If the afterlife is so beautiful and full of love, why do we come to Earth at all?

“They also come back and tell us the importance of living life fully. That this life is given to us not only to learn things the hard way, but to experience so many things in a different way that we can't experience on the other side. Yes, there's perfect love there, but it's easy. It's all easy. And here there are challenges, but there's a lot of beauty on this planet if we don't destroy it that we can enjoy. There are many wonderful things to share and give and experience here.”13:10

“We just come to Earth to learn and to experience, but the other side, if you want to call it Heaven, the afterlife, the other side, that's where we're from.”5:36

“I think, you know, I think that we come here, we come here kind of as spirits. We come here to take on a physical form and a physical body here on Earth. And I think that it's to learn how to love better. I think it's to learn how to experience the challenges of being a human on planet Earth, which is hard. It's not an easy place to live.”27:41

“Going to the other side, I would like to say that that was the most exciting time in my life because I've never felt more peaceful or more wonderful or more grounded or more belonging. I just want to let people know that we get to choose. We get to choose what we learn and we come here to learn. On the other side, everything is love. There is nothing else. So, you know, I, there in my view and what I've seen, there's no hell, there's no punishment, there's no judgment. So the only thing that happens there is love. We come here to experience everything else. So the reason we're here is to learn. Your human self doesn't choose. That's chosen before you come here. And we get to choose exactly how we learn and how we experience our lives. The learning and where we focus that learning is what makes us move forward.”14:11

“And what a lot of people ask me is, well, why do we come into a lifetime in the first place? What's the reason? Well, the number one reason that I learned is that on the other side, it's a perfect world. There is no war, there's no disease, there's no hunger, there's no homelessness. There's just, nothing negative. When you come into a life on Earth, you learn by going through different challenges. And I know that's kind of hard to accept, but when you look at your life and you look at the painful things you went through, those are the episodes of your life that taught you the most. And it's almost like the hardest things you go through, that's what makes you who you are. And on the other side, we can still learn, we just don't have anything to work through. Does that make sense?”22:29

“So I say free will is a very important thing. You might have heard or your audience might have heard that Earth is a is a tough place, right? I mean, we know we wake up every day, the rent's due, we're hungry, we've got to figure out a way to survive here. We have besides ourselves, you know, we choose to have families, or we see the misery of others on the streets that we that we pass by. It's, it's such a, you know, a burden, really, that we it's like, why would we choose this burden? Why would we choose to be abused or, you know, to go through all this starvation and hunger and not knowing where our next meal is coming from? That enough in that strife. But Earth was created as a, a place of of learning, and I'm going to say testing, but I, but it's not like a test. You know how there are a lot of, um, religions that they want you to come and be as, as, um, angelic and sinless as possible so that we earn a way to go back to heaven, basically. Um, that is not what I found. What I found when I went through the, um, the life review, there were screens all around me, and they were showing my life and my choices, and I could, I could view everything as myself, but I also was viewing from the person next to to me, or the person that I was talking to or being mean to or being kind to, and what they felt. I could feel everything they thought about me or how what I did, how that made them feel. And some of it was wonderful, and some of it was, you know, I sure could have been a nicer person or I could have made a better decision that wouldn't have hurt that person, or I could have given something to that person that I walked by that really needed help. Or you, you view all these little things that seem so insignificant and what we do when we're in that life, life, um, review. And all those screens of us doing doing our lives, but we have a chance to learn from every single thing that we did, big or especially the small stuff that we won't even don't even think about. The person we smiled to one day that was thinking about killing themselves, you know, and suddenly someone's being kind to them and it changed their life. And you can actually see the, they call it the ripple effects of the fact that they lived and they found love and they created a family. And you know, one of their children invented, uh, the vaccine, you know, COVID vaccine or, or the cure for cancer or something that if, if they had killed themselves, that that wouldn't have happened. And I got to play a part in that positive ripple out there. So it's, so when when you talk about, um, the Earth and why we're here, it's just a really wonderful proving ground of these lessons. And because it's so hard, we're kind of like rock stars here, right? This is, this is a tough choice. There are many, as we know, in the universe, many, many planets and stars. And what I found in my near-death experience was there, the universe is teeming with life. There are all kinds of other places that we can go and do this a life on, but it won't be as intense as Earth. Earth has has been created as one of the most intense learning testing grounds. So we're rock stars here. You know, we're doing it. You know, we can accomplish this. And we go back and go, man, I did my best. It was really hard, and we're getting horay and claps from those who are looking at our experience.”

“God showed me that life on Earth is simply a school for our souls to learn, to learn love, compassion, pain, guilt, sorrow, and forgiveness. We knew God before we decided to come to Earth in physical form. Our guides help us choose each life to learn what we need to learn. Sometimes we are a man, others a woman, sometimes white, black, or brown. We need to come back to Earth repeatedly until we learn before we graduate. For some, it takes hundreds of lifetimes.”4:25

“thoughts because this is our responsibility to to start focusing on love, on light, on laughter, on joy, on abundance, on everything that is good. and and when we do this again, we shall evolve. Because what they showed me was that we come to Earth, it's almost like, yeah, let's do Earth. You know, Earth is one of the most challenging places that you can choose from. We before we come here, we sit down with a counselor. We decide what it is that we want to experience and learn from and where we want to go in order to learn these”10:43

“Earth is just a place of learning and growth in developing your soul. But our real home is on the other side, or some people like to call it heaven, some people call up the afterlife.”7:07

“authentic. But first, even before love, we need to understand why you came to Earth. And he explained that Earth is just a school. That it's always been just a classroom and it's never been a courtroom. And that was different for me because it wasn't that I was necessarily officially taught that life on earth was a courtroom. I had assumed it from my teaching, from my learning in Christianity. I thought that life was a courtroom where you were coming to be judged, classified, and either kept, you”31:45

“what it's really all about. And on the other side, our lives over there are the only way I can describe it is it's like they're they're perfect. There's nothing to work through over there. There's no hunger. There's no mental illness. There's no homelessness. There's no war. There's no disease. There's no aging. There's no death. It's a perfect world. So when people want to learn something, they come to a place like earth because one of the best ways that the soul learns is by going through something”18:07

“what it's really all about. And on the other side, our lives over there are the the only way I can describe it is it's like they're they're perfect. There's nothing to work through over there. There's no hunger. There's no mental illness. There's no homelessness. There's no war. There's no disease. There's no aging. There's no death. It's a perfect world. So when people want to learn something, they come to a place like earth because one of the best ways that the soul learns is by going through something”141:25

“But why do we need to come to earth to go on this journey or learn these lessons or to figure out how to reconnect? Why can't we just do that in heaven?”1:24

“And a lot of people ask, "Why am I here? Like, I don't want to be here." Like, we always think like it's too hard, but the soul loves it, right? It loves Earth.”28:23

“purpose of life, why we come here. I was taught something very different in my church and in my in my upbringing. I was taught more that we're here to be proven and to be tested. But it was very clear that our life here is not a courtroom but a classroom. That we're here to learn, to grow, to exercise the power of creation. And that as we existed in heaven before here, anything God wanted, we wanted instantly. and that for us to really grow, it's just like Earth. We had to leave home. And it was scary. We had to go through a”19:14

“home and realize that God has been in you all. And when I slipped away that night, I realized we never really die. There is a place that is filled with love, abundance. I learned that this is an incredible opportunity to live here. Life has great meaning. And we learn big lessons here. We struggle to make a living. We struggle to educate ourselves. We struggle to get along with each other. It takes the struggles so that we can see the good. It takes the darkness so we can identify the light. We need this experience to show us where”17:49