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KEY FINDING 173 - It is an infrequent occurrence that a child would die, go back to heaven, and then be reincarnated back into the same family. If it did occur, that spirit returning a second time would have the benefits of the experiences that the family went through in losing a child.

Afterlife 101 Section, Chapter 5: Reincarnation in same family

Question: What circumstances would lead a spirit to be reborn into the same family that they lived in during a previous life on earth? In other words, if a child should die, go back into heaven, and nearly immediately be reborn into the same family--under what circumstances would that happen, if ever?

Spirit Guide: This is not an experience that happens very often. If it does happen it is because it was important for the family to experience the dynamics of losing a child and whatever that young spirit brought at that time to the family was very important and it was for the family's growth and not necessarily for the spirit, except that when that spirit would return as a new child within that family it would have the benefits of the experiences that the family went through in losing a child. Generally, those experiences for that spirit returning a second time are all extremely positive in supporting and as a unit, they will all grow in a much higher consciousness level.

Agreements

Journey of Souls by Newton

In my practice I rarely see souls repeating the same genetic choices in past lives because this would inhibit growth and opportunity.

Seth Speaks by Roberts

There is an overall pattern to relationships within lives, and yet this does not mean that you travel through various existences with the same limited and familiar number of friends and acquaintances, merely altered like actors with a change of face or costume. Groups of individuals come together in various lives for certain purposes, separate, and may or may not come together again in a different time or place. Again, however, there is no rigid rule. Some families are literally reincarnations of their ancestors, but this is not the general case by any means. Deep relationships will continue in one way or another. Others will simply disappear. The point I want to make is that the opportunity for development and knowledge is as present at this moment, in this life, as it will ever be. If you ignore day-by-day opportunities for development now, no one can force you to accept and utilize greater abilities after death, or between lives. The teachers are there in after-death experience, but there are also teachers here in your existence now.

Seth Speaks by Roberts

The relationships for the next life have to be settled upon, and this involves telepathic communication with all those who will be involved. This is a time, then, of many projections. There are those who are simply loners, who reincarnate without any great feeling for earth's historical periods. There are others who like to return when their contemporaries from some particular past historical time return again, and therefore there are group patterns that involve reincarnational cycles in which many, but not all, are involved...There are personal cycles of course, in which families may reincarnate, taking different relationships to each other...

The Wisdom of the Soul by Ian Lawton

A soul who agrees to take the body of a baby who dies at a very young age can reincarnate again very quickly, and it would have been agreed beforehand...so if the first life is to teach other souls a life lesson, then the second life may be agreed at the same time...When babies die very young the soul can reincarnate in the same family, or nearby.  Because the lesson of the first, short life is for the parents, the soul may reincarnate as another relative of the same family, to be in the same environment to continue helping the parents with their life's lesson.  It's not a lesson for themselves but for others....a swift return might also be made if a soul needed to be in a similar timeframe for a particular lesson, or with particular souls who were already incarnated.

Disagreements

Destiny of Souls by Newton

When a mother loses her child for whatever reason, I have found the odds are quite high that the soul of this baby will return again to the same mother with her next child.

{Still in Planning: Prospective Question}

Question:  173

What are the odds that the spirit of a child who died early will return to the same family as opposed to reincarnating in a different family?