Walk-Ins

A walk-in is a New Age concept of a person whose original soul has departed their body and has been replaced with a new, different soul. It can also refer to a soul without a human body that enters a body with a soul, with the two souls subsequently sharing that one body. An example of this is the concept of twin flames. If one dies, they may return to share the body alongside their living twin. Ruth Montgomery popularized the concept in her 1979 book Strangers Among Us.

Believers maintain that it is possible for the original soul of a human to leave a person's body and for another soul to "walk in". In Montgomery's work, souls are said to "walk in" during a period of intense personal problems on the part of the departing soul, or during or because of an accident or trauma. Some other walk-ins describe their entry as occurring based on prior agreement and when the previous soul was "complete". The walk-in being/individual retains the memories of the original personality, but does not have emotions associated with the memories. As they integrate, they bring their own mental, emotional, spiritual consciousness and evolve the life to resonate with their purpose and intentions. Incarnating into a fully grown body allows the walk-in soul to engage in embodiment without having to go through the two decades of maturation that humans need to reach adulthood. A walk-in soul also does not experience the conditioning of childhood and has a different relationship to life because they were not born.

Ron Card at the Seth House Discussion Group on Face Book on October 2, 2026