“Walk-in”
is a phenomenon, which apparently isn't known to all who all who are interested
in the reincarnation question. When
a person was clinically dead and often quite unexpectedly woke up to life, a
soul exchange can have occurred. This has nothing to do with “possession”. The
soul that earlier “inhabited” the body has left and for a moment the body
really was dead. However, as long as the body can still be reanimated, another
soul can take it over, almost like a new driver takes over a used car. In the case of possession there would be (at least
and also in most cases) two souls present. The one is the soul belonging to the
body from the beginning and the other a foreign soul, which tries to live
through the body. In the case of a “walk-in”, there is only one soul, but a
different one than before. It seems that the new soul in most cases doesn’t
take over the body without agreement by the other soul. The soul that was there
earlier and is now leaving the body, will then say something like: “You can
have it, if you want. I don’t need it anymore.” It can, of course, not be
excluded that the earlier soul is no more there and cannot be asked. The
phenomenon is rare and then usually the person after waking up from being “clinically
dead” doesn’t understand himself. “How could I live like I did before? Now my
interests are totally different! I will never live like that again!” The person
after the incident often has spiritual interests and wants to live accordingly. Health
conditions can improve rapidly, because there are no more the same psychosomatic
causes for health problems in the unconscious self as there may have been before. The
often striking positive change in the personality could, of course, merely
result from having had an out-of-body experience in the near-death state – even
though the person has no conscious memory of it – in which he had enlightening insights
in another world and about life. A case of a remarkable personality change
after being unconscious will not always indicate that the person is a “walk-in”. The
environment will not understand this change. If the person is married, the marriage
may break up – since, after all, the souls who once married are no more
together, but only the bodies. It could, of course, also happen that the
marriage becomes better. The
“walk-in” isn’t conscious about what has happened, since he lives, thinks and
remembers from what is stored in the brain, and there all the life before the near-death
incident is stored as a memory. What has to do with the soul belongs to the
unconscious self, which in this case is a new one. A soul exchange may be
discovered in a regression, but such cases are very rare indeed in regression
sessions. It
has been claimed that often (but not always) the new soul has a specific task and could
use the opportunity for a short-cut. It could save itself from first spending
20 years or more being born and growing up, but it could instead quickly take up its task. It
would, therefore, in
such cases be a more developed
soul that took over. In
the investigations by Ian Stevenson and others there are just a few cases in
which it is found that the person – who the child claims to have been – died after
the birth of the child. As far as I know, the child in such cases went through
a serious disease condition or had an accident, with a period of
unconsciousness, before it began to speak about having been someone else. This
has been explained as “possession”. According to what I have written above, the
explanation “walk-in” may, however, be less far fetched! In such a case the
child will really have died in the sense that its earlier soul left. Then another
soul took over the body, the one of the “past life”. So
what is “possession”? Let
us return to the case of “possession” in order to clarify some
misunderstanding, which may occur. Since medieval times one makes a difference
between “circumsession” (in Latin circumsessio) and true “possession”
(in Latin possessio). True possession seems to be very rare. In such a
case the other soul wants the body for itself and tries to drive the soul away,
which really belongs to it, or a negative entity wants to control and
manipulate the person. However, if a foreign soul is present, it is usually a
case of “circumsession”. That other soul is confused after its death and doesn’t
dare to go to what is called the light world. It may in its ignorance fear that
it would then become definitely dead, or that it may be sent to a hell (which
doesn’t really exist). It, therefore, seeks refuge at another body, which
already has its soul, but without intention to take it over. This will have
certain influences on the “host”. In rare cases the “host” may have more than
one foreign soul. Some
opponents to the reincarnation idea, especially if they adhere to the Church
dogma, want to claim that what people experience in regressions would be “whispered”
to them by foreign souls or entities. Since roughly estimated 90 % of those who
seek to have a regression experience also really have it (the success rate
will, however, depend upon the method used), this would mean that 90 % of
the people would be “possessed” or “circumsessed”! (And in that case most
probably the critics, too…). In this way the claim is taken ad absurdum
and becomes self-contradictive. An
in itself interesting question is, if the birth chart for the body is still
valid for a “walk-in”, or should it be recalculated to the moment of waking up
from the incident? I would rather suppose the latter… Walk-In
Rare cases of children who remember past lives
Are regression experiences not always influences from other souls?
What does this mean for astrology?