Would you please comment on the idea of parallel lives?
Hilarion: From a higher point of view, a view not available to man's conscious mind on the earth plane, there is a sense in which all of time is but a single instant in the mind of God. Hence, according to this notion, all of the past, present and future can be looked upon as simultaneous. It is from this concept that the idea of parallel lives of the same soul derives. There are certain psychic sources, however, who use the notion to try to confuse the seeker with regard to karma and the necessity of meeting the self through the burdens which karma places upon each life.
The dark forces do not wish man to understand the full implications of the karmic law, for then individuals would be less inclined to act under the promptings of the dark forces. But, if a person does not grasp that what he sows he must reap, then he can be lulled into thinking that no consequence will follow from actions undertaken to harm another, so long as the perpetrator is not caught.
But the cosmic law of karma is always just and never fails. Each karmic debt is paid always to the last farthing. No karma ever merely disappears, although in special cases of service and dedication by some individuals, their karmic burden is assumed by other entities as a form of reward for their efforts.
The law of karma is, when viewed from the standpoint of earth-based consciousness, at odds with the notion of the simultaneity of all moments of time. Likewise ,the idea of parallel lives does not allow for a good understanding of karma. While the solution to the riddle is quite apparent to the higher form of perception which is available on the plane from which this dictation is originating, such is not true from the level of earth consciousness. For man in incarnation, the closest conception to the real truth is that which considers lives to be in an ordered sequence, with the gradual build up of traits and characteristics and the accumulation of karma which is then set aside or "met," in subsequent phases of earth experience.
Viewed from the earth level, it is extremely rare for a single soul to live in and animate two different physical bodies at the same time. This occurs only in certain instances of identical twins, where the sameness of the physical bodies allows the soul to oscillate its attention back and forth between the twins at a high rate of vibration.
"Answers," by Hilarion/ Maurice Cooke
