SOUL INTENTIONS, PART I – A REFLECTION ON SOUL PURPOSE

Soul intentions are the plans you make before incarnating. You create them to fulfill agreements with yourself and others, rooted in your soul history. Your past shapes their purpose, not whim or chance.

A soul intention isn’t simply asking, “What would I like to do next?” or deciding on breakfast. Soul intentions arise from deep inner directives to pursue specific goals. Notice which information resonates strongly with you; it can remind you of what you agreed to do.

To help clarify your path, let us rephrase the crucial question: “What do I need to do to fulfill the requirements of my intentions, and what is my next step toward getting there?” Before discussing this further, consider the origins of soul intentions, which will provide helpful context for the steps ahead.

Each time you incarnate, you choose a series of tasks aligned with what you plan to accomplish in that life. How do you decide what to focus on in a particular life? This is the million-dollar question, so to speak, but it is not actually that much of a mystery. Your life plans are based on what you have previously experienced and assimilated, as well as what you did not complete. Those experiences with which you feel complete, that is, those in which you mastered a certain skill, came to know the painful limitations and joyous capacities of the body, and understood the extent to which your assumptions expanded or contracted your opportunities and choices, etc., will not call to you in the same way they did when you were eager to test your mettle in these areas. Once you have gained deep knowledge of a curriculum and the critical self-knowledge that comes with exploring the unknown, you are ready to move into a different arena.

At this juncture, you will want to review the actions you took to master various skills and gain certain experiences. On the path to mastery, you sometimes take actions that harm another’s choices. As you can see, the purposes behind re-entry into the physical form of existence are complex. Let us examine an actual past life and review the original plan, the goals accomplished, the actions still needed because of incomplete work, and the desire to explore new territory.

PORTRAIT OF A SOUL

Here is a brief portrait of a young woman who lived in Kansas in the early 1900s. As the scene comes to life, Helen, about 31 and petite, drives a buggy along a dirt road in the country. She wears a plain black dress and a white scarf. The horse is dark chestnut with red tones. The landscape is flat, but the surrounding fields are full of crops. A storm is coming; she hurries. She carries a small bottle of medicine. It is for her elderly, ill father. She drives past a round barn to the house, where her teenage son, Eli, greets her. Her father, Elijah, is in bed. She gives him several spoonfuls of the medicine.

Next, we find Helen at her father’s burial on the farm. Several farmhands help lower the casket into the ground. It is raining, and the ground is extremely muddy. The farmhands’ clothes are soiled and worn. Eli is weeping. Helen does not seem to feel much.

In the next scene, Helen talks with a tall, gaunt man who seems like a lawyer caricature. He is formally dressed, and Helen argues with him about being forced out of her home. Apparently, they’re going to turn her out because she hasn’t paid rent on the land. Despite what seems inevitable, Helen argues confidently and seems to be holding her own – for the moment.

Helen lives in a boarding house where she works long, grueling hours to earn her keep. She spends her days washing, cooking, and cleaning. The work is hard, and though she is only 33, her body is breaking down. Her son attends a one-room school, and she wishes she could teach there.

Helen finds peace in reading and keeping a journal. Some of her journal entries comment on the lack of opportunities for women. Helen recalls her experiments with humane farming and how her neighbors viewed her and her family with suspicion. They kept to themselves because they did not fit in with the community. Helen was also interested in astronomy and owned a telescope. She and her father were kindred spirits.

The boarding house sat in a town that was essentially lawless and dangerous. Men ogled her as she walked by, base and ill-intentioned; she found no suitable husband among them, not that she sought one. She kept to herself, and her primary concern was caring for her son.

Her son is scapegoated and hanged in public for a crime he did not commit. Afterward, his corpse is tied to a horse and dragged through the town amid hostile jeering. These were deeply disturbing, brutal acts that drove Helen to suicide. The hostility of that lawless community was not surprising, given that she and her son were never accepted and were again viewed as suspiciously eccentric.

REFLECTIONS ON HELEN’S LIFE

In Helen’s original soul intentions for this life, an unusually active and inventive mind was integral to what she wanted to accomplish. This goal also carried over from a previous life, when she, then male and an extremely talented musician, planned to spend most of his time composing epic works for orchestra and piano. However, that goal was short-circuited when family business matters unexpectedly demanded that he take the lead in running them, effectively thwarting his intentions. As Helen, she would apply her creativity to inventing useful objects that would positively impact her rural society. This setting would not support a musical life, but it offered compelling enough elements to make it worth living. In another life, she could follow through on her intention to compose. When she reviewed her agenda with her guides for the Kansas life, they also thought this task would be more challenging if undertaken in the body of a woman. It was felt that, given Helen’s advanced soul level, she would benefit from the challenge. Helen was also to experience her husband’s and son’s lifelong love. Helen’s husband was to live longer and protect her. She also did not plan to wear herself out in the dreary boardinghouse, nor was it in her plan to witness such a heinous end to her son’s life, another soul who had agreed to be in her support system.

The parts of Helen’s life plan that were met, at least in part, involved putting her inventiveness into practice. She was handy. She made uniquely designed, highly ornamental lightning rods. She designed humane environments for the farm animals and treated them well. She was also an accomplished, if unknown, amateur astronomer. The plans for this life were interrupted when her husband died, leaving her with fewer resources and without the protection he would have provided. Her son was brutally murdered, a karma-making act that would later need to be repaid to her and her son, and that also led to unbearable grief and the decision to take her own life – which was not part of Helen’s original soul intentions.

PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

Because the intentions for this life were severely abbreviated, Helen’s essence will likely seek to create another life with opportunities for loving, lifelong relationships, a friendlier neighborhood, more time for creative expression, and a greater likelihood of remaining in the home of her choosing. Other situations that now need to be addressed in future life plans will involve healing severe emotional trauma. Some of the trauma will also be addressed in the between-life state. Shortly after Helen’s arrival at the Gateway (immediately after her death), a Specialty Guide met her and showered her with healing light.

Before this life, Helen agreed to let her creativity be on open display in a society that frowned upon a woman’s intelligence. It turned out poorly, and she will likely wait for a better setting before she tries to push this far into conservative mores again. Helen also understood that part of the challenge of her life would be to offer her soul the opportunity to forge a path through obstacles and, despite them, find a way to navigate toward the most positive outcome. Because there are no guarantees once we are in body, we are encouraged to flow with the unpredictability of how a life can unfold and to understand that others’ choices will also affect our capacity to carry out our soul intentions. Much growth and wisdom can come from this, and it will also inform the soul intentions we create, as well as the circumstances we set up to support them. Please note that your plans are made not just for the next life, but for the current life in progress. It is not uncommon for a life to be lived in an ad hoc fashion when the supporting structures you planned for fail to materialize, or when you are (for a variety of reasons) cut off from them. Even when support systems are in place, you often need to make on-the-fly adjustments to compensate for unplanned situations. This is the challenging, exciting, and sometimes hazardous nature of fulfilling soul intentions within palpable dimensionality – but where else to fulfill these? Most importantly, do not forget that you are never left without guidance for the shoals.

For her next life, Helen chose to surround herself with a loving family and opportunities that allowed the intrinsically inventive nature of her soul to express itself in a far less limiting environment. With the help of friendly souls with whom she had a successful history, she created a home where she could live for the rest of her life. In this way, she was able to carry on her soul’s intentions. Helen wanted to positively impact her society, and in her new life she has done so by providing forums where many can meet to share ideas and information. In addition, while Helen’s soul was healing and planning the next life, she decided to expand her interest in creative writing and try her hand at novels that challenge prevailing mores with provocative, controversial, leading-edge themes. This time, Helen returned as a male.

 Soul Intentions, Part II—A Reflection on Soul Progression

• • looks at soul history and how history and intentions create soul trajectory
  • reviews another soul’s previous history and how that history illustrates how the soul expresses its intentions throughout a life;
  • understands the ways in which we can recognize our soul intentions and
  • concludes with reflections on the query “What is it I need to do in order to fulfill the requirements of my intentions, and what is my next step to getting there?”

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