Cricket wrote on Nov 17th, 2007 at 9:45am:so at what point after someone passes do they realize that their soul embodies all lifetimes and that they can transform themselves into any one of those personalities? is it a skill that has to be learned?I suspect it may be somewhat like what we do here in different circumstances - sometimes I'm my kid's mom, and I'm the "one in charge" - other times I'm the farrier, other times the sympathetic friend, when John was alive I was the wife and lover...sometimes I have to do a flashback to the old days when I hung around in some scary places, and revert to the "I'll tear out your kidneys and feed them to my cat" persona, to get safely home again. All those people are "me", but someone who'd only met me "back in the day" would be very surprised at my behavior if I accompany someone to church, say.
I can swap between those "people" at will, but some of them would definitely not be welcome where some others dwell (and angels fear to tread...
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good points Cricket, how we can change roles here. it's like when my mother got older, I became her mother, in that role, I had to supply the disapline for common sense, that a mother employs to a child.
those of us that go into stage work as actresses and actors reflect the many roles we can play successfully, who knows but that we are calling on past resources in order to play the villain or the hero in the best way.
we switch genders, we trade places, our children become our parents, it all looks chaotic just until we get a higher viewpoint of why we came here and it's usually because we wanted the adventure and growth into the discovery of who and what we really are..and we had to forget in order to remember.
thanks for the post, you do good work. love, alysia