Reincarnational Relationships (2)

Seth Speaks, Session 551

Reincarnational Relationships (2)

In each life you are meant to check the exterior environment in order to learn your inner condition.  The outer is a reflection of the inner.

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.  As this is done, the exterior circumstances should change for the better as the inner self becomes more aware of its own nature and capabilities.  Theoretically, then, in each life you would become stronger, healthier, wealthier, and wiser, but it does not work that way, for many reasons.  As mentioned earlier, many personalities adopt different kinds of experiences, focusing upon development in certain specific areas, and ignoring others perhaps for a series of lives.

No consciousness has the same experiences or interprets them the same, and so each individual utilizes reincarnational opportunities in his own way.  Sex changes, for example, are necessary.  Some individuals alternate their sex in each succeeding life.  Others have a series of female lives and then a series of male lives, or vice versa, but the entire reincarnational framework must involve both sexual experiences.

Abilities cannot be developed following a one-sex line.  There must be experiences in motherhood and fatherhood.  When you get to the point that you realize you are forming your day-to-day existence and the life that you know, then you can begin to alter your own mental and psychic patterns, and therefore change your daily environment.

This realization, however, should go hand in hand with a deep intuitional knowledge of the capabilities of the inner self.  These two factors together can release you from any difficulties that have arisen in past lives.  The entire structure of your existence will begin to change with these realizations, and an acceleration of spiritual and psychic growth will develop.

There is an inner logic to your current relationships, attitudes, and experiences.  If in one life, for example, you hated women, you may very well be a woman in the next life.  Only in this way, you see, would you be able to relate to the experience of womanhood, and then as a woman face those attitudes that you yourself had against women in the past.

If you had no sympathy for the sick, you may then be born with a serious disease, again now self-chosen, and find yourself encountering those attitudes that once were your own.  Such an existence would usually also include other issues, however.  No existence is chosen for one reason only, but would also serve many other psychological experiences.

A chronically ill existence, for example, might also be a measure of discipline, enabling you to use deeper abilities that you ignored in a life of good health.  The perfectly happy life for example, on the surface, may appear splendid, but it may also be basically shallow and do little to develop the personality.

The truly happy existence, however, is a deeply satisfying one that would include spontaneous wisdom and spiritual joy.  I am not saying, in other words, that suffering necessarily leads to spiritual fulfillment, nor that all illness is accepted or chosen for such a purpose, for this is not the case.

Illness is often the result of ignorance and lazy mental habits.  Such a discipline may be adopted however by certain personalities who must take strong measures with themselves because of other characteristics.  There is an overall pattern to relationships within lives, and yet this does not mean that you travel through various existences with the same limited and familiar number of friends and acquaintances, merely altered like actors with a change of face or costume.

Groups of individuals come together in various live for certain purposes, separate, and may or may not come together again in a different time or place.  Again, however, there is no rigid rule.  Some families are literally reincarnations of their ancestors, but this is not the general case by any means.  Deep relationships will continue in one way or another.  Others will simply disappear.

The point I want to make is that the opportunity for development and knowledge is as present at this moment, in this life, as it will ever be.  If you ignore day-by-day opportunities for development now, no one can force you to accept and utilize greater abilities after death, or between lives.  The teachers are there in after-death experience, but there are also teachers here in your existence now.

Some families come together in a particular life not because of great attraction or love in a past existence, but for the opposite reason.  Families may be composed, then, of individuals who disliked each other in the past and come together in a close relationship where they are to work together toward a common goal, learn to understand each other better, and work out problems in a different kind of context.

Jointly, each generation has its own purpose.  It is this – to perfect inner knowledge, and to materialize it as faithfully as possible outward into the world.  The changing physical scene throughout the centuries, as you know them, represents the inner images that have flickered through the minds of the individuals who lived within the world through the various ages.

It is not necessary that you learn about your own past lives, though it may be helpful if you understand that you chose the circumstances of your birth this time.

If you examine your own life now carefully, the challenges that you have set for yourself will become apparent.  This is not easy to do, but it is within the grasp of each individual.  If you release yourself from hatred, then you automatically release yourself from any such relationships in the future – or any experiences that are based upon hatred.

Knowing your reincarnational background, but not knowing the true nature of your present self, is useless.  You cannot justify or rationalize present circumstances by saying, “This is because of something I did in a past life”, for within yourself now is the ability to change negative influences.  You may have brought negative influences into your life for a given reason, but the reason has to do with understanding, and understanding removes those influences.

You cannot say, “The poor are poor simply because they chose poverty, and therefore there is no need for me to help them”.  This attitude can easily draw poverty to you in the next experience.

Each individual is not at the same level of achievement even at the end of the reincarnational cycle.  Some possess certain qualities that do not find a counterpart within human experience.  Physical existence itself has a different effect upon various individuals.  Some find it an excellent medium of expression and development.  They are suited to it.  They have the knack for expressing themselves in physical ways and objectifying inner feelings faithfully.  Others find this difficult, and yet these same individuals may do much better in other levels of reality.

There are “hardy souls” who thrive in physical reality, and who may have difficulties acclimating to other nonphysical areas of activity.  In all of these areas, however, deep spiritual or emotional contexts are never negated.  Very close friends from past lives, who are in a position to do so, often communicate with you when you are in the dream state, and the relationships are continued though you do not realize it consciously.

On an unconscious basis, you are aware of the birth into physical life of someone you have known in the past.  The strangers that you meet in your dreams are often, of course, people now alive – contemporaries – that you have also known in past lives.

There are also passing relationships, contacts made and then dropped.  A mate from any given life, for example, may or may not represent someone with whom you have a deep abiding tie, and again you may marry someone because of highly ambiguous feelings from a past life, and choose a married relationship that is not based upon love, though love may emerge.

Twins, incidentally, almost always involve very deep, abiding psychic relationships of a strong, sometimes obsessive nature.  I am speaking now of identical twins.

Reincarnational goals also vary greatly.  I want to stress that reincarnation is a tool used by personalities.  They each use it in their own way.  Some enjoy female existences, or have greater fondness for male lives.  While both must be encountered, there is a great range of choice and activity.  Some personalities will have difficulties along certain lines, and develop with relative ease in other ways.

Predetermination is never involved, for the challenge and circumstances are chosen.  Some problems may be put off, for example, for several existences.  Some personalities want to solve their strongest problems and get them over with, perhaps in a series of rather trying existences and exaggerated circumstances.

Others of a more placid nature will take their problems one at a time.  Rest periods may also be taken, and they are highly therapeutic.  For example, an excellent, satisfying life with a minimum of problems may be chosen either as a prelude to a life of concentrated challenge or as a self-adopted reward for a previous difficult life.  Those that thoroughly enjoy the physical medium, without being obsessed by it, however, do very well indeed.  The “laws” of reincarnation are adapted by the individual personalities to suit themselves.