I have always found this section very enlightening and inspiring too.
44:8.2 (507.7) There are three possible sources of special human ability: At the bottom always there exists the natural or inherent aptitude. Special ability is never an arbitrary gift of the Gods; there is always an ancestral foundation for every outstanding talent. In addition to this natural ability, or rather supplemental thereto, there may be contributed the leadings of the Thought Adjuster in those individuals whose indwelling Adjusters may have had actual and bona fide experiences along such lines on other worlds and in other mortal creatures. In those cases where both the human mind and the indwelling Adjuster are unusually skillful, the spirit artisans may be delegated to act as harmonizers of these talents and otherwise to assist and inspire these mortals to seek for ever-perfecting ideals and to attempt their enhanced portrayal for the edification of the realm.
44:8.3 (508.1) There is no caste in the ranks of spirit artisans. No matter how lowly your origin, if you have ability and the gift of expression, you will gain adequate recognition and receive due appreciation as you ascend upward in the scale of morontia experience and spiritual attainment. There can be no handicap of human heredity or deprivation of mortal environment which the morontia career will not fully compensate and wholly remove. And all such satisfactions of artistic achievement and expressionful self-realization will be effected by your own personal efforts in progressive advancement. At last the aspirations of evolutionary mediocrity may be realized. While the Gods do not arbitrarily bestow talents and ability upon the children of time, they do provide for the attainment of the satisfaction of all their noble longings and for the gratification of all human hunger for supernal self-expression.
44:8.4 (508.2) But every human being should remember: Many ambitions to excel which tantalize mortals in the flesh will not persist with these same mortals in the morontia and spirit careers. The ascending morontians learn to socialize their former purely selfish longings and egoistic ambitions. Nevertheless, those things which you so earnestly longed to do on earth and which circumstances so persistently denied you, if, after acquiring true mota insight in the morontia career, you still desire to do, then will you most certainly be granted every opportunity fully to satisfy your long-cherished desires.
44:8.5 (508.3) Before ascending mortals leave the local universe to embark upon their spirit careers, they will be satiated respecting every intellectual, artistic, and social longing or true ambition which ever characterized their mortal or morontia planes of existence. This is the achievement of equality of the satisfaction of self-expression and self-realization but not the attainment of identical experiential status nor the complete obliteration of characteristic individuality in skill, technique, and expression. But the new spirit differential of personal experiential attainment will not become thus leveled off and equalized until after you have finished the last circle of the Havona career. And then will the Paradise residents be confronted with the necessity of adjusting to that absonite differential of personal experience which can be leveled off only by the group attainment of the ultimate of creature status—the sevenMichael posts above: th-stage-spirit destiny of the mortal finaliters.
Michael posts above: “No wonder the UB refers to the work of the Thought Adjusters as “cross-planet pollination”, which of course is a comparison to how bees pollinate flowers & other plants.”
Me here: Michael…please provide a reference for your “pollination” quotation. Thanks.
Your pursuit of explanations for the common belief in reincarnation has led here to many theories and lots of text posted to consider. Further evidence of how keenly mind seeks understanding of reality and the role of supposition and speculations in that pursuit.
I think you are mixing two different phenomenon here now. The first is the widespread belief in reincarnation which has one set of explanations and the second is a far more limited phenomena of supposed recollection of former material lives, most often reported in some planet-of-origin (Earth) costume, character, and prior historical time period.
I find belief in the first to be easily explained and understood by the natural “survival” instinct of all life, most especially minded life connected to Spirit.
https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book/search?keys=Survival&op=Search
And of course are the hundreds of thousands of years of on planet teachings to people about Havona, Mansonia, resurrection, and the eternal adventure destiny of mortals. Reincarnation is simply a logically reasoned human distortion of universe reality.
Supposed memories of former material lives is something else and quite distinct I think. Statistically, the number of those who claim such specific memories are an infinitesimal subset of and compared to those who believe in reincarnation. Those memory claims have their own origins and explanations I think.
In any case, I am glad to be here and am learning much by our studies on the topic of reincarnation and mortal resurrection!
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
