Each person has physical parents but before they have physical parents they had spiritual parents. The life of spiritual parents is longer than that of physical parents. Spiritual parents can be understood through scanning or higher clairvoyance and in the process of self-realization, soul-realization or god-realization through the inner world ( i.e. through the senses turned inwards).
This is however not the way we understand society or friends or very closely related people. We tend to understand them through the senses turned outwards. As long as we learn through the senses turned outwards we are sowing seeds (karma).
It is only when we begin to learn the same thing inwardly that we begin to harvest the fruits more quickly and ’sow’ less seeds. The outer sensual attachment leads to confusion. The inner attachment leads to clarity and non-confusion. The soul slowly moves to a point when it surrenders the outer sensual attachment and turns inwards.
As the soul continues to look inwards eventually it will reach a point where it dwells and sacrifices even this inner attachment in order to move to higher realms and become ‘One with God and One with All’.