Most people live life as if this is their only life. One shot, one timeline, one identity. But what if this life is just one chapter in a much longer journey of your consciousness evolving across lifetimes? What if you're not a one-life being trying to get it right, but an eternal being learning, refining, and becoming? And what if the challenges that you're facing right now, the relationships, the doubts, the obstacles, were not random. But chosen by you before you were born. Because if that were true, your struggles wouldn't be evidence that something is wrong with you. They'd be clues about what your soul came here to learn. And in this episode, I'm gonna share a framework for what may happen after death, how your life might actually be designed for your evolution, and how seeing your life this way can bring more peace, more meaning, and more direction to what you're experiencing right now.

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You know, most of us have no idea what happens after death, but we actually have a lot of data that shows what likely happens. So you have near-death experience folks, people who die for 4 minutes, 7 minutes, 14 minutes, and then they come back all tell similar stories of a life review process. And the ancients and mystics who developed the capacity to see beyond the physical realm, they also tell similar stories even though they lived in different times and in different places all around the world. So what happens after you die and why should you care while you're still living? I will tell you. So according to the ancients, after you die, you go through a panoramic life review process. Now this lasts roughly a third of your lived life on Earth. In other words, if you live to be 75 years old, you're gonna spend 25 Earth years going backwards from the time that you died until the time that you were born, experiencing everything. It's called kamaloka. And so you experience in this process, not from your perspective, but how others experienced you. So you feel the impact of your actions on others. This is not a form of punishment. It's not a judgment, but it's more of an education of empathy and understanding. So if you caused pain to someone else, you now experience that pain from their perspective. And what's really intelligent about this is it helps you develop a moral insight for your future life. So this is where you start to have a desire to be something different, to be someone different. In your next incarnative process by taking a look at the life that you just lived and reviewing it. Now, after kamaloka, and as you let go in this process of different aspects of your body, your etheric body, your astral body, as you start to move and let go of your physical body into just your soul, you let go of your lower level desires and you increase your vibration as a result of letting go of your earthly desires. And so you move into what's called devachan or the spirit world, because now you're just a high frequency. And here you start to integrate the life lessons. You start to work with and connect with higher level spiritual beings, and you prepare yourself for your next incarnation or life. Now, what happens there is really interesting. Uh, it speaks to the system and the structure that has been designed to support physical life in the solar system. After devachan, your soul travels through what the ancients referred to as planetary spheres. So you can kind of think about it as your soul goes around the solar system from the moon to Mercury to Venus, sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and you start to collect and organize electromagnetic frequencies that begin to structure your new incarnation. You start to organize different states of consciousness, different elemental and electromagnetic forces that are represented and held by each of the planetary spheres. For example, the moon holds information about your past karma. Saturn holds frequencies related to your destiny and long learning cycles. So as you go through and you collect this information, as your soul gathers this information, it prepares for the next incarnation or life lesson. It's really powerful and incredible, like mind-blowing when you think about it, that the geometry or the mathematics or the astronomy of the solar system is designed in such a way energetically that it contains all of the pieces of your next soul blueprint. You can almost think about it as like Earth is so incredibly designed. You think about it outside of when humans intervene and mess things up, the ecosystem and the, the living organism of the planet Earth is extraordinary. And it's the only planet in our solar system that holds life. I actually believe that our solar system is the only solar system in the universe right now that holds life. So we go through the solar system, we collect all the pieces of ourselves that we need to come back in, and all of that information is then woven into the life conditions that you select in your next lifetime, meaning the parents that you were born to, the environment that you're born into, and all of that sets you up for the next expansion. Okay. Now I want to make this very practical for you because the practical part of this is that things happen to us. When we were children that we refer to as traumas. Maybe we were physically abused. Maybe we were sexually abused. Maybe we grew up with, you know, feeling abandoned because one family member left. Maybe we got bullied as a child. Maybe we grew up in an environment where we felt like children were seen and not heard. And we experienced this initial trauma. And most of the time we perceive trauma as a thing that happened to us. That is limiting us in this life. But what I want to suggest is a more intelligent perspective could be, should be, is you designed the trauma because the trauma became the resistance training for who you came here to be in this life. Your trauma did not happen to you. Your trauma was designed by you for you. Because if you came here to learn self-love, like, let's say you, in this last life, you went through your life review, kamaloka, and you're like, oh wow, like I got to experience how other people experienced me. And what I want to do is I want to come back and I want to learn self-love because if I loved myself, I wouldn't have done the things to other people that I did. Then you're going to be born into an environment where you feel not good enough. So you're always born into the opposite environment of that which you came here to become or learn, because that is the resistance training. And so if, for example, you lived a life of financial insecurity and you want to learn abundance and prosperity, you'll be born into an environment where there isn't enough. What happens as a result of that initial trauma— for me, for example, it was thinking that there was something wrong with me— is that there's a compensation mechanism that takes place called your personality. So your personality is a compensatory mechanism for your core trauma. You start to develop skills, you develop certain perceptions, you develop certain personality traits or character qualities to compensate for your core trauma in order to avoid being hurt again and to keep you safe. You built your personality as a byproduct of that. And so you lived your life and there were certain things that you did well. Because you believe that they would help you survive. And what happens is around your 40s— and this is interesting because Rudolf Steiner, one of the most public Rosicrucians— again, we talk about secret societies, ancients, mystics, secret orders— he said that your life actually unfolds in septenniums, which is periods of 7 years. And around your 6th septennium, which is 42 years old, this compensation for your core trauma called your personality develops too much neurological momentum. And this is why many people in their early 40s who feel like they've been successful using the tactics and strategies that they've developed over time, start to find that those tactics and strategies start to suffocate them. So for example, somebody who felt unsafe when they were a child, and then therefore decided to control their external environment, became very good at controlling their external environment. But what happens by the time you hit your early 40s is that there's been a neurological overdevelopment of the control mechanism, and now you're controlling all kinds of things that you don't even need to be and should not be controlling. And so your life starts to feel suffocated. If you're someone, for example, who learned how to organize the chaos, I hear this a lot from high-performing entrepreneurs. What happens by the time you hit your early 40s is there's so much chaos to organize that you collapse underneath it all. And so this is the period of time. It's the transformation of the trauma into the gift where you must learn to let go of the old personality. You have to learn to choose your gifts when they're useful rather than becoming compulsive and addictive behaviors and transform therefore what you have become in your life into who you actually came here to be. So a lot of this is a process of faith. This is where the concept of surrender starts to emerge. You have to let go of your old behavior. Behaviors. You have to create the space for the uncertainty of not knowing what life will look like if you're not continuing to behave in the same way. Could be people pleasing. It could be worrying. It could be chasing your health problems. You know, whatever it is, it's a time to let go of the old self. Christ talked about allowing your old self to die so that the new you, the you that you came here to be, can be born or be renewed. And so this is a process of beginning to trust. That you are not alone, but that there is another function that exists in the universe, a higher power that is working with you, that life is loving. And this is why many people describe this process as a return to God. So we start out and this initial trauma as a child who feels safe, who feels loved, who came out of the womb where everything was provided for, who had unconditional trust, right? There was no betrayal, feels betrayed. That's the original trauma. That's what happened in the Garden of Eden. The snake betrayed the innocence of Adam and Eve, and it began this developmental process where we carry this trauma to as far as we can carry it and we can no longer carry it. And so we have to set it down as we learn the thing that we came here to learn. And in that learning, we also restore our relationship of faith and trust in what— in some form of higher power. God, Jesus, Allah, the universe, but we realize, wow, we're not alone. We thought we were alone as children because of that betrayal or that breaking of trust, but now we return to the garden as it was designed. So someone who has not been heard when they were a child and benefited from hiding all of their life and developed some skills must find their voice and be seen. So this is the lesson, and it's important to understand this because it can't be avoided. If you don't or aren't willing to learn the lesson, to learn self-love, to learn confidence, to learn faith, to learn to let go, to learn to speak your voice and to be safe, you're going to learn in the next life. So we may as well learn it this time. And one of the things that I've learned in my journey is that everybody has their learning. It's part of the structure. You came here to learn something and the challenges that you're having in your life right now. Are not meant to hold your back, hold you back. They are meant to reveal a teaching and a growth opportunity that you're being invited into. For a long time, I felt like I had my own unique problems. I had sleep challenges for 6 years. I had health challenges since 2017. I had my drug and alcohol and sex addiction. I've had businesses that have, you know, basically gone bankrupt or gone under. I had a decade of my life where I was meeting different women and couldn't find someone who was the right person for me. And I thought I was going to be alone for the rest of my life. And I remember always thinking that like my problems were unique to me. And what's important for you to understand is that everyone has the thing that they're carrying that at some point in time they learned to let go of. You're not uniquely problemed. And to realize that the problem is not even a problem. The problem is something that you set yourself up for. To transform so that you could continue to evolve as consciousness in all of these incarnations that you've been living. You know, I was driving the other day and woke up early. I had to go somewhere. I'm usually not an early riser and I'm staring at the sunrise and I had this moment. I was telling my wife where I didn't just understand intellectually that I'm eternal, but like I had this moment where I felt it. I'm like, I have watched the sun rise a million times. And so if that's true, and if I'm in this process of growth that I've agreed to, then what's the problem? Problems come and they always pass. Whether a problem is death, it comes to pass and then you become alive again. And so how much of a big deal do I wanna make of the problems in front of me right now if I'm an eternal being and if, if these problems are actually little exercise regimens that I set up for myself in order to learn and grow and be who I decided I wanted to be in this life. So it puts a, a new perspective on things. You know, I'd encourage you at some point in time, you know, watch the sunrise, watch the sunset through this lens of like, wow, I've done this a million times. And so how big a deal is this bill that I didn't expect? How big a deal is this ache in my body? How big a deal is this situation that I have at work in the scope of my eternalness? So everybody has a challenge. You have yours, but they're designed to help you grow and evolve. And if you understand this, death itself stops being something abstract or distant, and it becomes something that actually explains why your life is structured the way it is right now. You're not here by accident. You're not moving through challenges randomly, and you're not being rushed toward any direction. You're just being shaped and sculpted through experience over time with this eternal continuity. And so what happens after this life isn't separate from how you live this one. If you think about it, our existence in this life is very much similar to the explanation the ancients had of what happens after death. You yell at someone today and you feel badly about it, and so that becomes the opportunity for you to course correct and grow as a person. We do things that are not the expression of our best self so that we can learn what our best self looks like. Like, that's the funny thing about human beings. In order to actually reclaim the humanity that we are, we have to be inhumane to each other and we learn from it and we learn from it in this life. And we learn from it life after life after life. And the same patterns that you avoid now are the ones that you're going to repeat until you take the lesson. But the same awareness you develop now is actually what carries forward in your soul. And you know, this isn't meant to create fear about death. It's meant to bring responsibility. Back into life, to live in a way that completes something rather than continues to kick it down the field. And if you want to explore this work further, there are different ways to do that. In the show notes, in the description for this episode, you're going to find all kinds of resources to help you go deeper into these ideas. There's free materials like my Mind Hack ebook. There's also deeper work like my Mind Hack course and my whole Human Framework course. There's my book on Amazon. Of course, there's my live event.. If you want to get together and really immerse yourself for 3.5 days with 1,000+ impact-driven visionaries and entrepreneurs, all of that is there if and when it feels aligned for you. So I just appreciate you being here with me today. You know, your energy, your soul is important to me. I love you so much. I'm grateful for the fact that we're on this journey together. And, uh, and I will see you in the next episode. Hey, it's David. One more thing.

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