Details of the Afterlife Part 2

souls planning the next incarnation

In my blog post, Details of the Afterlife Part 1, I share information about between lives hypnosis therapy and the book, Exploring the Eternal Soul by Andy Tomlinson. In that blog post I covered the process of death, the welcome party and entering the spirit realm, healing negative energy from Earth, merging back with soul energy, life reviews, purpose of an incarnation, and the Elder souls. I recommend reading that blog post before this one. For this post, I want to share more details and quotes from the book:

Soul Groups: Tomlinson explains that all the between lives pioneers universally acknowledge that souls grow and learn in groups. The majority of the hypnosis cases he included in this book described soul group sizes of 6 to 10 members but the group size can be as high as 30 members. Tomlinson explains that hypnosis clients are normally asked which soul group members they recognize in a past life. Tomlinson says, "The reunion with the soul mates usually occurs after healing, and either before or after some sort of life review".

Below is a hypnosis client explaining her return to her soul group:

"I’m going to see my group… I’m so pleased to see them all. We’re all really happy to see each other… There’s so much happiness and love and it feels like there’s fun and laughter and joy and love. It’s just overwhelming… There’s lots of banter. We’re all greeting each other and we just know what each other is thinking… It’s like we’re all catching up with what we’re all doing, and it only takes a split second for all those thoughts and images to come through."

Tomlinson explains that the number of lifetimes we have with our soul group can vary depending on the experience of the soul and if the soul has changed groups. He says that the client may have very few lives with the group or as many as a hundred. He explains that a soul may move into a different group if they are experienced and may want to specialize in a skillset. In one example below, a client under hypnosis says that her group specializes in harmonizing energy. Tomlinson's questions are in italic:

How many lifetimes have you been with this group?

"Eighty-four."

Have all the lifetimes been about harmonizing?

"Yes. Of course I’ve had additional lessons as well. I was in a different group before this."

What was the theme of that group?

"Also something to do with energy, I worked a lot with mysticism."

What are souls learning in the spirit realm? Tomlinson provides quite a few examples in his book as to what clients say about the different specialties souls can choose in the spirit realm. Hypnosis clients describe library and classroom settings. Below is what one hypnosis client says about learning to create solid matter from energy:

What is happening with your soul group now?

"They’re creating with their energy. They’re all healers and I am as well. They’re making forms, shapes."

And what are these shapes?

"Pure energy."

Whereabouts do they get this energy from?

"I think they channel it from the Source."

What are they doing with this energy?

"Hmm. Learning how to create solid matter. Working on small things at first. I’m not sure how to do it exactly… stones…Clear, focused thoughts."

Does this take a lot of practice?

"Yes. It takes a lot of practice. It’s easy to visualize something, but it’s harder to project it out."

Souls learning about energy in the spirit realm

How do souls plan the next life? In Tomlinson's book, his hypnosis clients have different issues and challenges that they want to focus on overcoming in their next incarnation. For example one client has issues where he has committed suicide in multiple past lives. A different client discusses her issue where she gives up on life when her husband dies in multiple past lives. When these two people are under hypnosis, they explain from the soul perspective what they want to plan in their next incarnation. The objective is to create an incarnation that has enough challenge to learn and grow but is not so challenging to cause suicide or too much negativity. In the planning, souls discuss various options for different life events and how this could impact the outcome.

See below quotes from the hypnosis client that has issues giving up on life when her husband dies. In her current life, her husband, Charles has already died so below is her soul planning for her current life. Her soul is reviewing options for the life.

"We talk about being more estranged in our relationship. Another option is we don’t find each other, and another is to change roles, but that wouldn’t make a difference with losing the other person, the same emotions would still be there. Another is to be in a relationship together where we have to be apart for a lot of the time. That’s the one we pick."

What’s the reason for picking that and rejecting the others?

"In the hope that with this lifetime, if we’re spending time apart, we can be together yet still be independent. So we can grow emotionally rather than be dependent on each other."

Is Inka (her spirit guide) with you?

"We’re going to see her now. Charles’ guide is there too. They think it’s a reasonable option."

What does Charles get out of this?

"He needs patience. He needs to learn that before the point at which he dies. I have to help him with that and with his children, and everyday life, so he doesn’t rush into things. He’s going to have opportunities throughout his life where he can ‘jump on board’ and rush in and it could turn out quite badly, or he could take his time and be very successful. I have to be in there trying to get him to slow down."

Previews of multiple life choices: Michael Newton discusses his findings that souls can view multiple options for their next life. Specifically, the soul will see previews of the body type, any genetic predispositions, and specific personality traits for that human body. Tomlinson has the same findings and provides quite a few fascinating examples of this.

Below is what one client describes about her preview of life options she can choose from for her next incarnation:

"I can feel an eagerness to come back into the physical life again."

So what do you do?

"I’m leaving my group, saying goodbye. There’s no need to hug them, we feel so connected they know I care. There is a big white building, big walls, flat top, white, big doors, and inside there are stages."

Do you know what this building is?

"It’s to see the bodies, or scenes. I have a glimpse into a life."

How are they presented to you?

"I move round the stages. They are made of wood, not very big, like in a small theatre."

So what do you do?

"I see a girl in Japan. It’s more like a film than a theatre. She’s very tiny and fragile."

Is her life presented to you?

"Her father is very strict and her mum dies early."

Why do you reject this option?

"Maybe it’s too difficult because she’s so fragile. I see a second wife of the father and she’s very strict as well."

What’s the next option?

"My life. My body. It will be unwanted by its mother as a child, but have a deep connection to the father. Have to learn a lot of empathy with the mother. A lot about betrayal. Betrayal of the father and of others. To betray and to be betrayed."

What attracts you to this life?

"I can sense a very strong will connected with this body, and a flexible mind. I wouldn’t call this life easy, but there are more possibilities."

You can see above that the hypnosis client is describing different options for a human incarnation that will serve the purpose and challenges for the soul. There are multiple examples of this in Michael Newton and Tomlinson's books.

Meeting with the Elder souls about the next incarnation: Tomlinson explains that souls will often meet with the Council of Elders, a group of experienced souls to discuss their next incarnation. The clients under hypnosis may view these souls in the natural form of energy or in a semi-human appearance. Below are quotes from clients under hypnosis describing their meetings with the Elders before their next incarnation:

Below is a client under hypnosis meeting with the Council of Elders:

"I outline my next life, and the purpose and the goals that I intend to meet, and the purpose of the soul group, and I talk to him about the selection of the body… There will be some other life challenges that they’ll be able to give me, and my spirit guide will be able to help me overcome some of those… It’s to do with me having to say what I think rather than shielding people... So rather than sparing people’s feelings, I have to consider my own feelings first… There will be occasions such as relationships I’ll have along the way that will be a test, they won’t be good, and rather than sticking with them and taking the emotional hurt that comes with them, I have to speak up… There’s going to be a time when I’m young and some men are going to try and get me in their car and I have to be strong and say no. There’s other examples, like friendships and friends that may be a little abusive in their words to me, or insensitive in the way they talk to me. It may happen only occasionally, and most of the time those friendships will be pretty sound. I must not override the hurt that is there. Something has to be said. There’ll be lots of tests along the way until I finally get it… These are new learnings for me."

Below is from a different client under hypnosis:

Do they tell you what the purpose of this life is going to be?

"I need to help a lot of other people as well, and to stop indulging myself. I’m a caring soul though, very caring. We’re all caring in my group. Also I need to find my own happiness within myself, before I can find it with anybody else. I always look for somebody else to fill the void when it needs to be filled by myself first."

Below is a different client under hypnosis:

Do they say anything else to you?

"It’s quite informal, telling me that they’re generally pleased with the work that’s being done, and they’re glad that I enjoyed the last life. They know it was a very difficult choice to make for the next life but there are lots of souls being asked to make these difficult choices."

Council of Elders

Souls create triggers and reminders for the incarnation: Both Michael Newton and Tomlinson talk about this fascinating subject where souls setup triggers or reminders for the life purpose and remembrance of each other.

Below are quotes from a client under hypnosis discussing her incarnation planning and another soul she will be married to for a short time in the life:

"I’m meeting another soul. He’s going to be my future husband, and he shows himself in the body in which I will meet him."

Describe him for me.

"He’s tall, like myself. It’s the man I met when I was eighteen. He’s from another group. We have great understanding of each other, we have worked together before. He tells me that I don’t have to be afraid that I’m going to miss him, because he’s going to hang on when he meets me. He will only be my husband for a short time, because he has another purpose for his life."

How will he help you?

"He will comfort me when I feel most alone, and he will give up a lot of things for me, but he will also challenge me."

Below is a different client under hypnosis:

"I’m just running over more important events in my life with my soul group, so I know that when I meet them they are people from my group. My guide is also showing me other people who will be in my life, from other groups. I can assist them."

Tell me who you’re being shown.

"My nan, and my granddad, and someone who will be a very big learning curve in my life. Heather will be my first proper relationship. It’s finished now anyway. It finished a while ago. She helps me to go to university because I need to be given the strength and confidence of living away from my family. She encourages me to do my A-levels and helps me to get to university. We’re going to be very close.

Is there anything else that you’re permitted to know?

"Hmm. It’s going to be very hard when we part. At the same time, I’m assisting her as well. It’s a two-way process. I help her to grow up. She’s very naïve and in the same sort of position I am. She gives up too easily. That’s why we were brought together. She’s been in my life before. Not my most recent one, a few before then. I was her father, trying to help her to grow up then as well. She’ll always be the child."

Free Will: Tomlinson provides feedback on free will toward the end of the book. Let me share what he says:

"Understandably, it might appear that our lives are completely fixed and predetermined. However, at a soul level no life plan is forced on a soul. A soul can remain in the spirit realm rather than incarnate and continue the learning from there."

He also says the following about human free will, "Of course, in human existence our conscious mind likes to think we have free will over everything. Over many things it does, but between lives evidence shows that the key events in our life plan have a major probability of happening."

He provides an example from a hypnosis client that says the following:

"There will be occasions such as relationships I’ll have along the way that will be a test and they won’t be good. Rather than sticking with them and taking the emotional hurt that comes with them, I have to speak up. There’ll be lots of tests along the way until I finally get it."

Thus, the soul plans major life events but allows free will in between those events for the human to make their own choices.

Percent of soul energy we take with us to an incarnation: Both Michael Newton and Tomlinson have some great detail in their book about the percent of soul energy we incarnate with. This is a decision the soul makes based on how much work they need to do in the spirit realm and how challenging the life will be. Below are quotes from clients under hypnosis:

What level of soul energy will you be taking down with you in this life?

"A lot. Seventy percent, seventy-five percent. I always take too little."

How’s that going to help you in this life?

"It’ll help me recognize my intuition properly. Help me gain a better strength of self. My spirit guide will be there to help. I need to be calm and centered and the feelings will come."

Below is a different client:

What percentage do you finally agree to take down?

"Eighty percent."

And what does Garth (his spirit guide) think about that?

"He’s nodding his head."

The twenty percent that remains, what’s it going to be doing?

"I’ll be part of the welcoming committee, or greeting group, and there for meeting people coming back, [laughs] and to play jokes! Um, but there’s learning to be done. Twenty percent is strong enough to do learning."

So what learning will you be doing?

"Research, but it might be pretty low-key stuff."

Amnesia on planet Earth: Tomlinson's clients talk about the spiritual amnesia that the soul experiences when we incarnate into a human body. Tomlinson explains that without this spiritual amnesia, the feeling of homesickness would be too great and we would want to go back. The other point is that if we knew about our life plan then it would be like taking an exam and being given all the answers. Tomlinson's clients under hypnosis describe when the amnesia will occur in the life. See below example:

At what point are the memory blocks going to be put into place?

"As a child."

And how does the process of putting these memory blocks into place work?

"As my brain develops its personality, my immortal self will quiet down like a light bulb switching off. It’s never completely out, it’s always there, always on dim."

As you can see in The Details of the Afterlife Part 1 and the above blog post, the soul will return to the spirit realm, undergo a welcoming party and healing of their energy, return to their soul group, commence learning, and at some point will yearn to incarnate into a human body again. Then the process for planning that incarnation is commenced. There are many details and examples from Tomlinson's book that I didn't include but I wanted to provide the key concepts and steps in the journey of the soul. As I've said before, all these details are so very consistent among near death experiencers and details that mediums provide. I definitely recommend Tomlinson's book if you are curious about the soul's journey and afterlife.

Below blog post is the final post of this series about Tomlinson's book:

Details of the Afterlife Part 3