Incarnations.......

[Astral_Raven]

My friend committed suicide a while a few weeks ago, and not long after I met a new friend who was exactly like my friend Jason but except looks,....do you really think it is possible my friend has come back.....? I'm confused....does anyone have any theories or input......its very neat but terrifying at the same time

[JoWo]

It is extremely unlikely, I believe, that your old friend Jason has reincarnated so fast in another mature body.  However, since your new friend is so much like Jason, it is easy for Jason to identify with your new friend, and I consider it quite possible that he could be spiritually present when you and your new friend are together.

[Dansk]

Is it possible that you because you missed your friend, you subconsciously sought out a similar person, someone like the friend you lost?

[You]

You can't reincarnate into someone already born. If your friend is in this guy, he's possessing him or becoming a spirit guide or something that is manifesting himself in him. That is, unless spirits can time travel... meaning that your friends spirit existed for a time in two places at once. Great... just great.

I think he's probably just similar, but if that helps you with the healing, go for it. It's not like you're being disloyal by liking someone with your friend's qualities, if I were watching from the Pearly gates, or on the escalator to becoming a Puma if you're a Buddhist, I would be rather complimented. If there is no afterlife, you're definitely not going to offend him, so you may as well take what you can get.

[JoWo]

Hello Astral_Raven'

There is another possible explanation to your Feb. 12. post.  We think that reincarnations occur in time sequence.  However, according to Seth, who has channeled several books through the late Jane Roberts, a soul can incarnate more than one physical individual in a given time period.  Seth called these simultaneous incarnations "alternate Selves", if I remember correctly.  They are soul mates in a literal sense (not necessarily in the romantic sense usually ascribed to them).  You may want to read about it in Jane Roberts' Seth book, "The Nature of Personal Reality".

Jo.

[You]

I see... now when a soul splits, do the splits take on different qualities of that split soul, or are they identical replicas?

[JoWo]

The soul does not split, it remains totally whole while it supports its individual incarnations in physical reality.  Remember, time in our sense, does not exist at the level of the soul. What we perceive as sequential events exist simultaneously in multi-dimensional reality.  Even the incarnations that we perceive in different historical times appear simultaneously to the soul.  Therefore, it's "no big deal" for the soul to have incarnations that appear simultaneously to us.

[Astral_Raven]

So JoWo you believe my friend could reincarnate that fast because of the time and multi-dimensions?

[JoWo]

No, Astral-Raven, I believe that your friend's soul could have incarnated more than one individual during the same time period. In other words, it could have created "overlapping" incarnations and its other incarnation met you after the death of its first one.