What is Our Aim in Earth Life?

Another question and answer.

Lionel

Do you think that some of us aspire to better ourselves while here on earth to raise our vibrations and earn a loftier position in the spirit world like becoming a guide or a guardian angel, etc.?


Of course our Guardian knows why we chose the life we did and will try hard to help us achieve what we set out to do. Sometimes that reason is to learn certain spiritual lessons to equip us to move to the next highest sphere in the spirit world when we return. Sometimes it is for more altruistic reasons. Whatever the reason the lessons are learned from physical and emotional experiences here. The same lesson can be learned from many different experiences and sometimes we don’t learn the lesson from the first experience.

Maybe we need to learn humility and therefore the life we choose will offer that experience. Maybe we will be physically or mentally handicapped and have to learn to accept being totally dependant upon another person. Maybe we wish to help others by agreeing to be born say with Down’s Syndrome. Such children need constant attention and can never mature as normal youngsters do but their capacity for giving out love is unequalled and they often transform the lives of their carers in positive ways that those of us not involved would find it difficult to imagine.

Maybe we need to learn the responsibilities of leadership or the difficulties of coping with power and its corrupting influences. Maybe we choose to lead a totally anonymous life. The example of the abusive parents is a good one. It might be what helps us build a stronger character and after all our character is all we take with us to spirit. On the other hand abuse could have the reverse effect and so it is with everything in life. Few things have just a single possible outcome. However, no matter whether our choices whilst we are here are good or bad, the fact remains we decided to take the risk, knowing it could go either way. That is the true courage every individual has shown and because of that I believe we should try to respect and love everyone, even those we can’t like!

Whatever we decide in the spirit world before coming here, our Guardian will have been with us to give advice and counsel. We might think that once we are here we’re on our own but that is never true. Not only do our spirit friends try to keep us on track but physical people often do so without realising it. Maybe the simple words or actions of a child might be enough to help us take the right decision when we find ourselves at one of many crossroads in our lives. This is why we should always try to remain aware of what is happening around us and try to be interested in what others are doing and why – not to criticise but to learn.

I don’t believe any of us will qualify to be a Guide or Guardian Angel upon leaving earth, except perhaps for those children who have merely touched the earth and then been recalled to spirit. They give off such a perfect light, as I know from my work as a medium, that I could easily be persuaded they have become angels on their return to spirit. Most of us have probably been too sullied by the negative aspects of earth to qualify immediately for such responsibilities. What is true is that where we settle after our initial period of adjustment to life in spirit is determined by the life we lived on earth. How we lived, rather than what we believed.