INTRODUCTION

Reincarnation is a fascinating concept. For those of you who don't know...this is the belief that you have more than one lifetime to live. Supposedly after you die on this plane of existence, you are reborn into another life. The birth, life, death cycle is begun anew. Except the average person has no recollection of the past life so you go back to square one...or do you? What if you do! Bring something with you...like a learning plan, into the next life.

LEARNING PLAN: A predetermined set of circumstances that will enable you to learn lessons you choose before you are born. If this is so... Then there must be a place in between life and death, where souls go to get recycled. So lets say if a soul wanted to learn Victim/Persecutor...in one life he or she would be a Victim...and in the next would be the Persecutor, or vice versa in order to experience both vantages. To achieve "The Perfect Life" to fit your arranged learning plan, a predetermined set of conditions and events would be agreed upon. Like your position in family/community/country... as well as the amount of love and attention you get, or don't get, to bring about the set of conditions necessary for you to learn the lessons you chose.

The place in between would have to be like an assembly line. People on a conveyor belt, waiting their turn to go back through the tunnel. My story begins with two souls sitting beside each other on the conveyor belt waiting to be born...again. The In-Between place is very quiet and peaceful. Souls are riding sidesaddle on the belt with their next life's computerized itinerary on their laps. The itinerary is in a video box that allows you to review past lives, as well as fast-forward to the next life as you wish. Some are reviewing their chosen lessons and some are just drinking in the last tastes of heaven they will know for a while. Two souls are engaged in conversation. One is a male who was the victim in his last life...he didn't stand a chance right from the start. He was physically and sexual abused at an early age and as life went on, the victimization only got worse. Drug abuse, prostitution and finally... death by electrocution for a murder he didn't commit.

She asks, "What are you going to be in your next life"? This time the soul chose to be a man with a big chip on his shoulder. Who would bully, berate and brutalize on a whim. He is to be born the 3rd youngest in a family with 15 other siblings. His mother is mentally unstable. His father is a hard working, hard drinking, second generation Irish Immigrant. In this life he would find the conditions needed, with so many people and things going on...he would be left to his own recourse all too young. This will enable him to build the hard shell needed to become the persecutor... "I'm going to be the guy they all fear", he say's bluntly.

She was a very poor baby who died of neglect and starvation in a third world nation. She only lived one year of life...this time she will be born into old money. The only child of dotting parents. In this life she will want for nothing. She will marry the man of her dreams and kick up her heels doing jigs and reels with him on their 70th wedding anniversary She will have the ideal family life. Big house, lots of friends and live to the ripe old age of 91. She will love school and go on to university to earn a degree in philosophy...just for fun.

"Well this time I'm going to have it all", she says with a sigh of relief and bliss. She has had a number of previous lives and is now nearing the end of her evaluation process on earth... She has known what it's like to be victim and persecutor, giver and taker, martyr and selfish bastard. Her past lives have taught her how to overcome her ego and stop sabotaging herself. She has finally come to learn it doesn't matter what you are given, it only matters what you do with it. Her reward is, in this lifetime she will experience the other half of poverty and neglect... abundance in all areas of life. When she has completed this lifetime she is due to graduate into the next learning level. She has been looking at a picture of her mother and father to be.

They are nearing the tunnel and the box begins to confirm the lesson plans and basic conditions to ensure they have the right soul for the correct life. Highlights of their next life flash before them on the screen from a baby to the deathbed. The Soul is to push Enter on the box to confirm each stage of life.

Expected graduates may make a mantra for the next life. The mantra will set the pace for their personality and the way they cope with day-to-day ups and downs. The words "Last Incarnation" appears on the screen below her picture...she's taken aback.

"This is my last incarnation!!!" she declares with genuine surprise. The speaker pick's it up as her mantra for the next life and the screen goes blank... "INSERT THIS END" appears on the screen and she's ready to go through into the next life.

He is a newer soul, who has only experienced past lives that have witnessed more tragedy than love and as a result he is still attracted to the darker side of human existence. Young souls get stuck in cycles they "Do unto others as has been done unto them". They haven't made the quantum leap to... "Do unto others as you would have done unto you" yet, and would still rather be right than happy. They look like they would look when they are in their late teens for the next life. The female soul had reviewed a past life where she noticed the guy sitting next to her was a husband in a past life... She says, "Look up two lives ago...you'll find we were married once". He pushes rewind till he sees her face. "See there I am...there we are". He says, "I wonder if we meet in the next life". He quickly fast- forwards, "OK it shows we grow up in the same town... but never meet". She says sadly "I guess we completed our contracts and won't need each other this time around". They are gazing into each other's eyes. She's seeing how he tried to show her love... but just wasn't able to. He starts to realize the love he withheld from her some how was the love he withheld from himself. "The closest we come to meeting is... I break and enter your daddy's house...and that's the night I die".

She searches for something to change the melancholy tone..."This is my last incarnation...If we grow up in the same town...chances are, we're bound to pass each other on the street or somewhere... I'll be watching for you".

Just when they are reaching the entrance to the tunnel the soul next to them, jumps off the belt and says he's not ready. You see his chosen incarnation is to be aborted and is supposed to have chosen another life plan right after this one...the attendant pushes the "STOP" button on the conveyer belt and everyone is jolted. Both the male and female crash together and their itinerary's fall on the floor. Both screens are flashing INSERT THIS END.

"The attendant is now frantic, he shouts, "Get back on the belt". The soul, who needs to complete the next life's learning plan for the life after this very short one, picks up both itineraries and hands them back to the female soul next to him.

The attendant is now explaining what happened to his superior over a video- phone attached to the tunnel. The female and male are on deck and in the hole to go through. The attendant regains his composure, takes the itinerary from him and states that he will note his record to allow more time when he returns after the abortion...and sends him through. He's aware his superior is still observing and takes the females' itinerary hurriedly without looking to confirm he has the correct soul for the correct life plan...he enters the card into the machine. She gives the male a wink and a nod saying "I don't care what it says...I have a strange feeling I'll see you on the other side." The attendant hits "SEND" and she is sucked through the tunnel.

The attendant takes the lesson plan from the male soul. This time he looks to confirm with the screen and the guy. He gives a double take and notices his mistake. He sent the female into the life that was meant for him and panics. The male says, "What's the hold up...send me through".

His superior is asking the same question. "What is the hold up"?

The attendant on impulse finishes inserting the card into the machine and hits the send button...the male gets sent into the life meant for her. The attendant smiles at his superior and says "I'll have them all processed on schedule..."don't worry". Imagine getting sent into a life of affluence and abundance where everyone loves you and you are the center of their world... with a big chip on your shoulder...out for revenge and persecution. I'm sure you know someone who appears to be into self-sabotage or is just plain mean...this concept could explain a lot. Also imagine getting sent into a life where you are supposed to have it all, and end up in a family with not enough of everything to go around...TO BE CONTINUED...

Now that I have your attention...everything I'm about to tell you about the Callahan family is true. I just put the bit about reincarnation in cause I thought it was a clever way of setting a comical tone to tell you my story. I'm not saying I think I was born into the wrong family or anything, because I would not change a thing about my growing up... But I have to confess... there were times that PRETENDING I was sure helped.

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