Talent and previous incarnations

Spirituality and some religions like to explain talent and uneven odds at birth by karma or reincarnation, by saying either that if you did good things in past life, you earned “good luck” such as talent in this, or reincarnation balances the scales by giving you good luck or talent in this life time because in a previous one you had bad luck. Neither explanation, to my understanding, is correct. When I look at people’s past lives, they always look the same, they act the same, and despite their birth origin, they tend to fight their way to the top, if top is where they’ve always been. Talent is not a gift. Talent is earned through life times of practising the skill in question. We only re-learn what we used to learn, not all of us are beginners at painting when we first pick up the brush. We also learn to learn, learning in itself is a talent, combining, connecting and adapting knowledge and skill to new areas in life is a skill we have learned over life times of doing the same thing.

Now, to old souls this is good news; great news, in fact. You have earned your talent, you worked for it and it isn’t that you just stroke lucky. To younger souls this is not so good news. The more we are creating machinery to do the jobs “nobody wants” with the assumption that everybody would feel demeaned with tasks like that, the more we cut the learning opportunities from younger souls. Infant Souls learn painstakingly slowly. They are eager to learn, but the pace in which they are capable of adopting new things will make an Elder  Souls pull their hair out. Child Souls learn, but they are terrified of thinking for themselves, and they hate change, the vital ingredient in modern society. Teen Souls tend to have developed a skill or two, but they are not very versatile, Adult Souls are similarly limited and also, focussed mainly on family matters. Old Souls and Ancient Souls are the only ones who don’t have a fear for learning, and who learn for the simple joy of learning. They don’t need to make money out of a new skill, it doesn’t have to have a survival link to it, it just has to be interesting. Ancient Souls have another interesting dilemma though. They know so much and learn so quickly and easily that they don’t know which skill to focus in a society where everyone is expected to be a master of one trade only, and a hobbyist in one or two others, perhaps, but you can’t achieve professional level in more than one area, people figure, if you’re an amazing singer you can only be an average painter, and anyone would be hesitant to acknowledge your equal talents as a painter.

School systems work with the median, boring the elders and frustrating the young souls, who feel like they can’t keep up and that makes them feel stupid, when in fact they are not stupid, only inexperienced. It’s like demanding the same achievement from a gradeschooler as you’d do from a Uni student, just because they wear the same outfit (physical age). Some of us have still never been taught to read in any previous life time, and to such a person reading can be a frustrating pursuit!

However, the truth of the matter is that Elders have acquired master skills in many areas of life, some of which are just dormant in your subconscious waiting to be revived. For myself, ballet was one of those skills that pushed through without any prompting on my part. I simply started dancing although I never took a lesson in my life. I’m far from being good at it, but I know with a little effort I would pick it up quite quickly for my age. I know somewhere there exists a gymnast, rings and the floor being my strong thing. I always remember watching gymnastics with a different eye than other sports; feeling what it feels like to do the movements. Again; never took one lesson in my life. I know there are more talent in me to uncover, and it’s going to be interesting to do just that – after I get bored with this stuff right here; psychology and spirituality combined. 🙂

Your previous life talent always follows you to the next life. Once you have acquired a skill of some sort, you are likely to repeat that line of work while you dabble in other skills for hobby. Hobbies are extremely important in that regard, because they prepare you for a future life if not revive, refresh and update an old skill you didn’t know you had. Whenever you look for previous life’s, remember that the talent must match your current life’s talent level; even if you weren’t practising in the same exact field, you should be able to level it with another skill that you have, and be able to IMAGINE that you might have been interested in that area of expertise. You rarely replace a greatly honed skill with something you have barely no talent in, apart maybe for a challenge. It is also rare for an Elder Soul to have no skill in one area and excel in another area because you will always have hobbies and wide variety of interests even if you hadn’t touched that particular discipline in this life time. In other words, if you have average competence in general life skills, show no special talent in any area of life, it is very unlikely that you would have been a highly developed author or a composer in another life time.

Take the birthday boy Johnny Depp (51) for example. He is a great actor, but this is only his secondary skill. He is an actor amongst the greats, but if you know people, you know he has more talent than most of us will ever comprehend. This man is a musician, philosopher and a psychologist, and would excel in screen writing and directing much more so than as an actor. I believe there are other skills in him, too, but these are the skills that are right there open to be seen. I believe in his previous life he has practised these skills in some way, either professionally or independently as a hobby, but he will never reincarnate as a person with no skills or interests. Never, unless he takes a 20 000 year break in incarnations after everything we know now is so outdated he can’t apply it any more. However, I believe he would be able to take on another skill, let’s say a dancing, in another life time and hone it close to perfection because of his innate control of his body, understanding of music and quite possibly numerous of life times swooning ladies on the dance floor, although in this life time he claims not to dance. 😉 The level in which we perform must match from life time to another – fame or no fame.

Also, what needs to be made a point of is the culture in which we perform. Jane Austen, for example, all due credit to her, in my opinion was somewhat lacking in talent. She wrote the same story, or should I say letter, over and over, just replacing names and places, added a few people, took away a few, but she wrote what she knew about; The courting process of the people of her time, the same age people, with similar character traits, in a tone that was familiar to her and what most women would use in their letters. What made her special was that there wasn’t that many female writers around and that she wrote fiction. Certainly female writers that sought to be published weren’t numerous, because it wasn’t something women were supposed to be doing. Of course, women wrote all the time; letters, diaries, memoirs, but they were rarely published, and these women had skill just the same, but were unknown for it. Today, Jane Austen would struggle to be published – but no longer for her gender but for a lack of talent. Having said that, I enjoy her writing, but once you’ve read one, you’ve pretty much covered it. What might she be up to in her current incarnation? Longing for Victorian England, most likely, very good with her hands, arts and crafts, probably would enjoy writing too, but would she actually write professionally? Perhaps, for a local newspaper. 😉 She might have even developed some, perhaps a lot. She most definitely would/should have a blog, if the technical side of it doesn’t bother her – but might.

Talent follows and grows from life time to another. It develops, it specifies, it deepens, but it never reduces too much. It can be latent but it won’t disappear. If a person is actively working in the same area, they are likely to be doing better job at what the do, not worse, fame or no fame.

Curious? Write a list of skills that you think you have a latent talent for. When you watch television, for example, which occupations do you find ‘yours’? Keep seeking.

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