druid wrote:Imagine somebody that would have planned all the things happening to you, good and bad, even the OPs that suck you dry of your life-energy and self-esteem. This person is not the devil. This being is your own higher self. Your only true self.
It's pretty hard to accept, eh?
Actually, I don't know if I entirely accept this. Since you brought it up. I do question the idea that we plan things down to such a maticulous level, because what that implies is that we then have control over everybody else around us in order to plan what they do to us. Which I don't necessarily believe. This is supposed to be "3rd density - freewill zone." There are other players in the game. Are we saying then that we have control over others?
Also, it doesn't factor in the idea of a person's multiple timelines, each accomplishing something different. If your timelines are different, then there goes the idea of such meticulous planning of everybody and everything around you. I think at best we may choose who we're born to.................and even then it may be a case of "settling" for something only because that's the only body available in roughly the type of situation we need. I've read that there are souls literally competing for certain bodies. This whole afterlife thing apparently isn't as neat and tidy a transition as some would like to think. So my tentative opinion as of this moment in time, factoring in all the bits that I've learned into the equation, is that we come here, to this realm on this planet in this time period, and agree to everything it entails.......and that means the wild card factors as well. Because I have personal proof that unexpected "no-no's" DO happen, done to us by other people mind you, be it souled or "OPs," which the higherself didn't plan out and is then put on the spot to try to remedy in the form of protective intervention.
See, there's the victim mentality,which is one extreme opposite end of the spectrum, and that's the person who refuses to take responsibility for anything that happens to them. And then there are those people who take the "I'm completely responsible for everything that happens to me here, it was all completely planned out ahead of time, and my higherself is micromanaging all the people and OPs and every circumstance in my life" view, which is the other extreme.
The middle ground option is more realistic and actually factors in the idea that we're in a free will zone here and there are wild cards happening in this reality..........lots of them. And there are multiple probable timelines happening, it isn't just all about what your consciousness perceives at this exact moment. So while the higher self does seem to have the ultimate say in how things are going to go....on whatever particular timeline......I don't believe it has complete micromanaged control over every little thing that happens to you. But that's part of what it means to incarnate here....you agree to the wild card factors, the OPs, and all the rest. But it doesn't mean you necessarily planned them. And there's a difference.
Just my 2 cents at this point in time. 
druid wrote:(It's one of the exercice to understand karma and reincarnation, according to Steiner)
Okay, I'll be the one to say it..................but enough with always quoting "Rudolf Steiner" already. aaaaaaaaaaah!! Jeez Louise. Seriously, nearly every post is just quoting what Steiner has to say about any given subject. Steiner this, Steiner that, Steiner says, Steiner says.......!!!! What about what *you* think? What have you seen for yourself? What have your own personal experiences shown you? What about *you* ? Sorry....it's just that months and months of endless quoting of everything Steiner, Steiner this, and Steiner that, Steiner Steiner Steiner Steiner Steiner Steiner and I don't think I can take it anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We can't hide behind personal gurus. There comes a time when we have to rely on what *we* know, and talk from experience.
Totally off topic, but I really needed to get that off my chest.
"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!" - Anonymous
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"I get by with a little help from my (higher density) friends."
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