A couple of months after my spiritual awakening when I decided to ask Ane to channel my guides and I learned that my soul's name is Marcus and that this is my 17,043rd incarnation, which to anyone reading this comment is not a lot or at least not the vast amount that leads to the top levels, I received this explanation that is very similar to much of what your AAs said to you here:
“Q: How many levels are there in heaven?
A: It is not so much levels, but rather, cycles. As one starts their journey from soul to soul with a body, you generally have easy lives. When you return to source/heaven/god after every lifetime, you will be given a choice to stay in that realm that you are put in or to go back to the master class [Earth] to attain a higher level. You can make the decision to return to the master class at any time. If you choose to go back to earth, it would be for the specific requirement to have the goal of growing your soul to get to the next level, only you are not consciously aware of it once you incarnate.
Once you enter and complete a few lifetimes you will start to feel comfortable knowing where you want to ascend and with whom. That is where your community of spirits comes into play. We always come in with the same people/souls, lifetime after lifetime. There are about 80 to 120 of us together at any given lifetime. It is around this time where you the soul and collectively the community of spirits start to decide what level they want to attain and what price it will cost them on earth. [No pain, no gain]. Now you can understand that not everyone wants to attain nirvana as you say.
To attain nirvana, you would go on a completely different cycle, and that usually happens after a vast number of lifetimes lived. The lifetimes that you start to choose to live [at that point] are with great suffering. Think of the severely retarded, the severely mentally ill, POWs, people who have died violently at the hands of great evil and even stillborns who give up their life experience for the host.
These life cycles will continue again and again and if you have lived your life according to our plan, will allow you to go to higher and higher levels. One obtains full enlightenment when there is nothing more for you to suffer — when there is nothing more for you to learn!
Then you would be in the realms with the great archetypes, messengers and guides and archangels. You then would have an awesome burden and responsibility to heal those souls that remain on earth.”
To those who wonder how this could be Marcus's 17,043rd human incarnation in the 200,000 or so year history of homo sapiens, I have come up with this: " I believe that souls are time travelers in that we can choose to improv-script our masterclasses at any point in time. I do not believe an already-lived-life has to have taken place in the past nor that a yet-to-be-lived life has to take place in the future. I do not believe that the paradoxes of time-line crossing as discussed in science fiction present an issue. Each chosen setting is an alternate reality."
When I have explained that to people who share the I never want to come back thought, particularly when they view what's going on in the world as so awful, which it is, they get some peace of mind.
