The miracle of birth.  We welcomed my first granddaughter back into this world yesterday.  I already know that she will be teaching all who have the pleasure of being close to her many lessons.

My daughter was talking to my other two grandchildren, aged 5 and 7, about my mother dying.  She asked if they were sad.  The eldest, without looking up from his game, answered “No.  You can always choose to come back.”  Well said.  These things are natural to them.  I appreciate my daughter keeping them so open, which is not always easy in today’s world. 

So, to arrive here is to leave there.  And to leave here is to go there.  In both cases, it is actually re-born.  Why do we keep coming back?  To become more perfect, more godlike: to grow closer to God.  One lifetime would not allow us that opportunity, so as we strive for perfection and it is more quickly reached by coming back to this earthly plane.  We choose to come back and place ourselves in certain situations (very often difficult circumstances) to accelerate our spiritual growth.  Depending how we work through those experiences, we create our karma (“good” or “bad”). 

Where is there?  While I have an understanding of this, better not to go too deep.  That’s why Jesus talked in parables to the masses.  They would not be able to understand the higher teachings.  His disciples were taught by him on a different, higher level.  Pythagoras and other philosophers also taught on different levels.  The road to Initiation comes in stages.  I do believe that when I was ready, the road opened up for me. 

Once I decided to start studying The Greater Mysteries, Master Stephen Co (www.pranichealing.com) mentioned Astara (www.astara.org).  I purchased my first book by Earlyne Chaney, Initiation in the Great Pyramid.  It was as if I was being reminded of things that I knew – as if it was my life, it was so familiar.  I signed up for the studies.  Now I have a greater appreciation of people, souls, spirits. 

After Rae “died,” I became interested in life after death.  Sure enough, I found a book called Journey of Souls by Michael Newton, Master Hypnotherapist who studied past life regressions which kept taking him to the place between lives.  Then Destiny of Souls.  I was fascinated as the case studies rang so true to me.  I found someone in Vinings, Georgia, who had studied under him and went to her for a past life regression, followed by a life-between-life regression. 

Three years ago, I also studied hypnotherapy and psychotherapy.  I was then able to do my own past life regressions for my clients, and it has proven to be fascinating and also assist them in their healing.  I attended a workshop by Dr. Brian Weiss (Many Lives, Many Masters) and told him that one day I would be on that stage.  He said “It’s not difficult” and I know this to be true. 

All this comes back to what is called “the circle of life.”  But most people who say this, must mean life and death here on the earth plane.  There is so much more.  And what a joy it is to know it.