Is it possible for a soul to be born into a family that has not had past lives together?  If this exists, why does it occur?
 

EQ:  Yes, it exists.

So, there are still new souls…

EQ:  No!  There are no new souls upon Terra at this time.  However, a soul may determine that the entities that it has been incarnating with for very many long times - if thee believe in long times - can no longer provide all the new experiences and data that are needed, including the genetic imprints that are needed, dost thou understand?  So they may choose to incarnate with a differing soul family to experience the difference.

Is that part of what is called the "black sheep" of the family - you feel like you don't fit in?

EQ:  Yes, this might be part of it.  It does not always have to be.  Are there not entities that look nothing like their family members, think nothing like their family members,  do not relate at all to their family members?  This might be the case that this soul has determined it needs to understand the difference, understand a different way of being, dost thou understand?

Because the soul chooses that experience…

EQ:  Absolutely.  And sometimes, even the soul decides to break out of its comfort zone.  If thee are reincarnating each time within the same soul family, this is a comfort zone, is this not?  What a wondrous gift to choose a soul family vastly different and that is very closely attached.  Perhaps that soul needs the experience of being an outsider for a while.  Perhaps that soul needs the experience of becoming an insider by working it out instead of it being just easy.  There is always a purpose that the soul chooses a life, a family, an experience, a difference.  For, are there not vastly different ways of viewing things on Terra?  Are there not vastly differences of opinions about rights and wrongs and goods and bads and beautiful and ugly?  What a wondrous place this is.

Do you always have to be born again or can you come back as somebody else that’s already been born and take their place?

…Like walk-ins?

EQ:  All life times are happening simultaneously, and we understand that thee do not understand this concept, for entities upon Terra live in a linear fashion.  Thee have created dimensions in thy mind that follow a pattern.  Thee have developed a number system that follows a pattern.  Thee have developed speeches -  the way that thee enunciate - that follows a pattern.  Thee look for patterns everywhere.  So, thee believe in time, but time is only a concept; it is not a reality.  So, thee can be - thee are - many things at the same time.  Did we answer thy question?

Can you come back as a grown person, or do you have to come back as a baby every time?

EQ:  Unless thee are evolved to the point that thee can be a walk-in - this is an entity that walks in to an already established personality/ego and takes over because the soul that inhabited that ego can no longer do what it is here to do - then no, thee must begin as a child.  It is very frightening, would thee not think, to be a walk-in?  That entity is taking a very large risk with its karma, for it has to fix what has been done poorly, and it has to take the risk that it can do that and not affect what its karma is.  This takes a very grown soul to do this thing.

Can you give us an example of somebody, what they look like, how we would recognize…

EQ:  No, you cannot, and it would be a very bad thing to do for us to say, "Oh yes, Benjamin Franklin, whom you know (not the historical one, but a person that thee know) is a walk-in."  For then thee would react differently to this entity, is this not so?  It is none of thy business who is and who is not, or who was or was not.  It is only their business, for they have chosen to do a very kind deed that can be very devastating to them.

Is there any way to step out of time so that we may experience multitudes of lives?

EQ:  Absolutely!  Thee do it in dreams many times.  Thee also can do it in meditations.  Have thee not meditated on past lives and seen more than one?  Thee see it as linear.  Thee look for a time frame, do thee not, instead of just experiencing them?

How does lucid dreaming fit into this?

EQ:  Same thing.

It’s all part of reality, is that what you’re saying?  I don’t understand.

EQ:  This is why we said it is a very difficult concept for Terrans to understand.  Thee live in a concept on Terra that is not real.  We have talked of this before.  Thee believe that what thee are sitting on is a solid space, do thee not?  This is a chair, it is solid, it will hold thy weight.  Correct?

But it’s not really.

EQ:  It is not, at all.  There be more hole there than there be solid, but thy belief says, "This is solid, I can sit on it."  Eventually, thy belief will say, "This is not solid, and I may go through it."  But first, thee have to find the way past the beliefs.  Again, this goes back to the beginning when we spoke of questioning.  No long ago, men could not fly because they did not believe they could.  Now thee laugh when people say it is impossible to fly, isn’t this so?  One day, thee will know all things at once.  This is one of the things that happens when thee change dimension and go to the place thee call "the other side".  Thee review and are a part of all that you are and were and could be.  Thee lose the sense of time eventually, for it is just a sense that makes thee feel safe just like thee lose the sense that these things are solid.  When thee are on the other side, dost thou have physical form?

No.

EQ:  Is anything solid?

No.

EQ:  Thee will see.  Give it time.

What I’ve wondered about is, those that are in that particular realm, and know that they are there, but are still able to manipulate things.

EQ:  They are not manipulating things.

For example, the little girl who used to come and visit me…

EQ:  Oh, thee mean moving things.

Yes.

EQ:  Thee are believing that she was in the dimension of the other side, but she was not.  She was still in thy dimension without a physical form.

So she stepped through a "door"…

EQ:  No.

She never crossed over.

EQ:  Exactly.  Her energy  was still present in this dimension.  She was not in the other dimension.  She was still in the dimension that thee exist on, but she no longer had a physical form.  That was all.  The other side is a different dimension.

So, with all of our lives happening simultaneously, we seem to be conscious aware only of this one…

EQ: No!

…except for in dreams…

EQ:  No!

…or meditation…

EQ: No!

Ok, then tell me.

EQ:  There are many, many, many times that entities on Terra feel as though they’ve lost time.  Or, have thee not taken a step and stumbled because thee thought the ground was lower or higher?  Have thee not had experiences thee cannot explain, and knowing thee cannot explain about different eras, different things?  Thee walk into a museum and thee see an art form thee had never seen before but thee know it?  thee are experiencing the simultaneous lives.  Perhaps, thee have even been the artist.

Do we dream all the time, because I never remember my dreams?

EQ:    Yes.  Thee choose not to.

Because she said she never remembers, is that correct?

EQ:  This is partially true, yes.

Do you always have to reincarnate with the same people you did last lifetime?

EQ:  This is what we were talking of before.  Most of the time, yes - not all of the time.  Sometimes thy soul says, "Hmmm, let’s do something really different.  Let’s not go back to the same place we vacationed at, let’s go a place we’ve never been."

Is it like deja vu?

EQ:  No.  Deja vu is the memory of a life happening.  Or, deja vu is the memory of a memory.

Because it definitely happened or is happening.

EQ:  Exactly.

Why do some entities choose to stay on this plane after they have changed form?

EQ:  This has a myriad of answers as well.  Some entities are attached to the physical.  Some entities, perhaps, have a violent demise and are attached to their anger or their need to resolve this.  Some entities are so afraid of death, that they do not want to perceive that they are dead.  There are a myriad of answers to thy question.  Some are waiting for a loved one to come too.  Some are waiting for the resurrection.  There could be many answers.

Is there a certain number or range of numbers of lives that the soul can come to before going back to the Source?

EQ:  A soul can choose to be reborn forever, or a soul can choose to be born very few times and go back to the Source.

Isn’t our purpose to learn lessons and grow?

EQ:  No.  The purpose is to gather knowledge and experience.  That’s the total purpose.  Every entity’s purpose is to bring back information to the Source.  If thee choose to see some of that information as a challenge, then it shall be.  If thee choose to see it all as a wondrous gift and new exploration…

What information and for what?  To me, as a simple Terran here, it seems useless.

EQ:  That is because thee do not have the full picture.  Thee only have thy portion of the picture.  So yes, we understand that thee would think that.  We have not the full picture, but we have a greater percentage of the picture than thee.  We are on a different plane; we are a combined consciousness; we are also able to touch all the entities upon Terra that let us in.  So, of course, we have a greater perspective than thee as an individual would have.

The purpose of the rebirth of the soul is to gather information and bring it back to the Source?

EQ:  Yes.  Experience, to have experience.  The soul and the Source do not judge the experience.  It is the ego that does that:  "Oh, this doesn’t feel good, so, I will say that this is a bad experience."  But, let us say, that that very bad experience that thee have today, five years in thy future - if thee are thinking linearly - five years in thy future, when thee look back at this very bad experience, thee may discover it was a very wondrous experience, for thy perspective has changed through added knowledge and added knowledge.  Dost thou understand?

So, it’s just experience from the journey?

EQ:  Absolutely.

The journey for the journey.

EQ:  And enjoy it!  It is a wondrous opportunity, for as we have said before, there be very few planes of existence that are physical.  And what that means - and thee must understand this - there are very few planes of existence in which thee can taste, in which thee can feel, in which thee can see with eyes.  All the wondrous senses that thee have are only because thee are in a physical form.

So are people out there trying to get a concept, put it inside of a box because it’s their box of comfort, and don’t understand that the concept is outside the box, they have to open up their minds and open up their horizons and understand that they may not understand it, it just is what is.

EQ:  The best gift that an entity can give itself - the best gift - is to find the areas that give it pain, pleasure, fear and step into them.  Every time an entity chooses not to have an experience, it is because they have made a judgment.  What have we said about judgment?  Judgment is always about it being bad or wrong.  Thee cannot decide that until thee have experienced it, can thee?  Because thee could just as easily have the experience and love it.  Which could create even more scariness, can it not?

You say you’re of one consciousness…

EQ:  …combined consciousness…

…combined consciousness but yet you don’t know the whole picture.  Are you connected to the higher Source, God, whatever you want to call it?

EQ: Everything is connected to the source.  Absolutely.

Well, that’s true.  I know that we’re here to experience…but I thought that through our experiences we became more conscious and more connected to the higher Source.

EQ:  Thee are always connected to the Source.  Through thy experiences and the acceptance of thy consciousness, thee become aware fully of the connection.  Thee are always connected.  Thee lose the awareness and begin to look for it outside of self.

Is this along the concept - it’s almost like a catch 22 - we want to be aware of what is, but unless we surrender and allow it to be, we’re never going to get it?

EQ:  Absolutely.

It’s kind of like trying to remember a dream or try to control a dream, it wakes you up and you lose it.

EQ:  Absolutely.  Thee are completely correct.  Thee just must accept, thee must believe within thyself, that thy perception is probably flawed until thee have had an experience and then thee have the ability, for that instant, to decide what it felt like.  But in the next instance, from different perspective, thee may decide differently.  What a wondrous gift this is.

Is it possible to control dreams?

EQ:  It’s called lucid dreaming, yes.

How do you do that?

EQ:  It is a long, drawn-out process that will have to be studied, but, basically, thee decide that thee will take control of thy dreams.

I have that happen, but it’s just spontaneous.  I don’t know how I do it.

EQ:  Then thee were trained before.

Our perception appears to be that the other side is a place.  Is it the soul’s nexus of all the threads and is it simply one of the existances?

EQ:  It is one of the existances.  It is as though it is a bus station.

Do we all have to become aware before peace reigns?

EQ:  No.  It just takes enough.  Enough of the entities upon Terra caring enough to truly love and accept the connection to the Source and the entirety of Terra will become conscious.

Isn’t that contradictory to what life on Earth is all about?

EQ:  No.

We can probably keep trying to understand with our heads, but we need to understand with our hearts.

EQ:  It is more than understanding with thy heart.  It is truly allowing thyself to believe it for a while.  Thee can always take it off again.

When he said that about understanding with your heart I thought of the teaching of Egypt that I do at school.  One video makes a big deal about how they pull the brain out through the nose [in the process of mummifying a body].  They thought there was no use for it so they threw it away.  I happen to ponder on that one time and I thought, maybe, in using their heads, they had gotten themselves in such a mess, that they finally figured we need to start to believe in our hearts.  Is it along those lines?

EQ:  That could be true.  We would say it would have depended upon whom.  Perhaps, others had mythologies that the brain was useless - get rid of it.  That was it and they didn’t question.  They accepted.  This is how it was.  This is how it has always been, so we’ll do this.  This is what Terrans do, completely, always.  "It is new; it is different; it is bad; it is different than what I was raised to believe; it is different than what my religion told me; it is different; it is different; it is wrong."  It always goes there, and, believe us, wrong is a concept that is held differently by different people.