It’s easier to understand this, if we think of ourselves as a car and a driver. The physical vehicle or human body is the car and the soul is the driver. The vehicle needs a soul to animate it, energize it and drive it around. The soul chose that car very carefully, so it could learn certain life themes through it, which may include learning to maintain it, tune it up, fix it, whatever the car needs (or not). Some of us may drive a Studebaker, while others chose a hybrid or a Tesla.
We could say that those are the cards we were dealt, but how we choose to play those cards is up to us (our individualized free will). At every step, we can go one way, another way or yet another way. Life is all about making choices, experiencing the results of those choices, learning from them and moving on.
The soul comes here to experience things in human form — the good, the bad and the ugly, too. It incarnates with a specific life plan that may include dealing with things like cancer, obesity, diabetes, stroke or Alzheimer’s disease at some point in life. It’s all about experience.
The soul arrives with specific psycho-spiritual programming, which sets up the conditions it wants to experience in human form (e.g. Alzheimer’s). Some people want to fully experience the condition and go on to further decrepitude and die from it. That’s one valid path. Others may wish to experience a condition for a while (e.g. MCI), stay as they are, or try to overcome it to go to a more efficient and healthier state. There is no judgment about this at the soul level. All is choice. All is experience, learning and evolution.
What we need to remember is that we are NOT our body or mind or personality. We are more than all those things put together. The body is just a car the soul drives around for a lifetime. The mind is a filter that allows us to have a limited perspective of "3D" reality (linear time). The ego is our user interface with the outside world.
Most people find it hard to believe that our births and deaths are carefully orchestrated events at the soul level. There are no such things as accidents, even when it comes to mass deaths like tsunamis. The soul leaves exactly when it wants to, when it doesn’t have anything else to accomplish in that particular lifetime or setting around the people it has chosen to interact with.
Our souls have pre-planned not just one, but 3-5 exit points in every lifetime. It’s the soul (not the ego) that chooses on the energetic level if and when to leave. These exit points are spread out over the lifetime, so some points will “expire” after we’ve passed the period of gestation or babyhood (0-7 yo), childhood (8-21 yo), adulthood (22-42 yo), midlife to later years (43-70 yo) or before our natural demise.
In hindsight, most of us recognize certain events in our lives that could have been potential exit points (e.g. near drowning, car accident, anaphylactic shock or life-threatening illness, etc.). If we bypass all of them, then we have to live out until the end of the lifetime as planned.
The manner of death for leaving the physical form is also planned at the soul level. It’s usually by illness, accident or murder. It can be anything from cancer to a sudden heart attack, brain aneurysm, stroke, getting shot, being in a car accident, plane crash, accident at sea, poisoning, sudden organ failure, etc.
Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia are simply other ways to depart. But in these conditions, the soul has chosen to leave the body in a gradual way. The day-to-day functionality starts to deteriorate. The person gets problems with memory, because the ego (personality) starts to move out of the body and the memories go with it. But nothing is lost, because everything is being recorded by the soul’s Higher Self.
Susann Taylor Shier said it’s almost like the person is getting used to “going to heaven” again, to forget what it’s like here, because it’s been so intense. They go out of body, then they come back, they go out and come back and go: “Oh, did I miss something?”
She suggested that the family and caretakers see it creatively — to love them and be with them while they’re in those other spaces, even if it seems like they’re not here. You can communicate with them on a soul level, even when they’re “out” on the Other Side. We can do that at any time.
Give them permission to be there and say: “I know where you are and it’s a beautiful place, and you have permission from me to be there.” You are not going to say: “Oh my god, get back here in your body!” She said they are creating their own crossing over process as long as it might take. It’s their process and they will leave when they are ready to do so.
If someone lingers (e.g. coma), it’s because they have a strong desire to stay incarnate and not let go of physicality. The ego is trying its hardest to stay incarnate, because the ego disappears when the human form demises. But the soul just goes back to its Higher Self.
Some souls want to get more “evolutionary brownie points” by experiencing life with and without certain abilities and functions. This allows others to play the caretaker role, which is challenging and gives them more evolutionary content as well. Both parties benefit from it in the end. I hope this helps! I welcome any questions or comments you might have.
"Today's spiritual science is tomorrow's hard science." - Guy Needler
“We’re all just walking each other Home.” - Ram Dass
P.S. Take what resonates and leave the rest for another day or another lifetime.
