It was his first reincarnation on third
dimensional planet Earth as he found himself born
in southern India in the state of Karnataka just
after the middle of the 13th century. Born into a
family of wealth and power, his life was nothing
but silk to wear and servants to attend to his
every need. Outside the palace his feet rarely
touched the ground as his carriage was carried
where he needed to go. He was only in his twenties
when a bout of yellow fever cut him down without
warning. It was quite a long period of waiting
before his next reincarnation where his lessons
got started in earnest. It was already the 14th
century and the year was 1332. Her birth was to a
woman with no husband and no money. Wearing
hand-me-downs and eating leftovers from wherever
they could be found, her former life was a pale
memory but a strong one that she wanted back. The
most consistent work she could find was as a
scullery maid which frustrated her to no end.
Those frustrations led to another long period of
waiting when at the age of thirteen she became one
of the countless victims of the black death.
Born next into a family of a class of merchants
during the Ming Dynasty, his formative years were
all about learning the family business and
maintaining the honor of his house. One would
think that a more tolerant attitude toward those
who served his every need would have carried over
from his last life but it didn't. He treated the
servants with disrespect and beneath him. He would
have a long life of great success that lacked the
true love he sought from someone who wasn't just
out for his money. His funeral was huge but he
died a lonely man. The next life was even worse.
He found himself a slave taken from Africa to
Portugal where the practice had carried over from
the Roman Empire. Luckily for him it was a short
life though the one after that was one where she
found herself as a concubine to a court vizier of
Sultan Süleyman of the Ottoman Empire. Her series
of lives had been shaping her into wanting more
balance as a person and so the waiting periods she
began to go through gained more depth and a desire
to have more control over her next reincarnation.
Lives from there began to gain deeper spiritual
directions such as in 1625 as a monk spending his
days in silent contemplation or joining the other
monks in celebrating their communion with the
Almighty. Another noteworthy life after that was
as a shaman of a tribe of Sioux Indians in 1816.
It was through the vision quests where great
heights were reached in the search for knowledge
from the gods themselves. A hundred years later
she's a nurse only five miles from the front line
in the battle of Verdun. Daily she prayed for an
end to the war and too often prayed over the body
of some young soldier who just passed away. She,
unlike them, would survive the war and would
return once more in another notable life as a
champion for women's rights until the right to
vote was established in 1920. The life that
followed was much like the first life with wealth
and power guaranteed through a family that gained
that wealth through an exploitation of the earth
resources. She was the black sheep of the family
and used her money to help others and causes she
saw as just. She died poor but beloved for her
actions to those far more disadvantaged than she.
Fast forward to the 21st century. There was no him
and her to define themselves because by this point
they felt at ease with either in self identifying
what their soul was telling them. Life after life
devoted to completing that search for balance led
to an understanding that money, while a valuable
tool, was still something that came as needed.
Whatever lessons they found themselves in they
found that the money was always just enough to get
through what needed to be learned. Their studies
had taken them to learning more about the lives
that had shaped their being into someone who found
pleasure in bringing happiness if at all possible
to any situation. What they can't understand is
that all their lives were directing them to the
sea and the life that thrived there but was little
understood. So it was they became a scientist
specializing in cetacean life which took them
around the world studying whales and dolphins.
They brought with them the desire to help mankind
realize the other intelligent species already
sharing the planet with us. Life on other planets
to them held less importance then finding common
ground with these elegant and graceful creatures.
That wouldn't come for several more lives later.
