OUR LIFE PURPOSE

At some point during our lifetime our soul prompts us to ask “What is my purpose on Earth?”



We start looking for answers as our curiosity grows. We all come to earth to fulfill a great number of tasks.  We have a responsibility towards the material world and we have to fulfill it.  We are to meet the challenges that confront us in our daily lives, and overcome them.  However, don’t forget that we have a soul that needs nurturing.  In order for us to be able to keep up with our daily worldly activities we must learn to receive guidance from our souls.  


There are three elements in a human:   Body, Mind and Soul      
All three must be nurtured and encouraged.


Material and Spiritual Love
We come to earth to experience the different facets of love.  The entire Universe revolves around various forms of love.  The more affection we bring into our existence, the more we will receive it in our lives.  Love starts in the physical realm, then blossoms into the spiritual realm.  Before we can experience spiritual bliss we must experience love on a smaller human scale.


Forgiveness
If you are looking for a way to encourage your spiritual growth, within your soul you have an instrument to do so.  It is called ‘forgiveness’.  


Sooner or later we have to learn to forgive.  A means to encourage your spiritual growth dramatically is to forgive. The wheel of Karma turns forever. 


The Law of Karma states that every action has a consequence.  One way to escape from the tedious cycle of cause and effect is to use the power of forgiveness.  First we must accept and forgive all the harm that has been done to us in the past.  Do not continue the cycle by responding angrily to the individual/s who mistreated you.


The Law of Karma  
Karma means ‘action’.


The Law of Karma is a Universal system that is based on the concept of cause and effect.  The law of physics states that every action produces an equal reaction.  The Law of Karma works on the same principle.  Positive karma encourages progress of the soul, and negative karma hinders the progress of the soul.  Karma can also mean the choices and/or decisions that one makes through free will.


Throughout our lifetime (as well as our previous lifetimes) we are engaged in a series of choices.  There are really only two options:  either we make a positive choice or we make a negative choice.  We are tested in a wide variety of contexts.  We make choices involving our family situations, our physical bodies, our career and so on.  


After a choice has been made the results of that choice are apparent at various intervals.  Many of the results will be witnessed in this lifetime;  other outcomes will not be witnessed in this life.  The laws of nature decide when and how we will witness the results of our actions. Some choices we make affect us individually, but we also make choices that affect others.  We are constantly making individual choices that affect our body, mind and soul.   


Every choice that we make that involves another individual directly affects our own soul.  When we make a decision that relates to another person, we may not immediately see its results.  However, as soon as that action takes place, it is recorded.


Many of the decisions we make are complex.  There are rarely simple cases of ‘wrong’ and ‘right’ or black and white.  If all decisions were simple we would all be enlightened and the Law of Karma would cease to exist.  The critical factor is our intentions.  


No matter what decision/s we make, if our intentions are good we are heading in the right direction.

All souls in this world must rectify and learn from the choices we have made.  Certain souls are given the opportunity to make choices that affect a large number of people (for example, a political leader).  As a result, that person’s karma is connected to all affected by his or her decision.  If a decision is made with good intentions, even if they present obstacles, our soul will immediately grow as a result of considering and helping others.


The principles of Karma do not only apply to one lifetime.  It is an eternal system of debits and credits;  an invisible bank account with multiple transactions.  All the circumstances that we encounter in this lifetime as a result of choices from past lives are pre-destined.  All the choices you make in this lifetime from the time you are born, are products of your free will.


It is important for us to realize that free will and predestination play a role in the growth of our soul, and we must be open to both aspects.


The purpose of our lives is to balance our karma and learn from our life lessons.

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Joanne Walmsley
Sacred Scribes

REINCARNATION

Our purpose in coming here to Earth is to learn and to gain experience and knowledge.

Before we incarnate we decide the lesson (or lessons) that we are going to learn so that we can evolve spiritually.  Once we choose the lesson/s, we choose all the circumstances and situations that will enable us to learn those particular lessons.  Once our spirit makes the decision to inhabit a human body, we create a ‘blueprint’ or ‘chart’ for this life based on what we are most interested in experiencing and learning to overcome in our eternal pursuit of knowledge.  The blueprint includes everything from the kind of parents, families and childhoods we will have, to our career paths, health and financial circumstances, sexual preferences, marriages, children and the length of our lifetime.

There is a higher purpose to the decisions we make when writing our blueprints, and when acting on them, that we may not understand now, but we understood fully once, and we will understand again when we are back ‘Home’ on the ‘Other Side’.

In our blueprint we also select an “option line” -  an area in which we feel we have the most to learn and will therefore be especially challenged by during our lifetime.  There are seven ‘option lines’ to choose from.  Family.  Social Life.  Love.  Health.  Spirituality.  Finance.  Career.

The blueprint contains all the elements of this new life – although we can modify our charts throughout our lives.  There is plenty of room for lateral movement in our blueprints, so do not picture your charted life as a narrow path with very few choices along the way.

Illness and death are included also in life’s blueprints.  Not only can we choose whether or not to modify the illness and death we charted as we go along, but we also have our choice of five ‘exit points’, or times to leave the earth plane.

Once we incarnate into human form we lose conscious awareness of our blueprints during our time on Earth.

In addition to mapping out our blueprints before coming here, we make sacred contracts with entities on ‘The Other Side’ to watch over us, protect us, help and advise us through this earthly journey we have chosen to undertake.  The most intimate of these advisors helps us to conceive and review our blueprint with us and is at our side every step of the way  -  this is our ‘Spirit Guide’.

All Spirit Guides have spent at least one lifetime on Earth.  Because of this they are able to empathize with the mistakes, problems, fears and temptations, all the frailties we encounter in the human world.  Because your relationship with your Spirit Guide was formed between your spirit and theirs on the Other Side before you were born, it is impossible for them to be someone you’ve known in this lifetime.

The Spirit Guide’s job is to urge, encourage, nudge, support, advise and ‘guide’ us on our lives’ path. Spirit Guides send you ‘messages’, often through your subconscious mind.  What you have always accepted as instincts or your conscience or unusually vivid dreams are your Spirit Guides sending you messages.

In our charts we write into our chart a few signposts to let us know we are on the right track, according to our blueprints.  From time to time those little signposts appear to us in the form of déjà vu.  Because they hit us with such a sudden flood of total familiarity, we logically assume we must somehow be duplicating a moment we’ve lived before in this life  -  but we are not.  What we are experiencing is a tiny signpost from the blueprint we created on the ‘Other Side’ before we were born.  In this type of déjà vu, our spirit is resonating so profoundly with the realization, “I remember the chart I wrote!”, that it echoes from our subconscious, where the spirit mind exists, to our conscious mind.  For that instant both our subconscious and conscious minds are receiving an affirmation that we are in perfect sync with our blueprints.  Aside from that, we are getting a quick glimpse at the eternity of our lives on the ‘Other Side’ as our spirit remembers, acknowledges and yearns for ‘Home’.

Those same miraculous, blissful and magical glimpses at the signposts in our charts appear in another very common form as well, with the added bonus that we don’t just remember them, we see them coming.  Because we don’t understand their significance we rarely give them any thought – we consider them to be ‘just a coincidence’.  You have the thought, and sooner rather than later it becomes real before your eyes.  To put it accurately, what you are foreseeing is a little signpost in your blueprint shortly before that signpost appears. 

A close relative of ‘coincidence’ is synchronicity.  Basically, synchronicity is an ‘especially meaningful coincidence’  -  it always involves some unmistakable physical sign of some kind – not only to call your attention to the magical harmony of the Universe, but also to give you tangible proof that you are exactly where you charted yourself to be, doing exactly what you are meant to be doing and exactly with whom.

Whilst travelling along your Earthly path, keep in mind that you are on a mission and remain aware and in-tune with your intuition and higher wisdom. Remember, our purpose in coming here to Earth is to learn and to gain experience and knowledge.
        
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Joanne Walmsley

Sacred Scribes

KARMA - What Is It And How Does It Work?

The theory to karma is that every soul is on a journey.  Whilst on our journey we are accountable for our thoughts, words and actions, for they ALL have consequences.  There are consequences for everything we do, and don’t do.  


Consequences are karma.  Karma runs from lifetime to lifetime – so if you die with unresolved issues with people, or you’ve done more negative things than positive, your soul wants to come back and try to make amends.

         

Karma works in lots of different ways.  If you’ve been unkind to someone, you will choose to meet them again in a later lifetime, to have the opportunity to be kind.

         

 Different religions have slightly different beliefs – but basically all believe that there is a spiritual working out for everything over life times. Early Christians believed in reincarnation, and therefore, in karma.  There is a body of evidence that Emperor Justinian wrote reincarnation out of the Bible at Constantinople in Ad553.  Later it was declared heresy.  The Church wanted their priests to have the power to tell people what to believe.  When they deleted reincarnation from the Bible they stopped people from understanding that there is a spiritual working out to everything, so they took away people’s incentive to aim for noble, honourable and good.  The half-truths they preached did not resonate with people and this in turn caused unrest.  That is what prompted them to start to preach hell-fire and damnation, to keep their ‘flocks’ doing as they were told.

If you believe in reincarnation, you are in charge of your own destiny.  You want to connect with your own soul to understand the purpose of your journey in life.  You must then listen to your own voice of conscience (or Higher Self) to decide what is right for you.

        

‘Bad luck’ is negative karma, and ‘good luck’ is the return of karmic credit.

We often have karma to resolve with members of our family and this is one reason why our soul chooses them to play a role in this incarnation.  They represent the lessons we are trying to learn.  Our parents offer us the perfect opportunity we need to direct us towards what we came to the earth plane to accomplish.  That is why one of our life lessons (or tasks) is to embrace the positive qualities of both of our parents and overcome their negative ones.

         

 It is the soul that chooses – not the personality.

Your spirit enters a physical body to learn lessons about emotions, relationships, sexuality, money and many other things.  Your lessons are orchestrated by the Universe and presented to you in the form of people and situations which come into your life.  Testing times are like exams … you have to get through them to progress.

All is energy.  A human is a dense vibration, a tree even denser.  A thought is a slight vibration unless it carries a big emotional connection.  All is floating in a sea of energy; all interacting.  In this cosmic soup of interconnecting energy, everything is evolving in its own way.

         

Every vibration that a human sends out causes a reaction in the cosmic soup and affects everything else.  Ultimately, every vibration a human chooses to transmit comes back to him or her.  Thus, a human can measure their progress by what is happening in their life.

         

If a human is very negative, he will sink into the thick dregs of the cosmic soup.  When he does evil actions, bad vibrations emit into the soup, and it may take many, many returns to come back to him through the heavy frequency of his (or her) personal world.

         

When a human being is very materially minded or negative, the vibrations which emanate from him come back to him in equal measure. When he becomes more spiritual and sends out a higher frequency, they return to him three-fold.  When he becomes totally spiritual, they return ten-fold.

         

Humans have free choice and free will, so we have special opportunities to evolve or de-volve as the case may be.  Free will offers responsibility about the use of thoughts and emotions.  Because humans have free will on earth, people can move towards light or dark, and take others with them. Humans differ in this from the rest of creation, and this gives them great opportunity for evolution.

We are all spiritual beings experiencing human life-times and all that goes along with them.  It is up to us as spiritual beings to work with and correct our own karma in order to evolve.

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In Sanskrit, the word 'karma' means 'deeds' or 'actions'. It comes from the root 'kri' which means 'to do'.

Present Karma  (Agami)

Agami takes place in the present and consists of everything you do today that creates cause and effect tomorrow (in the future). Everyday you are creating karma with every thought, intention and deed. With every thought, word and action you are making a choice as to whether you create positive or negative karma in your life. Be aware of how important your thoughts and behaviour are to the quality of your own life.

Past Karma  (Prarabdha)

Accumulated Karma  (Sanchita)

Reincarnation

'Reincarnation' comes from the Latin work 'caro', which means 'to be in the flesh', and 're', which means 'again'. Reincarnation is 'to be in the flesh again'.

Also see:  
Incarnation and Reincarnation  -  Charts and Blueprints

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Joanne Walmsley
Sacred Scribes