Purpose of life

'... the purpose of life is not simply to be born into a family, go to school, get a job, acquire material goods, create a family of one's own, grow older and then eventually die, leaving one's descendants and family members to repeat the very same cycle. Instead, the purpose of life is to go through a series of experiences that will eventually enable the soul to awaken to its ultimate level of spiritual awareness. On one occasion, that level of awareness was described as "the awareness within each soul, imprinted in pattern on the mind and waiting to be awakened by the will, of the soul's oneness with God." (5749-14) Awakening to that level of conscious awareness is the destiny of each and every soul.'

K. Todeschi. Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation and Family Karma. p. 8.