We're still at it to this day – out there in the ozone somewhere she and I are still carrying on this pine barrens life as if nothing had happened. 

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By running past life regressions we have a safe and powerful technique for bringing useful information up from the subconscious, to help us get to our true purpose in incarnating, and to understand and accept who we really are.  This is what W.B. Yeats termed being "in-phase" as opposed to being "out-of-phase" – i.e. being in tune with one's true purpose in incarnating in this lifetime, as opposed to surrendering one's free choice in life in order to conform to societal fiat (socially-approved images and expectations).A true life purpose is to feel certain feelings.  That's all.  Not to accomplish anything in particular in the world:  not to be successful, or a failure, or mediocre and just get by; not to become enlightened, or to be saved and go to heaven; but just to feel.   To feel triumphant, or defeated; or impoverished, or affluent; or cruel, or victimized; or helpless, or powerful; or fearful, or brave; or lustful, or repressed; etc. etc.  Each life has a feeling of its own, which is like the sum total of all the feelings felt during that life.  In different probable realities and lifetimes different facets of life purpose are felt.  In lives in which we take the easy way out and follow socially-approved images and expectations without asking too many questions or reflecting upon meanings, we tend to get hung up on a low level of life purpose (which W.B. Yeats termed "Will"); whereas in lives and probable realities where we make great personal sacrifices for other people's sake with no thought of reward, we get a little bit higher (the three higher Faculties).  And in the lives in which we open our hearts completely, we get a whole lot higher. 

Life purpose can and does change in a twinkling during any given lifetime or probable reality.  For example consider Viktor Frankl's life purpose at Auschwitz, described in his book Man's Search for Meaning, which he understood very well meant to stop dwelling upon his own suffering and serve his patients as best he could.  That was Frankl's life purpose only from the point when he was sent to Auschwitz.  Prior to that his life purpose might have entailed escaping from Europe and avoiding all the pain and suffering he subsequently went through.   He surely had probable realities of successful escape from the particular destiny which later unfolded; and in those realities his life purpose would have been very different in terms of the amount of suffering he had to undergo to learn his lesson (to serve his true purpose in that lifetime).

Just as true life's purpose can change in a twinkling, so too can it be blown in a twinkling.  I apparently blew my life purpose for this lifetime by making a decision which seemed rather innocent – even virtuous and noble – when I made it; but which led in the fullness of time to my eventual divorce.  My spirit guides' comments on this are: "Your purpose in this lifetime was to unite with (your wife).  THAT'S what you incarnated for.  And the pressure that drove you two apart was the pressure of all your previous lives of conflict and making war on each other bearing upon this lifetime.  And now that pressure has increased because of you guys' failure in this lifetime.  This doesn't mean that your life is a total failure – you always start from right where you are.  But in terms of what you set out to do in this lifetime, yes, you have failed and there's nothing you can do to undo the damage now."  Every time I reread these words it bums me out a bit, to say the least.  But regret is cheap.  All that really matters is taking note of the error and soldiering on.              

The extent to which people don't let themselves feel feelings is the extent to which they are obstructing their life purpose (what Yeats termed being "out-of-phase" rather than "in-phase").  Yet this can also be called their life purpose:  they also serve who only stand and wait.   The Willy Loman's and Warren Schmidt's of the world – those who feel timid and defeated – also have a life purpose; and that purpose is no less noble or ennobling than the life purpose of a Jesus or Buddha.   Sometimes it is people's life purpose to suffer unspeakable pain, or boredom and "meaninglessness".   When we run past life regressions we see that most of our own lives have been like that.  It's all the same – there's no such thing as a wasted life or a wasted lesson, although certainly there are wasted opportunities.  In my role as a Mayan priest I've been privileged to witness many other people's life lessons, which consist mainly of blown opportunities; and needless to say I've blown many, many opportunities myself.

  It is sometimes asked, what is the true purpose of a life of unremitting pain and suffering?  What is the purpose of a life of being caught up innocently in war, massacres, genocide, disease, grinding poverty, starvation?  What is the purpose of suffering catastrophic fear and pain which one has done nothing to merit?   The answer is that sometimes it is just a person's purpose to suffer.  As Viktor Frankl put it: "Dostoevski said once, 'There is only one thing that I dread:  not to be worthy of my sufferings.'  These words frequently came to my mind after I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.  It can be said that they were worthy of their sufferings; the way they bore their suffering was a genuine inner achievement.  It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful. "... It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.  We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly.  Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.   "... When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task.  He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe.  No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place.  His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden."           

(Copyright © 2007 by Bob Makransky. Excerpted from Bob’s free monthly ezine Magical Almanac, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MagicalAlmanac.  Subscribe by sending an e-mail to MagicalAlmanac-subscribe@yahoogroups.com) 

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