Every Ancient Civilization Agreed: Your Soul Chose This Life Before You Were Born
6/19/202636 min
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.
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First 90 secondsMayim Bialik· Host0:00
What if your life is not random?
Jonathan Cohen· Host0:02
And instead, you're here for a reason.
Mayim Bialik· Host0:04
You're not a biological accident on a small planet in an ordinary galaxy. Hidden inside every ancient tradition on Earth, across cultures, across centuries, across millennia, built independently by people who never met, is the same idea. An answer to- Why we are here Some call it destiny, some call it karma. Entire civilizations have been built around this, and in more recent years, a growing number of researchers and experiencers have been calling it Earth School.
Jonathan Cohen· Host0:34
The idea that this planet isn't just a place that you're stranded, it's a place that we have all been sent.
Mayim Bialik· Host0:40
The struggles, the relationships, the pain, the joy we experience, all of that is the curriculum of Earth School. Your soul arrived here with something specific to learn.
Jonathan Cohen· Host0:51
What we do here sends a ripple outwards to people we've never met across generations, and possibly even across the cosmos.
Mayim Bialik· Host0:59
When you start to see patterns in describing the soul's journey, the lessons we have to learn on Earth school, and you see it in ancient texts, mystical traditions, religious practices, it makes you wonder, what if that's not a coincidence? What if we could put all of these pieces together and see how it could change our lives? School is in session.
Speaker 31:21
I sold my car on Carvana last night.
Jonathan Cohen· Host1:23
[laughs] Well, that's cool.
Speaker 31:23
No, y- you don't understand. It went perfectly. Real offer, down to the penny. They're picking it up tomorrow. Nothing went wrong.