A viewer asks: “Was I Elijah and/or John the Baptist and/or Charles de Foucaud in other lifetimes?” What can we tell him?

We only divulge information about people's pedigrees on rare occasions, and there always is a very high purpose that makes it compelling for doing so. For the most part, this is information that is quite loaded, as many are ill-equipped to handle the seeming mantle of being special it is taken to confer. The reality is, almost everyone on the planet is a lightworker of some distinction. You are all heroic who come here and have had many lifetimes of tremendous sacrifice and magnanimous would-be contributions, whether they became effective or were thwarted in some way to prevent them changing the world for the better. The key is the lofty notions all have launched at times, and the many projects you preplanned with us in the light that were noble and of great potential value, many of which failed to work out through no fault of your own. The few who gained name recognition are not even the most significant, because people are exalted in human culture often because of human level perspectives and not divine ones. Being famous is not necessarily a significant distinction in the context of your culture, with its many, many, limitations. An additional reason to not go down the path of sharing past life identities is that this is a very common disinformation tactic employed by the interlopers, working through psychic mediums and channelers who are corrupt, and this is mostly the case. Unfortunately, such intuitives will be manipulated to see and pass along faulty information about an individual's pedigree, knowing it will cause confusion. This may well set a person up for life disappointment, if by having a past of seeming greatness they cannot match it in the current life, and perhaps in being ridiculed by family and friends for claiming to be someone special when this was not the case and, in any event, is not provable and would not be replicated either. So, in a way, it sets a person up for a guaranteed failure to live up to prior standards in their expectations of themselves, given such an endorsement when it is not deserved. We have also said before that it is quite rare for anyone of prior distinction to even repeat the performance, that the ranks are legion of famous lightworkers who were a kind of shooting star that never reached such altitude in subsequent reincarnations, but were quite ordinary, mostly from being sidelined by the interlopers to block their attempts to make a contribution. What this means is, to walk around talking about past glories automatically labels you as a kind of has-been, unless you are noteworthy yet again in some outstanding way. That is the point of the exercise, to set people up for disappointment, not only themselves but those they might convince, at least for a time, they are special, who might follow them and ally with them only to end up disappointed when nothing very impressive happens. This is especially likely to be the outcome even if a person of greatness returns in a current incarnation because they will certainly be targeted to constrain them. So this kind of information will only lead to becoming more disheartened, leaving a person wondering what might have been, when they can see they are not in the same league as in a former go-round. And while that might be due to heavy constraints and manipulations by the interlopers, it is small comfort when people see their life as ordinary with little chance of making a splash. And that is another aspect, being that it is very tempting to the ego and will often be more a hindrance than a help to know one's past. It may even cause people to assume things will be easy for them, they will be blessed, they will be given extra support, and that something wonderful will be coming, otherwise why would they be here having done something wonderful before? But that is never guaranteed and, in fact, more frequently than not, will not happen. The ego gratification is a slippery slope and a major cause of life failure because it is very likely, with too much ego inflation, a person will get out of divine alignment enough to hinder themselves significantly. There also are security risks in calling attention to oneself in this way. The extraterrestrials may go out of their way to attack someone who makes such claims, rightly or wrongly.