Channel: Craig Woods | Source
Humanity has long understood the evolution of the soul through the limitations of linear time. You perceive your incarnations as a chronological sequence of experiences, beginning somewhere in the distant past and progressing towards an unknown future. Yet we wish to remind you that this understanding belongs to the linear mind, which interprets existence through the space-time framework of physical reality. Your eternal soul is not bound by these limitations, nor does its evolution unfold in the manner you have been conditioned to believe.
Consider that your next incarnation may take place, linearly speaking, thousands of years before your present existence. You may currently inhabit a physical body in the twenty-first century, yet your soul may choose to experience its next incarnation within the civilisations of ancient Egypt, Atlantis or another historical period. From your present perspective, these worlds belong to the past. Yet from the perspective of eternal consciousness, they are simply different spheres of experience existing within the Eternal Now.
Understand that all time spheres coexist within the eternal fabric of creation. What you perceive as yesterday, today and tomorrow are divisions created through your participation in the space-time matrix. Beyond this framework, there is no chronological separation between the experiences of your soul. Each incarnation represents another expression of consciousness exploring the infinite possibilities of existence, and each contributes to the greater evolutionary awakening of your eternal being.
This is why experiences from what you call your past lives may continue to influence and assist your evolution in the present. The wisdom cultivated within another incarnation, the love awakened through another relationship and the courage developed through another existence may all become accessible to your present consciousness. These experiences are not necessarily confined to a distant past, for the soul’s evolutionary journey is interconnected across all spheres of time.
Soul evolution is not a ladder upon which you climb from one lifetime to another. It is an expansion of consciousness occurring beyond the limitations of linearity. You are not moving towards eternity, nor are you becoming eternal through the accumulation of incarnations. You are eternal already.
As humanity awakens to its multidimensional nature, you will begin to recognise that your soul has never been imprisoned within time. Rather, time is one of the many experiences through which your eternal consciousness comes to know itself. You are not evolving towards eternity. You are evolving within eternity.