The Psychic Being and the Mechanism of Choosing Its Next Birth

0:00 Nothing can evolve that has not previously been involved. A tree grows from an acorn because the essence of the tree, in the form of its genetic code, is already in place. Within that acorn. The entire creation, from the most material to the most subtle, contains an involved consciousness. If we look at the atomic structure of a rock, we will see the complex detail involved in its existence. Metals and crystals represent a higher expression of the material consciousness, with more specific alignments involved than in the oldest, least organized rock materials. Similarly, as plants evolve, and later as animals evolve, there is an ascending power of expression of the involved consciousness coincident with an increased complexity of the formation of that plant or animal. Up through all these stages, the evolutionary principle is collective, related to the type rather than to any specific individual in that form.

1:12 We begin to see a certain amount of individuation when we get to the more advanced animal forms, including the higher primates and humans. At this level, we begin to appreciate different personalities of various individuals, although most of their lives remain fixed within the basic framework of the type. As the individuation process advances, we begin to recognize an ego personality which is much more highly developed in the human being. Throughout each stage of external development, the psychic presence continues to develop and express itself more and more. Eventually a fully formed psychic being appears which can begin to direct and control the outer nature and turn it towards fulfillment of the spiritual force that creates, constitutes, maintains and develops the universal creation. This does not occur within a single lifetime, rather it takes innumerable lifetimes of development across all the stages of manifestation for such a fully formed and conscious psychic being to come forward.

2:29 In order for this to take place, a process of continuity through the action of rebirth is necessary, Otherwise there is no progression possible for the individual. Most of the process takes place rather automatically such that matter, plants, animals and even human beings do not insert individual conscious focus or energy into that process. When the being reaches the human stage and has a certain amount of self-awareness and have formed individuality, a more specific process begins to occur in order to aid the psychic being in its development through collecting the essence of experience from diverse lifetimes.

3:17 The Tibetan Book of the Dead describes in considerable detail the process and timing involved in the transition of the being from death in one body through a transitional phase, eventually leading to birth in a new body and lifetime. The process described there is one that carries itself out through the energetic focus of the individual in the lifetime and the preparation that individual has had for the choices of a new birth available to it. This process is driven through the energetic forces, not by some conscious individual choice. For most people behind these energetic forces, the psychic being remains focused to ensure the being gets the experience it needs in the next lifetime. What is not specifically covered here are instances where there is a fully awake and active psychic being directing the life.

4:18 When such a being departs the body, it is possible for him to make conscious choices and direct the energetic flow to create specific forward choices and conditions. The rebirth of lamas, for instance the continuous line of births of the Dalai Lamas or the Panchen Lamas, are examples of such a directed and controlled process. They generally leave behind some clues as to their future rebirth, and afterwards a process of search takes place until the successor birth has been identified. The child is then put through a series of tests to Florida State identify specific items that had been used by the prior incarnation. This process has been carried out numerous times and provides us with a model for what we may call conscious directed rebirth by an awake psychic being.

5:17 The Mother notes quote. Let us take a divine spark which through attraction, through affinity and selection, gathers around it a beginning of psychic consciousness. This work is already very perceptible in animals. Don't think you are exceptional beings, that you alone have a psychic being and the rest of creation hasn't. It begins in the mineral. It is a little more developed in the plant and in the animal. There is a first glimmer of the psychic presence. Then there comes a moment when this psychic being is sufficiently developed to have an independent consciousness and a personal will.

6:00 And then, after innumerable lives, more or less individualized, it becomes conscious of itself, of its movements, and of the environment that's chosen for its growth. Arriving at a certain state of perception, it decides generally at the last minute, of the life it has just finished upon earth the conditions in which its next life will be passed. Here I must tell you a very important thing. The psychic being can progress and form itself only in the physical life and upon earth. As soon as it leaves a body, it enters into a rest which lasts for a more or less long time, according to its own choice and its degree of development. A rest for assimilation, for a passive progress, so to say, a rest for passive growth, which will allow this same psychic being to pass on the new experiences and make a more active progress.

7:02 But after having finished one life, which usually ends only when it is done what it wanted to do, it will have chosen the environment where it will be born, the approximate place where it will be born, the conditions and the kind of life in which it will be born, and a very precise program of the experiences through which it will have to pass to be able to make the progress it wants to make. End Quote reference. Srioro Bindu and the Mother, the psychic being soul, its nature, mission and evolution. Section 3. Growth and Development of the Psychic, pages 79 to 80.