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Walk-In (Concept)

Walk-in refers to a New Age concept where the original soul of a person departs their body and is replaced by a new soul. Some believers think this occurs during trauma or personal problems, while others see it as planned. The new soul retains memories but not emotions, and brings their own consciousness. Popular media like films, comics, and TV shows have featured similar concepts, though not always using the term "walk-in." It describes situations where one soul replaces another in a body.

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Walk-In (Concept)

Walk-in refers to a New Age concept where the original soul of a person departs their body and is replaced by a new soul. Some believers think this occurs during trauma or personal problems, while others see it as planned. The new soul retains memories but not emotions, and brings their own consciousness. Popular media like films, comics, and TV shows have featured similar concepts, though not always using the term "walk-in." It describes situations where one soul replaces another in a body.

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Walk-in (concept)

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.[1][2][3][4][5] Ruth
Montgomery popularized the concept in
her 1979 book Strangers Among
Us.[1][2][3][4][5]
Beliefs

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.[6][1][5]
In popular culture

The 1941 film Here Comes Mr. Jordan and


the 1978 remake Heaven Can Wait portrays
one soul replacing a recently deceased
man's soul and reviving to inhabit his body.

The Hawkgirl comics, the K-PAX series of


books and film, and the Twilight Zone
episode "The Last Rites of Jeff
Myrtlebank" have all featured situations
similar or identical to walk-in experiences,
although the term "walk-in" is not used.

In the Death of Superman story cycle, a


handful of new superheroes appeared,
among them John Henry Irons, who called
himself the "Man of Steel". He never
claimed to be the real Superman, but Lois
Lane speculated that if Superman were
really dead, perhaps his soul had moved
into Irons' body as a walk-in, and she used
that word.[7]

The X-Files episode "Red Museum"


discusses walk-ins, described by Mulder
as enlightened spirits who have taken
possession of the bodies of people who
have lost hope and who want to leave their
life. The concept is returned to in the
episodes "Sein Und Zeit" and "Closure".
In the TV series Ghost Whisperer, the
season 4 episode "Threshold" used the
term "step-in" when the soul of one of the
series' main characters, who had died in
the previous episode, enters the body of a
man who dies in an unrelated accident.

Stephen King speaks of "walk-ins" several


times in books 6 and 7 of The Dark Tower
novels, but King's walk-ins are usually
physical travellers, or - when they possess
another's body - are more guests, sharing
the body with the original mind as
strangers. John Callum mentions them in
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah. The
term is also used in the CODA section of
this book. In The Talisman, cowritten by
King, the concept of "Twinners" is
presented in a similar manner: Twinners
are separate but fundamentally similar
individuals that live parallel existences on
Earth and in the world of the Territories. If
either or both of the pair gain awareness
of their Twinner, they can learn to occupy
the other's body in their respective worlds
in style of a walk-in.

The main character Myne in Ascendance


of a Bookworm is a walk-in. Originally a
light novel, the story was released in anime
format October 2019.
See also

Body hopping
Reincarnation
Mind uploading
Spirit possession
Star people (New Age)
Avatar
Tulpa
Lobsang Rampa

References

1. Lewis, James R. The Encyclopedia of Cults,


Sects, and New Religions (https://books.go
ogle.com/books?id=lk8_ARNz-dYC&pg=PA
382) . Prometheus Books, 2002. p. 382.

2. Lewis, James R. Legitimating New


Religions (https://books.google.com/book
s?id=hdYSdts1udcC&pg=PA130) . Rutgers
University Press, 2003. pp. 130–131.

3. York, Michael. The Emerging Network: A


Sociology of the New Age and Neo-pagan
Movements (https://books.google.com/bo
oks?id=lokPtsd7Vr4C&pg=PA72) . Rowman
& Littlefield, 1995. p. 72.

4. McClelland, Norman C. Encyclopedia of


Reincarnation and Karma (https://books.go
ogle.com/books?id=S_Leq4U5ihkC&pg=PA
276) . McFarland, 2010. p. 276.

5. Bjorling, Joel. Reincarnation: A Bibliography


(https://books.google.com/books?id=A9vA
ea4MV8cC&pg=PA141) . Taylor & Francis,
1996. pp. 141–142.

6. Partridge, Christopher. UFO Religions (http


s://books.google.com/books?id=6-kkOBKTj
K0C&pg=PA115) . Routledge, 2012. pp.
114–115.

7. Stern, Roger. The Death and Life of


Superman (https://books.google.com/book
s?id=2miDHzlltK4C&q=%22have+you+ever+
heard+of+a+walk-in+spirit%22)
(novelization of the Death of Superman
storyline). Random House Publishing
Group, 1994. p. 365. "I knew all along that
Superman would return, and now he has.
Not necessarily in the form people might
have expected, but it was him. Listen, have
you ever heard of a walk-in spirit? When a
body has been abandoned by one spirit but
is not yet uninhabitable, then another spirit
can move in. Anyway, whatever he is, the
cards tell me for sure that the man who
saved me today is definitely the Man of
Steel. For sure."

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