Talk:Walk-in (concept)

message: When you state that a soul may choose to be a walk in rather than choose the more tedious process of birth, what would be the difference in the processes? Why would birth be more tedious?
Also, once a walk in enters the body, can it change it's mind? For example if it realizes it will be unable to accomplish it's plan in the particular body it chose, can it leave again? If so, then what would happen to the body? Would it probably have to choose death or could another soul or possibly the original soul decide to enter this particular body? Lauri Woods
:Yo Lauri, I can only speculate at this point but will have to look up what people believe on this issue. As far as birth being more tedious, I've seen that in a couple of places and apparently this is a view held by the kind of people within the New Age religion who are squicked by the idea of anything as physical and earthy as sex, pregnancy, and the birth process. This anti-sex attitude is not held by all New Agers of course. I think they also believe incarnating through the pregnancy-birth process may prevent them (as in the Veil of Maya) from accessing information from the "higher plane" which they would need in order to do their job. In the cases where I've read of a walk-in soul leaving, the original soul is sometimes reported as coming back all right, having felt like it was "on vacation" sort of; other times you hear about a succession of other souls coming in and managing the body's life until its appointed time of death. I can honestly say I've never read about a walk-in soul having to leave the body to death, without another soul to take up where she left off, either because she couldn't complete her plan or for any other reason. Your best source is probably the books by Ruth Montgomery. Thanks for the questions! I will see if there is some way I can work them in. --Bluejay Young 21:58, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  walk ins 

message: The page linked () from the copyright infirngement notice explicitely credits this Wikipedia.–Jerome K. 14:10, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't understand what's happened here. I wrote most of the original article, and I can assure you I wrote it out of my own head. This can be proved by the page history. The other users who have worked on this can vouch for their own authenticity. It appears that (like a lot of websites, apparently) Crystalinks has instead copied from wikipedia, not the other way around. But at the bottom, they do reference Wikipedia as the source, through a link, like Jerome says. If there is any problem, please contact me through my talk page and let's resolve this. --Bluejay Young 19:12, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have reverted this.  The cited page is a copy from Wikipedia, rather than the other way around.  Sources do need still need to be cited for some of the claims made in text, with bibliographic references added if possible.  It would improve this a great deal if it were possible to track down whoever it was that coined the term "walk-in" for this phenomenon, since IIRC Ruth Montgomery does not  describe it in those terms exactly. - Smerdis of Tlön 14:59, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. Montgomery calls it walk-ins in Strangers Among Us. --Bluejay Young 22:59, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright Problem

message: The only reason I put in about St. Tirumular at all (which would be back a couple of years ago now!) was that I was sent a message by a Hindu Wikipedia user advising me that the Saint's story represented a kind of walk-in. I take the point that it is regarded by devout Hindus as being unrelated because they believe the God Siva directs these things to happen under very special circumstances only -- the way Catholics think about visitations from the Blessed Mother. 
If St. Tirumular's story is not related to walk-ins in the usual sense, maybe that whole section should be removed. I will do so, and put it here. People can decide if/how they want to work it in. I am sorry if anyone was offended. --Bluejay Young (talk) 06:20, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Saint Tirumular

message: Why has nobody mentioned this yet?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue_state
Psychologists have observed people actually adopting a whole new personality, complete with memories. This isn't the same thing as DID; dissociative fugue involves ONE new personality with amnesia for the old.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chaoticidealism (talk • contribs) 19:19, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You mean like Ansel Bourne? That is considered dissociative identity disorder. One other person is all that is needed. Michael Kenny's The Passion of Ansel Bourne talks about this in detail. And I had (probably too much) information on cooperative walk-ins / soul merging as being similar to a cooperative multiple group, and it was removed. I think they were right to remove it because it was getting off the track. --Bluejay Young (talk) 13:37, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Dissociative Fugue

message: I removed this:
:In the TV series "Alias" the main character featured by Jennifer Garner introduces herself as a "walk-in" to the CIA as she wants to become a double agent working for the benefit of the CIA (season 1, episode 1, "Truth be told", near the end at 59:35).
The everyday sense of the word "walk-in", someone who shows up unsolicited for a tryout, has nothing to do with the new-age idea. --173.228.85.123 (talk) 01:12, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alias 

message: The term "walk-in" usually means entering or showing up without an appointment, or a closet that's big enough to walk into. According to wiktionary, it can also mean to enter illegally without breaking in, a room that's entered without an intervening passage, or a movie theater that isn't a drive-in.
The usage given on this page seems like an unusual one. Shouldn't this page be called something like "Walk-in (parapsychology)"?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by CoStar (talk • contribs) 00:22, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I would suggest the name change would be more appropriate as "Walk-in (New Age)" since the concept is primarily associated with the New Age movement. LiPollis (talk) 06:08, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Common usage