation of all of these lives, hold the memories and lessons learned. We eventually, on that pleasant next plane of life after an incarnation, can come to recall the lives and review them. We then can become more aligned with the higher self in our memories. That’s when we can make decisions about whether to incarnate and where to incarnate.

Our loved ones are with us in soul groups. We’re never separated from them in eternity. We may change roles in incarnations, but they are always there.

You asked, “Since the earth plane is a mixture of all spiritual levels can spirits from the lowest planes come here?”

The people who are on the planes closest to the Earth plane haven’t matured to the point where they can decide to incarnate or what they’re to learn in a new incarnation. They’re still bound to the Earth they just left. No, they can’t return to an incarnation until they mature away from the Earth plane and have a perspective on where they’ve been and what the higher self has learned. In other words, someone who was a baseball player on the Earth plane and longs to return to playing baseball can’t say, “I’ll just reincarnate into a life as a great baseball player.” The desire shows this person hasn’t matured away from the Earth plane yet. That desire to be a great baseball player or to be wealthy or to be a king is a purely Earthbound desire. The person must mature away from those narrow, Earthbound desires to become more spiritually mature. Then he or she will want to incarnate to learn life lessons: to love, to trust, to feel the anguish of poverty or war, to grow closer to the Higher Power, and so on. Those are spiritual lessons. When the person has matured away from the Earth plane and wants to learn more spiritual lessons, without interest in Earthbound desires, then that person can incarnate.

You wrote, “Maybe this is a sort of neutral plane? It seems like this is the easiest plane to actually learn any genuine lessons that will last.”

Yes, the crucible that is the Earth plane we’re sharing now is a place where unique lessons can be learned. Having the enticement to be non-spiritual, self-absorbed, focused on material desires, competitive to get what I want, all allows us to choose to be materialistic if we want. That also means we can mature away from that to be more loving, compassionate, other-centered, and immersed in an intimate relationship with the Higher Power. This Earth plane allows the choices because of the way it is set up. That can result in suffering if we’re focused on materialism. The Buddha, the Zohar (Kabbalah), and Yeshua (Jesus) all told us that. Focusing on the Earth plane’s self-absorbed attitude of getting everything for me creates all the suffering we experience. God doesn’t make us suffer. We make us suffer. We alleviate that suffering by maturing away from the Earth plane’s self-absorption to spiritual mature and other-absorption or other-centeredness. Then we find bliss. And the lessons of finding that bliss stay with us in eternity.

You asked, “What purpose does the brain serve humanity if it is separate from the mind? The brain just seems to be an extra burden or obstacle to hurdle over before peace and wordly love can be obtained.”

The brain is part of the scenery. Nothing on the physical Earth plane is spiritual. It’s all part of the simulation or hologram. The brain seems to be the seat of consciousness because we need to believe that to have the Earth plane make sense. This life we’re living has to be believable. If there was nothing inside of us to seem to house consciousness, we would know it is all a play and we couldn’t get into character and be whom we are.

That’s not just speculation. In my book I describe the evidence that the mind isn’t in the brain. It’s very clear. The body begins to react before the brain gets involved, and then the brain lights up as though it had been somehow responsible for the reaction. But the body already knew as long as six seconds before the brain was involved. The motor part of the brain is lighting up ready to make a part of the body move before the decision-making part of the brain lights up showing a decision to move is being made. Scientists at the Neils Bohr Institute have shown that no electricity is going from the sense organs, the eyes or ears, to the brain. That is required for the brain to be creating the experiences of senses, sight and hearing. But there is no electricity. And people have sight and sound experiences and the memory of the sight and sound experiences when the brain isn’t functioning at all; it’s dead or temporarily dead. That shows that when we’re conscious, the mind is having experiences, apart from the brain, and the brain is just lighting up as though it were having them. But the brain is superfluous. And when the brain dies, the mind goes on blissfully just as it did when the brain was alive. The brain is just part of the scenery.

Love and peace, Craig