Past Incarnations
A number of souls have written and asked me to explain the phenomenon of past lives. Not everyone believes in this phenomenon, of course. But for those who do, first of all, I must stress to you that you can have many incarnations. You are a soul on a journey to trying to perfect yourself. You incarnate to choose experiences that enable you to grow and to perfect yourself. However, sometimes things do not go the way you planned them to do. When this happens, and especially if someone else is hurt by these actions – for every action there is a reaction ? then when you return to spirit, you make the choice whether you wish to repay the karma on the Earth plane, or whether you wish to work in spirit to repay this energy. You make the choice.
If you return to the Earth plane, you choose the experiences and the life you wish to experience. You and only you choose this. It can be as easy or as difficult as you like, you choose this. Each incarnation is a separate experience, and you can only be one soul in each incarnation. For instance, my channel Margaret cannot return again as Margaret. Being Margaret is unique to her in one incarnation only. She can, however, choose to learn lessons not learned in this incarnation but in another as another soul. For instance in a past life, Margaret was a channel like now, she was also a medium and a healer. She came to assist humanity in its growth. However, she had much fear of ridicule in her work, especially public ridicule. She had other fears too, and although she came to make the teaching simple, she made it very complicated indeed, so much so that once she had written a book, another book was written to explain the first book!! She also avoided public work, which she also chose to do.
Margaret chose to come back to right what she did wrong, and so in this incarnation, she faced her fears – had to deal with public humiliation in her work and experienced this in a very public way. She also, along with her ex-husband, Peter Luke, created the web site, and as many of you can see, the writings she now channels are very simple indeed. SHE CANNOT LIVE THIS INCARNATION AGAIN BECAUSE SHE HAS LEARNED MANY OF THE LESSONS.
Even with souls who do not learn many lessons or face their fears, the incarnation can never be the same. Each incarnation is unique. After each incarnation, the soul chooses whether to return to the Earth plane, or another dimension OR whether to stay in spirit and serve in spirit to repay debts incurred in the previous incarnation. A soul can return to any time period; there is no specific order, such as one thinks on the Earth plane – one can if one wishes, return in an Elizabethan incarnation or an Egyptian one.
YOU are the creator of your incarnation. The Higher Self has the memory of past lives, NOT the Self, and until the Higher Self is allowed access above the Self, past life recall is usually impossible to release. This is why many souls have difficulty in accessing past life memory. The energy of this can be released, however, by the presence of a healer or a person trained in past life therapy. When sufficient Higher Self energy is present, then – and only then – past life memory can be released.
– Maitreya
This is Maitreya’s Newsletter #141 from Maitreya Speaks.
