Strangers Among us
About This Book
Strangers Among Us introduced a concept that has since become a significant thread in the New Age tradition: the 'walk-in,' a soul who, by pre-arranged mutual agreement with a departing soul, enters the body of a human being who is ready to leave physical life — typically following a near-death crisis or a period of profound psychological breakdown — and continues the life from that point with a new identity, new values, and often extraordinary spiritual gifts. Montgomery received the teaching on walk-ins from her spirit guides, who presented it not as a unique or marginal phenomenon but as a more common occurrence than most people would suppose — one that serves a specific purpose in humanity's spiritual evolution.
Montgomery presents multiple case studies of individuals who identified themselves or were identified by others as walk-ins, examining the specific characteristics that distinguish the walk-in experience from ordinary personality change following crisis — the sudden shift in values, the loss of interest in the previous life's relationships and pursuits, the presence of abilities and knowledge that the previous personality had not developed, and the sense of coming to the current life from elsewhere rather than growing into it. The phenomenon raises fascinating questions about the nature of personal identity, the relationship between soul and body, and the possibility of forms of incarnation more flexible than the conventional birth-through-death model.
What You'll Learn
• Understand the walk-in concept as Montgomery's guides present it: the specific conditions under which a soul exchange is said to occur, the mutual agreement between the departing and arriving souls, and why this form of incarnation serves purposes that cannot be accomplished through the ordinary birth process
• Grasp the specific characteristics that Montgomery identifies as distinguishing walk-in experiences from ordinary post-crisis personality change: the pattern of evidence she considers most diagnostic, and the cases she presents as most evidentially compelling
• Recognise the implications for our understanding of personal identity: if the soul inhabiting a body can change while the body remains continuous, what does this suggest about the relationship between the soul and the personality it temporarily inhabits — and about what is actually essential to individual identity across time
• Learn Montgomery's guides' perspective on why the current era is characterised by an unusual frequency of walk-in experiences: the cosmic significance of the current transition period and the need for advanced souls to be present in the world in ways that the ordinary birth-through-childhood process cannot provide quickly enough
• Appreciate the philosophical questions the concept raises: how the existence of walk-ins — if genuine — would challenge conventional assumptions about the unity of personal identity over time, and what implications it would have for legal, ethical, and philosophical frameworks built on the assumption of continuous personal identity
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