Do Children Choose Their Parents?

"I believed children choose their parents, but after hearing the whirlpool analogy, I’m questioning this. Is there any truth in what I believed? Rupert says: ‘Children don’t literally choose their parents like you choose tea or coffee for breakfast. It’s not that literal. It’s the mind’s way of trying to express something it has an intuition of. Like when you come into a group and feel drawn towards certain people – you’re not consciously choosing, but you’re attracted, you’re drawn. The deepest aspect of the child’s mind or soul that has yet to coalesce and appear as a body may be attracted to certain energies in the stream, which would cause the child to be born from the conjunction of two whirlpools. There could be some truth in that. To say the child chooses the parent would be a naive and simplistic way of trying to say something that comes from an intuition of truth. Like many New Age statements, there’s an element of truth in it.’"

From event 05 - 12 October, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Garrison Institute, 5–12 October 2025

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