Our state of consciousness is Spirit. We are all individualised sparks of God, or The Source. However from our earliest incarnations we over-identified with our bodies and forgot that we were divine brings inhabiting physical bodies. This was the beginning of the illusion that we are separated from our true identity - God or The Source - and from our fellow beings. Humanity has been caught up in this illusion for thousands of incarnations. The result has been fear and misuse of free choice - the negative ego - which has caused immense suffering and tied us to the wheel of rebirth through the forces of karma.

The term Soul can be used to describe the identity we took on after we seemed to have separated from our divine origins (God, the Source). It is that part of us that survives the death of the physical body and travels in and out of physical incarnation, on an evolutionary journey that will eventually take us back to the true recognition of our natural Spiritual identity.

Each re-birth on the earth plane is an opportunity for us to learn from the past, build on prior-life progress and gifts and to re-unite with other souls with whom we have unfinished business. It is usual to reincarnate over and over again in order to experience a variety of necessary circumstances, values and beliefs. We therefore hold within us soul memories of many different personalities and conditions.

Before each reincarnation our soul chooses the best time, parents and location that allow us to work out aspects of our karma, which will aid our evolutionary growth.