Q: When a person is being murdered, does the soul exit before the person experiences much pain and horror? Did the victim make a soul contract for this act to balance karma?
The timing of when a soul vacates the body is up to the soul. Some souls remain in the body so that they can experience the pain and horror of dying by murder, torture, or a painful illness. However, after several dozen or more of those types of experiences, most souls opt to step aside, that is step outside the body and observe things that way.
As for whether a murder results in an imbalance depends on how the participants handled the scenario. If there was no agreement for the murder, then there is automatically an imbalance created because the one murdered was denied the life they chose to live.
If there was an agreement to be a murder victim, and the murderer makes it more horrific, more drawn out, or more painful than agreed upon, then an imbalance is created.
If the murderer simply does what was originally agreed upon, then no imbalance is created and everyone gains the experiences they wanted and moves on to other lives.
Everything about life and the afterlife is what we choose to make it. If we want to experience being a victim of some violence, then we work it out with another soul who wants to be the perpetrator of the violence. If we want to be the perpetrator, then we understand that the consequences of our actions are primarily what we will be experiencing, whether that be death (retribution), incarceration, or nothing (getting away with it).
Everything is available for us to experience, we just have to choose what we want.
For more information about what to expect when we die, read the award-winning books, Escorting the Dead and Choices.
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