GROUP SOUL - What is the group soul?

Article about experiences of the Spirit World based upon the book "What to do when you are dead" by Craig Hamilton-Parker..
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The Group Soul and Over Soul

You have been mine before,--
How long ago I may not know:
But just when at that swallow's soar
Your neck turn'd so,
Some veil did fall,---I knew it all of yore.

--Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

WHAT IS THE GROUP SOUL?

My spiritual guide has told my group that only a part of an individual's identity incarnates at any one time. Like a diamond with many facets, only one face is turned to the world. Part of us exists here, on the earth plane, and there's another part that is not born at all. It remains in the afterlife. By centering our awareness on this part of ourselves, we can become aware of the afterlife itself. Mediumship is, in effect, introspection.

During your normal life, you may notice that your consciousness is continually shifting. It is as if it is moving up and down a ladder. For example, there may be times when you are filled with spiritual feelings and are unattached to the ties of the world. However, at other times, you may be filled with anger and other such negative emotions, and your consciousness is far from spiritual. Often people who we think of as spiritual can show traits that contradict this. In all of us, there is both the serene enlightened being and  the animalistic “monkey mind” (a term used in the east to describe the lower self).

WHAT IS THE GROUP SOUL?
The Ladder of Consciousness

We are continually moving up and down the ladder of our being. The objective of human spiritual development is to establish habits that enable us to move up the ladder and remain centered in our spiritual self. The “monkey mind” is difficult to transcend. Just like a monkey, it is easily distracted and can sometimes be sneaky and tricky. It is the aspect of ourselves that creates the ego that clings to selfishness and self-importance. It takes itself very seriously and is very much bound to earthly life.

In the afterlife, we continue to move up and down the ladder of consciousness. However, now this movement becomes more apparent to us. For example, on earth the world may not look especially bright when we are in a glum mood but, in the mental worlds of the afterlife, the whole environment alters according to our state of mind. As our center of consciousness changes so does the world around us.

The “monkey mind” likes to put itself first. The “enlightened mind” puts others first. Most of us fall somewhere in between these conditions. When self becomes less important to us, we can move towards the “enlightened mind.” And when we do this we discover that we are all fundamentally the same. The innermost part of you, from which everything else about us has arisen, remains unborn. It is at one with God. By knowing in essence this, we can know everything, for everything has arisen from this one source.

Some mystical systems also talk of the “oversoul” or “overself.” This is the real “I” that manages us from a higher plane of existence. I Sanskrit it is called the Adhyatma and is the nucleus of the higher self. Michael Newton, Ph.D., who has spoken to the spirits using hypnosis, explains it as the link with all souls to its existence. "All souls are part of the same divine essence, generated from one oversoul. This intelligent energy is universal in scope and so we all share in divine status. If our soul reflects a small portion of the oversoul we call God, then our guides provide the mirror by which we are able to see ourselves connected to this creator."

I have often wondered if the guides are part of the overself, but questions put to my guide when I am in trance indicate that the guide has an independent existence. Starting at the top of the ladder of being, we can say that all things belong to the one group soul. As this innocent soul subdivides in order to gain experience and self-knowledge, it forms many other souls. Just as stars form into galaxies, so souls are attracted together into groups. We are members of the earth soul group. There are also soul groups for alien species.

Alien Group Souls?

Asked whether we can link to beings of the alien group souls, my spiritual guides have explained that it is of no benefit. Just as there is a vast distance between the galaxies, so too is there is a division between the spiritual states of each system. In the highest realms, we can become aware of each other; but this is “no big deal” as they say, as by this time we have attained the same spiritual state and therefore know the same things. Seeking out alien beings through mediumship is a distraction and subject to fantasy. It is better to seek out direct experience of the spiritual states of being to which all life attains.

I had a somewhat off-putting experience of alien trance mediumship. I was invited to attend a small group, doing some very interesting work with past-life regression hypnotism. Here I saw some very interesting stuff, including witnessing someone I knew speaking Old French--even though they had no knowledge of the language. Towards the end of the evening, one of the visitors said she would like to demonstrate how to channel aliens. This would not be a hypnotic demonstration. She proudly explained that, in this, she was far higher than any medium: she was a “natural.”

Maybe it was the squeaky high voice, or perhaps the opening words "We come in peace" that put me off. The host and I squirmed with embarrassment as we listened to some of the most amazing nonsense ever heard. Everything was completely unsubstantiated by any facts that could be verified, but spoken with great authority.

The worrying part was that others in the room were taking it seriously. We had listened to a wonderful demonstration of the “monkey mind” in action.

Your Group Soul

It may be that certain souls belong to a group of souls that are like many parts of one being--similar in some way to how a swarm of bees appears to have a consciousness of its own, or a crowd of people act as if with one mind. The group soul may be a form of shared consciousness, originating from the earliest spirit formation. Evolving over many animal lifetimes, this soul group then likely began to share human incarnations together. If this is the case, then many of the people you know and love may be part of the same soul group.

When we progress to the higher realms of the spirit, individual identity becomes less important and we gradually merge again with the members of our group. This process continues with your group soul merging with other group souls, ad infinitum. Eventually all souls merge together as one.

My own feeling about this is that all life is interconnected in some way, and this interconnectedness extends through all levels of life and death (a bit like the “force” alluded to in the movie Star Wars). However, I do feel that individual will is important. We are all a unique expression of God's nature.

We have a certain affiliation with some people because we have spent time with each other over many incarnations. I believe that because of this we return together in groups. This may be why certain families--such as the Kennedys--may have a family karma. The idea here is that, because of karmic involvement from past lives, we may return together to reap the effects of these past interactions. According to this view, fathers and sons, for example, might reverse roles in successive lifetimes in order to balance the karmic debt.

We are like small bands of traveling players that come together to act out a play that we planned while in the afterlife, actually tween-life, planes. Sometimes we swap roles, and occasionally a new player joins the group for awhile. The costumes change, the sets are different, and the story's themes are altered, but most of the actors and actresses remain the same.

The Assembly of the Group Soul

When you join the afterlife, you will recognize the people who are a part of your group soul. Many of these people will have moved to the afterlife before you, and others will still be walking the earth. Some may not have incarnated with you this time around, but you will nonetheless recognize them from time long past. Your kinship is such that it will feel as if no time has passed. Just like when you meet a close friend from years ago and it is as if not more than a day has passed since you last spoke. You carry on where you left off.

You will spend a great deal of your time in the afterlife interacting with these people to whom you have a soul resonance, and the decision to reincarnate will be decided collectively between you. Although you may not initially all be born into the same family, or close to one another, the natural law will ensure that eventually your paths will meet and you will share new experiences together. Among the people of your group soul will be those you love and those you may need to share and overcome future challenges.