I don't believe in reincarnation as many believe it to be, but in terms of your question, I don't believe it contradicts the idea of free-will. It assumes that our soul/spirit is ours and ours alone to make that decision. I don't believe that to be the case.Sunrise wrote:Is a spirit ever forced to reincarnate? If so, then how can it be said that that spirit has "free will"?
The reason I ask is that I've been reading literature on the near-death experience for many years, and have encountered numerous times a scenario in which the spirit of the person who had died physically was told that, if it chose to stay in the Light, it would "have" to reincarnate later.
Am I the only one who sees a problem with this picture? That is to say, does this not contradict both the idea that we have "free will" and the notion that -- except for having to experience our negative actions through the eyes of others during our life review -- we aren't "punished" for things we do wrong on Earth?
I was just curious, do you believe that to be the only thing that happens when we die, that we review our life through the eyes of others? What else do you believe happens to us after this physical life?