Never had had I even thought of it as a "soul exchange" or "walk in" experience until I started learning more about the phenomenon. I must admit, outside of recalling the possible exchange experience, I remember nothing else. I do know that since that time, I have NEVER accepted a religious belief or felt compelled to worship any god, deity, etc. Unlike many who remember or know the name of their "new" soul, I don't remember the name, why I came, what my purpose was supposed to be.
Other than having individual "debates" or "discussions" with various people about religion which I stopped doing after a while , I don't believe my walk-in experience was anything more than to keep this body alive and maybe live long enough to accomplish something what? I still don't know. I guess I'm saying that if I am a walk in-- which in retrospect I believe now that I am I don't recall any specific "mission" I supposedly, came to accomplish. If there is a way to discover more about "who I am" and what I'm supposed to be doing, I really want to know. I have been asking myself for many, many years "who am I" and now "why am I still here"?
I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to leave this planet. Thank you Cathy for being a "soul I resonate with". I can almost feel your words as they sometimes sound like me!! Hi Lindi, much of what you say has direct parallels and reflections to my own experiences - the two souls connecting through life first as I shared in Breakthrough , one reaching a point of wanting to leave, and the other - me - being drawn in; the exchange then taking place over a number of years. Finally there was the recognition of the other soul leaving and a very clear knowing of that.
So I'd say you were drawn here and specifically to this article to reaffirm that. If you don't feel a specific purpose as I have , then let the idea of that completely go. Your soul as with all was drawn here to embody and express beingness. That is the mission as considered in the Openhand philosophy. As a result of embodying and being fully you, a path of light will open up from that, which may give you the sense of being here to "do" a specific thing. But authentic doing is always the effect of authentic being.
So keep working on embodying and expressing soul.
And if there's still doubt as to what you're here for, then it will naturally reveal itself. I'm happy to hear that you connect with my words. Like you, eventually recognizing my soul as a walk-in, I look back and realize I felt an enormous strength and divine, angelic backing for my purpose here from the time I was a young child.
For the most part, from the time I was a kid, I was able to stand in my truth apart from the crowd when push came to shove -- but at the same time I was able to compassionately connect with the vulnerability and brokenness of others. I had my lapses here and there though and relish in recalling what a mischievous brat I was, at times! Harmless and hilarious fun! At this point in my life, I feel my 'mission' is to continue expressing my beingness and passion as an energy worker, helping to shine the light into the darkness as this 3D density breaks down and spiritual realignment continues to unfold.
We're all destined for Nirvana in timeless time. As far as my purpose goes, I relate to the character of Samwise Gamgee and his steadfast heart full of love. I'm not in the front lines, but I am there on the sidelines, cheering on Frodo and all those valiant front line workers! As well, I have my own karmic journey here to release identifying with past life experiences and breakthrough my own illusions. So I attract whatever experiences I need to remember who I truly am: Absolute Unidentified Presence in all experiences.
And whilst being fully immersed in evolving and growing, I delight in unleashing my own gifts of beingness, and then stepping into action when I feel that powerful surge of aligned rightness arise from deep within that simply must express like poetry in motion. From a young age, I have deeply appreciated the unique gifts each of us brings to the grand scheme of things: As I continue to transmute and transform what no longer serves my evolutionary journey, I feel more and more like the limitless 'Sea' rather than the defined 'C' of my first name.
Thank you for sharing your journey here, Lindi. No doubt you are inspiring many others as you inspire me! It's a joy connecting with you! In my response to Open which somehow did not post , I got "hung-up" on not knowing and trying to find out instead of focusing on just BEING. I'm coming to the realization that at least in my case being the "best me I can be" on any given day is what's really omportant.
If I can be a loving, caring, and supportive person in a meaningful way towards others, as well as myself, maybe that's enough. I certainly have my days when I may not be very happy or supportive, but I think that is normal. Thanks again for your thoughts. Defining yourself more as the "limitless sea" in stead of the "C" helped me put things in perspective.
In reply to "The limitless Sea" by Lindiloop. For a long time in my life, I denied how I truly felt, believing I "should" present my best, shiny, happy face to the world, no matter what. I have experienced strong family and societal conditioning around this. Now I do my best to honour however I'm feeling without judgment in response to the experiences I attract: Then go from there to process and let go of my emotional blockages. I loved the way Rich recently described how he moves his body to yoga and accepts and allows feelings such as sadness and sorrow to flow thru him without attaching to them, so that he can return to pure non-identified Presence, once again.
I'll try this message again since my previous did not post. I just wanted to Thank you for your words of encouragement. I'm beginning to understand that it's more important to BE the best ME I can be, than to wonder "who" the "ME" really is with respect to the soul "walk-in" experience. Realizing that not all Walk-ins remember the experience was good to know. But, regardless of the experience, I find I need to now re-focus and move on with what I "believe" to be my purpose. To all - it is refreshing for me to learn more about what happened to me, and to know that I am not alone, nor crazy, nor weird.
I struggled for about 2 years to identify specifically what had happened to me, until I stumbled upon the concept of walk-ins, and the undeniable match in most of my symptomology with those of being a walk-in. I would like to share my story with everyone in the hope that I can help others who may also be in a similar boat. Memory of my past self the walk-out is becoming sketchier as I become more in-tune with who I am now, almost like a distant dream where details fade over time. That said, I do recall that for as long as I can remember, I had been a person who was insecure and self-conscious, self-centered, with an addictive personality and all too often, verbally mean to those I was closest to.
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The internal discord and dislike of myself only grew over time, through 25 years of marriage and raising of a family, until early when I went through what can only be described as 2 months of pure hell…an emotional, psychological and spiritual meltdown and collapse. During these few months, I felt like two people in the same body — one a passenger, vaguely aware of what the driver was doing…and seeing that the driver was taking the bus off the cliff, along with those in my life that I held so dear, but not being able to take the wheel and change course. Then, on a sunny day at about 2pm on April 3, , as I was standing in a driveway of someone I knew at the time, in another state, I felt as if I was physically hit by a wrecking ball or struck by lightning.
The force pushed me back several steps, and it was as if a light went on in a dark room. I drove home, though I do not recall much about the 5-hour drive. When I arrived, I went inside and saw my wife…though, more beautiful than ever at a non-visual level , as if through different eyes. I was inexplicably at peace inside, despite the turmoil around me due to pain I had wrought on loved ones from my breakdown.
I no longer have an addictive tendency toward anything. Siblings no longer feel like relatives. I consider myself deeply spiritual I was not previously , and I now see auras, though mostly around trees and animals. My memory and mathematical skills were poor, and now are quite precise I do math in my head. Many food preferences changed. There have been physical changes as well; seasonal allergies I had endured for my entire adult life stopped plaguing me. I used to be a hardcore distance runner and now I really am not keen on running. I now very much enjoy art and have started designing some wood-based "crafty" things, such as clocks.
In the past, I never would have driven what I would have called a "junky" car For 25 years, while I felt love for my wife, it was shallow and selfish in nature. In the early stages following the exchange, the universe was being rather blatant and honest in terms of presenting examples of synchronicity to me. I have now learned this is one of the methods of giving the walk-in a clue of what has happened We quickly exchanged greetings, committed to having a beer together later, then parted. He is not the same person. I am still an infant in this process, and relish growing and learning more every day, and being able to help others grow and learn in the process.
Hi Tillhook - thanks so much for sharing. Having experienced a soul-exchange myself, I can greatly empathise with you. It is the most challenging of experiences to integrate. It's so difficult, most people who experience it, quickly lose any sense of their home and source prior to the exchange walk-in. One of the questions you might like to ponder, is why did it happen? What drew you here to incarnate in that way? I get an intuitive sense of one possible reason worth exploring - perhaps your wife is a soulmate with whom you had a sacred agreement to come here and support at an important time?
I know that some key interpersonal relationships where one of the reasons that drew me. I wish you well integrating your experience. And finally I concur that it will get ever better and more aligned, the more you let go of the previous energy. You'll feel increasingly you. When I first met Chris Bourne he was a charasmatic and heart led warrior, an ex-soldier then a dotcom businessman who had found spirituality.
He was exploring every aspect of his spiritual enquiry with the same gusto as I imagine he took to every area of his life. The other thing I noticed was an energy that emanated from him when we would sit in front of his log fire and he would introduce me to spiritual concepts like nothing I had ever contemplated before. As time passed, greater clarity appeared for Chris, he mastered everything that was thrown at him, or nearly everything. I was shown early on, by Benevolence, that he had an achilles heel.
I realised in that moment, that to be such a powerful messenger, meant you would be under sustained attack, your message and you would be derailed at every opportunity. So when I share these things I am revealing my truths, which have sustained me through many a turmoil, they are highly personal and not previously shared.
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Because these messages come but infrequently, they are very powerful and I find them unmistakeable. In those days I was new to these levels of activity and felt quite blown away. Over the fullness of time, I came to experience them for myself, before his 5 Gateways book was written.
Living the experience of those created a kind of impatience for the next one to arrive, alternating with a kind of hopelessness of: Such is the impatience of ego, ha,ha,ha. As the years passed, I noticed more and more how Chris was always moving forward at a seemingly Concorde style speed with deep and meaningful realisations, which came from exploring everything to the Nth degree.
I was in awe! That the real gift of Openhand, was that I could recognise the truth I was being shown, and could integrate it more readily, because of my introduction to the concept. One of the stories Chris had told me was of how he believed he had had a Walk-In experience. Some years later, I was sitting in the dining room of the then Openhand Retreat House in Glastonbury.
I was living there as manager and it was next door to Chris and Trinity's family home, which when utilised together, joining the beautiful gardens, made the most loving and safe space for guests to come and unravel in the Openhand way. So with the morning sun shining through the windows, warming and illuminating the golden oak floor, the patio door slid open and in walked Chris, barefoot, as usual.
My mind is now doing somersaults and back flips. I can feel the weightiness of the exploration, the pause, holding the two possibilities. As to whether Chris is Open or not, I have no idea. I dive deep into myself and find what is always my own inner guide. Yet another unexpected start to the day, but too much to be done getting ready for the next course, which would involve a sweatlodge, to spend much time dwelling on it. As I contemplate how Chris has evolved over the years, I can see how two souls in tandem in a body, makes sense, a Walk-in from another dimension would have to take a while to get his earthly understandings up to speed.
Some months later, I wake up overwhelmed with grief, I can't stop crying, my knowing is: I realise a deep soul knowing has risen to the surface; that I have experienced the passing of a close friend. Once dressed, I open the front door, still tearful. Coming towards me is Open, he often appears just at the right time.
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Open agrees I should honour that. I headed towards a windswept part of the Somerset coast bordered by the Bristol Channel. I have been there many times, I lived close by for 6 months and would collect driftwood for burning on my fire and for making collages. I once said my Goodbyes to a special lady, and saw her soul represented by a swan flying out towards the horizon while her special message to me was written in the clouds. Soon after, there I was on the perimeter of this beach, confronted by a rugby ball all by itself, perched on top of a sand dune tussock.
As I stood in front of it, I felt a great fear - could I even dare to pick it up? Just then, I heard a great whooshing sound, coming through the air, it sounded like helicopter blades starting up. I watched them come, and like a great host of Angels, their snow white wings passed over my head.
Such profound perfection and beauty speaks directly to the Soul. So that morning, it felt like the go-to place to say Goodbye to Chris. It's Glastonbury Tor, I have my confirmation straight away, in my mind they are almost interchangeable, Chris and the Tor, he spent hours up there, he encountered so many revelations there, the Tor is synonymous with Chris for me.
So we dialogue a while, I thank him for all the understandings he gave me, so many special memories. All the fun, the work and the realisations. He gives me a special gift from the beach and as I turn round to go, the blue sky is filled with white crosses. When I got home I fished a leaflet out of my bag, which I must have picked up some time before.
I was surprised and delighted to see a face just like Chris's beaming at me, with his raised hand proposing a toast. So I gradually came to see Open really was Open. Its a bit like hearing the consciousness of the earth has ascended, it might have been marked by a particular date. But its a journey, that unfolds over time, not everything is clear as it happens, in human time and consciousness there are all kinds of tweaks of perspective, adjustments of consciousness and clarities that land over a broader period. It was all perfect: In letting go of my grief, I realised that indeed I have been privileged to meet, and be party to a special karmic arrangement, a Soul exchange, sanctioned to bring much needed guidance for those who have eyes to see and ears to listen.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Lesley for this timely sharing. The attachment to this thought was released the moment I met him in Halifax. Being a recovering addict, when I tell you I really know what a rush of euphoria feels like, that was the same feeling I received when I met Open and shook his hand. That feeling has not left me. Dear Horse - what a joy it was meeting you too, after all our previous connections here on Openhandweb. And do remember my dear friend, whatever you might see in the mirror out there, you're only ever looking at a reflection of yourself!
My Dear Lesley - what a lovely post - brought tears to my eyes. As I recall, when we met, you were on the team that took me through firewalk instructor training up in Scotland. I remember experiencing the sweat lodge with you. What an incredibly transformative experience! So I decided to include it on an event at a retreat centre in South Wales and asked you to lead it with me.
I recall you being very unsure at the time, but nevertheless, eventually, you acquiesced to holding the space for the possibility and at least checking it out with me. I remember as the event got closer, you were getting lots of Red Kite as in the bird synchronicities - birds always spoke to you loudly, just as they do me my power animal is the Owl now by the way. The synchronicities continued to stack up and accelerate. So some while later, leading up to the retreat itself, we built the lodge together, in a large garden of the retreat centre.
And as we built it, we kept hearing the loud call of a Red Kite. I remember I kept wondering where it was. The Kite kept calling, and it seemed remarkably close…. There were huge fields all around, and there were no trees close by. Yet the calling got ever louder and more compelling, more insistent. I remember we finished the lodge, and as we stood back, I think it was probably me who clicked first or did we day it together? In that instant we knew….. It's always provided such amazing alchemical experiences - profound thanks to the Red Kite!
Lovely to meet you! Maybe it will be in person one day, I'd love to visit Halifax! So glad you enjoyed the sharing of some of my special memories and they were meaningful for you. I had often wondered how someone who had not been around Openhand when the Soul exchange was revealed might be able to accept a situation like that as reality. In reply to Hello Hores by Lesley Lord.
Hi Lesley, lovely to meet you. Like you said, just intuitively felt the rightness. To see the reflections here at Openhand is amazing. For some reason, questions about "all" do not haunt me. It seems there is just a knowing or a feeling of not needing to know, if that makes sense. Look forward to meeting you in this life or the next. Until then shine on my friend. See you in the reflections. Having been immersed in a lot of Native American ritual like the firewalks and sweatlodges, and been waiting for my formal handover from a Native American Elder to lead my own sweatlodges, I was more than a little troubled by your invitation.
It makes me laugh now to recall how I wondered what kind of wroth might befall me if I went against tradition. I remember you said to me, "No-one can own ceremony", how very true. It took me a while to understand the message, so I actually went into the lodge with the personal resolve that if it felt right it was OK, and if it didn't, it wasn't and I would never do it again. Of course it was magical and transformative, so I was reassured it was fine.
Yes, you clicked while building the lodge, and pointed out we could hear the call but there was no bird, a spirit message, but I still didn't have clarity, it had to arise in me for itself! You appeared in the dawn light, as if gliding through the garden, a very Master Po and Grasshopper moment for me! My oh my, I was having the spiritual time of my life, everything tasted of the Divine.
I can still feel the silkiness of its feathers when I found the kite. I have been reading and rereading this thread and I am strangely moved and fascinated by the stories and the openness with which they are shared. After that, my whole self changed course and I was thrown onto a non-stop journey of completely transforming myself. It started with a psychic awakening, as I could suddenly communicate with spirits and souls from another realm, and with their guidance the transformational journey began.
I no longer think the thoughts that I used to. I actually think I need to talk to someone who can help me make sense of everything. Can someone here help me with that? Hi Anastasia - I hear you. I know just how difficult these powerful transformations can be. No one wrote the guide book! It does sound to me as if this kind of occurance could possibly have happened to you - a soul exchange.
A 'normal' awakening can indeed happen strongly, and strong transformation happen in a relatively short period of time, assuming there's complete commitment to the process. But even afterwards, usually, many traits of the original personality will remain. That's because the ego is founded on the natural personality of the soul - it is a mere distortion of it. I would say that's a classic symptom of a soul exchange.
Exactly the same happened for me. I found it very hard to identify. But then worked to find love anyway, of course. But whether it is a soul exchange or not, it's still a similar matter of working to integrate your authentic soul experience. The story does matter, because there will be all kinds of integrational feelings to work through - like not being understood or feeling ostracised for example.
Work to move beyond the story by integrating soul through it - progressively, over time. Be gentle on yourself too - be prepared for it to take several years or more, before you find complete rightness in it. Society in general would have little or no understanding, and the risk is to receive a good deal of projection your way - it can make some people feel uncomfortable. So perhaps with those people who are unlikely to get it, explore simply talking about something like 'powerful life transformation'.
In effect, that's what it is anyway. If you drop our community coordinator an email, she will find an appropriate facilitator to work on it with So glad to finally find more people like me! My exchange story is a bit different than the rest of yours and was wondering if anyone might have some thoughts?
Beautiful story by the way Open. I exchanged with the original soul when the host body?? Like most of the rest of you it occurred during a near death experience. I do remember what happened, but not the soul exchange experience because the body was passed out due to oxygen deprivation. I actually remember my first few hours in the body quite vividly. The soul exchange took place for me in that time while the host was passed out, so we never overlapped in the body consciously but I imagine the amount of learning I would have needed to do is quite small compared to what walk-ins at an older age need to learn.
As a child it was something I felt extremely guilty about. Like I am an imposter in their lives, no true member of the family. So I did my best to push it to the back of my mind. I have a lot of past lives, whether I remember them consciously or not and due to this I have a very strong sense of self--of purpose. It is hard to shake me, I am naturally grounded in myself, more and more so as I remember more about my past.
Does anyone know anything else about child walk-ins, or perhaps has met one?
I am entirely open to thoughts and respectful criticism. And I know this may confuse people but I am actually male, even though the original one was female. Hi Atlantis - nice to meet you, welcome to Openhand. Experiencing a soul exchange is indeed a deep and challenging process - or at least that's how I've found it. Maybe it's more difficult when the being is older, yes. For some time I had two auras and had to work pretty hard to get through the old density. I guess to some, it may sound kind of glamorous, but as you're probably aware, it's anything but. Because it deeply challenges those who've related to the previous soul and don't have a context through which to understand what happened.
So yes, a sense of guilt was something I had to confront too. There were two ways I was able to deal with that: And even though I didn't try to explain, I made sure they could feel it at a soul level, which helped greatly. It wasn't something I intentionally undertook, although when the opportunity became available, a soul 'contract' ensued. So yours sounds fascinating because of the 'trans-gender' - is that right? That as a male soul you came into a female body? That said, yes it's my knowing that souls don't have gender.
Although if a soul has a strong ray 1 divine masculine energy , then it will feel masculine. Bearing in mind that the polarity can flip between incarnations - so the Twin Flame aspect, your divine compliment, might then incarnate with a more feminine polarity. Thanks for sharing - these are complex metaphysical concepts to understand and integrate.
PS - fascinating that posted today, the car crash in which mine began happened on this very day 16 years ago. It's my birthday - Don't you just love synchronicity! In reply to Soul exchange experience by Open. Thanks so much for replying! I do indeed have a strong ray 1 from what I read about it! It amazes me how much you were able to glean from that one small comment. I am indeed a natural born leader.
Yes that is right! Certainly not glamorous no, although useful. I guess some souls are just meant to come in later in life. Although it can be hard there is a certain part of me which enjoys my pain and struggles. I only started seeing them sometime around age I honestly think your exchange is equally fascinating! Two souls consciously sharing a body during the exchange period must have been quite something! Both synchronicities and paradoxes are something I both love and find deeply inspiring.
Yes, sharing with another soul for a while was a challenging, but illuminating experience, to say the least. At the car crash, the other soul wanted to move on, there and then. But that didn't feel right to me - there was still karma to process for him. So I acted as a bridge and an anchor. Although things did get confused for a while and had to be unwound. Fortunately I was still open to the higher dimensionals I know, and so they helped by the continual reflection of who I really am. Still, full emergence took a while. Although that has helped me greatly empathise with the soul emergence from the convoluted human story - which is now fundamental to this work.
I guess it just happened to me quite switfly, in condensed time. I take my hat off to you that you found yourself and continue to do so. There can be very few who'd be able to understand what you've been through. There are plenty of walk-ins amongst us, but many forget how they incarnated and where they came from as this lower density takes over. A good question to ask, would be why did things happen this walk-in way?
It's meant a number of things for me I don't honesty think it would be possible for me to incarnate as a baby - scary thought! What's happened for me, is that although elements of me got quickly infused in the density, I still stayed open in the higher dimensions. There has been a time of popping between worlds, but now I find I've opened out in them both. So without really trying, when other people sit in my field, it tends to expand them into higher dimensions. Yet I can still encourage and resonate groundedness. Maybe something for you to reflect upon. It sounds like you really did that soul a favor!
Instead I view myself more as a bridge between human and alien cultures. As a former diplomat of an alien species I feel that if humans were to make true alien contact within my lifetime I could potentially be of great help. Most humans, in my experience, have a great deal of trouble relating to intellect outside of their own experiences and understanding of what it means to be an intelligent species. But no matter how hard I tried, there was always a part of myself that clung to my past.
That knew in some way I am other. And when I try hard enough, it can be easy for me to shove these things to the back of my mind, but I can never truly forget. I found myself falling into a deep depression as I tried to suppress myself. But I think I needed it. As I fell down farther and farther I was falling closer to myself and away from all the BS of the outside world. It got to the point were I was debating taking my own life. I could barely motivate myself to stand up. And every time I watched the cars drive past….
I think towards the end of that hellish week I really found myself again though. There was this larger part of myself I uncovered. I think what amazed me the most is that this mountain was me -- that something so strong and ancient could be me. This may not be the first time it happened either for all I know. As for vibrational field I actually resonate groundedness myself. On my travels I have had the pleasure of meeting a few people that refer to themselves as Walk-ins.
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This phenomenon could be similar to a near death experience , but instead of the person coming back with the memories of higher beings from the other side, they literally bring this being back with them in their own body in order to spread a message or deliver healing to the world. Walk-ins usually occur when the person is very ill. The illness is often very severe and life threatening. In a few of the Walk-ins that I met, the illness was never able to be diagnosed by doctors.
After this exchange occurs, the illness seems to disappear and the body heals. Usually this higher dimensional being has important work to do on Earth and comes to deliver some sort of healing or wisdom. Once the soul transfer or merging has been completed, the illness is cured and only the person is aware that anything has taken place.
From the outside they appear completely normal. Once in the new body, the new soul has to get use to being in physical form. They also need to get used to their memories and the personality of the body. All of our bodies carry their own personalities and energy, so the new soul has to learn to adjust to this new state and learn to integrate it with their own.