'Old Souls' - People said to be incarnated 'angels' and other higher beings

I have removed the original contents of this page, and have removed altogether another page, Higher Beings, Old Souls And Their Origins. For an explanation, please see Better Without Channelling. However, please read on here, because what follows is important information.

I had channelled a scenario in which many of us were supposedly 'old souls' (something quite widely recognised), and in which there was a range of different types of people according to their soul origin and evolutionary history before arriving here on Earth.

Such differences between people are something I clearly observe and which seem to require an explanation. However, the problem is that in taking on any such explanation, and the associated description of a hierarchical 'higher reality' with all its dimensions, realms and types of non-physical being, we play into the hands of the astral ('dark') forces, which latter ensure that we receive distorted information and also seek to get us hooked on illusory 'spiritual realities' rather than the fundamental reality of your innermost nature (naked awareness) and what is often called 'What Is'.

So, my counsel to people who believe that they are incarnations of angels or other higher beings, or are simply wondering if they are, is that although we have no way of absolutely knowing that they aren't something of the sort, whatever has gone on for them in the past is just a story whose veracity they can never establish, and involvement with which would obstruct their progress to full enlightenment and indeed help to entrap them further in the astral realms or illusory 'realities' in which they are under some degree of control by dark forces.

I've learnt from my own difficult experiences that astral ('dark') entities, posing as guiding higher beings, are very keen to persuade particular people that they were some prominent person in a previous lifetime, or/and are incarnations of specific higher beings. I myself was told that I'd been, among others, the (purported) historical Gilgamesh, Roman emperor Trajan (father of Hadrian), Elisha and Jesus' disciple Simon Peter (indeed, for a couple of months I was told I'd actually been Jesus), and I was allegedly one of five direct incarnations of Archangel Michael and was meant to be a sort of spiritual world leader in an enlightened civilization brought about by a transformation of Humanity over a small number of years.

Then, in 2006, once I'd come to understand that the whole notion of archangels was bogus*, I was told that I was the first of just a very small number of direct incarnations of the very first of the (6) Elohim to come into existence - effectively 10th-dimension extensions of the Creator consciousness. According to what I'd been told in my channelled information, that would make me the oldest (and supposedly most special) soul in the whole of Creation as well as being one of the very highest-sourced.

Wow! Worship me quick before you go releasing yourself from such troublesome and completely unsubstantiable stories!

* Please see Astral Entities - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side' for an explanation of this.

I am not going so far as actually to believe that any particular elements of my previously channelled information was untrue, because neither I nor anyone else could know whether any of they were true or untrue, and so I've simply let go of it all, seeing it just as stories and not actually 'What Is'. We find out 'what is' simply through allowing our life experience to unfold, and clearing our distorted perceptions with self realization methods such as I enumerate in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way; not by believing (or disbelieving) anything. I'm better off without any beliefs (or disbeliefs, which are also beliefs) at all.

So, you can be sure that anyone who claims to be an incarnation of an ascended master, angel, archangel, god, goddess or some other specific higher being or indeed prominent historical human has been misled, even if the particular current person is supposedly an enlightened teacher or 'master' or claimed to be a prospective world leader / teacher. Yes, it can't be completely ruled out that (s)he is an incarnation of a higher being (without a name), but as this could never be verified during our Earthly existence, and there is so much deception around, what point in believing anything about your or anyone's origin? Best simply to regard yourself as a manifestation of the all-pervading awareness or fundamental consciousness of which all living things are manifestations - as we all are - and to regard any angels, guides or other higher beings who do manifest to you as simply elements of your own core essence displaying themselves to you*, rather than anything external - also being vigilant not to accept communications from such apparent higher beings because they will almost certainly contain covert dark force distortions or agendas.

* Later note (November 2007) - My understanding now is that what is really happening in ALL such cases is that, because we can't 'hear' our own deepest (and wisest) thoughts directly, astral ('dark') entities exploit the situation because they can 'hear' them. What they do is to relay those 'thoughts' full of wisdom and 'clear vision' to our ordinary minds, at the same time often projecting an impression (visual or otherwise) of a guide, angel or other higher being as the apparent source of the messages or information. The relayed messages actually contain deletions, distortions and insertions to fit the agenda of the astral entities in misleading the person and turning him / her away from true and full self realization. That situation is the basis of ALL channelling and nearly all dowsing. More about this in Better Without Channelling and Astral Entities - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'.

Similarly, I've let go of the channelled 'information' (i.e. story) concerning people who are old souls having been incarnating for a long time in the Pleiadean civilization or indeed other extra-terrestrial civilizations before they came to Earth. Maybe such things have been happening, but maybe not. Just having supposed past life memories to back up such scenarios doesn't help us know what the truth is, because we do not know where those 'memories' have come from - whether they were truly our own experiences or whether we have simply got connected with particular experiences in the human collective consciousness, for example, and mistakenly identified them as our own, or are the memories of parasitic human consciousnesses ('lost souls') attached to us (which nearly all healers and psychics would not see because astral entities hide such things from them). I'm as sure as can be now that a lot of the latter has happened for me, stage-managed by astral entities for a particularly pernicious reason.

It's thus best that we let go of all attachment to 'star child' (or Indigo Child) scenarios, stories about our soul origins and incarnational history, because we can never verify any of them; we can only either be attached to them and in some degree obstructed in our self realization process, or let them go and thus be free. I know which I prefer...

"But several mediums and psychic people have told me I'm an old soul - there must be something in it!"

Yes, as I say, there is indeed something in it - not all of which you'd like at all if you fully understood what's going on. The 'dark forces' will repeat a story or indeed lie through many people to seek to convince you of something, and I've experienced that myself. There certainly is a particular quality of 'openness' and deep awareness about many people which I can readily detect and indeed came to associate with 'old soul'*, and undoubtedly this is what causes mediums and psychics also to call those people old souls. But is this interpretation correct? We can believe about this but can never know.

* Please see panel below for an update on this.

All I actually know is that I can generally sense particular people's 'openness' and depth of awareness (which also reflects their openness as healing channels). A fair proportion of such people appear to my inner vision to have around them a silvery or whitish radiance. I also notice that such aware and 'open' people seem to fall into several distinct types, with their respective levels of depth of awareness, and also tallying to a fair extent with the so-called character structures* (rather unhelpfully named schizoid, masochistic, psychopathic, oral and rigid) described by Barbara Brennan in her classic books on spiritual healing, and this undoubtedly could also tally with particular soul origins. However, we can't actually know about the latter.

* Please see The Five Human Character Structures - Their True Significance for more precise and up-to-date information about that, including the apparent true significance of those character structures.

You see, supposing you accept a 'reading' that you are an old soul or indeed an angel or Elohim incarnation, and take that as fact about you. Okay, it feels good and may be the long awaited answer to an inner question that had been bugging you, but what then? You simply are then attached to a bit of story about yourself, which, regardless of its veracity or otherwise, is a belief which would help obstruct your progress to full self realization. The latter and enlightenment is nothing to do with knowing about or perceiving higher beings or supposed higher realities. The highest reality of all is what you open to and perceive directly when you're enlightened - but as it is beyond concepts it can only be experienced - not described (although of course some of us do attempt to describe it in order to assist other people towards enlightenment).

An actually useful 'reading' might be something along the lines of "You are fundamentally very open-minded and deeply aware and are a very strong healing channel". Those are observable and testable characteristics, so no belief needs to be held about that, and such a 'reading' may have a positive effect in that the person might be more motivated then to move more speedily towards enlightenment and self realization and also develop their healing ability.

"You're wrong in saying there are no such things as angels. I know I'm an incarnated angel because I have etheric angel wings, which people can see!"

Somebody wrote in to me to that effect. Also, that person was angry and embittered that people were not taking seriously his or her claim to have been the biblical Daniel, and clearly strongly wanted to be an incarnated angel and feel very, very special.

If there really were any 'external' higher beings at all, being non-physical, they would have no need or cause to have wings. Winged angels are just religious iconography. Therefore, if you and other 'sensitive' people see you as having etheric angel wings, then that represents one of your problems, for part of your mind has created those energy manifestations in line with a belief of yours, very likely aided and abetted by some dark-force interference. Astral entities would be very keen on your being attached to the notion of your being an incarnated angel (and thus more special and Divine than most other people). Again, what could you do with such 'knowledge' but believe it and feel more 'special' and reinforced in your illusion of separateness and isolation from other people? Would that really be a happy situation for you? Is that really what you want? It's certainly what the astral entities want for you!

Instead, how about working through your thoughts and feelings of wanting to 'know' that you're an angel incarnation (or indeed an incarnation of a biblical personality or an extra-terrestrial) and thus someone 'special', using The Work and the EFT to clear yourself of such beliefs or illusory realities? Then, provided you carry out that work awarely and diligently, you would become released from your belief that you need to know such things and instead you would get in touch with your deepest truth - that of your innermost essence (the all-pervading fundamental consciousness of which all living things are manifestations) and What Is. You would also feel much happier and more 'connected'.