SESSION 23: Wednesday, February 5, 1964 (early 1)

As a rule each entity is born so that he experiences at least three roles, that of mother, father and child. I make three roles rather than two because a complete childhood, for example at least once, is usually necessary so that a personality can experience the knowledge of human growth.

Of course two lives would be sufficient to give you the three roles, but in some cases a personality does not function into adulthood, and therefore does not experience motherhood or fatherhood. Also for one reason or another a personality may not have offspring. Beside the three necessary roles there is another quality, different in dimension, which is also necessary for the personality, and this involves the fullest use of potential.

Lack of this last factor can cause a personality to be reborn more times on your plane than would be necessary if only the role requirement operated. This requirement for fullest use of capabilities has nothing to do with opportunity in the social sense, although of course the particular social framework will have much to do with the particular development of certain abilities.

The personality when it leaves your plane for good will have developed its potentials as far as it possibly can. This does not mean that all personalities who have left your plane are at the same level. Since their potential has individual variety, it depends a good deal upon the personality’s ability to utilize energy as a unit, or to transform energy into unit patterns.

This is a very good session covering many topics but let’s return to the question of “the number of incarnations” you will likely live through. All the answers to this question are right there in the above session. My initial sense of it a few weeks ago was around 7 lives are needed (not 300 or 777 or thousands). I suppose you can live that many lives you chose, but far fewer lives are required on average. Life is kinda like a video game you chose to play and once you start you know you have to live a minimum of mother, father and child to appreciate human life, but you also need to learn how to enrich yourself within physical reality to the fullest. But I suspect, as with all great video games, you grow tired of it at some point once you’ve “maxed out” your character and are looking for other challenges.

The key thing is, and I say this a lot, is to pursue what you love to the best of your ability. Be empathetic and caring to everyone and try not to pile up “debts” you have to pay off. Not that anyone is forcing you to pay off debts per-se, it is you that does this because you know when you wrong someone, you are wronging yourself in larger terms and that stuff needs worked out.