Did you know that every relationship and every event that has an impact on your life was planned by your soul before you even came into form?  It’s true.  Even down to the place you live, go to school, work, friendships – all planned.  Your soul has an agenda before it comes into being in form for its growth needs.  This is true for every soul.

Robert Schwartz wrote a wonderful book called Your Soul’s Plan:  Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born.  In this book he covers ten lives, some with physical illness, parents of handicapped children, being born deaf or blind, drug addiction and alcoholism, death of a loved one and accidents.  He uses mediums and channelers capable of going back to when the soul was planning these events to find out why the soul chose these routes, how the people were inter-related, and how things have turned out for them all.

            What Rob also covers in this book is why souls reincarnate and gives four main reasons.  First, is a choice of balancing another life, which we call karma.  An example of this is in one life, one is a caretaker, so in the next life must learn how to receive by being taken care of.  The second reason is for healing.  Some people are born with addictions so they can learn to find the Divine within themselves, therefore, being healed.  A third reason is the desire to be of service to others.  The fourth is because of the contrast in the third dimension.    In the dimension the soul abides, there is only love, and so the soul seeks a contrast to understand the depth of what love truly is against the duality within the third dimension of love/hate, good/bad, etc.

He has also discovered that the first and foremost thing about all souls, regardless of appearances within the current life, is that all things were done from love.  He gives a case history of a man who had aids.  He had chosen to be born into an area of the country where this was totally unacceptable, and also his parents were not accepting of his choices in his life and basically disowned him.  He had made this arrangement with those who were to be his parents before any of them came into form.  The soul of his future parents were reluctant to cause so much hurt to his soul, but agreed, as he told them he needed to learn self-love and self worth in this life.  He needed them to be hard on him, not accepting his life style and disease.  He ended up in his life, finding strength from self-love and knowing his self worth, which was exactly what his soul needed. 

The channelers and mediums who worked with Rob on this book were able to “sit in” within the planning rooms of these souls to hear and see what kind of blueprints are laid out for a soul coming into form, and why they chose the life they did in order to learn the lessons their soul desired to learn.

After reading this book, I realized that the word “judgment” needs to be struck from the vocabulary.  It is rather like the saying about not judging someone until you walk a mile in their shoes.  Each soul makes their own choices for lessons, and there are other souls who will help them in this lesson by creating the life that needs to be created for them to learn this.  The important thing here is that it is always done out of love. 

There is no event or person in your life that has not been planned.  When you look upon it this way, how can you judge anything another person is doing, even if the appearance of it is horrific to your perspective?  You cannot.  All the souls involved had a contract to have things happen just as they did.  The understanding that you are a soul having a temporary physical experience helps this, as the form is truly an illusion.  The soul is the only truth, the only reality.  A Course In Miracles also gets into that truth.  Marianne Williamson once talked of a plane crash, which she felt was so horrifying only to realize in reading The Course that it never truly happened.  It is illusion that the body creates while in the third dimension, but the soul does not experience it in the same way, for the soul sees it as a temporary journey to learn a lesson.  We are not our bodies!  The truth is our soul is Divine, and comes to learn in this dimension to bring the lessons home – to our true Home, to our soul families.

This book inspired me and explained many things that we see in our lives on a day to day basis.  It also taught me there can never, ever, be judgment in viewing another’s life, choices, or behavior.

More good news!  Rob has a new book out this month, which goes even deeper into this truth.  It might be difficult for some, as the subject matter covers things we tend to think of as horrific – rape and incest for example.  Again, I’m sure what will come out of this is that we can never judge why a soul would choose such an event or life, but that obviously it came here to learn something very deep for the soul’s growth.

Rob’s new book is entitled Your Soul’s Gift: The Healing Power of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born.  It delves much more deeply into soul planning on so many issues, some difficult, that many people live through.  I suggest you visit his website at www.yoursoulsplan.com to read the information about this new book which has just been released.  However, to get into and understand the foundation for his research, you might want to check out his original work first.

Archangel Raziel has stepped forward with a few words.  He is the Archangel who is a teacher among teachers, and is all about spiritual understanding.

“Your soul does indeed plan each and every life before it comes into form.  There are lessons it knows it needs to move closer and closer back to the Source from which it was created.  Contrast is a very good way to learn, and so many of you choose to be born into this third dimension, which is all about contrast.  This planet is more about duality than any other in the Universe and many souls like to take part in this to learn, to study, to feel the contrast so they can enhance what they already have learned, sometimes elsewhere.

“Each soul has a role to play upon this earth.  Nothing is done randomly.  Therefore, in knowing that each soul chooses its life, there can never be judgment upon the path it chooses.  Even in what you consider evil people, such as murderers, each soul that crosses that person’s path has made the decision to do so.  I realize this sounds absolutely fantastic, but it is true.  Each soul who crosses the path of a murderer did so to learn something, or to have those left behind learn something – perhaps forgiveness.  Nothing is done by accident.  The Universe does not work that way.

“You see, dear ones, events for the soul are very different than they are for the body, but the body, the form, is an illusion of the truth of the energy your soul is.  The soul feels that any temporary pain of the body is worth the lesson that was contracted for.  And the pain, or illness, can be healed many times by the thought energy that is put out by the mind.  Many times things can be overcome by the focus of the mind on a high vibration.  And this could be part of the lesson!  The mind, depending on its perception of an illness can either overcome it, or use it to its best advantage instead of being depressed about it.  There are many that take on difficult handicaps through accidents that their souls chose in order to be a strong example for others.  Think of Christopher Reeve.  Here was a man upon the earth that was considered a superman, not only for playing the role, but also for who he was – even after his accident.  You see?  His soul’s purpose was to be an example of strength and positive thinking, and also probably to learn how to receive.  Always know the soul chooses its path for a deeper reason than the mind in form can ever grasp.  Never judge another for their soul’s choice, and if you feel you are “a victim” of a circumstance, realize your soul chose this for you for a reason and look into that deeply.  Perhaps you are here to help humanity through whatever you feel victimized about.  And know it has all been done through love.”

Love and blessings to you all, for we are all one.