From: suzych@swcp.com   
      
   In article <4084008E.43B2@yahoo.com>, rlauzeckas@yahoo.com wrote:   
      
   >  This is what I wrote years ago about my NDE, it might provide ideas   
   >   
   > NDE   
   > . . . the world served a purpose. It was there where your   
   > individuality could develop. Where you could be your own person. Where   
   > you could get away from knowing God is right over your shoulder. You   
   > forgot   
   > about being a soul to develop character and inner spiritual strength   
   > with   
   > hardship down here. This place wasn't intended to be a joy trip, but we   
   > strive   
   > to make it so[a good thing]. Just one of the challenges we set up for   
   > ourselves to spiritually grow with personal experience. Personal   
   > experience is best way souls grow. They crave it like bodies crave food   
   > and sex.   
      
   I think this is right on the money; a friend of mine says nobody escapes   
   a given lifetime unscathed, because "we *come* here to be scathed" -- to   
   test and try ourselves in all the constraints of physical life, which   
   gives us a sharpness of focus that is diffused off the physical plane   
   and most of all as individuality fades and the released soul starts   
   connecting up more firmly with its mates, comrades, other "selves" in   
   ways very different from our connections on the physical.  That   
   sharpening sounds to me like the major point of incarnation, the opposite   
   pole to inchoate blissful oneness, which gets bored with itself after a   
   while and so fragments into individuals.   
      
   Well; it makes more sense when she says it . . .    
      
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