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On Reincarnation 6/25/10

Many times in previous sessions we have told you that you reincarnate in
families and groups. Heretofore, your understanding has been limited in that
regard, and we would now clear up a few points. As earth dwellers, you have a
biological family which you recognize with little difficulty. What you seldom
recognize is the larger family of which you are a part. For the purposes of this
discourse, we will refer to this larger family as your “spiritual family” which you
may understand more comprehensively than any other nomenclature we might
use.
Throughout any given earth dwelling life span, as an individual, you will
meet other members of your spiritual family to whom you are not biologically
related. These people will come into your life as friends of your parents and other
biological relatives of theirs, your own children and their friends, or intimate
friends of your own. These people will always have a real impact on your
emotions. Casual acquaintances do not fall into the category of spiritual family
members. Such casual relationships stem from past mutual experiences such as
participation in a particular group such as a church or school organization, a
social club, employees of the same employer, etc.
Sometimes you will encounter such a relative through a social or cultural
event. There are subtleties which pull you together, and you will recognize these
ties because they are stronger than mere friendship and sponsor strong
emotional responses in you.
These connections are essential to the development of the entity of which
you are individually a part, just as any family is completed by its members. As
you have been told, an entity will choose an embryo or fetus through which it
looks to fulfill some portion of its destiny by virtue of the gene pool of the parents.
But due to certain other factors such as freedom of choice and the choices made
by other members of the spiritual family, an entity does not always have the
opportunity to connect with the human body of its preferred choice, and must
then connect with a human body that has the potential to connect through some
life span event. Circumstances will transpire to bring such bodies together.
For instance, an entity may chose a particular set of parents because of
the gene pool, only to find that such parents have been simultaneously chosen
by another of its spiritual siblings. Due to hierarchal considerations, the
dispossessed entity must then find another choice, and carry on from there, even
to possibly waiting another generation to participate in that particular gene pool.
Another circumstance which might deny an entity its chosen body is that
because of some decision or event in the lives of those parents, the chosen body
is not born complete in some way and perishes. The entity must then find some
other means by which to be a part of that spiritual family’s earth dwelling life. If
such opportunity does not arise at or near this time, then another opportunity will
be given at another place and time.
Such other opportunity may present itself as a part of the destiny plan of a
family, circumstances, or situation which will bring this incarnating Self into
contact with the spiritual family members it needs to complete its Purpose. This
can occur as a result of school acquaintanceships, social activity connections, or
larger events of an earthly nature such as disaster, famine, or “accidents”.
In some instances, that family or some members of that family may be
removed from the earthly birth family by circumstances such as kidnap, foster
care for social or economic reasons, death of the parents, or abandonment.
Whatever these circumstances may be, they will serve to bring that earthly body
into contact with the other earthly bodies of its spiritual family at the earliest or
the most advantageous opportunity.
When an individual makes such a contact, there is an emotional response
experienced, usually on both sides. Male and female may feel each has met a
“soul” mate. In one sense this is quite true. Sometimes these emotional
relationships are in the nature of parent and child, siblings, cousins, other
relatives or merely very close friends. There is often the feeling that the
individuals have known each other all their lives. It is not unusual for such
emotional responses to be negative as well. An instant dislike can mean there is
not only karma between two such individuals, but there is a spiritual family
connection as well.
There is seldom for earth dwellers a “random” connection, even in the
case of a serial killer, for instance. His victims all have some spiritual family
connection with him. The circumstances of sudden and violent death are all part
of the working out of the ratio between Volition and Consciousness and is not just
“karma”. Such events may have been long in the making through many lifetimes
of spiritual family experience.
The mother who takes in orphaned or abandoned children is only fulfilling
her maternal growth intended to be experienced with these particular children,
and the children are all spiritual family siblings. You have been told many times
there are no accidents or coincidences, that every event stems from choices
made at some time by the people involved.
Locale also plays a part for the incarnating entity. The choice of
embodiment is usually made based on the priority of the planned destiny. So
incarnation may be taken in war torn countries or ecological disaster areas such
as famine or flood. On the other hand, the incarnating entity may find an earth
dwelling family of substance, status and comfort. What the entity does with the
blessings that come with such an environment is determined by what the
individual needs to accomplish. As you well know, children of affluent families
often go counter to their cultural inheritances and children deprived of physical
blessings are seen to rise above their environment and accomplish great things.
The important thing to be stressed in this discourse is that wherever and with
whomever an entity finds an earth dwelling life span, members of the spiritual
family will be part of that experience even reaching across oceans and long
spans of time.
Not to be overlooked is the point that it is not only the spiritual family
affected by any incarnation, but like everything in your universe, whatever and
whomever any life touches, the ripples go out, either fulfilling karma or creating
new. It is often said by earth dwellers that one can choose one’s friends but not
one’s family. Obviously, this is not true, as the choice is always made before
incarnation. So do not look upon your families with disdain, contempt or
disillusion. Always remember that you chose your parents and siblings. All your
parents did was provide a vehicle for your use, contributing their genes for you to
use for your own purposes. Use them as wisely as you can.
One further point, we would make before we close is that you must not
spend time and energy on regret. It may have proven unfortunate in results that
you either committed or omitted some particular activity or involvement. Or you
may feel you did not do as good a job at some task as you would have wanted
yourself to do. Just remember that you could only do what you did because that
was the ratio of your Volition to Consciousness at that time. The fact that you
recognize a shortcoming of any sort demonstrates the growth you have
accomplished, so be gracious with yourself, love yourself, be kind to yourself,
and if need be, forgive yourself. Do not ask forgiveness from others, for their
forgiveness does not benefit you as you might expect it to. But that is a topic for
another discussion.
For now, we bid you farewell. Go with our blessings and love. Live in
peace with yourself and others.