What Happens to the Soul Between Reincarnations?

The book, Journey Of Souls: Case Studies Of Life Between Lives by hypnotherapist, Michael Newton, reports on results of similarities between regression hypnosis of 7000 people about what happened after they died and before they reincarnated.

• People’s memories of the initial activities of the soul just after final death on earth parallel the recollections of people returning from a near-death experience (NDE).
• Souls are generally anxious to move away from the earth after death, and in many cases may stay a few days for their funeral.
• Most souls initially pass through a tunnel towards the light of heaven.
• The appearances of physical structures or other familiarities from Earth on the entry of the soul into heaven are intended to ease their transition.
• Souls have the capability of projecting former life forms in communication with other souls.
• Immediately after their death on earth, souls are met initially in heaven by their spirit guides or someone with whom they were close in their previous life. They meet others that were important to them previously.
• Spirit guides continue their protective role in heaven.
• Communication in heaven is done through telepathy.
• A private form of consciousness between spirits exists through touch.
• Ghosts are spirits who have chosen to remain within the earth plane, generally with a high degree of discontent. They can be dealt with by various means, such as exorcism, to get them to stop interfering with human beings.
• Souls who were unable to turn aside a human impulse to harm others will go into seclusion upon entering the spirit world and remain for quite a while. The following reincarnation may be as a victim in a karmic cycle of justice.
• An arriving soul can enter a place of healing as part of the restoration of the soul after a lifetime on earth.
• A life review is conducted, first with spirit guides and later with a Council of Elders.
• Souls travel to their initial destination in heaven through a large staging area.
• Souls proceed to their cluster, consisting of small groups of soul energy that appear like a cluster of transparent bubbles or translucent bulbs. They contain entities who often shared past lives with the arriving spirit.
• Group placement is determined by soul level.
• Secondary groups have some contact with a primary group.
• Opportunity for socialization and travel exist for souls living in their group.
• Once a soul group is formed no new members are added.
• Souls are grouped with others of similar characteristics.
• At higher levels of soul evolution more independence takes place from group activities.
• Spirit lights demonstrate color that correlates with a soul’s state of spiritual evolution.
• The spirit world resembles one great schoolhouse with a multitude of classrooms under the direction of teacher-souls who monitor progress.
• All souls have a personal guide who may be with them for thousands of years and many lives.
• Junior guides are often assigned as well, later in the development of a soul.
• Guides can appear as humans as well as spirits.
• Most souls in the world today are in an early stage of development.
• Spirits can experience two lives on earth at the same time.
• A dormant part of our soul remains in heaven during incarnations.
• Souls learn the techniques of the creation of physical items by thought, starting with simple assignments.
• Souls incarnate on worlds other than the Earth.
• The evolution of souls can continue way beyond the level where incarnation takes place.
• Souls are reincarnating more frequently in recent centuries, and today would have roughly two lives during the past century.
• Souls are not required to reincarnate but considerable pressure is brought to bear by spirit guides when the time is considered right.
• Souls go to a place of life selection in order to examine alternative lives to lead.
• There is a tendency for spirits to reincarnate in the same geographical area they were in during past lives.
• The effort required to overcome a physical disability accelerates spiritual evolution.
• Souls learn prior to a new incarnation to recognize future earthly signs from other souls they may encounter on earth with whom they have been close in the spirit world.
• Souls leave heaven to enter the body of an infant through a tunnel.
• The physical shock of birth is greater than that of death.
• Souls can arrive in the infant’s body anytime before, during or slightly after the moment of birth.