Solutions: Escaping the Reincarnation Cycle

How to Exit Consciously at Death with Sovereignty

Live with awareness. Die with intention. Exit with power.

by Julie McVey and Wayne Bush

September 1, 2025

There’s a growing body of evidence suggesting we are non-physical beings temporarily confined within a deceptive, reincarnation system. Our conclusion did not come lightly (please see our previous articles and videos @ https://www.youtube.com/@SovereignSpirits. It’s based on extensive research, firsthand experiences, and a wide range of compelling accounts from those who have peeked beyond the veil through near-death experiences, out-of-body journeys, pre-birth memories, between-lives hypnotherapy sessions, alien encounters, remote viewing, psychedelic explorations, and meditative insights.

This soul-recycling construct seems engineered to manipulate consciousness and suppress memory to keep souls unknowingly caught in a loop of reincarnation. This article is a guide for how to reclaim sovereignty, make conscious choices at the moment of death, and ultimately escape the reincarnation trap.

We may revise this article as we have additional experiences, gain more information, and develop further insight.

Recognize the Nature of the System

The first step toward escaping the reincarnation trap is to recognize the nature of this system designed to convince you to surrender your authority and power to an outside source. This awareness begins with an open mind and the courage to question deeply ingrained beliefs which are mostly given to us by our parents, reinforced by religion, and cemented by culture long before critical thinking develops.

Confinement in this soul-recycling system relies not only on the programming received during physical life but extends beyond into the astral realms and so-called higher dimensions. Many religious people believe they will die and experience the afterlife in heaven for eternity. Others believe they will ascend into higher dimensions as they continue to learn and evolve. Still others believe they will return to or merge with “Source.” However, the astral realms (which include “Heaven”), the higher dimensions, and the so-called Source are still part of the deceptive matrix construct.

Many activities are staged to get our manipulated consent. Most people have heard of the “magnetic” tunnel and the alluring white light. Near-death experiencers have reported feeling powerful overwhelming emotions, euphoria and bliss. Perhaps frequency generators are used to create this love-bombing effect. Other tactics used are guilt trips, shaming and the appearance of shapeshifting entities, whether disguised as loved ones, Jesus, angels, religious figures, guides, gurus, masters, or councils.

This manipulated consent blinds you and binds you to yet another round in this cycle of limitation, oppression, and amnesia about your true nature. Whether you return to an Earthly life full of extreme pain and suffering or to a supposedly lighter density, you still remain entangled in the reincarnation loop—supposedly “for your own good.”

Watch: Top Ten Red Flags – Tricked by the Light

Awaken to Your True Essence

You are not your physical body. You’re a sovereign consciousness—often referred to as a spirit or soul—temporarily bound to a biological shell. This world is not your true origin, and it’s certainly not your ultimate destination.

Keeping this awareness at the forefront of your mind is essential. It helps you remember your true essence, resist manipulation, and avoid succumbing to disempowering beliefs, false identities, and emotional attachments that tether you to this system.

Practice Sovereignty Now

A sovereign spirit is free, self-governing and takes full ownership of thoughts, energy, and actions without yielding to any outside authority. This requires building discernment and becoming unwavering in knowingness and choices, both in this realm and beyond.

How you respond to authority, media, religion, and social pressure in this life indicates how you’ll respond during the death transition and after death. If you allow yourself to be manipulated here, you’ll allow yourself to be manipulated there. If you’re passive here, you’ll be passive there.

Start practicing sovereignty today. When something feels off, say “no” without doubting yourself. Trust your intuition, even if it challenges collective beliefs. Question all forms of authority such as religious, scientific, governmental, and spiritual. Never give unconscious consent—physically, emotionally, mentally, or energetically. Reject guilt, shame, and emotional manipulation. Stand firmly in your discernment, and act from your own inner knowing. Manifest your intentions through focused thought and power of will.

Declare and embody your sovereignty daily saying, “I am a sovereign being. No body, being or entity has authority over me.”

Deprogram

From the moment we’re born, we’re immersed in systems designed to condition us to accept guilt, sin, karma, unworthiness, and the belief that external authority knows better than inner wisdom. These are control mechanisms. The beginning of dismantling these scripts or implanted beliefs is by first identifying them and then consciously letting go of them.

Letting go includes no longer seeking approval or guidance from outside sources, be they institutions, ideologies, religions, gods, gurus, or spirit guides. Use a healthy dose of skepticism regularly, and question any belief that evokes fear, shame, or self-doubt. For example, ask yourself, “Does this empower me or weaken me? Does this resonate with me or is it programming?” Keep things that resonate as truth and discard everything else.

However, don’t be closed minded and assume you know the truth about everything. Be humble. Although it will take a lot of work and effort doing the research, it’s worthwhile to refine your knowledge. Any viewpoint worth having should be able to withstand scrutiny. Constantly reevaluate your views and be open to new theories. Research all possibilities, even conspiratorial ones which conflict with what you’ve been told is the truth. Adjust your understanding accordingly as new information and experiences become available.

Once you’ve deprogrammed yourself, you will be less likely to give your power away and can begin stepping into your sovereignty.

Detach from Worldly Attachments

To function in this realm, some degree of connection is unavoidable. At the very least, we must eat, bathe and sleep to maintain our biological shells. But many attachments can become like addictions, pulling us back into incarnation again and again. These anchors can include sports, news, religion, sex, drugs, wealth, power, popularity, unrequited love or unfinished business (e.g., missions, goals, achievements, revenge, etc.).

Perhaps the strongest and most emotionally charged attachments are to life partners or children. Many come to the awareness of the soul trap theory after having already built lives that include these relationships. This realization can be conflicting, but we must remember we are not our bodies and neither are they their bodies. It’s likely they’ve had multiple lives already. Their true essence—like ours—is not the Earthly identity they were born into but something far beyond this deceptive matrix.

Release Desires & Emotional Baggage

Let go of desires and unresolved emotional baggage that tether you to this realm. Do not carry a bucket list of experiences you feel you must accomplish before death. If you feel the urge to get something out of your system, reframe it as a gentle preference, not a necessity such as, “I’d enjoy this, but I don’t need it.”

Avoid clinging to desires for reunion, validation, revenge, or closure. These attachments form energetic ties that can be manipulated or used to lure you back into cycles of suffering.

Begin conducting your own mini life reviews while alive—not in some manipulated afterlife scenario. Reflect on emotional triggers such as anger, grief, guilt, shame, regret, lust, grudges, greed, and envy. Identify what provokes these reactions, and actively work to understand, deprogram, and neutralize them. The goal is to remain undisturbed and inwardly centered during your mini life review.

Face Your Fears

Death can trigger instinctive fear, but your true essence must remain calm. Train now to override fear-based programming by observing fear without letting it overtake you. Panic and confusion are remnants of the body and mind, not your eternal consciousness. Practice stillness and desensitize yourself to triggers such as darkness, isolation, and the unknown, so you stay centered when the body falls away.

If you awaken in a silent, dark void, nothing is wrong unless you believe it is. Likewise, if tunnels, portals, or landscapes appear, don’t blindly trust them. Instead ask yourself, “Did I initiate this, or is something pulling me?” Discern self-directed experiences from those driven by external forces.

Not everything you encounter has your best intent. Some forces lure, frighten, or deceive, relying on your belief in their authority. Stand firm in inner knowing. No being—whether light or dark, whether familiar or unfamiliar—has power unless you consent.

You are not helpless. Fear only has power when you forget who you are. Reclaim your authority. Any entity, demon, or god figure loses its hold. Stay grounded in sovereignty, and fear dissolves.

Exercise Curiosity with Caution

In non-physical realms, thought is a creative force. Unlike the physical world, where manifestation is slow, a single thought, desire, or question—especially with subconscious intent—can instantly create or summon something.

Curiosity must be used with caution. Without discernment, it can draw you into scenarios influenced by your longings or emotions which can lead to entanglement.

Become the observer of your mind. Examine every thought or attraction. Where does it come from? Where might it lead? Use neutral observation and clear analysis to navigate.

The more conscious you are and the more intention you use, the less likely you are to fall into traps disguised as wonders.

Intuition, Intention, and Willpower

Developing and strengthening your intuition, intention, and willpower are essential.

Listening to Intuition

Begin by testing your intuition in small, low-risk situations. Follow subtle gut feelings and learn to distinguish between true inner guidance and reactions based o/n fear, conditioning, or overthinking. Keep a journal of these experiences to track accuracy and reinforce trust in your inner knowing.

Using Intention

Use your intention daily and practice manifesting in your life. Practice the art of creative visualization. Affirm your sovereignty each day:

“I am free and sovereign.”

Exercising Free Will

We feel we must operate under the assumption we have free will. Remember that no being, system, or force has the right to override your free will. If you sense pressure, deception, or influence, calmly and firmly state: “No! I do not consent!”

Harnessing Willpower

Strengthen your willpower, whether it’s completing a daily practice, resisting a negative habit, or holding firm against manipulation. The more you exercise willpower, the harder it is for external forces to sway you.

Mental Strengthening

Before sleep, repeat your affirmation and visualize a protective shield around you—one that blocks manipulation, distortion, and infiltration while keeping your awareness sharp.

Maintain Creative Outlets

Various creative activities—like writing, painting, dancing, singing, gardening, creating of any kind—can help transmute negative energy into a more positive flow and balance into your everyday life.

Do things that make you happy and enjoy them on as often as you can. This will help you prevent burnout and depression and maintain balance in order to navigate this emotional rollercoaster.

Daily Spiritual Practices

Meditation & Non-Physical States

Practice entering and sustaining non-physical or expansive states of awareness. This can include lucid dreaming, out of body experiences, astral projection, states of non-duality, deep meditation or resting in pure observer consciousness. These states train your mind to remain calm, detached, and centered during potentially disorienting transitions—especially the death process. The more familiar you are with these expansive states while alive, the more likely you can recognize and navigate them after physical death.

Mindfulness

It is important to always be aware as much as possible that you are not your body—you are the consciousness experiencing the body. Remind yourself often: This realm is temporary; I am more than this form.

Set alarms as reminders that you are more than your physical body and living in an illusionary reality and have discussions with like-minded people who explore consciousness.

Balance and Moderation

Maximize the positive and minimize the negative. Try not to dwell on negative things for too long. Focus as much as possible on what’s positive. You want to be distracted enough to keep from wallowing in depression but not so distracted that you lose sight of doing what’s necessary to reclaim your sovereignty and escape the reincarnation cycle.

Lucid Dreaming & Out-of-Body Practice

Lucid dreaming and out-of-body experiences are potentially valuable rehearsals for the afterlife. These states help you become aware and comfortable with your non-physical abilities in non-physical states of reality. They allow you to practice the power of intention, manifestation, shapeshifting, teleportation, telepathy, different forms of physics (e.g. gravity, going through walls, flying), and knowing how to deal with interference from negative entities by using protection, shields, and invisibility.

How to Leave Your Body (YouTube)

Be Aware of Afterlife Traps & Manipulation Tactics

If all goes according to plan, you will not encounter any of these traps, but if you find yourself in their domain remember these traps. Be vigilant. These entities are skilled at using deception such as emotional hooks and psychological pressure to influence your decisions after death. Awareness and preparation is your best defense.

The Tunnel of Light Trap

Often presented as the gateway to the afterlife, this tunnel is likely a lure leading into controlled domains where free will is diminished. Do not give your attention to the tunnel or pinpoint of light. Teleport away immediately.

Entity Traps

Non-physical beings may shapeshift and impersonate as loved ones, spirit guides, or revered religious figures to gain your trust. These impersonations can be convincing—complete with voices, mannerisms, emotional warmth, or a feeling of home. We do not recommend engaging with any being. If for some reason you choose to connect with a loved one, use inner intention to initiate the contact and do not assume any appearance of a loved one is actually your loved one. Use intention to persuade them to reveal their true form.

The Reunion Trap

Emotional bonds are powerful ways to manipulate. You might be presented with a false reunion with family, friends, or pets who seem joyful and welcoming. These could be your loved ones who are deceived themselves or a disguised entity or AI projection from the Akashic Records. While comforting, such scenes can be staged to draw you into controlled environments.

The Love Bomb

Not all love is unconditional, some love is bait. Overwhelming waves of bliss, euphoria or ecstasy can be used to lower your guard. In such heightened emotional states, you are more susceptible to accept agreements or follow without questioning.

The Life Review Trap

We recommend refusing any life review. This leads to attachment, guilt, shame, and a sense of obligation. This review is used to steer you toward consenting to another reincarnation cycle.

The Karma Trap

You may be told—or shown—that you have unresolved “karma” that must be repaid through another incarnation. This is a control mechanism to keep you cycling through repeated lifetimes. Remember, you are sovereign and not subject to such contracts or agreements.

Mentally Practice Your Death

Visualize the moment of death and what might follow.

Visualize Various Death Scenarios

Imagine different ways the transition might happen. Will it be sudden—such as an accident or unexpected health event—or will it be slowly, allowing for conscious preparation? Picture yourself experiencing each type of departure with steadiness and clarity.

Consider the Immediate Aftermath

See yourself rising above your body, looking down at the scene without attachment. Or imagine finding yourself in a vast, silent void or perhaps in an unfamiliar realm. In each case, mentally practice maintaining your sovereignty and discernment.

Include Potential Challenges

Visualize common “afterlife traps” or manipulations—entities appearing as loved ones, dazzling tunnels of light, or overwhelming waves of bliss—and practice how you would respond with sovereignty.

Process Emotions

Include the feelings that might arise—relief, confusion, sadness, longing, or joy— practice until there is no reaction at all. The goal is to eliminate emotional reactions. Be an impartial observer.

Practice Choosing Your Destination

We don’t recommend choosing your destination until your memory of who and what you are returns. In your rehearsal, clearly state your intention to navigate beyond controlled or deceptive realms toward a place of your choosing—whether your own self-created reality, or another destination aligned with your sovereignty.

Consider a Darkness Retreat

Since we don’t want to go to the light, you might find yourself initially in darkness or a void. It could be helpful to practice being comfortable in the dark. It can help break you from reliance on such stimulations as light, sound and movement. A darkness retreat can be done at your own home or a location that specializes in such retreats. It is simply sensory deprivation. You isolate yourself from light and sound.

After a short period, DMT will be released and you will begin to see light, which helps you to realize you are your own source of light and don’t need artificial sources of light.

Moment of Death: Plan of Action

You must prepare now for what you’ll do at the moment of death. Know your exit strategy. Know how you will act when the moment arrives. Ideally, we want to have a conscious exit. We want to be calm and in control without emotional attachments like fear, anger, doubt, resentment, etc. Have your afterlife affirmation memorized to the point it becomes an automatic internal intention without the need for words (i.e., it is your pure intention).

We update our affirmation as needed. Feel free to tailor it to your own liking. This is our most current affirmation to practice daily: Afterlife Affirmation – Tricked by the Light.

Recommended Dos and Don’ts

Don’ts

Don’t go to the light or tunnel.

Don’t be seduced by any feeling of love (e.g., love bomb).

Don’t trust any being—no matter how loving or familiar.

Don’t engage with any unwanted encounter. Teleport out.

Don’t consent to anything, especially mind wipes/amnesia, life reviews, judgement, karma, or reincarnation (even on a “lighter” density planet.)

Don’t get baited into conversations, debates, arguments, agreements or contracts.

Don’t cling to loved ones or unfinished business.

Don’t let curiosity or emotion lead you.

Dos

Declare “I am sovereign, free and in control”.

Declare “I am permanently protected, invisible, indetectable and free from interference.”

Release (through intention) any parasites, attachments, and addictions.

Remove (through intention) implants, false imprints, tracking devices, and programming.

Repeal any contracts, agreements, and permissions with all deceptive entities or system.

Reclaim your energy.

Declare freedom from fear, envy, lust, hate, anger, greed, jealousy, regret, guilt, grudges and unfulfilled desires (e.g., unrequited love and unfinished business).

Move inward to the inner most core of your true essence and permanently dissolve all illusions.

Transcend duality, beyond all deceptive matrices forever.

Declare you are safe in a state of absolute, clear, pure awareness, fully awake and fully conscious.

Declare you are free forever, full of joy, peace, and serenity.

Declare your focused intention and fierce will power.

Declare you are independent and in control.

Recollect your memories of who, what and why you are before you took any form. Always remember the true essence of who you are.

Assess all experience options available. Manifest anything at will, should you ever choose to do so.