10 results for stemmed:transmigr
(Jane ate an average amount for lunch. Afterward she had trouble reading Session 903, and I tried to read portions of it to her. However, I didn’t think our talk about mammals, animals, transmigration and so forth went very well. Jane said she got irritated at the questions, and I ended up feeling the same way. However, I did figure out the way to handle the few notes for the session, and decided to forget others I’d started struggling with. I already regretted the time I was spending on the session for Dreams.
Your question about transmigration (in Session 903 in Dreams) was an excellent one, and did indeed make the matter clear. It is a temptation at times to use more specific scientific terms, but these would be as confusing as the various definitions and classifications (with humor) that you read in the dictionary, so overall we try to hit a “happy medium.” (With more humor.)
4. Jane and I had always thought of transmigration (or metempsychosis) as meaning the birth of a human soul in just animal form. [...] Various interpretations of transmigration are ancient in many cultures. Seth, in Session 705 for June 24, 1975, in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality: “There is no transmigration of souls, in which the entire personality of a person ‘comes back’ as an animal. [...] In Note 2 for Session 840, in Mass Events, I’m quoting Seth from the 838th session for March 5, 1979: “I want to avoid tales of the transmigration of the souls of men to animals, say—a badly distorted version of something else entirely.”
(“That isn’t going to run into the idea of transmigration, is it?” I was thinking that man is also a mammal.)
[...] There is no transmigration of souls, in which the entire personality of a person “comes back” as an animal. [...]
This inner and yet physical transmigration of consciousness has always been extremely important, and represents a natural method of communication, uniting all species and all physical life. [...]