Really excellent questions! Each soul "inhabits" countless "forms" (physical bodies) on its journey of earthly life... with the express purpose to learn and grow in intelligence /consciousness. After hundreds of thousands of years in the "kingdom" of rocks, minerals, earth... we don't know the specific mechanics and detailed procedure of it, but during a period of pralaya (rest), the soul will no longer need to experience any more physcial existence in any type of rock or mineral or anything of that nature, because it's "been there/done that" haha. After said pralaya is over and there is a desire for more experience, universale dharma and cosmic (natural) karma draws the soul into physical existence again, but this time in the form of a plant... but not a beautiful houseplant that you and I have at home... it would be a very basic single or multi-cell organism like algae, moss, lichen, or maybe grass. And then the long journey begins of thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of “lives” (incarnations) in countless “plant bodies”… until the soul has “been there, done that” in the plant kingdom, and natural evolution pushes forward, causing the soul to incarnate into the body of a basic animal (think amoeba, worm, bacteria, insect)… this is another “kingdom jump” as we say…. And the evolutionary arc continues!
We answer this quesion specifically in Session 29, which we recorded today (7-26)! Essentially... you nailed it spot-on... when we constantly assign opinions to things we see and make judgemnts and comparisons/contrasts... we then open ourselves up to emotions about whatever it is that we're observing. If we observe without labeling, only pure connection to nautre exists... which is inherently peaceful :)
