Hey all,

Someone once told me that the people who we have presently in our lives, such as family and friends, were people who played important roles in our past lives as well. I was just wondering if anyone knew how true this was, or if we get a choice as to which parents and life we're born to.

it's very true.  we've probably lived many many lives with our closest friends & family before.  there are many examples where people can't get along for "no reason," yet they had trouble in past lives getting along too (or vice versa - people are best friends in lives over and over).  i remember one story where a lady had trouble getting along with a man she was dating - he had murdered her in a past life.  

anyway yeah we tend to move in soul "groups."  also there's the soulmate thing... but not everybody incarnates at the same time as their soulmate.  you can have a happy marriage without them being your soulmate.

journey of souls is a good book to read about this subject.  he even graphs out one woman's soul group, made of her closest family and friends.   it's not a hard and fast rule though - your family could be more "strangers," i.e. not in your soul group.  also in that book he goes into levels of spiritual maturation, so a child could be more spiritually mature than their parents.  

Here are several case studies on this subject :
http://infinity.usanethosting.com/Heart.Of.God/WayOfKarma/index.htm


LiveLaughLoveIt wrote on Sep 9^th, 2007 at 11:18pm:

Hey all, Someone once told me that the people who we have presently in our lives, such as family and friends, were people who played important roles in our past lives as well. I was just wondering if anyone knew how true this was, or if we get a choice as to which parents and life we're born to.

thanks for that link, kyo.  i'm going to read some of those.  i like reading past life regressions.

Hey, thanks for the replies! I'm going to look into that book, it seems really interesting. I also went to that website and will read it over the weekend when I've got more time.

I dont know why but its really comforting to me to know that I've probably been with all my fam and friends throughout all my past lives, and probably future ones too. It's made me look at everyone really differently and really appreciate them.

Hi LoveMe-
The IARRT has tried to get data on prior associations carried forward. Based on their data, I'm told that we travel in groups of about 50-60 or so, although I'm inclined toward twice that number for personal reasons. Very often people in regression report that their present husband, daughter, father, best friend etc is from a prior life where they were emotionally close. Less often we find a pattern where people have been adversaries for several incarnations. I had one case in which a woman had waited for an entire lifetime until her husband had been reborn to go after him. It seems that he had left for the Korean war and failed to return. She pined away and died. He passed another rather short lifetime, and then on his next rebirth, still as a young man, she reincarnated and attempted to rebuild the relationship that they once had. She was quite angry, and it took a bit of therapy to quiet things down.

dave

Thats very interesting! I took a look at your website, and saw you actually do the past life regression. very interesting, I never knew that was possible to do, maybe I'll go to someone and get mine done eventually. This also makes me wonder now why I dont get along with some of the people in my life.

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Less often we find a pattern where people have been adversaries for several incarnations.

also they can be *both* adversaries and a lover at the same time.   not all relationships are meant to be flowers & roses.   there is some detail on that in one of the woman's regressions here - http://infinity.usanethosting.com/Heart.Of.God/WayOfKarma/index.htm

the_seeker wrote on Sep 10^th, 2007 at 12:39am:

...it's not a hard and fast rule though - your family could be more "strangers," i.e. not in your soul group.  also in that book he goes into levels of spiritual maturation, so a child could be more spiritually mature than their parents.

Well I certainly hope that if my parents turn out not to be in my "spiritual circle" that they would soon assimilate into it, as I love them dearly. Same thing goes for my fiance. Also, I really don't want to discover that she has a parade of former husbands waiting for her on the other side. I might be driven to whip out a can of spiritual whoop-ass.  

Actually, Patrick, those "former husbands" (and all the rest) might have been your children (or parents) while you were her son or brother etc in a former incarnation - we seem to change relationships and sex as fast as we change clothing.

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Also, I really don't want to discover that she has a parade of former husbands waiting for her on the other side.

you can bet on it, but obviously spiritual beings have no use to think of things in physical or sexual terms so couldn't be jealous about such things.  if you're close to somebody you could have a special spiritual union with them.  and as dave said, her former husband could be, say, her father or her sister in this life.  people do a have soul mate though... the "luckiest" people who get married, i guess you could say, though your soul mate could be a best friend in a particular life instead.