When exactly do new incarnations begin? When does an inner being, or soul, attach itself to a new human? Then what? What about animals?
We were relistening to the blended beings disk of Abraham’s special subjects CDs, and the question came up again. When does the inner being attach itself to a new physical body? The answer was nothing new for students of Abraham, but we realized we could tie a few concepts together by answering the question here. Let’s dig in!
For the biggest impact, you’ll want to first read the following.
Misunderstandings about new incarnations
Before we answer anything, let’s first point out where most folks in the Western world misunderstand reincarnation. People assume the physical body is somehow incubating a new soul. They believe that physical existence somehow comes first and then the “eternal” soul exists as a result. Maybe it comes from the notion that physical life determines what’s next: heaven or hell.
This belief comes in subtler forms. Whenever someone says, “You have an old soul,” they’re making this mistake. A soul (or inner being as we prefer here) exists outside space and time. How could something be old when there is no time?
New incarnations are not a byproduct of physical life. Physical life is a byproduct of your inner being looking for more experiences in ever new formats.
New incarnations
Whenever a chunk of non-physical energy (i.e. an inner being) wants another round of biological experience on our very own physical planet Earth, it gets a body grown for its new incarnation. Whether that’s purely a law of attraction response to its desire or a request to participants of the hosting environment, it doesn’t matter to us. Participants in the virtual environment become willing participants in the usual way (he he he), and a new space-time suit is born 9 months later.
Now, the question is, “When exactly does source energy begin participating in its new body?” When does the new incarnation begin? Well, unfortunately, there is no exact answer. All the channels agree that the time generally begins with the baby’s first breath, but they also point out that every case is a little different. One of the channels (probably Seth) spent time talking about entities who especially enjoyed physical experience and might start hanging out much sooner.
Just remember that breathing is symbolic of flowing your inner being.
Let’s go a little deeper, and use the understanding we’ve built over many posts to better understand some of the mechanics.
Non-player characters (NPCs)
Not every physical being needs an inner being, certainly not at all times.
A human fetus is our logical first example. While the fetus is being grown for a (future inner) being’s new incarnation, the inner being does not usually occupy it full time until the moment of birth. But, that isn’t to say the inner being doesn’t check in frequently to set physical attributes, assist the mother in specific ways, do some housekeeping, reassess the environment (possibly canceling the order for its new body if the environment changes enough), or provide general well-being to all involved.
Anyone asleep is another example. Your inner being does not need to provide input to its physical body (or bodies) for every moment while they’re asleep. In fact, the dynamic is probably very similar to the fetus. During a night of sleep, the inner being only needs to check in periodically to do a little housekeeping.
Before moving on, it’s cute to remember that Abraham has said that all mornings can be thought of as new incarnations. Every day, upon waking, we have the choice to begin a largely new life experience. The momentum of the previous day has been sufficiently slowed that you can choose a new direction on any given morning. Ramtha calls this Create Your Day. Seth says, “Your point of power is in the present.” Classic Seth.
Shared experience
This brings up a new question. If our inner beings aren’t creating our image in this virtual (i.e. physical) world for those large chunks of time, then what is everyone else seeing? They see what they always see. Anyone who looks at us sees something largely of their creation. While our creation of ourselves has some input into what they see, it’s up to every other participant how much they want to abide by our templates of ourselves. For a review of this topic, reread Your Very Own Personal Holodeck.
Every night when you’re asleep, your spouse sees you lying there. But it’s not really you. They see their projection of who and what they think you are. Whenever your doctor does a sonogram of Junior, the room sees a shared experience of what they collectively expect to see. Junior’s inner being probably isn’t present exerting control over its form. When your pet is sleeping in the corner, the image of it is entirely your recreation of what you expect to see.
Autopilot and in-betweens
Your pets have very present inner beings compared to most animals, probably even more so when you’re home. Certainly, while they’re awake. Various wild animals have vastly different experiences. Animals who spend the majority of their time sleeping will have a different dynamic with their inner being than animals who have to be in constant motion to survive. Many creatures exist entirely to fill the space, balance energy, recycle biomass into soil, etc. Other animals exist to give some willing inner being a new experience. Plants, we expect, have less involved inner beings than animals. Bacteria even less so. Molecules less still. Subatomic particles seem to operate mostly at the whim of the observer, i.e. other participants.
We suspect the observer effect of quantum physics only belongs to beings while they have an actively participating inner being. Without a currently participating inner being, your physicality is on autopilot and largely follows the expectations you and your inner being have established. Existing only in the shared experience, all observations of it are by other present participants who largely see what they expect to see.
Rephrasing the beginning of new incarnations
When do new incarnations begin? It’s not like that. Let’s rephrase everything above with a quick example lifespan.
Before birth, your inner being focuses into its body some fraction of the day, let’s say 1% of the time. Sometimes more, sometimes less. After birth, your inner being focuses into its body some percentage of the time, approaching say 66%. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Much later in (physical) life when we get substantially more boring, the inner being spends less and less time present. Coma patients get substantially less attention (if any) from their inner beings. Can you point to any of those non-zero percentages and identify exactly when the new incarnation began?
How about before conception? How involved is a would-be inner being involved in conception? Is it present but observing only? Is it involved and nudging participants toward a little… action? Does the new incarnation begin the moment a chunk of source energy asks (or nudges) for a new body? As you can see, there’s no “it definitely started now” moment.
Maybe equally interesting, when does an incarnation end? Upon physical death (as we think of it), an inner being doesn’t have a body to interact with this physical life anymore. Or does it? What about the parallel timelines where the body is still alive? Surely the inner being still participates with those. Just because a person croaks in your timeline doesn’t mean they’ve croaked in their timeline. But also, all the channels say that each timeline is never truly over. The past is never settled. It continues to be refined and revisited.
The most helpful summary ever
In summary, there isn’t really any specific beginning of any new incarnation. Any such distinction might be a useful piece of vocabulary for human languages, but it only serves to mislead about how new incarnations work.
Oh, and there isn’t really an end either. Any use of the term death might be useful in conversation, but again, it only serves to mislead about what’s really going on.
