You have made your choice...

The screens light up, huge screens, lifelike screens.   You are alone in the auditorium although you can feel a presence or perhaps more than one.  
You are shown on the gigantic screens 2 or 3 people at different stages in their lives.  Child, middle age, old.     Each person that you are shown has physical and behavioral characteristics that you can learn from, that fit at least in some way with what you are looking for.  
Something catches your fancy about one of the people on one of the screen and you decide you want to try it out.  You are spirit, you are energy, you move into the screen into the body to see how it feels to be this person.   You don’t linger but you might try another body or you might try a different age.   You have all the time you want.  You have already talked about what you want and what you want to accomplish.  You make up your mind and telepathically tell the presence that this is the one you want.  You have made your choice.  You take a last look at this person on the screen that you will be and leave the screening room.  You are ready now to make the final preparations for your return to earth in your next incarnation.  

The Face of God as Many....

If I were an artist, specifically a cartoonist, I would draw a set of images and call them, "the changing face of God".  In the first one would be primitive humans praying to their nature gods,   Pantheism, everything outside of themselves, that they had no control over that became their gods.   Next would be an images of Abraham, of Old Testament fame, considered to be the father of monotheism.  Abraham is recognized by the three major organized religions as the beginning of the belief in one god, again however this is a god, created in a human image, male, old, and existing outside of the human existence.   This god spoke to Abraham and a few others directly.   The next image would be of the prophets, masters, great souls, who came to show us god and teach us how to live with each other.     Still one God but teachers, prophets, aware humans, who we often did and still do turn into gods.   There will undoubtedly be more of these frames but the last one I would do is simply this, an image of a human, looking at themselves in the mirror.  and this would I would depict as an adult looking into the mirror but seeing a baby reflecting back.   This is the new face of God, as we are all baby gods in the making.   There is still a Source, but that Source has placed a part of Itself in all of us.  And we are finding that part and integrating that Divinity into the human.  As our linear time becomes more focused in the now, humans will come to know themselves as the "I", the one, the many, part, but the totality of All That Is because All is the Source.   The great song of Creation, a harmonic chorus in Spirit, once only heard in Spirit, will come alive and be heard as the wind blows across this fair earth, and in the quiet stillness of a warm summer evening will we hear this choir of angels.  What began as the All will be the many as One.   The face of God as Many faces, humans, you and I.  

Advice for you and me.....

If I had but one bit of advice to give to you and me, it would be this:  Don't despair, get out of fear, don't let your emotions overwhelm you and love yourself.  There is a new world coming.   It can already be here for you.   Did you notice?  This advice to me also.  

It really is that simple...

Can you believe that we actually choose to come here, this planet of darkness and bright and beautiful light.  Planet earth, planet of polarity, light and dark, good and evil, love and fear, pain and joy.   We not only choose to come here but we keep coming back.   These ideas alone are worth the thought of trying to make ours, and others, stays here as pleasant as possible.   And yet human history is wrought with war and sorrow punctuated by moments of joy and beauty.  We are not beings stranded on a prison rock floating in space.  Again, don't you think that alone is worth the idea of trying our best to make our stay as pleasant as possible.  We chose to come here and we have choices here and now.  And yes, it really is that simple.    

Love is the Motive....

In order to fully step into the mantle of our personal spirituality and power we must first let go of what organized religion tells us about our relationship to God.   We have to allow ourselves the proposition that it is true and good that we have a personal connection to the Source and it is the right thing to do to use the power that we derive from that connection.  We have never been separate from our Source but it has only been in the energy of the current cycle that we have been able to fully know that.  We no longer need an intermediary.  We never did but we didn’t know that.   When we are fully in the core of our personal spirituality, our Higher Self, we can never commit the kinds of acts that have so often been done in the past.   The painful and destructive things that have been done in the past, and in some cases are still being done, in the name of God and religion, are acts committed by humans listening to the interpretations of other humans.   You will know when you are in the core of your being, surrounded by your Higher Self, when love is the motive and love of self is the motivator. 

Music helps us remember...

"The musician is very close to mysticism, far closer than the philosopher...because music is meaningful without any words; it is meaningful simply because it rings some bells in your heart..creates a synchronicity between you and itself, when your heart starts resonating in the same way, when you start pulsating in the same way."
Osho, Philosophia Ultima
We often hear about celestial music, the music of the spheres, it is an integral part of the other side.   Indeed, harmonic sound is part of creation itself.  This is why music touches us.  It is why music is a part of all society and ceremony.  And yet when we come into this life we no longer hear the music of the spheres, the celestial music, the angelic choirs.   Finding that music back is one more of the reasons  we search for God.   Music helps us remember...

"There are more things in heaven and earth......"

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." 
Yes now I am quoting Shakespeare.   HAMLET Act 1 Scene V to be exact.  
The more I learn the more I remember.   And other than wanting all my life to find out about God and things of a spiritual nature, is there a specific reason I am learning and remembering all of this?  It is said that if you fully embrace your God self in this lifetime when you come back the next time you will return with your memory intact.  I would like that.   But it is also my intent to live a very long life this time around.   There was a time when I insisted I did not want to come back again to this place of pain and sorrow, but I'm thinking I will most likely return to see through all that has begun in this lifetime.  And to be able to do so with my memory of home and who I am as an eternal being, now that might be quite an experience.    Yes, there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of.....  Knowing some of them doesn't necessarily take away feelings of pain and separation that life on earth can produce but they certainly make a lot more sense.....