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Next Life Plans?

Deborah said:
Tehetehetehte,

Well, I for one will be back..I like creating...playing..and effectively bringing about change. I know I will be a man next time, with a mixed cultural or ethic background, darker skin, and small build.. (alas its cool when your a woman..but I already know I won't like it as a man... LOLOLOL ) I also know I will remember aspects of me "now"...in fact I am planning on finding "Deborah" -- in the future!

Love,
Deborah

How do you know what you will be in the next life? Are all of our future lives predetermined? What if you dont want to be this man that you say you will be next? can it change? Also how do you arrange it that you will be able to remember ur current life in the next life? sorry if thats a lot of questions.
 
One thing I know is, next time around, I definitely want to be a woman. As for a career I'd like to do, maybe a stay-at-home mom, or a writer (I stink at writing in this life :( ) or composer, or maybe a combination thereof. I'd like to have a less logic-oriented personality and have a better understanding of social things (I'm a math grad student, which kind of says it all :D ) Like Obie, I'd like more of a social life than I've had in this life, and to have more of the experiences I missed out on in this life, and to get into a loving relationship; like Ailish, I'd like to be born into a huge loving family. I think I'd like to live in a big house in the countryside, but not be a farmer.
 
I always felt I didn't want a future life, but had a strange dream that seemed to show a future life that was very interesting. It was like a past life "done better" (or a "new and improved" version of a past life). I don't know...
 
In a way, I'm not sure I want to live again. A part of me wants to just reach enlightenment and leave the world forever, but I know I am not at a level where I can do that. My motivations for wanting to "leave the world" are not based on spiritual advancement, but simply wanting to escape problems.

Since I'm likely to be back again, I suppose I would want to continue things I have done before, though hopefully doing it better next time around because I've grown during this life.

I love being a mother, and I believe I have been a midwife in the past (I am in school for midwifery now). I believe I have very good "birthing" karma, and I want that to continue.

I have spent a significant part of this life working through relationship and emotional issues, but I have dreamed that I would not be able to truly heal during this life alone. Still, I would hope to be able to have a more "stable" life next time, while at the same time be born into a situation where I am presented with opportunities to grow spiritually and in relationships with others.
 
It is interesting! ;)


I wish for all those in my soul family (the "leaves on my branch) to be gathered again, and have a peaceful, simple life. No need for riches or anything big. Just peace and happiness really. :)


I know - I am asking for A LOT... ;)
 
Something that I think about is that most of humanity lives in desperate circumstances. Whether they are members of the poorest cultures or belong to the more industrialized nations, most people have very little. It is hard for us to see that condition in the world because it is pretty much hidden from us and you have to really look past the more privileged and fortunate class of people to which we belong to see this.


The chance of coming back to this Earth as one of the privileged is probably not as great as coming back as one of the desperately poor and victimized. I don't know why I have been fortunate in this life (and I believe in the recent past life) but I am sure that it is not because of any merit of my own. I am very thankful for the comfort and good health I have in this life and wonder if that can continue into the next. I would rather not come back into the misery that many of our fellow travelers find themselves.


If I have a choice, I would rather come back to serve those same poor rather than have a privileged life because I believe that is the path to escaping the seemingly endless cycle of rebirth - a life of serving others out of Love.


Of course, I could be wrong. Just something I think about.
 
This is a very interesting thread also.


Now as for myself, I try not to put much energy toward looking at some future life or trying to impose present day wishes on that future life. But I try to just let it be and take care of that when it comes. There is enough in this present day to be concerned about. Am just happy that I will be able to come back again and just enjoy life again and all those simple and wonderful things that a life does bring.


Now so much to see and to experience, one cannot just see and experience it all in one lifetime plus Life is always soooo Great! There is soooo many wild areas to see, to explore, to wander thru and live in.


Personally if possible though, would love to come back again as female and as an Native American or in some other Indigenous community with living close to the Earth in the time honored old ways. Also somehow it would have to be somewhere wild or quite wild do think.


Forgot but will add for what it is worth, if possible with being born under the sign Sagitarius again.


Plus how much do I Love this Rocky Mountain and Canyon Country Wilds!!! :D
 
Now as for myself, I try not to put much energy toward looking at some future life or trying to impose present day wishes on that future life.
Me neither :) However one that I'm currently thinking about is how I hope that the global society will start taking the problems of the climate more seriously. I want to make sure that I and those around me try to be more aware of the environment and start to live in a more energy-saving and sustainable way, so that I/we in future lives won't be looking back at our present time and think why we didn't do more to adapt to the coming changes and lack of ressources.
 
W.A. HEART said:
I wish for all those in my soul family (the "leaves on my branch) to be gathered again, and have a peaceful, simple life.
Me too, Welsh, me too! ;) My branch has some colorful leaves :tongue:, so I doubt it will be simple - but it will be fun and interesting...and filled with joy! :D
 
Rittmeister said:
I know what I want...I want to have what I was supposed to have in this life. I wanted to be married to the woman that I was supposed to marry the previous lifetime. She is my soulmate. I was killed in the war and could not marry her or be a father to our child. I want to learn how to be a good husband and father. Most of my lives have been spent being a warrior with little time to be a father or husband.
This is if God allows me to and doesn't have something else for me planned. This would be my last life as a human. After Margret and I have this one last human life, we will return to where we belong. Konig des Drachen.
This really struck me. I can't say that I really want to come back for another lifetime here, and as much as it might be because I'm weary and tired of the suffering, I feel it is the above statement that truly sums it up. I know what I was here to experience, and that is all I want--to return to where we belong after this lifetime.


I wanted to love. It isn't really a relationship that I want so much as oneness, and there is a thing to be experienced here that perhaps can't be experienced elsewhere, but...I feel that it might be time to move on, and express/experience my love in more profound ways.


In this lifetime, I'm a writer, and my stories have always centered around love. It reminds me that we are all writers, and we are also the characters (actors) in our books, experiencing the world in different ways. Eventually, though, I find the process of writing/acting to get in the way of what it is I'm trying to express, and feel I'd rather put down my pen (earthly experience) and experience Love more directly.
 
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