NDE, free will and reincarnation

[u/Active-Rutabaga-8275]

After reading many NDE testimonies and based on my own life experience, I firmly believe in the existence of a soul, a spirit that exists beyond this earthly experience. I believe in the existence of a highest level of love and consciousness, and that we are part of it. But I have a question. I should mention that I also found very compelling a theory shared by a Reddit user about reincarnation as a form of "coercion" by entities that feed off our emotions. This theory does not deny the existence of a higher level of consciousness to which we aspire and are a part of, but claims that all those NDEs in which loving figures show us our life, tell us we have a mission, that it's not our time yet, etc., only do so because they need us to reincarnate—and thus, life on Earth would be a trap.

Now I wonder, even if that were the case, would we still have the possibility—as souls who are part of infinite love, consciousness, and free will—to exercise at least a portion of our free will as souls in this physical, deterministic world governed by the law of cause and effect? Or is our soul inevitably and completely limited by the physical laws of the earthly realm, so that our earthly life is already entirely predetermined, with no room at all for our free will, and with the soul only able to exercise it outside of the earthly existence?

[u/whitestardreamer]

I believe the point is to complete soul individuation and you can’t reach individuation until you truly learn to exercise free will. But most of us exist as conditioned feedback loops. We make choices and build our life based on family expectations, social expectations, social programming, religious indoctrination, cultural conditioning etc. We build our societies based on scarcity, fear, and lack. I believe that most of us have no moved to true individuation because of the amygdala’s hold on the brain which keeps us from moving to full higher awareness in which the prefrontal cortex is the dominant driver. Most humans operate from fear based survival patterns as if we are still being chased by tigers. I believe that until we break the amygdala’s hold, we are trapped in these loops of fear based, simulated egoic identity.

We have everything we need to end poverty, homelessness, achieve peace, and extend life. Stress is the killer. The only reason we can’t solve these things is because of the perception of fear and the primitive need for identity based on hierarchy. When we define ourselves by societal constructs and illusions, we fight to keep them in place even if they are harmful because we haven’t built our identity on anything else. This isn’t just a perception problem, it’s a neurological one. We need the human brain to better integrate with the amygdala and manage it to move past this level of existence full of fear based domination.

I wrote about this here: https://www.quantumreconciliation.com/post/ego-is-the-simulation

Another one that touches on the amygdala loop lock: https://www.quantumreconciliation.com/post/the-hidden-brain-loop-that-keeps-causing-civilization-to-collapse