Every Ancient Civilization Agreed: Your Soul Chose This Life Before You Were Born

What if your struggles, heartbreaks, illnesses, relationships, and biggest challenges were never random, but lessons your soul chose before you were born?

In this very special episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Mayim and Jonathan investigate one of the most controversial spiritual ideas ever discussed: Earth School — the theory that Earth is a classroom for the soul, and that every experience in your life has a deeper purpose.

Near death experiencers around the world report strikingly similar revelations:

- Choosing their lives before birth

- Seeing a life review after death

- Discovering a hidden purpose behind suffering

- Learning that consciousness may survive physical death

But that's only the beginning.

Ancient civilizations separated by oceans, languages, and thousands of years all appear to describe the same mysterious journey of the soul. Could Plato, Tibetan mystics, Kabbalists, Buddhists, Hindu sages, and modern NDE survivors all be pointing toward the same hidden truth?

We're breaking down:

- Shocking NDEs that reveal life as a "school"

- Why many NDE survivors return convinced they chose their challenges

- ncient story of a man who died, returned, and described souls selecting their next lives

- Forgotten biblical teachings about reincarnation that were later rejected by church authorities

- Tibetan, Buddhist, Hindu, Greek, and Kabbalistic traditions that describe the soul's evolution

- Mysterious phenomenon of children who remember previous lives

- Scientific research investigating NDEs & consciousness beyond death

- Why suffering may be a lesson, not a punishment

- Theory that humanity may be part of a much larger cosmic experiment

- Whether Earth School is spiritual truth...or humanity's greatest coping mechanism

Whether you're a skeptic, spiritual seeker, philosopher, or simply wondering why you're here, this conversation will challenge everything you think you know about life, death, and the journey of the soul.

If life isn't happening TO you—but FOR you—what lesson are you here to learn?

Class is in session.

• Full episode with Betty Guadagno: https://art19.com/shows/mayim-bialiks-breakdown/episodes/19072ff3-528c-4247-bb6e-b90d26a58212
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• Full episode with Dr. Jim Tucker: https://art19.com/shows/mayim-bialiks-breakdown/episodes/51710fc8-a5df-4302-bdc9-ef2fb67ddda8

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