Visioning: A Process to Connect Your Daily Life with Your Innermost Wisdom
“The essence of Visioning is unconditional love, and you anchor in unconditional love.”
- Cynthia James
Your soul remembers very well why it chose to join your body to co-create this life that you are. So, it makes perfect sense to seek its guidance and inspiration as you embrace becoming the person that inspired its choice. If you are an intuitive person, conversing with your soul may already be occurring to some degree, whether or not you are aware of it. But if you’re like me; born with and trained by life to use logical left-brained thinking, that soul conversation may remain more or less dormant. I immediately sensed Visioning’s potential to facilitate my spiritual growth when I first encountered it in a magazine article entitled Download the Divine (Melissa Baldridge, Science of Mind magazine, Jan. 2009). Although that article didn’t describe Visioning as an interaction with your own soul, that is how I’ve come to understand it. Remember that your soul is a fragment of God found within you. That means it can be your connection to all the wisdom of the Cosmos. Experience has convinced me that Visioning can indeed facilitate conversations between one’s everyday self and the soul wisdom at the core of their being. Since reading that article, those interactions have powerfully shaped my understanding of who I am and why I’m here.
If you’re good at online sleuthing, you may be able to access the relevant article in the Archives Section of the Centers for Spiritual Living website (https://csl.org). For the rest of us, a brief description of the Visioning process follows:
Engaging the Visioning Process:
The key to Visioning is to relax and listen within. Allow your own inner essence to provide responses. Leave your mind in neutral – if it had the guidance you seek, you wouldn’t be looking for it. I find it useful to pause in silence with eyes closed and just stay calm and open until you receive something. Your soul’s responses are not limited to words, so you may hear music, see colors, visual images, or experience strong feelings. Trust your soul to communicate in ways that are perfectly tailored for your reception.
Preparations:
· As with many spiritual practices, the first thing to do is find a quiet space and allow yourself to feel peaceful and comfortable. Then center yourself in Divine Love, whatever that means to you, by whatever process works for you. Consider the Cynthia James quote above if you’re uncertain.
· Record the date on a fresh page in your journal. Beneath that, craft and enter a clear, concise statement of purpose for this visioning session (What are you seeking guidance about?). Take your time; clarity here helps keep the whole process on track.
· Mindfully write the six questions below in your journal leaving space between them to record the visioning responses.
· Once you re-center yourself as needed, you are prepared.
· When you feel ready, consider the six questions one at a time.
The Six Questions:
1. What is God’s* highest vision for ______? (Use your statement of purpose). [* Please feel free to choose your own favorite name for the Beloved One.]
2. What is the feeling, tone, or essence of this vision?
3. What must I become to empower this vision?
4. What must I release to be an open space for this vision?
5. What must I embrace to allow this vision?
6. Is there anything else I need to know? What are the next steps?
Closing Observations:
Like most spiritual endeavors, the effectiveness of Visioning improved with practice. It took a year before it felt natural to me. At the same time, I was learning to trust that the responses really were meant for me. I learned that my soul’s responses were not bounded by my expectations or constrained by my purpose statement. Some responses were so beautiful and powerful that they took my breath away. When responses felt way beyond what I dared to dream, I struggled to accept them. Regardless, they have emerged into reality as my acceptance evolved. Some of them were so open-ended they have been unfolding for over a decade with no end in sight. I was already in my late 60s when I first encountered Visioning, so that was likely a factor in the kinds of responses I received. Many of them had little to do with action plans and physical activities. They were often centered on who I am being and my absolute oneness with God and all creation. I suspect the responses might have been more action-focused if I had begun 20-30 years earlier, but that is only a guess. In either case, I’m sure the responses would have been perfectly in tune with me at the time they arrived.
If Visioning strikes you as overly complex and detailed, it may not be for you. If you’re naturally intuitive in your soul relationship you may not need it. As a left-brained geeky sort, it was life-changing for me. However, I’ve noticed over the past few years that Visioning has faded in importance as life is moving toward an ongoing conversation with my Soul Presence. Ever since I began receiving inner guidance, it has often required a willingness to face the unknown, but it has also always led me toward spiritual growth. As I approach my 80th birthday, my capacity for physical action has been fading. In perfect harmony with aging, I recently received clear guidance that I am called to depths of being (as contrasted to doing) far beyond anything I’ve yet experienced. It feels like I’ve been told to stay alert and ready, with no idea when or what steps are coming. But, it’s clear that my spiritual work in the world is becoming inner work where the power of love flows into the world in ways that fit my current realities. There is no need for concern about where life is taking me; I must simply trust the process. During the early years with Visioning, I was told my service to the world would be as unbounded as I allow myself to be. I know this is still true today. Thank God that growing older does not require life to become irrelevant. Amen to that!
Follow Your Heart: Say YES! to Inner Wisdom
For the first half of my life, the idea of divine guidance was as foreign as Planet Jupiter. As I approach eight decades in this soul journey as Foster, I have learned that saying yes to inner urgings often holds potential life shifts that were totally invisible when the choice was made. For example, my family and I initially moved to Colorado because I was powerfully drawn to her mountains. I had no clue that over the next five years that choice would rearrange my entire life. Hidden within that choice was a completely new me. Today, God’s presence feels like an old friend walking with me through the flow of life. I have learned that Divine Guidance is exactly the same as following my heart. Two powerful examples follow:
Wisdom from Family
In late 1988, my life became forever brighter when my first grandchild was born. Mere words can never describe the surge of love and meaning shared in those first moments of holding this newborn family member. Soul friendships supercharge the feelings when two soul-friends meet here on Earth in family relationships. The joy of celebrating a newborn’s birth is far more than a family welcome; it celebrates a soul’s arrival into a new lifetime of shared love and growth.
Exactly two years later, I was stuck at a career crossroads. The sheltering umbrella of a mentor under whom my career had flourished was suddenly gone in a corporate shakeup that felt like an earthquake. I was faced with the choice of accepting either a demotion and transfer or a severance package. I was paralyzed between the two options, neither of which seemed compelling. It was Sunday and I was at church seeking calmness and clarity; my decision was due the next morning. Suddenly my heart was clearly saying I must not move away from our adult daughters and new grandchild. It was obvious to accept the demotion and restart my career in a different setting within the same company. My family soul teachers who brought clarity never actually spoke a word of wisdom. Our heart connections made the decision clear — for many reasons, it remains one of the wisest choices I have ever made.
Our Coyote Teacher
Ten years after that career crossroads, there was a déjà vu experience that blindsided me like a train wreck. On a Friday morning in October, I was again offered a demotion or a severance package. I had just led a hugely successful research project worth many millions in annual revenue, so I was taken by complete surprise. At the same time, it was a fortunate event, because my heart was ready to retire. Ongoing competition and manipulative intrigue amongst upper management, along with the never-ending red tape of corporate life made work-life very frustrating. Although I was still a very competent senior scientist, frustration trumped career competence. The only drawbacks: It was a big life change with consequences we couldn’t see, and retiring early felt financially less secure. I had to choose by the following Monday.
That Friday after work, my wife Marilyn and I went to a nearby state park to watch the sunset and discuss our situation. We had been watching the sun descend for twenty minutes when a lone coyote came around a low knoll right in front of our car. Momentarily startled, it paused to look us over. She took a long minute to decide whether or not we were a threat, then glanced away and resumed her coyote business. The coyote knew her choice was right; she remained calm, and never looked back. In an instant we both saw the scene as a metaphor for our own situation; retirement would be no more frightening for us than we had been for the coyote. That quickly, we both were able to accept early retirement as an opportunity and embrace it with a sense of peace.
Marilyn and I had shared a remarkable experience. The decision to end my career was made in twenty minutes, with no analysis beyond that provided by a lone coyote. It took some months for frustration to ebb over the abrupt ending of my career, but like the coyote, we have never looked back. I have always been grateful for the sudden freedom of retiring early. It was the perfect way to begin the new millennium. We had closed one life chapter and started anew with fresh pages. Now, more than two decades later, retirement has turned out to be a glorious joy ride that is still unfolding with love and meaning. Our coyote teacher was wiser than we knew.
Is there a wise teacher waiting for you to notice? One will always show up when you are ready for its lesson. Remember to listen with your heart.
Your Soul Can Take You Where You Need to Go
“Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. … therefore, you can trust this indirect,
oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go …”
- John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
Looking back, I can see John O’Donohue’s assertion actively present in my life from an early age. I recall looking with longing at the hills layered to the east of my parent’s house when I was five. It was the start of a life-long calling to be in nature. My love of nature became my north star along the life pathway that led to who I am. At five I wasn’t even aware that there was a soul inside me, let alone recognize that urge as an inner calling – but by now it has been obvious for decades. There have been other key turning points where my soul let me feel its urge. Two examples: the decision to go to college and then on to graduate school, and the decision to move to Colorado. In retrospect, both clearly shifted upward the trajectory of my soul’s journey.
More recently, when I discovered Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls by Michael Newton Ph. D., they were breath-taking revelations about souls; their lives, their divine purpose, and how a series of earthly incarnations fuels their growth. Newton was a psychiatrist and hypnotherapist who spent much of his career regressing many hundreds of clients into states of hypnosis between their earthly incarnations; this is distinctly different than past life regression. That pioneering technique allowed him to converse with the souls of his clients in their spiritual homes through the voice and brain of their hypnotized bodies. Much of my understanding of souls is rooted in his work.
I am deeply grateful for the knowledge and inspiration learned from Newton’s groundbreaking work. That does not mean I blindly accept Newton’s books as a complete gospel of truth about souls. His work revealed that souls have many pathways to experience life and expand their consciousness. Incarnating as human beings on Planet Earth is only one of them. But souls whose consciousness receives value from earthly incarnation are not evolved enough to carry a complete understanding of soul life or Divinity and its realms. To expect complete answers would be like asking a sixth-grader to explain the workings of the Cosmos. So, his clients’ descriptions of the heavenly realms, and his interpretations of their meaning, were limited. In addition, throughout his lifework, souls and humans alike struggled with human language when trying to describe soul relationships and the beauty of soul life. So, while Newton’s work is a breath-taking and beautiful picture of soul life, it is also a very partial understanding. Despite my gratitude for Newton’s work, I accept responsibility for the comments on this blog. Of course, my thoughts are similarly limited by my consciousness and language skills.
During conversations with two relatively advanced souls, Newton was told that souls are created by Divinity using a cloning process that throws off individual sparks of its own energy. The sparks emerge as unique, immature individual souls that are incubated and nurtured until they are ready to become part of a soul group and begin preparation for their future. In fact, one of the two souls who described this process had served as an attendant in such a neo-natal nursery for souls. A very important point: Each soul ever created is a child of God from its first beginning. Newton’s work also revealed that each soul chose the earthly life it is experiencing. Thus, “our” soul intentionally merged with the chosen fetus in our birthmother's womb before we were born. That combination of body and soul is the fundamental nature of every human being on Earth.
If you choose to explore Dr. Newton’s books, I suggest you bring a curious mind and open heart. So much new information may be an uncomfortable contrast with long-held beliefs. Soul evolution is a process, so it is your choice to decide what you are ready to accept.
Homo sapiens’ personalities vary widely, but the vast majority are naturally over-sensitive, defensive, and prone to anger. Our species evolved in wild nature, where only those who were vigilant and sensitive to danger avoided being some other creature’s dinner. Those characteristics are still hard-wired into our nature. Similarly, the maturity and experience level of incarnating souls varies widely, but souls are naturally loving, wise, and generous-hearted. The tension between the Homo sapiens host body and incarnating soul often results in a life-long struggle. To say the least, the arrangement by which my Homo sapiens body is hosting my soul has made for an interesting life, with experiences from horrific to transcendent. I have finally come to know my soul as the innermost self I rely on as my trusted friend and advisor. It is the heart of who I am; the presence of God within me expressing itself as my life. There is a similar divine essence at the core of every person on Earth. Yet, our Homo sapiens personality often resists and resents this soul presence. This give and take is an aspect of earthly life that makes human incarnation so powerful for soul evolution. It has taken most of my life to grasp this understanding of human reality.
I see this life as Foster as the most recent chapter in a soul memoir long in the making. The journey of the particular soul that animates me has already been unfolding for hundreds of incarnations across dozens of millennia. While each soul’s journey is unique, my soul’s story is not unusual. The fact that you are alive on Planet Earth reading these words, implies with certainty that a similar, vast history is also true for the soul that animates you. It’s the nature of human life that every person living on Earth at this moment is writing a chapter in their soul’s memoir.
For my soul, the latter years of this particular life have been a deep, delightful experience of finally waking up to its own presence during a human incarnation. Although divine guidance has been unfolding layers of truth into my understanding of life since birth, it’s only since the mid-1990s that conscious awareness of that process has been opened.
Key learning: In the heart of Divinity, all facets of creation are equally meaningful and significant. Experiences that seem spectacular to us are equally valued with those that seem mundane. A hummingbird’s dance with a flower in the wind is as profound an infusion of grace into creation, as an experience that blows the doors off my human limitations. God is always present in the ordinary and the sublime. In God’s eyes, one facet of creation is never better or more important than another.
Final thought: While it is true that the details of each person’s life are unique, the basic principles are common to all of us. It is unusual for a soul to be aware of itself while incarnated in human form. So, for the purpose of expanding awareness, I am called to share its story with the world.
One God — Infinite Mystery
“The ways of the universe are wrapped in mystery. We can only marvel and bow our heads.”
— Albert Einstein
“I do not at all understand the mystery of Grace — only that it meets us where we are
but does not leave us where it found us.”
— Anne Lamott
I don’t know how much people in a western culture think about God. It isn’t a mainstream topic of conversation. So, I wonder whether folks realize how much their inner perceptions about God shape their attitudes and relationships with everyone and everything. The more we fear God, the
more likely we are to approach life and relationships with caution, even trepidation. It’s completely unnatural to trust people, or life in general when you don’t trust God. Of course, it’s hard to make friends when you don’t trust life or other people; life can be lonely. In contrast, the more loving and supportive we perceive God to be, the more likely our attitudes will reflect love, trust, and confidence. Our relationships and experiences with other people will be more comfortable and uplifting when we trust God. So, when you feel resistance or fear arising in any situation, it may be useful to examine your relationship with God to better understand where those feelings are rooted.
When I was a small boy, my perception of God was a powerful, judgmental, downright mean, old man that watched and recorded everything I did or even thought of doing. From his perch somewhere up in heaven, he was as scary as a chain-saw wielding Santa Claus!
So, I grew up as an introverted kid, with little self-confidence or trust in others. Those attitudes invited bullies into my life from late grade school through the first half of high school. I was mired in fear for several years. Those experiences, rooted in my deep fear of God, fed deep-seated insecurities that persisted into middle age. A resulting pattern of grievous life errors was carefully shielded from public view by education and career success, but guilt over my hidden failures made my inner life chaotic and depressing for more than three decades. That happened because the God of my understanding was a vengeful soul hound intent on sending me to hell.
I suppose most adults would say their understanding of God has grown and changed over time. Thank God (no pun intended), spiritual growth finally caught up with me. It took a gut-wrenching divorce and fear of losing my four daughters, to propel me in a new direction. Life was so desperate I had to change or die trying. Unconditional love shattered the downward spiral. There are no words to express my gratitude. It was sometimes a rocky road, but as I finally matured, my impressions of God gradually became less rigid, friendlier, and harder to describe. I still see my personal resurrection as a miraculous gift. Believe me, I was not born a spiritual prodigy. If God can gift me with such a miracle, it can happen for anyone.
From then until now there have been many expansive steps in understanding. Spiritual growth now seems like a natural never-ending process. At this moment, well along in my senior years, I see God as everything, The All, rather than a specific being. At the same time, I think of God as
The One and Only, a single, infinite, eternal, and majestic energy field that encompasses all that is.
I think of this one and only energy field as the ultimate Creator, whose nature and essence lie way beyond human understanding. I believe all creation, both physical and non-physical, is made of God-energy. Ironically, this One and Only Allness is experienced by some as the Void, the ultimate emptiness from which All That Is arose. It seems to me that God must be both All and Void. Somehow, the volition and intelligence behind creation must also emanate from the Void. Without that, creation would never have happened. Because God is infinite, there is no ‘other’ place where creation could arise. Everything, including each human being, must exist within this mysterious energy field. There is no other place to be!
The infinite nature of God also means our finite human condition is hopelessly inadequate to grasp Its nature. So far as we are concerned, it’s unavoidable that God is the Great Mystery. That’s okay; the processes of creation don’t need our comprehension or help in order to operate. Life unfolds much more smoothly when we just accept its mysterious nature. It’s just the way things are.
Yet, despite Its mystery, God is no stranger. Because that One Divine Energy comprises all that is, you can see God just by looking around. Anything in your surroundings — wherever your gaze falls, even in your mirror — it’s all God. Your essential nature is this: You are God in miniature; the one creative energy field is you. The only difference between God and you is one of scale, not essence. I am not all that God is, but all that I am is God. This is not an ego trip and humans are not unique in this regard. Every facet of Creation innately holds the right to say ‘namaste’ – the divine in me sees the divine in you – to everything else. Thus, the search for your true self and the search for God is one quest, not two. What we seek is our own nature; our answers lie within our own being. The essential truth of our endless searching is this: We will never understand, find, or know God. We can only be God.
One Native American author wrote, “We exist in a dream in the mind of God.”, (N. Scott Momaday, The Man Made of Words). That’s as good a description as any, of the nature of humanity and the universe. In truth, Einstein, Anne Lamott, and all the rest of us together, know almost nothing about God. Indeed, the best we can do is marvel and bow our heads. Amen
There is a Tide…
“There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.”
— William Shakespeare
People who manage to remain calm in the face of today’s frightening world seem rarer every day. The high levels of anger, frustration, and violence are the cumulative reactions of ordinary folks like you and me to the pervasive panic rattling everyone’s comfort and confidence. Chaos seems to be ripping through the beliefs and institutions we have long relied on for stability. As our societal anchors have been torn loose, the capacity to understand what’s happening in the world is also slipping away. That feels threatening to us and our loved ones. Life seems to be rumbling toward a nameless abyss. Who knows where we are headed?! Who can lead us to safety?!
People instinctively seek a cause, someone to blame for the loss of stability and our capacity to handle life. The devil, gender and racial issues, police brutality, government overreach, politics, corporations, science, religion, conservatives, liberals, the press, fake news, pandemics, vaccines, masks, climate change and its denial, financial inequities, abortion, and most everything else, have been labeled enemies, demons, or hoaxes by one sector of society or another. I suspect all who read this list can identify their own hot buttons.
Several mornings ago, after a night of depressing dreams about the state of our world, I awoke feeling overwhelmed and powerless. After several moments of wrestling with hopelessness, the thought came that there had to be a higher truth about the world situation. So I closed my eyes, took several deep breaths, and settled back to seek within for clarity. Momentarily, I began to feel my spirits being lifted. I heard and saw the words, “There is a tide…”, accompanied by a surge of bright energy filling me, dispelling the gloom and doom of moments before. A clear thought was given that the tide I was feeling is “unstoppable”. At the same time, it was clear that this tide is lifting everyone, including Mother Earth. Somewhere along the way, the entire first line of Shakespeare’s quote, “There is a tide in the affairs of men, …” showed up in my mind. I had not been consciously aware of the quote, or that Shakespeare was its author until I looked it up later.
After being told that the tide was unstoppable, I received a clear thought that those who are fighting the tide are like children hurling insults and stones at a tsunami. These tumultuous times are only the surface roar of life. The surface roar has no power against the tide of God-energy infusing Mother Earth and each of us. Since the tide is God-energy, who can stand against it? It is unstoppable and the shift toward love is already arriving. The longer and stronger we deny this tide, the more pain we create for ourselves. For those who cling to the collapsing worldview, this is indeed a time of fear and dread. For those who are eager for a new, more loving world, it is a time of hope and anticipation. Each worldview fears the other as the roadblock to the future they fervently believe in. These days, the abyss between worldviews seems too wide for trust to bridge. The gap divides many facets of society in today’s world; the whole list of hot buttons above, and probably more. These societal chasms will continue to divide us until a new worldview (the tide) replaces fear on both sides of the chasm with love. Until the paradigm shift to love is accepted by our collective psyche, the abyss will perpetuate a chaotic and dangerous world.
Given this understanding, what is ours to do? We are already demonstrating that confrontation holding our fears as shields only creates deadlock and suffering. It seems equally untenable to just hibernate in frustration while the future unfolds. Do we have a role to play beyond being patient? If so, what is it?
The path forward: A basic fact: Love is so much more powerful than fear, there is no way fear can ultimately prevail. So, even though many people are panicked by what’s happening, joining the love-tide seems like the only real option humanity has. In truth, I believe we are here on Earth at this time to be midwives for birthing Heaven on Earth. During these early stages, our effort must engage the inner work of preparation to receive this precious gift. When we are thus prepared, we can engage the outer work with clarity and conviction. Right now, it appears naïve to expect a smooth ride in the near term. As noted above, the level of pain experienced by life on Earth is in the hands of humanity. But as the paradigm shift toward love gains traction, a change could happen much faster than we think. In the end, fear and anger cannot continue to persist. Love is already present and will prevail.
How to Navigate Life
“… your soul remembers why it chose to come here as you,
and knows which direction aligns with your pathway.”
— Foster Laverne Harding
We, humans, are involved in a multitude of roles over our lifetime. They naturally become more responsible and complex as our capacities grow through the decades from newborn to old age. Our experiences teach us about life by presenting a myriad of choices. Every one of them comes with consequences. The whole array of choices we make, our motivation when making them, their consequences, and our response to those consequences (another choice) are primary tools for learning how to navigate earthly life. This whole series (Choice, Motivation, Consequence, Response) is an endlessly repeating centerpiece of life on Planet Earth. It is a primary tool in support of spiritual growth.
As young people approach adulthood, there are so many possibilities from which to choose that planning their future can sometimes feel overwhelming. Similar pressures can accompany any of the major forks in the road of life; marriage, divorce, illness, career changes, retirement, etc. Of course, the choices we make are often driven by our need to heal, feel secure, accepted, important, responsible, effective, successful, and so forth. Nothing wrong with that, except that once a particular need is satisfied, another one soon replaces it. This seemingly endless treadmill can often become frustrating when lasting satisfaction and inner peace feel beyond our reach.
Fortunately, there is a more effective way to navigate our way through life. When facing important choices, remember that your soul remembers why it chose to come here as you and knows which direction aligns with your pathway. You can ask for its advice. Souls communicate best through feelings, so let your intuition and gut instincts inform your choices. There is often plenty of advice offered by family and friends who love you and want to help. Of course, you are free to consider all of it. But please allow outer/inner balance into the process by also including and trusting your own feelings. Do what you love is often the best way to discern your soul’s sense of direction. Trusting your heart can help you navigate well.
Life Pathways
“When you make the two one,
When you make the inner as outer,
And the outer as inner —
Then shall you enter the kingdom.”
— Gospel of Thomas
By the mid-1990s, an emerging inner thirst began to arise, a longing for more meaning in life than the material and family success flowing after decades of hard work. In addition to career success, the first half of life was accompanied by a series of painful life errors interspersed with periods of striving to replace guilt with inner peace and joy. The stark contrast between career and personal life brought the need to find and live better answers to the ancient question, “Why am I here?”. Already in my 50s, there was a sense of urgency to explore beyond the boundaries of conventional Christianity. Lasting inner peace and personal contentment had eluded me in that setting for five decades.
Somewhere along the way, I picked up the notion that each life came with a purpose and pathway that each person was supposed to find and follow. My need for a pathway to inner peace
demanded more and more of my attention and time. My ever-expanding search revealed a spiritual smorgasbord, a world of books, ideas, and practices that expanded my thinking so fast that no particular pathway stood out. I searched high and low, both within and outside of the world’s organized religions. I hadn’t yet realized that following one’s life pathway is an internal process. So, I kept looking externally for something so obvious I couldn’t miss it, like a neon sign flashing my name. Despite the countless people all over the Earth who had found deep meaning in various religions and practices for millennia, none of them stood out to me. I completely flew right by the idea that one or more of them might have sufficed for me if I’d had the wisdom to slow down, choose one, and commit to it. I was too busy cruising along at warp speed, frenetically sampling books, classes, and practices. The vast array of possibilities always felt promising, like the next book, class, or pilgrimage would finally provide my answers. Thankfully, after a couple of years, I realized that my unique personal pathway was not likely to be revealed via some external source. It would be found deep within my own being. That realization opened the door.
Retirement in 2000 provided time to focus on growing into my spiritual potential. From the beginning of that decade, my search shifted from exploring other people’s experiences to direct participation in new experiences. I learned that my life pathway never was an invisible God-given plan that I was born with. Instead, birth is the gateway to a lifetime of experiences intended to facilitate growth in one’s maturity, interests, and talents. Spiritual growth is anchored in daily life, not separate from it. It is a process of becoming aware of one’s innate wholeness, through experiencing earthly life. We don’t discover our life pathway; so much as grow into it. Your soul knows why it is incarnated in this life as you, so our life pathway was always intended to be inspired and guided from within. The opportunity for spiritual growth is why billions of souls choose to incarnate as human life on Planet Earth! It took most of my life to figure that out.
By 2005, ten years of searching had flown by. Inner peace and joy were present on more and more occasions. So, that decade was delightful in many ways, but my spiritual search still felt incomplete. I was now in my 60s, and sometimes wondered if my soul’s life as Foster would end before my purpose and path were clear!
Happily, I’m still here as I approach 80, and that potential disappointment didn’t happen. Hanging out with that persistent why am I here question finally led to finding my life purpose. I came here to be love! The purpose of "Cosmic Chronicles" is to share the flow of inspiration and wisdom opened by that realization. Lots more love and wisdom on the horizon!