Jim Grant — My Incarnation at a Time of Civilization and Environmental Collapse

When I was getting ready to come to Earth for this incarnation, I was aware of many lives I had already lived here, particularly in Africa and India. I wanted to come to America. My guides and I agreed that I should have a deep connection here, by not remembering these other connections until much later.

I was born in California, to a Russian-immigrant father and a mother of British descent. I was very good at mathematics and got a degree from Princeton. By graduation time, I was not interested in a future in mathematics, but didn’t know what else to do.

I got accepted by the US Peace Corps to go to a small town in Ghana as a high school math teacher. I got very deeply connected to African people and culture. I was also introduced to Indian spiritual traditions and had an opportunity to go to India for a summer and find my roots there also. When I returned to the US, I understood the process that I went through before my birth: this was the time for me to reconnect with my many other lives. I have continued to these connections throughout my adult life. I also discovered my calling—to build the Beloved Community through faith-based community development.

Returning to the US, I spent almost 40 years in a small town in Louisiana, with a 2 and a half-year journey to India and several trips back to Ghana. My home base was in the African American community. I had a rich life of inter-faith connections. When I had completed what I was there to do, the Universe saw fit to move me from my home on Martin Luther King Drive to EcoVillage@Ithaca on Rachel Carson Trail. Here my ACTivities have expanded to be more Earth centered, as well as having deep inter-faith connections through my being the Chairperson of Area Congregations Together (ACT).

This is a very critical time for our species on this planet. We are moving through a civilizational collapse that will cause great harm in every realm. Our adolescent species is for the most part disconnected from the natural world and sees everything as resources for human consumption instead of a rich interconnected evolutionary process. Our associated trauma could eventually result in a deep spiritual transformation. My work here now is two-fold: to continue my work with a broader group of people working to alleviate crises through an expanded ACT, and to offer discussions through Shared Journeys about a wide variety of spiritual, social, and scientific arenas. (Email Jim.)