No doubt you’ve wondered about your path in life: Why are
you here? What are you supposed to accomplish during your time on earth? How
can you fulfill your mission?
In an earlier post, “Insights from the Afterlife,” I wrote
that we come to earth with one purpose: to bring love to this troubled planet from
our true “home” (the place we go to between physical incarnations). We all have
the same, universal goal of dispelling fear and suffering through the power of
love. However, our souls may seek embodiment for individual reasons, too.
Sometimes we take human forms in order to be with people we
love who are living on earth. Other times, we may incarnate to rectify or
complete a situation rooted in another lifetime. Spiritual teachers often refer
to earth as a “school” where we come to learn. In his book Many Lives, Many Masters, Brian L. Weiss, MD, reports that there
are “different levels of learning, and we must learn some of them in the flesh.
We must feel the pain. When you’re a spirit you feel no pain.” In Conversations with God, however, Neal
Donald Walsh proposes that we choose earth lives, not to learn, but “To
remember, and re-create, Who You Are.” He writes that “life is not a process of
discovery, but a process of creation.”
Many sources describe earth as a “hard” planet, a difficult
place to live. The dense energy of earth and the limitations of the physical body
pose challenges for the incarnating soul. When we enter human forms, we lose
some awareness of the immense love and light we knew in the spirit world and
become immersed in the fear that prevails on earth. Apparently, this “amnesia”
is necessary, so we can meet the challenges facing us and grow through
struggle. No pain, no gain, as the saying goes.
After my beloved life partner, Ron Conroy, left his physical body in 2013, I began studying the spirit realm, life between
lives, and reincarnation in depth. I read lots of books, talked to mediums and
psychics, did past-life regressions, and visited other worlds through shamanic
journeying. During the course of my explorations, I noticed that souls seemed
to fall into certain categories, according to their natures and their purposes,
which they expressed through the roles they played on earth (and elsewhere). I identified several
classifications or types of souls: leaders, protectors, teachers, healers,
warriors, artists, explorers, and caretakers, though I’m sure I’ve missed some.
If you trace your “lineage” through a series of lifetimes, you’ll probably see
a thread of continuity running through most of your lives. The details of the
lives themselves will be different, but an underlying theme remains consistent.
For example, in one of my lifetimes about 3,000 years ago, I
worked as a slave in the library at Alexandria, Egypt, where I was exposed to
knowledge and written words. In a later incarnation as a nun in a convent, I
served as a scribe copying manuscripts. This time around, I’ve devoted myself
to writing and sharing information. It seems that my soul’s role is that of the
teacher and that I’m carrying on today with what I began long ago. However,
I’ve also had healer lifetimes: as a wise woman/midwife in a small Scottish
village about 1,000 years ago and as a nurse’s aide in a veterans’ hospital
after WWI. In my present incarnation, I practice Reiki and other forms of energetic
healing, and often write about holistic healing, combining both roles. As you revisit your own past
lives, you may find that you, too, integrate more than one path in fulfilling
your destiny.
Your role may not fit under a narrowly defined heading, or
your soul may interpret its purpose more broadly than we humans do. Athletes,
for instance, are often warrior souls. Environmentalists may be caretakers,
protectors, or healer souls. My former husband is
a healer soul, but he doesn’t work as a health professional. Instead he
renovates––“heals”––antique houses.
How can you determine your soul’s purpose? Meditation,
hypnotherapy, and past-life regression may help you gain insights. A simple way
to discover your path is to pay attention to what gives you joy. When are you the
happiest? When do you lose track of time and immerse yourself totally in what
you’re doing? Follow that thread and you could find it leads to your true
purpose, in this life and beyond.
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