[Ron Stoppable]

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

You can't learn what it's like to live in a physical body while you're in the ether. You can't interact with people on this level or have certain interactions except while incarnated. Your higher self is not omniscient, he or she just has a higher perspective, like how a bird can see the whole lake and a fish just the part he's swimming in. But if you want to experience what it's like to be a fish you can't just dive into the water as a bird. You gotta be a fish.

Do you mean something like in the movie Meet Joe Black - I have a funny feeling you love this one - where "Death" chose to incarnate as the eponymous character to get a tour of Earthly life from William Parrish's very successful perspective?