I've always been fascinated by a collection of cold, hard facts:
Nobody asks to be born
Nobody has anything to say about when or where they'll be born
Nobody has anything to say about who their parents will be
Nobody has anything to say about what their appearance will be
Nobody has anything to say about whether or not they'll be crippled
Nobody has anything to say about whether they will have an IQ of 70 or 170
What makes anybody think they're any different than other mammals?
There are presently over 5400 known mammalian species.
Screw Ancient Gods. They're all the same...made up by men. have you ever noticed that god and Jesus and the holy ghost are all males?
The Jesus story had to be impressive so they told that his Mama was a virgin...LMAO!!!
Pure, Major, Bullshit!!!
In my time attending trance lectures at the spiritualist association in London (33 belgrave sq) I heard much about what happens after death, between incarnations. The spirit guides said we are all on a long journey of as many as thousands of incarnations, which can occur on many different inhabited planets. When we die we find ourselves in a higher dimension on a plane that our spiritual state of evolution corresponds too. Some unholy souls will find themselves in darkness, but most decent people find themselves in a realm they might mistake for heaven. But eventually our souls realize we are not perfected and we need further incarnation. Both for experience, sake and for the settling of Karma from past lives. Karma cannot be settled in the spirit world and needs the circumstances of physical incarnation. So eventually we choose to incarnate and at that time we do have some say over the conditions we will incarnate into. But in the end the final determination will be made by the angels of karma, who dispassionately place us in the circumstances where our karma can be paid. So we might find ourselves suffering, or being a cripple, not just as a punishment for past actions, but because our soul needs to learn empathy or compassion, or other reasons.
Eventually the cycle of the soul will be completed, and we will rise up as immortal beings that no longer need incarnation, after which we will join the great eternal brotherhood of enlightened spirits. We may then choose to try to inspire people who are still incarnate from behind the scenes as spirit guides. Or we may just move on up into higher realms and not look back.
I have mentioned the angels, and they are a separate race of beings that never incarnate, and they work behind the scenes to carry out the divine plan.