(Excerpts from a
    session with Melora)
    S: Jyoti wanted to know more
    about walk-ins. She said that you, Melora, don't particularly
    approve of walk-ins and wanted you to comment on this.
    MELORA: As we recall, what she
    wrote to you in her e-mail message was that we disapprove, but
    that's not a word the we would use. We would say that
    we are not resonant with that, or that we find it inappropriate
    to Soul growth or inhibitive of true Soul Growth, to be more
    accurate.
    When an entity
    talks to another entity and they agree at . . . we're seeing
    that it's at the Higher Self level and not above . . . the agreement
    is not even at the Soul level. An entity that is not of your
    Soul lineage--but who wants to come into incarnation without
    having to go through the birth process, the learning process
    and, as our Jyoti said, the danger of danger who it is, and all
    of that--speaks to the consciousness of the embodied entity (oftentimes
    in the dream state) and says, "You know, I see you're really
    having a hard time. I can let you off the hook here. I will live
    out your karma." (And it's not always explicitly stated,
    but it's only the karma in the current lifetime--not the
    karma before and not the karma after. Only the karma accrued
    in the current lifetime, which everybody thinks is such a great
    deal, but it's not.) "I will live out the karma of your
    current lifetime, and you can take off and not have to be in
    this body anymore." But this is like a temporary reprieve,
    and that consciousness or that being still has to come back into
    another body to live out what it was supposed to learn when it
    came into the current lifetime body.
    S: Okay. Well, again, that
    brings me back to the question: "Who's in charge?"
    Apparently, from what you've said, it's the High Self and not
    necessarily on the Soul level.
    MELORA: It is permitted
    through the High Self but it is actually initiated by
    the consciousness
    of the person embodied. The Higher Self doesn't say: "Okay.
    I'll let the walk-in come in." This thought is actually
    initiated by the embodied entity, and the Higher Self says, "Well,
    okay? If you must, you must." Free will . . .
    S: The other question I've
    got that is sort of related to this whether reincarnation in
    the same body is possible.
    MELORA:We don't see that it is,
    because it's not necessary to do it that way. You can also have
    simultaneous lives so, as in The Seth Material that was
    so brilliantly and clearly brought in by Jane Roberts, you have
    possible selves that are living out lifetime choices that you
    didn't live out. You have possible selves; you have concurrent
    lives. Some say you have a pod of 6 to 12 concurrent embodiments
    on the Earth and that it's possible to meet and recognize them.
    So why would you need to reincarnate in the same body?
    Again,
    what we're hearing is that these are misinterpretations. To be
    a clear channel or to be linking clearly, sometimes you have
    to wait long enough to make sure you're getting the really specific
    and accurate version of the energetic information. We call this
    "energy information packets." Writing would be a good
    parallel to use: Good writers don't settle for the first thing
    they hear in their minds. They go: "Okay, what do I really
    mean?" It might take them an hour to think of the one word
    in a poem that really conveys their intention, and they can't
    be lazy about it. In order to be really accurate you sometimes
    have to search. You can't say the first thing that comes to your
    mind just so that you can move on to the next thing.
    When
    some people bring in information they'll get the energy information
    packet of very complex answers (such as the way we work when
    we're answering your questions), and they will settle on the
    first thing they "see" or "hear." Actually
    the answer is maybe two or three below that or under that or
    behind that.
    S: Like reading between the
    lines?
    MELORA: Or just
    waiting until the resonance says, "No, that's not it but
    I'm getting closer. Oh. This is it." People are clairvoyant
    have the worst problem of distortion because they see an image
    and they take it literally, but they often change what they're
    seeing because it's going through the egoistic process. It's
    much like when you're dreaming, and in the dream it makes sense
    but after you wake up and remember it, it seems really ludicrous.
    While you're dreaming it you know exactly what it means, but
    when you try to tell someone else about it, your mind reinterprets
    it to fit 3rd-dimensional "reality," and then it loses
    its original impact and meaning. What the clairvoyant sees is
    already a reinterpretation of the energetic message that came
    in, so then the egoistic structure tries to make sense of it
    in 3-D, and then it gets changed forever in ways that distort
    the pure, energetic information that came in.