An Overview of Soul Evolution

This is such a simple and beautiful description of the soul in its search for wisdom. Life after life it searches, until the seeking is no longer necessary. Much gratitude is extended to the One who shared this wisdom. . .

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“The soul remains always on its own plane, in its own environment, in this between-incarnation state. From there, the soul – when very young – establishes communication lines with the incarnated individual. There are simply communication lines – telephone cords. (You don’t have corded phones anymore. All of my analogies are failing with your cordless technology!) But imagine, if you would, the dark ages, when you had electric cords to plug things in.

The soul remains on its own level and from there runs an extension cord to the incarnated individual. Actually, there are two extension cords, one that is for consciousness and one for life force. They work together. Please keep that image in mind as I continue. 

I would like to speak of a cycle that is a spiral. The spiral may start off at its base as a very wide circling function when the soul is young, and this spiral slowly narrows and narrows until it becomes, in essence just a straight line rising. I hope you can see this. The cycle that spirals is incarnation after incarnation gaining experiences. 

So our young soul has incarnated. For young souls, the communication lines very, very often become clogged once free will – the ego – and the environment take over and have more influence than the soul from its own plane.

But the soul evolves through a pattern: 

• a life is lived,  
• experiences are gained,  
• progress is made, and mistakes are made  
• the body dies.  

The extension cords then return to the soul and the soul evaluates all of these experiences – the successes, the failures – and determines, “All right, what needs to be repeated? What needs to be perfected? What do we want to do again? What do we want not to do ever again?”

Some would call this self-judgment, but let’s just call it an assessment, an evaluation, a retrospective of this life just ended. The assessment can take on the aspect of what worked and what didn’t. It can be that simple – what worked and what didn’t. What relationships were useful? What relationships would I like to repeat? What relationships did not go well? Do I want to address the unfortunate relationship and mend it? Or am I going to let it go, never want to see it again?

Word of warning – you’re never going to let it go. You’ll have to face it sooner or later. 

But the soul doing the assessment may decide, “No, I am not ready to face that.” Or it may be in total denial and say, “I am not going to face it ever,” which is not true. But the soul may say that. It may be a young soul, thinking it can get away with that, which it can’t. I think I’ve made that clear.

The soul will then, working with other souls in its soul group – other companion souls – will then say, “All right!” and begin planning for its next life.

“In my next incarnation, I would like to accomplish thus-and-so. What do you think about it?” They plan as a group. They help one another, and they look for commonalities. (‘They’ meaning the ‘soul group’, for all souls belong to a soul group.)

“Well, we can arrange a partnership. I want to accomplish this in my next incarnation. You want to accomplish that in your next incarnation. We can arrange an intention to work together and get it done.” Or, “I can change my plan a little bit and help you do this.” Planning an incarnation is a negotiated process. 

Then the souls incarnate again. And when they incarnate, they are born with free will. 

Early in the soul evolution process, the soul may have made wonderful plans for the incarnations. When they are young souls coming into incarnation, free will often takes over. The reality of the environment and the free will takes off.

This is the pattern; this is the spiral. 

• incarnation,  
• assessment of prior incarnation,  
• planning of next incarnation,  
• incarnation,  
• incarnation ends,  
• assessment of prior incarnation,  
• planning of next incarnation,  
• incarnation . . . .  

So the soul sees this as a repeated pattern over and over and over again. 

Eventually, as the soul evolves, those communication extension cords become more useful because the incarnated self begins to recognize the little energies that the soul is sending through from its own plane. The incarnated self begins to search for the source of these energies. That is when the search for spirituality begins. 

And note that that search is not outside the incarnated individual, but within. Within. That is where the search starts, and that is where the search begins to be productive – inward. Inward to the connection with your own soul, because that connection is the spark of the Divine that drives you life after life after life. 

The soul evolves. Now that the incarnation’s extension cords are becoming more useful, the next incarnation can use them more, and the soul evolves some more. We’re still cycling – incarnation, assessment, planning, incarnation. 

The cycle becomes tighter and smaller, because there is more listening, there is more communication along those extension cords. The soul can start saying to its incarnated self, “We really intended to do this and you’re off track.” And the incarnated self reaches a point where s/he says, “I seek. I seek and I will fulfill the intent of my soul, because I know that intent is for the benefit of my own evolution and it is, therefore, a benefit for humanity.” For that will be true.

When it comes to spiritual maturity, what benefits the individual benefits the whole of humanity, either directly or indirectly. It does not matter what path or religion that a given incarnation chooses to manifest, so long as the basics are there. 

So this soul is starting with a wide base of a spiral that gets smaller and tighter, smaller and tighter, until there comes an incarnation when the energy expressed and manifested in the incarnated self becomes almost impossible to distinguish from the purest form of the soul’s highest energy level. 

At that point, the soul may decide – not on its own, it is a joint decision, let’s put it that way – that maturity has reached a point where additional lives on Earth are not lived for the purpose of gaining experiences and perfecting energy distribution – e.g. becoming generous rather than greedy – but the only reason now to incarnate is because the incarnation will support some aspect of God’s plan for all of humanity. The incarnation then, is totally a life of service, sometimes called dharma. 

So this soul has evolved through this process – incarnation, assessment, planning, incarnation – over and over. That is the mechanics. Each soul goes through this evolutionary process, and sometimes gets waylaid, gets stuck at some level. This happens. And sometimes souls go on through this spiral without being stuck at any given point. That is not the usual pattern, but it happens. It happens.”

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