The Soul's Perspective on Materialism

When I first started to realize that I've had a spirit guide following me around my whole life and that every little thing I've done is recorded in an ethereal database, it of course brought up concern. "Oh no, the spirit realm has seen EVERYTHING that I've done, that's not good...." This of course took me down memory lane, remembering the many not-so-clever moments during the ages of, let's say 15 through 35. Then as I read hundreds of near death experiences, I realized I will need to review details of my life with my teachers in the spirit realm...another not so good thing!

Why the heck did it take me so long to wise up in life? Well, let's see what my higher self has to say about this question. I asked the very wonderful channeler, Stephanie, if she could channel my higher self so I can better understand. Here's what my higher self said:

"It’s simple really, this explanation. What I decided about this lifetime for myself was that I wanted to complete it, without leaving out any experiences that I wanted to test. And so I stopped myself just then from saying no regrets because that is not my phrase and not what I am anchored to here at all. But I do very much know that within this journey, I want to know the greatest love, I want to share from the biggest place of generosity, I want to live with the fullest open heart, I want to enjoy the material pleasures to the fullest extent, I want to experience a variety of vibrations within and around my physicality.

If I were to sit down with pen and paper, and I am certainly encouraging my human mind to do this, and come up with a list of all the cool badass things that are available only on this one planet and put little boxes next to each thing to see how many I can check off, I will feel this immense satisfaction of how many experiences I have granted myself, how much freedom I have enjoyed, how many resources have come directly to me literally with my name engraved on them. So yea all of that is what I have come for as well. I defy anyone to show me another soul cloaked in a human body who has not also come here for their own set of such things.

And sure I move through phases and stages of younger soul behaviors. Yea I did that, wanna know why? Because you can't get to any sort of advanced or deep or expanded state of being without doing so. Here is where I am tangled with my big toe in the gears because I am lamenting, because I’ve got some self judgement, because I have some shoulda woulda coulda, even if it’s not a lot, it’s still there. And when I think of how I am embarrassed, I see the gears turning on that big toe. How on Earth will I get myself free from this if I have self judgement that is holding some old passe energy in place.

So leave it to me to identify where my next self healing comes from. It will be from looking closely in my meditation at those versions of myself that are indeed chronologically and soulfully younger than where I stand right now. And by the way, just in case I was wondering, I still have a helluva lot of ground to cover and so I am not even halfway there."

I think a key message here is that shame, judgement, and guilt are pointless emotions. The experiences that humans deem negative have purpose and are used for learning. The spirit realm doesn't judge good or bad but views everything as creative experiences.

Throughout my journey the last couple years, I was wondering why I didn't start meditating earlier and now I better understand. For example, it may seem oh so very spiritual to be a buddhist monk, but a monk may not be experiencing as much on this planet. It seems that one of the purposes for the soul to incarnate in the 3rd dimension is to enjoy the material pleasures offered on this planet.

The overall purpose of reincarnation is to experience and evolve through experiences; however, our soul has specific purposes and goals too, which become apparent through what we are excited about. These specific purposes can change throughout our life. For example during one phase of our life we may love traveling the world and in the next phase of our life we may want to help humanity. When we follow our excitement, we are listening to the guidance of our higher self.

After the channeling, I jokingly told Stephanie that it only took me about 40 years to wise up. Then she hilariously quipped back that actually it took me a lot longer than that....thousands of lifetimes. Finally, I understand the purpose of this Earthly life, but it looks like I have a lot more life to live, so I'll start this bucket list.