Your Soul's Plan

1. Your Soul Designs Life's Challenges for Growth

My purpose in writing this book is not to persuade you of the absolute reality of pre-birth planning, but rather to offer, in a spirit of helpfulness, an idea that has been profoundly helpful to me.

Conscious blueprint. Before birth, your soul meticulously plans your life, including significant challenges, not for suffering, but for profound spiritual growth. This pre-incarnation blueprint is a detailed agreement made with spirit guides and other souls who will play key roles in your life. The more profound the challenge, the more likely it was chosen before birth.

Self-discovery journey. This planning includes choosing your parents, birth location, schools, relationships, and even the specific timing of certain events. The goal is a journey of self-discovery, where you ask, "What if I really did plan this experience before I was born? Why might I have done that?" This inquiry alone imbues challenges with new meaning.

Intuitive knowing. Many individuals, like Jennifer with her fascination for autism or Christina's intuitive understanding of her accident, experience vague remembrances of their pre-birth plans. These "gut feelings" or strong interests are often communications from your soul, preparing you for the experiences you chose.

2. Earth's Duality Offers Unique Self-Knowing

To obtain this deeper awareness, we leave the nonphysical realm—a place of joy, peace, and love—because there we experience no contrast to ourselves.

Contrast for clarity. Souls choose to incarnate on Earth, a realm of duality (light/dark, joy/sorrow, love/hatred), because the nonphysical realm lacks contrast. Without experiencing the opposite of who we truly are, we cannot fully comprehend or appreciate our divine nature. This "learning-through-opposites" is a fundamental aspect of soul evolution.

Remembering divinity. Life plans are often set up to make us forget our true identities as divine souls, only to remember them through trials. This process of forgetting and then remembering produces a richer, more expanded self-knowing. For example, experiencing a lack of compassion can deepen one's understanding of compassion itself.

Journey from head to heart. The physical dimension provides intense feelings that are vital to the soul's self-knowing, feelings the mind often struggles to comprehend. Life challenges are designed to facilitate a journey from intellectual understanding to heartfelt knowing, breaking open our hearts to better know and value them.

3. Karma: Balancing Energy, Not Cosmic Punishment

When we realize that karma works in the same way, feelings of blame, victimization, and punishment in regard to life challenges dissipate.

Neutral law of the universe. Karma is not a cosmic debt or punishment, but rather an impersonal law of the universe that balances unbalanced energy between individuals, often within our soul group. It's a neutral cause-and-effect mechanism, much like gravity.

Soul group dynamics. We often reincarnate with the same souls, playing various roles (e.g., caretaker, abuser, friend) to balance past energetic exchanges. For instance, a soul who received caretaking in one life might plan to offer it in another.

• No one is to blame; there is no blame.
• We are not victims; we are co-creators of our experiences.
• "Bad" things are opportunities for growth.

Beyond judgment. Understanding karma helps us move beyond judgment, especially for those facing severe challenges like addiction or homelessness. These individuals are often living out planned incarnations to balance past-life energies, and their lives, though seemingly "failures" from a personality viewpoint, are often profound successes for the soul.

4. Service to Humanity is a Core Soul Purpose

Most souls plan life challenges to be of service to others. This desire is a fundamental aspect of our true nature as eternal souls.

Selfless contribution. A deep desire to serve others is inherent in our nature as eternal souls. Many individuals, known as "lightworkers," choose significant life challenges with the intent of surmounting them for the benefit of society as a whole. This is a gesture of profound selflessness and love.

Compassion through experience. Souls may plan to experience difficult situations, such as alcoholism, so that others may express and deepen their own compassion. For example, Sharon's son Tony's addiction provided her with the opportunity to develop profound compassion and start a program helping addicted pregnant women.

• The "tormentor" roles are agreed upon out of love.
• These roles often defer the "tormentor's" own learning.
• The ultimate goal is to foster growth for all involved.

Collective upliftment. When we are in spirit, aware of our oneness, service is seen as a wondrous blessing. By embracing challenges and responding with love, we contribute to the collective consciousness, raising the world's frequency from within.

5. Physical Illnesses Mirror Inner Healing Journeys

Indeed, the body itself is being used to bring about this awareness, to shine light on where healing is needed.

Body as a messenger. Physical illnesses, like Jon's AIDS or Doris's breast cancer, are often planned to reflect inner aspects of ourselves in need of healing. They serve as powerful catalysts for heightened self-awareness and spiritual growth, particularly in areas like self-love and self-acceptance.

Learning through contrast. Jon, for instance, chose to experience AIDS in a society steeped in shame to heal his own feelings of unworthiness and to understand unconditional love. Doris's breast cancer stemmed from self-loathing and unaccepted female power, prompting her to embrace self-love and respect for women.

• Jon's AIDS: Healing shame, understanding unconditional love.
• Doris's cancer: Healing self-loathing, accepting female form, self-love.
• Illness is "dis-ease," a manifestation of emotional or mental difficulties.

Transformative power. These illnesses, though painful, are deeply meaningful and transformative. They force individuals to confront their deepest fears and beliefs, ultimately leading to a profound remembrance of their true, transcendent nature as souls.

6. Handicaps Are Chosen for Accelerated Soul Evolution

They chose a very ill-fitting suit with a seam sewn wrong, but what inhabits the suit is purpose.

Purposeful design. Souls often choose to incarnate with physical or mental handicaps, like Jennifer's sons Ryan (Asperger's, bipolar, ADD) and Bradley (severe autism, blindness), to gain unique growth opportunities. These choices are made with profound purpose, often to balance past-life karma or accelerate spiritual development.

Specific lessons. Ryan and Bradley, for example, chose communicative disabilities to learn the value of truthful communication, balancing past lives where they distorted truth. Bradley's blindness was partly to avoid seeing the world's cruelties, stemming from a traumatic past life in an orphanage.

• Ryan: Learning communication, balancing past political propaganda.
• Bradley: Healing past trauma, learning communication, avoiding visual cruelty.
• Jennifer: Learning patience, self-worth, disciplined life, and teaching compassion.

Mutual growth. Parents of handicapped children, like Jennifer, also plan these experiences for their own growth in patience, compassion, and self-worth. The intricate coordination of these life plans highlights the deep love and mutual desire for evolution within soul groups.

7. Addiction: A Path to Spiritual Reconnection and Self-Love

Because he had lost his connection with All That Is, with God, with his own divine nature and spirituality. This was the road to rediscover it.

Catalyst for awakening. Addiction, whether to drugs or alcohol, is often a pre-planned life challenge designed to bring a soul to a point of profound disconnection, thereby catalyzing a powerful spiritual reawakening. Pat's decades of alcoholism, for instance, led him to a desperate cry for God, ultimately rekindling his spirituality.

Healing past fears. Pat's alcoholism was also linked to unresolved fears from past lives, such as dying alone in battle or during a wagon train attack. Alcohol served to dull his anger and anesthetize his fear, creating a path where he could eventually confront and heal these deep-seated anxieties.

• Pat's motives: Healing fear, rediscovering spiritual connection, learning self-nurturing.
• Shirley's motives: Overcoming impulsiveness, offering unconditional love and support.
• Children's motives: Learning about boundaries, self-love, focus, and compassion.

Shared journey. Family members, like Pat's wife Shirley and his children, often agree at the soul level to participate in this journey, offering unconditional love and support without judgment. Their roles, though challenging, provide opportunities for their own growth in compassion, boundaries, and self-love.

8. Loss and Death Reveal the Illusion of Separation

None are ever truly lost. If you knew that by stretching your faculties you could reach the souls of those who loved you, would you feel the loss as much?

Illusion of separation. The physical experience of losing a loved one, like Valerie's fiancé D.C. and son Dustin, is a profound illusion designed to teach the soul about the transience of physical form and the eternal, inseverable nature of love and connection. In spirit, there is no true separation.

Deepening trust and faith. These losses, though agonizing, create opportunities to develop deeper trust and faith in the unseen, reminding us that our loved ones are always present, just beyond the veil. Valerie's ability to connect with Dustin and D.C. after their deaths affirmed this eternal bond.

• Valerie's lesson: Understanding the transience of loss, developing empathy and compassion.
• D.C.'s lesson: Appreciating love, respecting life, understanding purpose.
• Dustin's lesson: Accelerating growth, balancing past-life energy, experiencing personal freedom.

Karmic balancing. Often, such losses balance past-life karma, where roles of love and loss were reversed or inflicted. Valerie, D.C., and Dustin had a shared past involving love and loss, including a lifetime where Valerie and D.C. were part of a raiding party that killed women and children, creating a need to experience profound loss.

9. Accidents Are Planned Catalysts for Awakening

Many accidents are planned before birth for the purposes of spiritual growth, service to others, awakening, and deeper self-knowing.

Purposeful disruption. Seemingly random accidents, like Jason's diving injury or Christina's bomb explosion, are often pre-planned events designed to disrupt old patterns, accelerate spiritual growth, and awaken individuals to a higher purpose. They serve as powerful catalysts for transformation.

Beyond physical limitations. Jason, a quadriplegic, planned his accident to overcome a lifelong habit of focusing on superficial aspects of life (status, achievement) and to realize he is more than his physical body. Christina's bomb explosion was planned to awaken her to a conscious life and to serve as a beacon of hope for others.

• Jason's accident: Overcoming superficial focus, realizing self beyond body, inspiring others.
• Christina's explosion: Awakening to conscious life, serving as a symbol of hope, healing hatred.
• The "bomber": Healing communication issues, transmuting hatred through self-forgiveness.

Collective impact. These accidents are not just for individual growth but also for collective consciousness. Christina's explosion, for example, was intended to "catch the attention of other people so they would listen" and to cause "many souls to think about what they are enacting while they live on the Earth."

10. Forgiveness and Gratitude Transform Suffering

Forgiveness was the most critical piece to move forward from a victimization frame of mind.

Path to peace. Forgiveness, especially self-forgiveness, is paramount in healing from life's challenges. Christina's ability to forgive the bomber, even while on the operating table, transformed her suffering into peace and gratitude, moving her beyond a victim mentality.

Embracing pain. Spirit advises embracing pain rather than resisting it, as resistance intensifies suffering. Crying, for instance, is the body's natural way to clear energetic density and allow for healing. This process, though difficult, leads to profound self-understanding.

• Embrace pain: "Cry until you have no more tears. Then cry some more."
• Forgive self and others: Release anger and blame.
• Cultivate gratitude: Find aspects of growth to appreciate.

Shifting perspective. When we realize that challenges are planned for growth, feelings of blame, victimization, and punishment dissipate. This shift in perspective allows for gratitude towards those who played difficult roles in our lives, recognizing their service in our evolution.

11. Your Inner Vibration Shapes the Entire Cosmos

Nothing is done, nothing is said, nothing is thought that does not create a ripple effect outward from the being itself through emotional vibration that moves through all of the dimensions.

Universal interconnectedness. Every action, word, and thought you generate creates an energetic ripple effect that extends throughout the entire cosmos, influencing not only other people on Earth but also nonphysical beings across dimensions. This profound truth highlights your immense power and responsibility.

Energetic service. Even seemingly passive acts, like a hermit radiating peace on a mountaintop, have a more significant impact on global harmony than angry protests. Your internal state, your vibration, matters more than external actions.

• Individual healing: Raises collective frequency.
• Peace within: Contributes to world peace.
• Love expressed: Makes it easier for others to love.

Conscious creation. This understanding empowers you to consciously choose to express love, compassion, and peace in every moment, knowing that these choices contribute to the highest good of all. Your self-transformation is, in essence, world transformation.

12. Spirit Guides Offer Unwavering Love and Support

Your angelic guides and beings are always present to log the fleeting moments of beauty you know in your heart.

Constant companionship. Highly evolved nonphysical entities, including spirit guides and angels, are constantly with you, offering unwavering love, wisdom, and protection. They assist in planning your life, ensuring you have the experiences chosen for your growth, and guiding you through intuition and feelings.

Behind-the-scenes orchestration. Guides orchestrate synchronous events, like the rabbit that saved Pat from suicide or Christina's husband being delayed, to keep you on your planned path. They communicate through dreams, impulses, and subtle signs, always respecting your free will.

• Guidance: Through inspiration, feelings, ideas, intuition.
• Protection: Warning signals, physical interventions (e.g., tripping someone).
• Support: During unconscious states, in dreams, through loved ones.

Accessible wisdom. You can access your own pre-birth plan and communicate with your guides by quieting your mind, meditating, and choosing to believe you can hear them. Their purpose is to serve your evolution, helping you to remember your divine nature and fulfill your soul's plan.

Last updated: February 1, 2026