We see, time and again, adopted children seek out birth parents, even when the adopted parents are loving and generous in every conceivable way. Why is this?

This is commonly attributed to curiosity and perhaps a naive and exaggerated hope that somehow love can be restored and that this is only a sign of need for further healing of a perceived abandonment that continues to be painful and a wound to the psyche. While these are potential factors in the emotions of adopted children, the major reason by far in wanting to find the birth parents and make some kind of contact is an inner yearning and an inner knowing there is something special about those individuals. It is a deep yearning for the soul connection, once again, to individuals for which there was a life plan that was thwarted. It is the significant past history of the child with the biologic parents from previous lifetimes as members of a soul collective who come together regularly during incarnations to share experiences in various roles with one another, that underlies this deep desire to touch base. In essence, it is the deep inner desire to fulfill an obligation that was preplanned before coming into the current lifetime. This does not imply there needs to be a reordering of the family structure to now favor the biologic parents in some way in spending time and furthering an association and a potential preference, in the end, for their company. This is simply an inner yearning with very deep roots and to simply honor this by making contact is, in a sense, closing a circle and that can be enough to satisfy the adopted individual—that they had a sort of meeting of minds and connected to the soul of that mysterious figure who played such a significant role in their lives. It need not be a threat to the adoptive parents and their importance. If people were aware of the long and deep prior history with life being a series of incarnations with all sorts of players from a large soul collective, there would be less need for being possessive or feeling threatened by such an inquiry. It is only natural and is true for every human being, one has had other family groups and other marital partners among many other lifetimes.