Amnesia as a tool
QUESTION: Masters, when souls return to Earth what is the reason that they return with no memory of past lives and lessons learned? Wouldn’t this cumulative knowledge be beneficial? ~Linda
ANSWER: Souls don’t always come down to a new incarnation with total amnesia of their past exploits. The only thing they absolutely don’t remember is anything that might prevent them from learning all the different aspects of the lessons planned for this particular life.
A teacher will not give a student the answers to the exam before she has taught the class because the students would not pay any attention to the lessons and therefore would not learn anything new. So it is with life lessons. If you know what you are going to learn through an experience, and it has anything you might consider unpleasant, you are not going to go ahead and subject yourself to the situation.
Frequently it takes more than one lifetime to complete a particular task. When you must start at the beginning each time, you find different and, potentially, better ways to complete the necessary activities with each retake of the lesson. Knowing beforehand what will come might speed things up, but you are more likely to merely repeat the beginning of the failed lesson rather than trying a new approach, because you have done it before.
Amnesia presents an opportunity to go into your feelings and sense the most beneficial way to do something instead of going into your head and seeing what previous experiences you have stored there.