
Motivations fall into distinct categories, as will be described below. More rarely, selection appears to have been forced or in some instances forbidden.
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Other reincarnation researchers including the pioneer of the field, Ian Stevenson, have noticed a similar preponderance of free choice, occasionally with selection assisted by a spiritual being. Nine said they chose their mothers and eight that they chose both mother and father of the eight, four said they chose the mother first and four, both parents simultaneously. Of the 21, seventeen said they chose their parents. However, reincarnation researcher Ohkado Masayuki and doctor Ikegawa Akira co-authored a 2014 paper surveying parents and children on their intermission experiences, using a sample of 21 children who had claimed recall of them. No large-scale statistical analysis on selection has yet been performed. soulmates or twin flames, pairs of souls permanently joined in successive lives.


soul group, a permanent assignment of souls to live successive lives together and plan them in consultation with each other.soul contract, a quasi-legal agreement binding the incarnate person to a certain assignment.mandatory life plan that includes all significant events, by necessity requiring precognition, with the purpose usually being learning a truth of some sort.The New Age notion of choice tends to include such defining or mitigating concepts as: juridical karma due to ‘natural laws’ or decrees by deities, held by Hinduism, Buddhism, Theosophy and others.

