Interesting comments by Bruce Greyson

Bruce Greyson: What is my personal view of rebirth? Many of the cases that we have are unexplainable in terms of Western medicine, but they are also unexplainable in terms of the reincarnation hypothesis. Sometimes we’ll see two children who seem to remember the same past life; Sometimes We'll see a child remembering a past life of someone who died when the child was six months old, so the two lives over lapped. It does not fit into a clear model that we can follow. 

That's because your model sucks, Bruce. It is time-based, life after life after life, continuity, yada yada yada.

There is no time, Bruce, what we do have is Now and everything exists all in the Now. What you think is "reincarnation" is actually simultaneous incarnations occurring in parallel realities. Your two kids are not remembering the same "past" life they are tapping into the same parallel reality, or very similar, parallel realities.

I swear.

Valmar
In my experience, they certainly can be required, depending on what the individual Soul's will is. Reincarnation and experiencing through different egos can provide specific experiences that we simply could not learn through any other method. Ignorance, limitation and struggle, in the particular ways that physical existence and human ego can provide, can push us to grow in ways that we just could not, otherwise. I don't really understand why, not from this ego-perspective, but I know it to be intuitively true.

I have very limited knowledge of some of my previous incarnations, but only because I must have deemed these snippets necessary. They have helped me understand the gist of what this lifetime means for me, but knowing more would make the bitter struggle less entertaining. Entertaining, as in, providing challenges that I will later relish having overcome.

Can be is not must be.

Linear physical time isn't an illusion to the perspective of our egos that are bound to it, though. I see no reason why past incarnations cannot take place in the future of our current incarnation. Different times for different needs? I don't think that all lives are quite simultaneous, though... or if they are, I struggle to understand why.

You answered your own question within your statement.

That's because your model sucks, Bruce. It is time-based, life after life after life, continuity, yada yada yada.

There is no time, Bruce, what we do have is Now and everything exists all in the Now. What you think is "reincarnation" is actually simultaneous incarnations occurring in parallel realities. Your two kids are not remembering the same "past" life they are tapping into the same parallel reality, or very similar, parallel realities.

I swear.

Time obviously exists... we experience it through our ego, undeniably. There is no illusion, only perspective.

Past, present and future exist in the Now, but that doesn't mean they're not happening. The Now stretches infinitely, but within infinity, there is infinite finities... and so, there can be an experience of linear time, not only through our ego, but through our individual Higher Self, our Soul, which experiences and perceives all of these, deciding how they will all happen.

We all have our different experiences for a reason... because we are individuals.

Can be is not must be.

Agreed, however, we've chosen to reincarnate time and time again... for a reason. Why? Boredom? A desire to grow through experiencing limitations and challenges to overcome? If you're an infinite being who can do anything you want, you'd probably want a limit yourself in some ways occasionally to have some fun.

I can definitely see the lure in challenging oneself.

Time obviously exists... we experience it through our ego, undeniably. There is no illusion, only perspective.

Past, present and future exist in the Now, but that doesn't mean they're not happening. The Now stretches infinitely, but within infinity, there is infinite finities... and so, there can be an experience of linear time, not only through our ego, but through our individual Higher Self, our Soul, which experiences and perceives all of these, deciding how they will all happen.

We all have our different experiences for a reason... because we are individuals.

Time only exists in physical reality and, in some manner, in the lower astral realms. The term 'illusion' is used to indicate that we are eternal beings who have created an illusory space in which we can experience process aka as time. The experience of time (process) is quite real but when you transition to Who You Really Are, in Spirit so to speak, where there is no illusion, there are no clocks or calendars or planetary orbits or time.

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Can be is not must be.

Valmar: Agreed, however, we've chosen to reincarnate time and time again... for a reason. Why? Boredom? A desire to grow through experiencing limitations and challenges to overcome? If you're an infinite being who can do anything you want, you'd probably want a limit yourself in some ways occasionally to have some fun.

I can definitely see the lure in challenging oneself.
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Oh yeah, brings out the best, those challenges.

It is perfectly fine to say that we "re-incarnate" especially when we are posting to a forum within physical reality.  That's the lingo we use in physical reality where we have created linearity marked by what we call time. So let's use reincarnation.

When we reincarnate we do so for one primary reason. As holographic images of All That Is, (Yeshua: "You are all gods") we seek spiritual growth. This growth only can come from looking at the universe (and its unchanging structure) from different perspectives. Something akin to looking up at a glass, ball chandelier, as you move around it, your reflection (perspective) changes even if ever so slightly. Each perspective has something we can learn from. As we as souls learn (grow), so does All That Is by default.

You said "A desire to grow through experiencing limitations and challenges to overcome?" and that is correct. We are the Masters of Limitation enrolled in a Master's level class (physical reality). ET says we are marveled at because we have chosen to experience such a restrictive environment.

They scratch their rounded little heads and remark WTF!

Intuitively i agree entirely with the above,
But on a bad day it seems like it is/was perhaps that i didn't get a better offer.
Oh well, here we all are.

If you didn't get a "better offer", get a better negotiator.

btw, Mr. Oleo, change your name, I'm sick and tired of hearing this in my head over and over again.

Time only exists in physical reality and, in some manner, in the lower astral realms. The term 'illusion' is used to indicate that we are eternal beings who have created an illusory space in which we can experience process aka as time. The experience of time (process) is quite real but when you transition to Who You Really Are, in Spirit so to speak, where there is no illusion, there are no clocks or calendars or planetary orbits or time.

Hmmmm... I guess in the spiritual realms, there can be some vague idea of "time" or flow of progression, but it's far more flexible than the linear flow we experience here. If there is... "time" in the spiritual, it is anything but linear.