Re: Newtonia
I am in much agreement with Dr. Newton's observations; they concur with my own conclusions. It his interpretation of those observations that I differ with. Specifically:
Newtonia is not the only place we can go to when we die.
Newtonia is not our spiritual "home".
The "life lessons" we are assigned to are not our free choices; they are imposed upon us.
"Life lessons" do not require a lifetime of suffering to be learned. Just tell me what works and what doesn't!
Helena
Helena, you named it! What you are suggesting is a process of ACTIVE LEARNING. The process that we are setting up in "Newtonia" (it is NOT imposed on us, we always can opt out) is a process of PASSIVE LEARNING: the life we put into our future's screenplay is teaching us the lesson we want to learn - in 3D full color cinemascope, so to speak - a live clay demo!
I don't think it must necessarily be bad. It depends on the script you have written. It could as well be a script about how to develop a "free energy" system (think Tesla), or how to discover the telomere repair system which got the medicine nobel prize in 2009. Or how to become a virtuoso (think Paganini). Or how to provide superior training to Scientologists (think Clearbird).
Like in processing, where you have negative gain (get rid of charge) in contrast to positive gain (develop your abilities), you can design positive screenplays (major accomplishments, often for the greatest good of many people), or negative screenplays (how to navigate personal challenges, often of intense pain, but sometimes also of low energy - the opposite of intensity).
It is entirely possible to skip the life planning in the afterlife. I did so after my last death. I was free to do so - no enforcement of anything (even though everybody there was shaking their head and indicated that I was foolish). The result was that for the first 58 years of this life, there was no person of my liking who was not already in a relationship or other fully casted "movie". There was no space for me, I had not casted anyone for my scripts nor had they casted me - I was the one actor without a contract!
When I found out that the life planning happens OUTSIDE THE TIMESTREAM, and they had not told me that (I skipped it mainly because I was in a hurry to re-incarnate to connect with a person I had left behind) - I was totally furious. How could they not have told me something so important?
Then I kept thinking. If it happens outside the timestream, it is actually happening NOW. And then it must be possible to make a life plan at any given moment, and project it back into the area which is outside the timestream, from where it could even act into the past. So, I started to do that and it WORKED - the past chapters of my "movie" actually appeared, appeared in the past exactly as I had designed them, and are now leading to present time developments!
So, here I had learned - first with passive learning (no place for me) and then active learning (study the materials available and finally write Life Lesson Processing) - my very own specific personal life lesson: the function of life lessons as such and their various angles. (Often when I asked my spirit guides about the reason for a certain hardship, the answer was: "it is done as a part of your training"...)
Life Lesson Processing is NOT "Newtonian". It is just using these concepts and building on them the idea of being an active actor in your life's movies rather than a passive one. To be an active actor, you need to practice recognizing key people, cues and coincidences that are somehow wearing your "label". "I am here for Helena". "This is happening for Helena". "Helena, here is your cue, now respond to it in the best way you possibly can."
There is always a choice, nothing is ever pre-destined, not even by your own scripting. Even if the situation is most painful, you still have choices: to take it with suffering, to take it with dignity, to take it with humor or even self-irony - see the comedy in things. And reactions are: to overcome, to succumb, to become obnoxious as a revenge, to learn from it, to first transcend yourself and by doing so, to set an example for others - etc. etc.
One word about key people: beside wearing your name as if it were tattoed to their forehead, they also fall into categories. There are allies, opponents, teachers and pupils, for instance. And then there are your personal helpers, who are with you always to help you navigate and learn even better navigation. Some are in a body, others are not. They are not a part of your screenplay, they act like assistants and coaches behind the stage. So, even though they don't play with you on stage, they are most important to pay attention to and keep a lively dialogue with. In the body, and outside the body!
Food for thought