Terror attacks

QUESTION: Masters, the terrorist attack of multiple areas in Mumbai has been horrific. As I understand your teaching, those who died in the attacks did so by pre-arrangement—it was their time to transition. Did the killers also have pre-arranged contracts to kill all of them? Are all such deaths always pre-arranged? Is there no freedom of choice not to kill that terrorists can exercise at the last minute?


ANSWER:
When a soul makes contracts before coming to Earth, it is to enable it to learn certain lessons. A lesson may be to go through a violent death, to be in a position of being totally at the mercy of another, or to be subjected to abject fear. The way of completing these lessons may be by participating in something like the attack at Mumbai. But the exact minute-by-minute transaction is not predetermined before birth.

It is also possible that the relatives of those taken captive wanted to experience a sense of being helpless, watching the torture of their loved one, or some other unthinkable occurrence. The terrorists themselves may be part of a contract to let people feel their vengefulness, experience death, or to themselves be supreme in that moment of conflict.

Is everything preordained? Absolutely not. All participants have freedom of choice. They may have decided that morning not to go to the hotel or temple as planned. They may have lost their taste for blood and sacrifice and hidden away. Any change in their plans would alter the plans of the others. If souls are steadfastly set on transition at that time, and they had envisioned being shot by terrorists who had decided to stay away, they can substitute by being blown up in one of the explosions instead.

To some of our readers this may all seem a rather callous, uncaring rendition of life lessons, but you asked the question and we can only answer it as the facts exist. Part of what happened in India, aside from each separate soul’s journey, was the power of the energy ebbing and flowing around ideologies affecting your planet at this time. The response to the actual event rattles and shudders still around the whole Earth.

This was a shot across the bow of your population’s complacency. Stop and think: what do you want to take from this lesson?