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Key Finding 84: Changes in one's spirit family

Spirit families can change somewhat and the reason that they change is because there will be spirits within your spirit family who will have chosen not to evolve, not to move on. There will be new family members who come into your family because they were able to evolve and move much faster into your group through their actions and spiritual evolution and the life lessons they learned in this most recent reincarnation.

Afterlife 101 Section, Chapter 4
Spirit families can change somewhat and the reason that they change is because there will be spirits within your spirit family who will have chosen not to evolve to move on. There will be new family members who come into your family because they were able to evolve and move much faster into your group through their actions and spiritual evolution and the life lessons they learned in this most recent reincarnation. There will be spirits in your spirit family who have moved on because their lessons and spiritual evolution was so much more powerful and so much more acknowledged that they are able to move on. The grouping that you are with generally is the one you always will be with except for these cases that we have just discussed.

As a person on earth chooses--as a spirit before it chooses to reincarnate as an earth being--they do not always know how extreme some of the lessons they are going to have on earth will be and that their status with their spirit family will be changing. But when this does happen and they make their crossing over they do not feel a sense of loss or feel a sense of abandonment. They embrace the changes that take place both for themselves and for their other spirit family members.

Key Finding 91: Deciding not to move ahead

One can finally say I am tired and I no longer choose to move from this place that I am in. I am happy right where I am. Oftentimes that means that you will have an entirely new spiritual family because many of your spirit family members do seek to move further ahead.

Afterlife 101 Section, Chapter 4

One can finally say I am tired and I no longer choose to move from this place that I am in. I am happy right where I am. Oftentimes that means that they will have an entirely new spiritual family because many of their spirit family members do seek to move further ahead. One does not ever move into a lower spirit family though one can ask permission to go and visit other spirit families, whether they are of a stronger spiritual evolution or one that is not as strong spiritually as you. You as a spirit do have permission to go and visit. Generally this is because there has been a spirit within your group who has chosen not to move on, and you have, and you would just like to extend that love that you have for that spirit and let that spirit know that what you on earth would call judgment--there is no judgment--you have just had a heart connection with that spirit and you want to be able to continue that regardless of how they have chosen to evolve.

Agreements

Journey of Souls by Newton

I want to summarize what I have learned about the basic principles of soul group assignments: Rates of learning vary among peer group members. Certain souls will advance faster than others in a cluster group, although these students may not be equally competent and effective in all areas of their curricula. Around the intermediate level of learning, souls demonstrating special talents (healing, teaching, creating, etc.) are permitted to participate in specialty groups for more advanced work while still remaining with their cluster group.

Destiny of Souls by Newton

Although the companion souls in a cluster group started together, they do have different rates of development.  This has as much to do with drive and motivation as talent.  Each soul does possess certain strengths that their companions can draw upon during group incarnations.  As the group gets smaller, many go off into different specializations but they do not lose contact with each other.

Destiny of Souls by Newton

With the attaining of level III there is a change in soul behavior.  These souls have now begun to expand their vistas away from their primary groups...These assemblages of more specialized souls are rather loosely knit at first.  I have defined them as independent study groups...Souls who are testing the waters may leave these specialty groups while other promising candidates can be added.  This practice is in opposition to the formation of long-term primary soul groups...In these early stages, while souls are being weaned from their original groups, they still retain their regular guides and attend primary group functions.  Independent study has a greater emphasis on self-direction by the soul in their tasks, which becomes even more pronounced as they develop in level  IV and V proficiency.

Journey of Souls by Newton

I want to summarize what I have learned about the basic principles of soul group assignments:  At the point where a soul's needs, motives and performance abilities are judged to be fully at Level III in all areas of self-development, they are then loosely formed into an "independent studies" work group. Usually, their old guides continue to monitor them through one master teacher.  Thus, a new pod of entities graduating into full Level III could be brought together from many clusters within one or more secondary groups.

Destiny of Souls by Newton

In the spirit world we are not forced to reincarnate or participate in group projects. If souls want solitude they can have it. If they don't want to advance in their assignments, this too is honored. ...if we are not ready to leave Earth's astral plane after death, for a variety of personal reasons, our guides will allow us to stay around until such time as we are prepared to go home.

Seth Speaks by Roberts

[after death] ... there are three main areas, though exceptions and extraordinary cases can take other roads. You may decide upon another reincarnation. You may decide to focus instead upon your past life, using it as the stuff of new experience, as mentioned previously creating variations of events as you have known them, making corrections as you choose. Or you may enter another system of probabilities entirely and this is quite apart from a reincarnational existence.

Seth Speaks by Roberts

Now there are some who resist the new existence, even though they chose it, as long as possible. To some extent they must be present at birth, but they can still escape any full identification with the born infant. They hover within and about the form, but half reluctantly. There are many reasons for such behavior. Some personalities simply prefer in-between-life existence and are much more concerned with the theoretical solving of problems than the practical application necessarily involved. Others have discovered that physical existence does not meet their needs as well as they thought it would, and they will progress much better in other fields of reality and existence.

Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth? by Schwartz

Question to Channeled [Valerie's] Higher Self: You mentioned earlier that a physical incarnation provides a way to learn that cannot be accomplished otherwise. As I understand it, there are many beings who choose never to incarnate. If incarnation is the only way to learn certain things, why do some beings choose not to have physical lifetimes?

Higher Self: The human experience does not encompass every experience that is important for a being's growth. There are no words to explain some of the concepts that can be learned when a soul never incarnates on Earth or in a human personality.

Disagreements

Journey of Souls by Newton

I want to summarize what I have learned about the basic principles of soul group assignments: Once a new soul support group is formed, no new members are added in the future.

Journey of Souls by Newton

When people in trance speak of being part of a soul cluster group, they are talking about a small primary unit of entities who have direct and frequent contact, such as we would see in a human family. Peer members have a sensitivity to each other which is far beyond our conception on Earth...Members of the same cluster group are closely united for all eternity. These tightly-knit clusters are often composed of like-minded souls with common objectives which they continually work out with each other. Usually they choose lives together as relatives and close friends during their incarnations on Earth.

Destiny of Souls by Newton

The integrity of a soul's original cluster group remains intact in a timeless way. Regardless of who is graduating, they never lose their bond to old companions. Primary cluster groups began their existence together and remain closely associated through hundreds of incarnations.

In-Progress: ISSUE & PROSPECTIVE QUESTIONS

The important role of a spirit family in the development of a spirit is often not addressed by credible sources of afterlife information.  The most detailed and authoritative source for such information is the work of Dr. Michael Newton who used thousands of between-life regressions to build this description.  The most important issues that relate to this aspect of spiritual life involve how the spirit family was initially formed, how the family members relate to each other even as they may spiritually evolve differently, how new and different family groups may be formed, how reincarnation will involve old and new group membership, and whether some spirits will eventually stop living in a group setting between reincarnations.

Prospective Spirit Guide Questions Relating to Key Findings 84 and 91

How are spirit family groups initially formed?
Do the members of this initial family grouping maintain warm ties to each other throughout their entire spiritual life?
Does individual evolutionary growth cause an eventual change in family group assignments?
If such a change has taken place, does the spirit involved reincarnate with the members of his/her new group or those of the original family group?
Is there ever a time when a spirit who is still reincarnating does not live in any family group while in heaven?