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Hi wilsonericq7 and all,

You might find interest in a book titled "Life before Life" by Helen Wambach.

As a clinical psychologist in the 1970s she regressed hundreds of people, sometimes in large groups, to probe the soul memory of life before this life..... before entering the womb again to embark on the current earth sojourn.

From the report of most participants in her studies, the process of re-incarnation is evidently highly organised beyond the earth plane. Wise guides assist souls to identify and surrender to the (karmic) necessity of meeting past relationships in the proposed new incarnation. Karmic ties determine a soul's magnetic attraction to a particular family. This can include love or revulsion which is predicated on past experiences together.

Various themes were gleaned from the regression experience. Participants in the study reported that their new parents and siblings once played different familial roles in previous lives. ie, the proposed mother was once a sister or wife. The brother was once the father or husband or friend or enemy....etc.

Souls seem to re-incarnate in groups until they can learn tolerance and love for each other. Some couldn't wait to join loved ones while others were filled with trepidation at the prospect of a new incarnation in the proposed family. It seems we all surrender to the necessity of a responsibility and work that must be accomplished. And of course this includes all the other souls we will interact with in a more than casual way.

For some souls, strong negative emotions (the scars of the past) bring them together repeatedly throughout the ages. For others it is a mutual friendship built on common cause. ie, two people perhaps in the same field of service drawn together over and again. Most families are a mixture of both of these kinds of relationships and so are friendships.

Dr Wabach's studies resonated with me long before i had similar memories to those reported by her subjects. My mum has been my mother several times and so has my father. My son was once a friend.

These are the nuts and bolts of our sojourn through the earth plane. The law is the law and each soul must fulfill it by being willing to meet the effects of our own actions. Cause and effect is the law of karma and we usually reap a mixture of sweet and bitter fruit. Don't we know it.

However, we can meet our karma and karmic relationships under the guidance and inspiration of the inner-Christ. That is how we fulfill all things and transcend the rounds of karma and re-incarnation... "nevermore to go out or in".