Neither you nor your soul can decide your spiritual standing. The Akashic Records decide your spiritual standing. The Akashic Records are a special place in Heaven where all of your lives are recorded, including all of your activities, behaviors, and thoughts. They also decide your spiritual standing in Heaven based on your life records.
There are about 6.7 billion human beings on Mother Earth. Our souls reside in Jiu Tian (pronounced joe tyen). "Jiu" means nine. Again, "tian" means Heaven. So Jiu Tian is the nine layers of Heaven. As I have shared in the first three books of my Soul Power Series (Soul Wisdom, Soul Communication, The Power of Soul), souls in Jiu Tian must reincarnate. After your physical life ends, your soul will stay in Heaven for a while. How long it stays depends on how much good service you gave humanity, Mother Earth, and universes. The better you serve in this physical life, the longer you will stay in Heaven, but you will return as a human being again.
Your soul has and will continue to reincarnate again and again to purify. It will continue to gain more wisdom. It will have the opportunity to offer more service to humanity, Mother Earth, and universes. Do a good job and your soul will be uplifted higher and higher in Heaven. Moving to Tian Wai Tian (the "Heaven beyond Heaven"), which is the divine realm, is your soul’s direction, desire, and final destiny.
Millions of people are searching for soul wisdom, knowledge, and practices to fulfill their spiritual journeys because millions of souls have realized that their journey is to move toward the divine realm. Why do souls have this realization? Because they understand the benefits of reaching the divine realm:
Souls who reach the divine realm (Tian Wai Tian) stop reincarnation. Souls who reach the divine realm will not become a human being anymore, but such souls become very powerful high-level servants. It is not difficult to understand this. To reach the divine realm a soul must have great purity and be an unconditional universal servant.
Millions of people pray to the Divine for blessings. When you pray to the Divine, the Divine will respond. The Divine will come to bless you and then return to the Divine’s temple in Heaven. The Divine blesses us in soul form. The Divine is an unconditional universal servant. In a similar way, all souls in Tian Wai Tian bless us in soul form. All souls in Tian Wai Tian are unconditional universal servants. The Divine is the highest soul. Souls who reach the divine realm are closer to the Divine.
To be closer to the Divine is to be more aligned with the Divine in soul, heart, mind, and body. To be closer to the Divine is to be given great abilities to serve through transmissions of Divine Soul Power. Souls who reach Tian Wai Tian receive special teachings, blessings, and further purification directly from the Divine. Imagine the honor of receiving direct divine teaching, blessing, and empowerment. No words can explain this greatest honor and blessing further. What more can a soul wish for or receive?
This is why moving to the divine realm is the direction, desire, and destiny of every soul.
This article has been excerpted with slight adaptations from the Introduction to Divine Soul Songs: Sacred Practical Treasures to Heal, Rejuvenate, and Transform You, Humanity, Mother Earth and All Universes by Dr. Zhi Gang Sha. (NYC: Atria Books, June 2009)
Dr. and Master Zhi Gang Sha is an inspired teacher, spiritual leader and servant of humanity. Combining 5,000- year-old wisdom of the East and breakthrough secrets of modern spirituality, he teaches Soul Healing and the power of soul over matter worldwide. Dr. Sha is the founder of the Institute of Soul Healing and Enlightenment. He is also a medical doctor in China, a doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China and Canada, and a Grand Master of Tai Chi, Qi Gong, I Ching and Feng Shui. Recipient of the 2006 Martin Luther King Jr. Hall of Fame Award for his humanitarian efforts, he is also featured in the new film Soul Masters and is the New York Times bestselling author of several books on matters of the soul. Visit