Why You Are Here

Part of the agreement you made with yourself before you arrived was to experience things as they happen. To be in a body, in a life, with everything that comes with it, the good weeks and the ones you would rather forget.

That is the short answer. It does not help much on a bad Tuesday, so here is the longer one.

Home, and the choice to leave it

Our home is the spirit world. We choose to come to this physical plane to learn, and for adventure, and for many other reasons.

Nobody sent you. You looked at what this life could teach you and you said yes to it, the way an actor reads a script and says yes to a part because of what playing that character will give them. The Spirit and the Higher Self page sets out that picture of the actor and the audience. Here I want to look at what was agreed before the curtain went up.

What you chose

When you chose to incarnate, you had already chosen many of the key points of your life.

You chose your birth parents. Your spirit being attached itself to the baby, and so began your adventure.

You also chose the people you would travel with. We come through each incarnation with the same twenty to twenty five spirit beings, and we take on different roles in each other's lives. The Soul Groups page goes into that.

And you agreed to certain terms for this lifetime of learning. We all came here to learn and to remember, and to remember how to learn.

What you left open

You chose the key points. You did not write every line.

You can go off script, and you know you can. You still try to stick to your reason for being here.

Between those key points, the choices are yours.

You agreed to forget

Here is the odd part of the agreement.

At the moment of human connection your consciousness becomes human, with all of the limitations that come with it. The actor on the stage chooses to forget their life off the stage and focus only on the character. You arrived knowing a great deal, and you agreed to forget most of it.

You still have your human memory, which is this life so far. You also have soul memory, the memory you carry between lives, made of every human experience you have had and everything you learned or unlearned along the way. Underneath that is creation memory, the memory of the oneness of everything. That last one is a bit of a head spin, so leave it for now.

Try this. Say out loud, "I am not of this world."

For many people that brings a strong feeling of familiarity, and often a tingle with it. That is soul memory being jogged. The Remember Who YOU Are post goes further into it, and the Reincarnation page explains why nobody alive today is on their first lifetime.

You came to learn lessons

We come into this lifetime with an agreement to learn lessons and grow. Some lessons are hard and some are easy.

The lessons come round in a circle, and you only break the circle when you get the lesson. Each time it comes round, the volume goes up. It starts as a whisper, then a small voice, then a big voice, until it is so loud you could hear it from the moon. All of us have had the loud ones. All of us have also learnt a few after the whisper.

That is all part of the human condition, and it is not about blame. The Life Lessons page walks through how the circle works and how to get off it sooner.

If you are still alive, you are still learning.

You came here to be flawed

There is an urban myth that to be spiritual you need to be fixed, or healed, or complete. Love and light all day, in perfect harmony.

That is a lovely idea. It is also not the plane we incarnated into. The world around us is, well, a bit of a mess, and we as humans are full of human issues.

Most modalities seem to imply that having a trigger is a bad thing. You cannot help how you react to a situation, given your life experiences and the way you see life. Your natural reaction is just that, you being true to yourself.

We came here to be flawed. We will leave flawed. It is part of the agreement of being here.

So if you are waiting until you are sorted before you allow yourself to grow, you can stop waiting. You are allowed to be triggered. You are allowed to have bad days. The key is to focus forward, to find the path that soothes your soul, to be at one with yourself and to be happy. Sometimes that means some healing, and sometimes it does not.

It is an imperfect world and we are imperfect beings, and at the same time it is a perfect world and we are perfect beings. Be kind to you.

Why now

You have been drawn to this at this time because mankind is going through many transitions. Our planet is changing. We are all evolving. To put it simply, it is time for mankind to grow up, spiritually and in a literal sense as well.

That shift has been building for centuries and is close to the tipping point known as the hundredth monkey. The Long Cycles and the Hundredth Monkey page explains it. The Why spirituality, why now, why you post is where I first laid it out.

And why you? Because even if you cannot see it yet, you have gifts and abilities that will become essential in the years to come. For yourself, for the people around you, and for people who have not come into your life yet. The Your Gifts page is the next step from here.

The point of it all

We are here to remember that we are all part of the same oneness. The closer you get to that, the closer you are to the purpose of your soul.

You are eternal, and yet you are mortal. You are an individual with human feelings, and yet you are connected to everyone on this planet, and beyond it, and across other lifetimes.

The key to all of it is love. Unconditional love, and it starts with unconditional love for yourself. Once you can do that, you can share it with everyone.

When the play is over, the actor you and the audience you sit down together and talk about what it meant. You talk about what you learnt and what you gained from it, and your soul grows from both sides of the telling.

On the days it does not feel like it

Some days none of this will feel true. Some days you will wonder what on earth you were thinking when you signed up.

On those days, go back to the first line. You chose to be here, to experience things as they happen. Even the hard ones.

You do not have to work out your whole reason for being here today. You only have to take the next step towards it, and you already know more about what that step is than you think.

If you would like this read against your own chart, my readings are here.