Stories of the Beginning and the Multidimensional God (2)

Seth Speaks, Session 560

Stories of the Beginning and the Multidimensional God (2)

There are many probable systems of reality, therefore, in which physical data predominates, but such physical probabilities represent but one small portion.  Each of you also exist in nonphysical systems, and I have explained earlier that your slightest thought or emotion is manifested in many other ways than in your own field of existence.

Only a portion of your entire identity is “presently” familiar to you, as you know.  Therefore, when you consider the question of a supreme being, you imagine a male personality with those abilities that you yourselves possess, with great emphasis upon qualities you admire.  This imagined god has therefore changed throughout your centuries, mirroring man’s shifting ideas of himself.

God was seen as cruel and powerful when man believed that these were desirable characteristics, needed particularly in his battle for physical survival.  He projected these upon his idea of a god because he envied them and feared them.  You have cast your idea of god, therefore, in your own image.

In a reality that is inconceivably multidimensional, the old concepts of God are relatively meaningless.  Even the term, a supreme being, is in itself distortive, for you naturally project the qualities of human nature upon it.  If I told you that God was an idea, you would not understand what I meant, for you do not understand the dimensions in which an idea has its reality, or the energy that it can originate and propel.  You do not believe in ideas in the same way that you believe in physical objects, so if I tell you that God is an idea, you will misinterpret this to mean that God is less than real – nebulous, without reality, without purpose, and without motive action.

Now your own physical image is the materialization of your idea of yourself within the properties of matter.  Without the idea of yourself, your physical image would not be; yet often it is all you are aware of.  The initial power and energy of that idea of yourself keeps your image alive.  Ideas, then, are far more important than you realize.  If you will try to accept the idea that your own existence is multidimensional, that you dwell within the medium of infinite probabilities, then you may catch a slight glimpse of the reality that is behind the word “god”, and you may understand why it is almost impossible to capture a true understanding of that concept in words.

God, therefore, is first of all a creator, not of one physical universe but of an infinite variety of probable existences, far more vast than those aspects of the physical universe with which your scientists are familiar.  He did not simply then send a son to live and die on one small planet.  He is a part of all probabilities.

There have been parables told, and stories of beginnings.  All of these have been attempts to transmit knowledge in as simple terms as possible.  Often answers were given to questions that literally have no meaning outside of your own system of reality.

For example:  There was no beginning, and there will be no end, yet parables have been given telling you of beginnings and endings simply because with your distorted ideas of time, beginnings and endings seem to be inseparable, valid events.  As you learn to turn the focus of your attention away from physical reality and therefore experience some slight evidence of other realities, your consciousness will cling to old ideas that make true explanations impossible for you to understand.  Multidimensional awareness is available to you in your dreams, however, in some trance states, and often even beneath ordinary consciousness as you go about your day.

This awareness gives personal experience with the multidimensional richness that exists not apart from but intermingled with, within, through, and all about your physical world of sense.  To say that physical life is not real is to deny that reality pervades all appearance, and is a part of all appearance.  In the same manner, God does not exist apart from or separate from physical reality, but exists within it and as part of it, as he exists within and as a part of all other systems of existence.

Your Christ figure represents, symbolically, your idea of God and his relationships.  There were three separate individuals whose history blended, and they became known collectively as Christ – hence many discrepancies in your records.  These were all males because at that time of your development, you would not have accepted a female counterpart.

These individuals were a part of one entity.  You could not but imagine God as a father.  It would never have occurred to you to imagine a god in any other than human terms.  Earth components.  These three figures worked out a drama, highly symbolic, propelled by concentrated energy of great force.

The events as they are recorded, however, did not occur in history.  The crucifixion of Christ was a psychic, but not a physical event.  Ideas of almost unimaginable magnitude were played out.

Judas, for example, was not a man in your terms.  He was – like all the other disciples – a blessed, created “fragment personality”, formed by the Christ personality.  He represented the self-betrayer.  He dramatized a portion of each individual’s personality that focuses upon physical reality in a grasping manner, and denies the inner self out of greed.

Each of the twelve represented qualities of personality that belong to one individual, and Christ as you know him represented the inner self.  The twelve, therefore, plus Christ as you know him (the one figure composed of three) represented an individual earthly personality – the inner self – and twelve main characteristics connected with the egotistical self.  As Christ was surrounded by the disciples, so the inner self is surrounded by these physically oriented characteristics, each drawn outward toward daily reality on the one hand, and yet orbiting the inner self.

The disciples, therefore, were given physical reality by the inner self, as all of your earthly characteristics come out of your inner nature.  This was a living parable, made flesh among you – a cosmic play worked out for your behalf, couched in terms that you could understand.

The lessons were made plain, as all the ideas behind them were personified.  If you will forgive the term, this was a local morality play, put on in your corner of the universe.  This does not mean it was less real than you previously supposed.  In fact, the implications of what is said here should clearly hint at the more powerful aspects of godhood.

The three Christ personalities were born upon your planet, and indeed became flesh among you.  None of these was crucified.  The twelve disciples were materializations from the energies of these three personalities – their combined energies.  They were then fully endowed with individuality, however, but their main task was to clearly manifest within themselves certain abilities inherent within all men.

The same kinds of dramas in different ways have been given, and while the drama is always different, it is always the same.  This does not mean that a Christ has appeared within each system of reality.  It means that the idea of God has manifested within each system in a way that is comprehensible to the inhabitants.

This drama continues to exist.  It does not belong, for example, to your past.  Only you have placed it there.  This does not mean that it always reoccurs.  The drama, then, was far from meaningless, and the spirit of Christ, in your terms, is legitimate.  It is the probable God-drama that you choose to perceive.  There were others that were perceived, but not by you, and there are other such dramas existing now.

Now:  Whether or not the Crucifixion occurred physically, it was a psychic event, and exists as do all the other events connected with the drama.

Many were physical but some were not.  The psychic event affected your world quite as much as the physical one, as is obvious.  The whole drama occurred as a result of mankind’s need.  It was created as a result of that need, grew out of it, but it did not originate within your system of reality.

Other religions were based upon different dramas, in which ideas were acted out in a way that was comprehensible to various cultures.  Unfortunately, the differences between the dramas often led to misunderstandings, and these were used as excuses for wars.  These dramas are also privately worked out in the dream state.  The God-personified figures first were introduced to man in the dream state, and the way then prepared.

In visions and inspirations, men knew that the Christ drama would be enacted and hence recognized it for what it was when it occurred physically.  It power and strength then returned to the dream universe.  It had increased its vigor and intensity through the physical materialization.  In private dreams, men then related to the main figures in the drama, and in the dram state they recognized its true import.

Now:  God is more than the sum of all the probable systems of reality he has created, and yet he is within each one of these, without exception.  He is therefore within each man and woman.  He is also within each spider, shadow, and frog, and this is what man does not like to admit.

God can only be experienced, and you experience him whether or not you realize it, through your own existence.  He is not male or female, however, and I use the terms only for convenience’s sake.  In the most inescapable truth, he is not human in your terms at all, nor in your terms is he a personality.  Your ideas of personality are too limited to contain the multitudinous facets of his multidimensional existence.

On the other hand, he is human, in that he is a portion of each individual; and within the vastness of his experience he holds an “idea-shape” of himself as human, to which you can relate.  He literally was made flesh to dwell among you, for he forms your flesh in that he is responsible for the energy that gives vitality and validity to your private multidimensional self, which in turn forms your image in accordance with your own ideas.

The private multidimensional self, or the soul, has then an eternal validity.  It is upheld, supported, maintained by the energy, the inconceivable vitality, of All That Is.

It cannot be destroyed then, this inner self of yours, nor can it be diminished.  It shares in those abilities that are inherent within All That Is.  It must, therefore, create as it is created, for this is the great giving that is behind all dimensions of existence, the spilling-over from the fountain of All That Is.

Stories of the Beginning and the Multidimensional God

Seth Speaks, Session 559

Stories of the Beginning and the Multidimensional God

As the present life of any individual rises from hidden dimensions beyond those easily accessible in physical terms, and as it draws its energy and power to act from unconscious sources, so does the present physical universe as you know it rise from other dimensions.  So does it have its source, and derive its energy from deeper realities.

History, as you know it, represents but one single light upon which you focus.  You interpret the events that you see therein, and you project upon its glimmer your interpretation of events that may occur.  So entranced is your concentration that when you wonder about the nature of reality you automatically confine your question to this one small flickering moment that you call physical reality.  When you ponder upon the aspects of God, you unthinkingly speak of the creator of that one light.  That light is unique, and if you truly understood what it was, you would indeed understand the nature of true reality.

History, as you think of it, represents but one thin line of probabilities, in which you are presently immersed.  It does not represent the entire lifetime of your species or the catalogue of physical activities, or begin to tell the story of physical creatures, their civilization, wars, joys, technologies, or triumphs.  Reality is far more diverse, far richer and unutterable than you can presently suppose or comprehend.  Evolution, as you think of it and as it is categorized by your scientists, represents but one probable line of evolution, the one in which, again, you are presently immersed.

There are, therefore, many other equally valid, equally real evolutionary developments that have occurred and are occurring and will occur, all within other probable systems of physical reality.  The diverse, endless possibilities of development possible could never appear within one slender framework of reality.

With splendid innocence and exuberant pride, you imagine that the evolutionary system as you know it is the only one, that physically there can be no more.  Now within the physical reality that you know, there are hints and clues as to the nature of other physical realities.  There are, latent, within your own physical forms other senses, unused, that could have come to the front but in your probability did not.  Now I have been speaking of earthly developments, realities therefore clustered about earthly aspects as you know them.

No evolutionary line is a dead one.  Therefore if in your system it disappears, it emerges within another.  All probable materialization of life and consciousness have their day, and create those conditions within which they can flourish; and their day, in your terms, is eternal.

I am speaking now, in this chapter, mainly about your own planet and solar system, but the same applies to all aspects of your physical universe.  You are aware, then, of only one specific delicately balanced but unique portion of physical existence.  You are not only creatures of corporeal being, forming images of flesh and blood embedded in a particular kind of space and time; you are also creatures rising out of a particularized dimension of probabilities, born from dimensions of actuality richly suited to your own development, enrichment and growth.

If you have any intuitive understanding as yet concerning the nature of the entity or whole self, you will see that it has placed you in a position in which certain abilities, insights, and experience can be realized, and in which your unique kind of consciousness can be nurtured.  Your slightest experience has far more repercussions within this multidimensional environment than the physical brain can conceive.  For if you are intensely preoccupied with what may seem to be one infinitesimally minute aspect of reality, and while you seem to be completely embedded within it, only the most “surface” elements of the self are so entranced.  I do not like the term “surface” in this regard, though I have used it to suggest the multitudinous portions of the self that are otherwise engaged – some of them as entranced in their reality as you are in yours.

The entity, the true multidimensional self, is aware of all of its existences, and this knowledge is to some extent available to these other portions of the self, including of course the physical self as you know it.  These various portions of the self in fact will eventually (in your terms) become fully aware.  This awareness will automatically alter what now seems to be their nature, and add to the multiplicitude of existence.

Reincarnation, Dreams, and the Hidden Male and Female Within the Self (3)

Seth Speaks, Session 557

Reincarnation, Dreams, and the Hidden Male and Female Within the Self (3)

The atoms that compose the fetus have their own kind of consciousness.  The volatile awareness-consciousnesses that exist independently of matter, form matter according to their ability and degree.  The fetus, therefore, has its own consciousness, the simple component consciousness made up of the atoms that compose it.  This exists before any reincarnating personality enters it.  The consciousness of matter is present in any matter – a fetus, a rock, a blade of grass, a nail.

The reincarnating personality enters the new fetus according to its own inclinations, desires, and characteristics, with some built-in safeguards.  However there is no rule, then, saying that the reincarnating personality must take over the new form prepared for it either at the point of conception, in the earliest months of the fetus’s growth, or even at the point of birth.

The process is gradual, individual and determined by experience in other lives.  It is particularly dependent upon emotional characteristics – not necessarily of the last incarnated self, but the emotional tensions present as a result of a group of past existences.

Various methods of entry are adopted.  If there is a strong relationship between the parents and the child-to-be, then the personality may enter at the point of conception if he is extremely anxious to rejoin them.  Even here, however, large portions of self-awareness continue to operate in the between-life dimension.

In the beginning, the womb state under these conditions is a dreamlike one, with the personality still focused mainly in the between-life existence.  Gradually the situation reverses, until it becomes more difficult to retain clear concentration in the between-life situation.

In these circumstances, when the personality attaches itself at conception, there is almost without exception strong past-life connections between parents and child, or there is an unceasing and almost obsessional desire to return to the earthly situation – either for a specific purpose, or because the reincarnating personality is presently obsessed with earthly existence.  This is not necessarily detrimental.  The personality can simply realize that it takes to physical experience well, is presently earth-oriented, and finds earthly atmosphere a rich dimension for the growth of its own abilities

Some personalities are drawn to enter at conception as a result of seemingly less worthy motives – greed, for example, or an obsessional desire that is partially composed of unresolved problems.  Other personalities who never completely take to earthly existence may hold off full entry for some time, and even then always remain at a certain distance from the body.  At the other end of the scale, before death the same applies, where some individuals remove their focus from physical life, leaving the body consciousness alone.  Others stay with the body until the last moment.  In the early days of infancy, there is not a steady focus of the personality in the body in any case.

In all cases the decisions have been made ahead of time, as I told you.  The reincarnating personality is aware, therefore, when the conception for which it has been waiting takes place.  And while it may or may not choose to enter at that point, it is drawn irresistibly to that time and point in space and flesh.

On occasion, long before conception takes place, the personality who will end up as the future child will visit that environment of both parents-to-be, drawn again.  This is quite natural.

Between lives an individual may see flashes of the future existence, not necessarily of particular events, but experience the essence of the new relationship and in expectation remind himself of the challenge he has set.  In these terms, the ghosts of the future are as real in your homes as the ghosts of the past.

You do not have completely empty shells of matter about to be filled, in that the new personality hovers in and about, particularly after conception and with greater frequency and intensity thereafter.  The shock of birth has several consequences, however, that usually draw the personality full blast, so to speak, into physical reality.  Before this, the conditions are fairly uniform.  The body consciousness is nurtured almost automatically, reacting strongly but under highly controlled conditions.

At birth, all of this is suddenly over, and new stimuli are introduced with a rapidity that the body consciousness has never to that point experienced.

It greatly needs a stabilizing factor.  Previously the body consciousness has been enriched and supported by deep biological and telepathic identification with the mother.  The communication of the living cells is far more profound than you imagine.  The identification is almost complete before birth as far as body consciousness alone is concerned.

Until the new personality enters, the fetus regards itself as a part of the organism of the mother.  This support is suddenly denied at birth.  If the new personality has not entered earlier to any full extent, it usually does so at birth, in order to stabilize the new organism.  It comforts the new organism, in other words.  The new personality therefore, will experience birth to varying degrees according to when it has entered this dimension.

When it enters at the point of birth, it is fairly independent, not yet identified with the form it has entered, and acting in a supportive role.  If the personality entered at conception or before birth, then it has to some extent identified with the body consciousness, with the fetus.  It has already begun to direct perception – though perception has begun whether or not it is so directed – and it will experience the shock of birth in immediate, direct terms.

There will be no distance between the personality and the experience of birth, then.  The newly entered personality, as a consciousness, flickers, in that there is a while before stabilization takes place.  When the child, particularly the young child, is sleeping, for example, the personality often simply vacates the body.  Gradually the identification with the between-life situation dwindles until nearly full focus resides in the physical body.

There are obviously those who identify with the body far more completely than others.  Generally speaking, there is an optimum point of focus in physical reality, a period of intensification that has nothing to do with duration.  It can last for a week or thirty years, and from then onward it begins to dwindle, and imperceptibly begins to shift to other layers of reality.

Now.  A crisis, particularly in very early or very late life, may so shatter the personality’s identification with the body that he vacates it temporarily.  He may do one of many things.  He may leave so completely that the body goes into coma, if the boy consciousness has also suffered shock.  If the shock is psychological and the body consciousness is still operating more or less normally, then he may revert to an earlier reincarnational personality.

In such a case, this is simply a regression that often passes.  Here we become concerned again with the animus and the anima.  If a personality believes that it is doing a poor job in a male life, it may activate the anima’s qualities, taking on the characteristics of a past female existence in which it handled itself well.  Reversing the picture, the same can happen to a woman.

On the other hand, if the personality finds that it has so over-identified with its present sex that its individuality is deeply threatened, then it may also bring to the fore the opposite picture, going so far as to identify again with a past personality of the opposite sex.

The hold of the personality over the body is tenuous in the early years, and grows stronger.  The personality, for its own reasons, may decide upon choosing a body that is not aesthetically pleasing.  He may never relate to it, and while the existence will serve what purposes he had in mind, there will always be a basic sensed distance between the body and the personality within it.

Those mentioned earlier who enter at the point of conception are usually highly anxious for physical existence.  They will therefore, be more fully developed and show their individual characteristics very early.  They seize upon the new body and already mold it.  The control over matter is vigorous, and they usually stay within the body, dying either in accidents where death is immediate or in sleep or with a disease that strikes quickly.  They are manipulators of matter as a rule.

They are emotional.  They work out their problems in immediate, sometimes impatient, tangible ways.  They work well with earth materials, and translate their ideas with great force into physical terms.  They make cities, monuments.  They are architects.  They are concerned with forming matter and molding it to their desire.

As a rule, now, those who do not enter your plane of existence until the point of birth are less able manipulators in those particular terms.  They are the mean, if such a term can be used, the mean or average.

Now there are some who resist the new existence, even though they chose it, as long as possible.  To some extent they must be present at birth, but they can still escape any full identification with the born infant.  They hover within and about the form, but half reluctantly.  There are many reasons for such behavior.  Some personalities simply prefer in-between-life existence and are much more concerned with the theoretical solving of problems than the practical application necessarily involved.  Others have discovered that physical existence does not meet their needs as well as they thought it would, and they will progress much better in other fields of reality and existence.

Because of their own characteristics, however, some prefer to set up a certain distance between themselves and their physical existences.  They are much more concerned with symbols.  They look upon earthly life as highly experimental.  They approach it almost with a jaundiced eye, so to speak.  They are not interested so much in manipulating matter as they are curious as to the ways in which ideas appear within matter.

Again generally speaking, they are always more at home with ideas, philosophies, and nontangible realities.  They are thinkers always a bit apart, their body types showing a lack of muscular development.  Poets and artists, while somewhat of this nature, as a rule are more deeply appreciative of the physical values of earthly existence, although they have many of the same characteristics.

The attitude toward the body will always vary, therefore.  Various types of bodies may be chosen, but there will still be overall preferences on the part of the whole self, and characteristics that will lead the whole self, so that generally the various lives lived will still have their own individual flavor.

It is almost impossible to speak of when the personality enters the physical body without discussing the ways in which it leaves it, for all this is highly dependent upon personal characteristics and attitudes toward physical reality.  Decisions as to future lives may be made not only in between-life conditions but also in dream states in any given life.

You may have already decided for example, now, upon the circumstances for your next incarnation.  Although in your terms your new parents may be infants now, or in your scale of time not even born, the arrangements may still be made.

Reincarnation, Dreams, and the Hidden Male and Female Within the Self (2)

Seth Speaks, Session 556

Reincarnation, Dreams, and the Hidden Male and Female Within the Self (2)

Reincarnational experiences are a part of the framework of the self, a facet of the multidimensional reality of the living psyche.  These experiences will, therefore, be reflected not only in the dream state, but in other layers of activity.

The fabric of the present self is interwoven with these reincarnational “pasts”, and from them the present self draws unconsciously from its own bank of personality characteristics, activities, and insights.  Often past-life memories come to the surface but are not recognized as such, since they appear in fantasy form, or are projected into art creations.

Many writers of historical pieces, for example, are writing out of direct experience with those times.  Such instances represent an excellent working rapport between the present self and the unconscious, which brings these memories to the surface in such a way that current life is enriched.  More often than not, true awareness of the situation often becomes almost conscious, and just beneath awareness the individual knows the source of this authentic material.

In dreams this reincarnational material is likewise cast into a dramatic mold very frequently.  Beneath all this, the anima and the animus work together, again not opposites but blending characteristics.  Together, of course, they represent the fount of creativity, psychically as well as physically.

The anima represents the necessary initial “inwardness”, the brooding, caring, intuitive, inside-turning characteristics, the inward focusing from which creativity comes.

The word “passive” is a poor one to describe the characteristics of the anima, in that it suggests a lack of motion, and this is hardly the case.  It is true that the anima allows itself to be acted upon, but the motive behind this is the desire and the necessity to tune into other forces that are supremely powerful.  The desire to be swept along, therefore, is as strong with the anima as the opposite desire for rest.  The characteristics of the animus provide the aggressive thrust that returns the personality back outward into physical activities, triumphantly holding the products of creativity that the anima characteristics have secured.

The whole self is obviously the sum of these characteristics, and more.  After the final incarnation, the physical, sexual type of creativity is simply no longer needed.  You do not need to reproduce physically, in other words.  In simple terms the whole self contains male and female characteristics, finely tuned together, blended so that true identity can then arise – for it cannot, when one group of characteristics must be emphasized over the other group, as it must be during your present physical existence.

There are many reasons why the separation has been adopted within your dimension.  The reasons have to do with the particular way in which mankind has chosen to evolve and use his abilities; and I will have more to say regarding this point, but it does not belong in this chapter.

The projection of the man’s anima, or hidden female self, upon his relations is quite natural, and allows him not only to understand them better but to relate with other female existences of his own.  The same is true of the woman’s projection of the animus upon male relatives and friends.  The reality of the anima and the animus is far deeper then than Jung supposed.  Symbolically speaking, the two together represent the whole self with its diverse abilities, desires, and characteristics.

Together they act as a built-in, unconscious stabilizing factor, operating behind the faces of your civilization not only individually but culturally.

Personality as you know it, cannot be understood unless the true meaning of the anima and the animus is taken into consideration.  The reincarnational pattern is generally speaking an open one, in that within it there is room for diversity.  Each whole self has its own individual characteristics.  It can live its lives as it sees fit within the guidelines.  There may be a series of male or female existences, unbroken.  Such a choice has some drawbacks.

There are, however, no rules dictating the sexual development in varying incarnations, except that experience with both sexes must be taken on, and the various characteristics developed.  This does not mean that an equal number of male and female lives must be lived.  Some, for example, find it far easier to develop as one sex or the other, and will need more opportunities for experience as the sex with which they experience difficulty.

The animus and the anima became even more important in these instances when a series of one-sex lives are chosen.  The original pattern for the animus and anima comes from the whole self before reincarnations.  The animus and the anima are born into the individual with the first physical life, and serve as an inner pattern, reminding the personality of its basic unity.  Here is another reason for the strong psychic charge behind these symbols and the godlike quality that they can transmit and project.

The male yearns toward the anima because it represents to the deep unconscious those other characteristics of the whole self that, on the one hand, lie latent, and that, on the other hand, struggle for release.  The tension between the two leads him to temper aggressiveness with creativity, or to use aggressiveness creatively.

Now there are deep correlations between these symbols and the struggle in which mankind is involved.  Your consciousness as you know it, your particular present kind of consciousness, is a statement of awareness brought about by the particular kind of tension, a specific kind of focus arising from the true unconscious of the whole self.

The true unconscious is not unconscious.  Instead, it is so profoundly and unutteringly conscious that it bubbles over.  The life that you know is simply one of the many areas in which it is conscious.  In each facet of its consciousness, literally tremendous power and balance must be maintained to hold aloft this particular consciousness-experience from all others.

Your reality exists in a particular area of activity in which aggressive qualities, thrusting-outward characteristics, are supremely necessary to prevent a falling back into the infinite possibilities from which you have only lately emerged.  Yet from this unconscious bed of possibilities you derive your strength, your creativity, and the fragile yet powerful kind of individual consciousness that is your own.

The two-sex division was adopted, separating and balancing these most necessary but seemingly opposite tendencies.  Only beginning consciousness needs these kinds of controls.  The anima and the animus, therefore, are embedded deeply with their necessary complementary but apparently opposed tendencies, and they are highly important in maintaining the very nature of your human consciousness.

There is also a natural tension, then, between sexes that is based on far deeper causes than physical ones.  The tension results from the nature of your consciousness that arises from the anima, but depends for its continuation upon the “aggressiveness” of the animus.  I have to some extent explained the fascination that one has for the other, as resulting from the inner knowledge of the whole self, that strives to attain true identity as it struggles to combine and fulfill the seemingly opposite tendencies that are a part of it.

At the end of the reincarnational cycle, the whole self is far more developed than it was before.  It has realized and experienced itself in a dimension of reality unknown to it earlier, and in doing so, has of course increased its being.  It is not a matter, then, of a whole self splitting in half, and then simply returning to itself.

Now there are many matters concerning the nature of conception that should be discussed here.  Again, however, there is leeway and many variations.  Usually between lives you choose ahead of time your children, and they choose you as parents.

If you are to be born as a male, then the mother serves as a stimulus to activate the symbol of the anima in you, so that the pattern of your own female lives becomes a portion of your next existence.  Your mother, if you have known her in the past, will find at your birth an upsurge of dreams involving other existences in which the two of you were together.

These may not even be recorded consciously, but in many cases they are, and are then forgotten.  Her own past male lives will help her relate to you as her son.  In some cases new mothers may feel highly aggressive and nervous.  These feelings are sometimes due to the fact that the male son causes an activation of the animus in her, with a resulting charge of aggressive feelings.