I hope you'll be patient with this numpty who would like a little more detail.I'm the first to acknowledge that not everything is 'black-or-white' and there may be exceptions to rules.
I'm forever passing on the message that we have freedom to choose - supported and helped in decision making by spiritually-advanced souls - about what we do next after an incarnation. That involves considering whether we'd like, or whether we need, a further lifetime. Any notion there may be compulsion leaves me somewhat uneasy and it's for that reason I'm going to ask a couple of further questions of Mikey.
question 1: In connection with forced return, how rare is rare? I realise that may be hard to quantify but are we speaking about an occasional soul every century or thousand years or is it tens or hundreds annually?
question 2: Will you please tell us about an individual we'd know and the reasons for his being compelled to return?
question 3: What kind of exceptional situations might lead to the forced return of an unwilling spirit?
At this point, and before you've given your thoughts, I have to say this topic of compulsion is not sitting comfortably with me. I hope, Mikey, you'll have something to say to lessen that disquiet.![]()
Dear Mac, there actually are at least two cases of forced return in the century-old literature. In every case, the one returning was stubborn, willful, and entirely unwilling to listen to anyone there who was trying to counsel and help him. That eventually forcing him back into a body was a kind of hail-mary pass, when nothing else ever had worked in getting him to take things seriously. Probably a good move for those spiritual helpers! But maybe for us another potential school-shooter :-(.