Reincarnation

*The post that follows came from the Steve Pavlina forum before it closed down. I am not the original author.

                          When taken from the perspective of the Spirit world, incarnation is really really effing fun. It might not seem that way from your own point of view, but having and chasing and failing and succeeding at linear goals doesn't happen "out there." Sort of like the converse of playing a video game here. We like video games because it allows us to lower the stakes for awhile. In the spirit world, there aren't any stakes unless you want there to be. This whole way of looking at things where we have linear goals, such as becoming financially independent, or climbing to the top of our social ladder; having them fail or succeed based on non-linear principles that we must then learn, then falling down off our carefully constructed perch because of yet another non-linear principle that we first see as linear, like market forces that we mistake for the government or whatever, there's nothing like it.To become enlightened, you not only have to master that game, but you then have to give it up to God. To say, "yes, I could rule the world, but the world doesn't concern me anymore."That's why enlightenment's so rare, it requires lifetimes to do everything the soul wants to do here. If you haven't done everything, you'll work and you'll meditate and you won't get enlightened.Because enlightenment isn't your true wish. But because it's a big and shiny goal, we'll want it.So what will happen is you'll keep getting signals and signs. "Here's your clue, dickwad, now quit bothering me," Self says. And full enlightenment will be denied to you.But chasing our true heart's desires is the real purpose of incarnation, not enlightenment. That's just the "last boss."