Excerpt from Your Soul’s Love

PREFACE

YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS forty, my life was profoundly unfulfilling. I found the corporate work I was doing to be bland and devoid of any deeper meaning. Although I longed for a romantic relationship, I was unable to manifest one. I was drifting through life seemingly rudderless, going through the motions, each new day as empty and uninspiring as the previous. I wondered why I was here on Earth. I had no idea of either the answer to that
question or how to find it. At times I wished I could go Home.

In my search for meaning, I had my first session ever with a psychic medium. She channeled my spirit guides, who told me I had planned my greatest challenges for the purpose of spiritual growth before I was born. Shortly thereafter I met a woman who is able to channel her own soul. In some fifteen hours of channeling, her soul told me in detail how the pre-birth planning process works. The resonance I felt with the concept of pre-birth
planning was clear, strong, and undeniable.

At about the same time, I had what is known as a spiritually transformative experience. One day, as I was doing nothing more than walking down the street, I felt pure, overwhelming, unconditional love for every person I saw. This love was fundamentally different from the love one might feel for a parent, child, or romantic partner; it was a divine, transcendent, all-encompassing, totally immersive, limitless love. I understood intuitively that this experience was a gift from my soul saying to me, “This love is who you really are.”

I decided to leave the corporate world and write books about why we plan our biggest challenges before coming into body. In the years that followed, I wrote Your Soul’s Plan, Your Soul’s Gift, and the book you are now reading. The life that has emerged from the writing of these books is so deeply fulfilling and uniquely “me” that it would have been beyond my wildest imagination or ability to comprehend when I was forty. Equally important, the research I did for the books taught me that human suffering is not random, arbitrary, or purposeless; rather, it is rich with meaning. That understanding created a deep healing for me. My hope and intention are that it creates a similar healing for you.

It is important to understand there is not just one truncated, linear, concretized life plan—a Plan A so to speak—for each person’s life. There is a Plan A, but there is also a Plan B, C, D, E, and on and on . . . so many plans that full comprehension is beyond the capacity of the human brain. These additional plans are the soul’s accounting for the many and various free will choices that can be made by the incarnate human. Each of us has free will, and it is our free will that makes the Earth school a truly meaningful experience. Without free will we would be nothing more than automatons, in which case no true learning would occur or even be possible.

Plan A is the highest vibrational plan; that is, a life in which the personality (a portion of the soul’s energy in a physical body) makes the most loving decisions possible in each moment. In this case there is no vibrational difference between the personality and the soul. In essence, the soul is fully inhabiting the body and living that lifetime without the dilution or alteration created by the ego or smaller self. Saints and masters may execute this
plan, but the rest of us will invariably make at least some and usually many unloving decisions. Although unloving decisions can cause pain for self and others, they also result—if we live life consciously—in healing, expansion, and a greatly enhanced capacity to love. It is for this reason that making mistakes is not a “bad” thing. In fact, we came here to do just that. Our mistakes are our growth, and our growth is our service to the world and our fellow humans.

Presence and acceptance/gratitude is the divine combination that allows us to enact our higher vibrational pre-birth
plans. When you are fully present to and grateful for or at least accepting of whatever arises in your experience, you tap into the Universe’s field of infinite potentiality. That is, your presence and acceptance/gratitude give the Universe an energetic Yes!: a yes to healing; a yes to deeper understanding; a yes to guidance, abundance, health, spiritual clarity, and creative solutions for the highest good of all.

Giving that energetic Yes! to life requires faith and trust in the goodness of life and the Universe. We can cultivate faith and trust in several ways; one of the most important and helpful is through a felt knowing that the challenges we planned before birth are rich with meaning and purpose. Ultimately, this book is intended to be a pathway to that felt knowing.

Those of you who receive my email newsletter (which I invite you to sign up for at https://www.yoursoulsplan.com) know I have been publishing channelings done by my wife, Liesel. She channels a collective of wise, loving, deeply caring, nonphysical beings who are in a state of unity consciousness and whom we affectionately call the Beings of Light. They said the following to me about pre-birth plans:

“We are enamored of bringing together the practice of present moment awareness with your work. When viewed from a mental level, these things can seem contradictory; however, they are not necessarily so. The way in which presence (which is being present in the now moment and in a state of acceptance of, or gratitude for, what ‘is’ in the now moment) plays out in pre-birth planning is that it allows the highest version of the pre-birth plans to become the working version.

We have described previously that to put our language into the English language is like trying to take an infinite number of words and distill it into some hundred words. Similarly, prebirth planning contains within it an essentially infinite number of permutations of actual plans. This can seem contradictory to the human mind—as though this is not planning at all if there are an infinite number of possibilities—but We assure you that this is still a kind of planning.

The plans themselves all fall under what We refer to as a probabilistic, multidimensional curve form. For purposes of
visualization, a simplified version of what We mean by a multidimensional curve form is that which is shown to you within mathematics and statistics as a bell curve.

There are pre-birth plans that are very likely courses of events, and there are pre-birth plans that are on the far fringes of the bell curve. For many individuals, presence and truly deep connection with their souls may be on the far fringes of the bell curve of possibility; however, this would indeed be the highest alignment pre-birth plan that could be chosen in any given moment.

So, within the bell curve of possibilities there are pre-birth plan choices that could be made that make the Universe ‘sing’ more than other choices. All choices ultimately lead to learning and enlightenment, but some paths are far less circuitous than others.

The paths that are chosen that are in greatest alignment with the deepest Self, with Presence and Spirit and Consciousness, are those paths that are most direct and therefore least circuitous.”

In other words, the vast majority of what is planned is set up as a possibility or probability, not a certainty. Life plans are fluid, fractal, and organic. Whether or not a particular plan actualizes depends upon the free-will decisions of the individual, the vibration of the individual in the current now moment, and the external events/free will decisions made by seemingly separate “others.” To the extent one is fully present, the highest vibrational plan naturally emerges and can be actualized on the Earth plane. This version of the life plan is the least arduous and painful path to both self-realization and profound service as well as deep joy and fulfillment.

This book is the third in a series that examines the pre-birth planning of major life challenges. In the pages ahead we will look at the soul-level planning of challenges that occur in, and also in the absence of, romantic relationships. As with my previous two books, healing insight and enlightening information are gleaned from talking with wise, compassionate, nonphysical beings through mediums and channels. Barbara Brodksy channels Aaron (an ascended master) as well as The Divine Mother, a blending of the highest feminine consciousnesses (Mother Mary, Quan Yin, and others) in our universe. Corbie Mitleid channels a person’s soul or higher self. Staci Wells channels her spirit guide. Pamela Kribbe channels Jesus, who uses his given Hebrew name, Jeshua.

Much additional wisdom is derived from past life regression and from Between Lives Soul Regression or BLSR, the form of hypnosis in which I specialize. In this form one can speak directly with very highly evolved nonphysical beings (often referred to as the Council of Elders) who know what was planned for the current lifetime and why, how one is doing in terms of fulfilling one’s plans, and how one may better fulfill one’s plans. A BLSR contains an abbreviated past life regression. May you see yourself and your life reflected in the pages ahead. May the wisdom and healing found by these courageous souls become your wisdom and healing.

Chapter 1 Excerpt Tricia’s Between Lives Soul Regression

Tricia’s Past Life Soul Regression had given us some insight into the plan for her current lifetime. To gain greater insight, Tricia and I did a Between Lives Soul Regression (BLSR). A BLSR contains an abbreviated past life regression, but that portion of Tricia’s BLSR is not relevant to the topic of infidelity and so has been omitted here.

After I guided Tricia through the initial parts of the regression, she described what she experienced as her consciousness returned to her nonphysical Home.

“I see an opening ahead of me,” she began. “It’s light blue. I move through it and am in an open space. There are three beings at a table. They’re dressed in something that looks like translucent gowns. There’s a light coming from their bodies. They have hoods over their heads.

“One of them is getting up. It’s a man. He is walking toward me. He’s very beautiful: sleek, soft skin, large blue eyes. He’s human but doesn’t look quite human. He walks over to me. He’s holding my hand, looking at me.”

“How does it feel to be in his presence?”
“Pure, pure love.” She sounded blissful.
“Ask him if he has a name we should use.”
“Milton.”
“Tricia, I’d like you to ask Milton if he has any particular message for you.”
“All I feel is love. I don’t hear words. I just get feelings.”
“I’d like you to ask Milton if we may question him and the other beings there.”

“He says yes. He’s walking me to the table with the others. The others are rising. There are white chairs around the table. The table is also white. I can see the other two beings now. They look very much like him, only one is female. The other is male. They’re telling me their names. The female is Entera, and the other is Jonah. Jonah is walking away. I don’t know why. Milton is offering me a chair. Entera is on the other side. We’re sitting now.”

I prompted Tricia to ask if Milton and Entera are her Council of Elders.

“Milton says they’re only part of the Council. There are nine others. They are present, but I don’t see them. Now Milton is putting his hands on the table. Entera puts her hands on his, and my hands are on top of theirs. Milton explains that this bonds us for conversation and makes conversation clearer so can understand.”

“Tricia, ask Milton, Entera, and the rest of your Council why you came to Earth in your current lifetime. What did you hope to accomplish?”

“Milton says that I very much wanted to address abandonment, and that it was agreed—Oh! Bob is here! Bob is here! Bob is here!” she announced excitedly. “Bob is walking up to me with Jonah.” She began to cry softly. “Bob is dressed just like they are. He puts his hands on mine, and I smile. He sits at a chair on the opposite side. He’s so full of love. There are other beings walking with Jonah to the table. I feel overcome.”

I then prompted Tricia to question Bob and the Council. She relayed to me the responses she heard.

Bob: We planned this life together. I told you it would be very hard for you, but I wanted to do that
[play that role] for you.

Tricia: Why are you here with these others?

Bob: I am with them because you’re here. They help me to explain. They help you understand.

Tricia: What was my pre-birth plan with you?

Bob: I had things I wanted to address in this lifetime, a weakness I wanted to overcome. You wanted to help me with that. My weakness is being a pleaser. I wanted to know how to be who I really am and not be fearful. Being a pleaser is based on fear. We agreed that my choice [the affair] would help your abandonment issue, which is also an issue of fear.

Tricia: How was I helping you to overcome the fear that made you a pleaser?

Bob: Previously I chose lives of being dominated by others, mostly women. Also, I had a lifetime as a woman who was dominated by her world. My soul had a scar from that. In our plan you would not dominate me. You would be loving and allowing. This would allow me to see who I truly am.

Tricia: Do you feel that was accomplished?

Bob: Yes. Yes, I do. I’m very grateful to you.

Tricia: Did you, Claire, and I plan the affair to give me an opportunity to learn about and rise above abandonment?

Bob: Yes. Claire is deeply loving and is a part of the agreement out of that love. In the planning, you insisted you would be able to forgive. You, the Council, and I hoped there would be an immediate bonding and healing that would occur much earlier than it did. I hoped I would be immediately forthcoming [about the affair] and that we would heal at that moment. It didn’t happen. I was too weak, and so it went on and on.

Entera: There was a soul intervention. It was time for Bob to come home. The illness was used to bring Bob to an awareness he could not otherwise attain.

Bob: That’s why I passed from my life. The illness allowed me finally to overcome the weakness and fear.

Tricia: How does the Council feel I’ve done in terms of learning about and forgiving abandonment and betrayal? Is there more for me to do?

“Milton is reassuring me,” Tricia told me. “I’m feeling a wave of love from all of them.”

Milton: There’s such love for you. There’s no judgment. Everything you have done and will do is divinel orchestrated, accepted, and never wrong.

Tricia: How can I release any guilt I still feel about the way I reacted, any anger I still feel toward myself [for reacting that way], and any jealousy I still feel toward Claire?

Entera: The personality is necessary as a catalyst for [soul] growth. Realizing this will help you to release guilt and jealousy, which are both fearbased.

“Now she’s showing me the rest of the Council to impress upon me the gift of being here.”

Entera: You are more than the personality in a life, but the personality is to be respected, admired, and encouraged because that’s why you come into a life: to be a human and have emotions, to feel feelings. This allows you to grow and is a gift to your soul. That’s the purpose of your lives. It should be celebrated, not feared or condemned.

“I feel such love and acceptance from them all. They’re telling me that I’m doing a wonderful job and that I can’t do any wrong. No choices would be wrong, and I didn’t harm Bob; I helped him. That’s so meaningful to me.”

Tricia: How do you feel about everything that happened? How do you feel about me now?

“He just squeezed my hand. It’s like he’s joking with me, saying without speaking something like, ‘If you don’t know by now how much I love you . . .’”

Bob: You must look at the plan as mission accomplished. “He’s laughing. They’re all smiling. It’s beautiful, so beautiful.”

Tricia: Will we incarnate together again? Will you wait for me so we can do that?

Bob: Yes on both counts.

Tricia: What else would you like me to understand?

Milton: The courage you and Bob had to plan and create this life together, a life with such pain and such
joy. Pain is personal, productive, and subjective in a lifetime.

Tricia: What is Claire’s relationship to me? Is she in my soul group? Have I had other lives with her?

A soul group is a collection of souls who are at approximately the same vibration and evolutionary stage. The members of a soul group take turns playing every conceivable role for one another
across many lifetimes.

Milton: Yes, she is in your soul group. She was in a lifetime with Bob as his twin sister. You were not
in that lifetime, but you have had lifetimes with her. She was your father in a lifetime.

Tricia: Why didn’t I have a full lifetime with Bob? Why did we meet as we did? Why have I felt so much
more love for him than anyone else in my life almost like a worship?

Entera: The meeting was set so that Bob could have much of this life facing his weakness and have other significant moments before you met. The meeting was planned to be when it was. It would not have worked the same if you met earlier.

The love comes from a soul connection of many lives together. You will have lives together that occur simultaneously. The love will always be there. Nothing will ever harm it.

I understood Entera’s reference to simultaneous lives to mean that Tricia and Bob will have parallel selves together in parallel dimensions. The reference to simultaneity also served for me as a confirmation that Tricia was truly talking with her Council because simultaneity and non-linearity describe the true nature of the cosmos. Linear time, by contrast, is an illusion of the third dimension, an illusion created by the limitations of the five senses and the human brain.

Tricia: I miss you, Bob.

Bob: I’m with you. I’m always with you. You can hear me. I haven’t left you. I will always be with you.
I will remind you [that I’m there].

Tricia: Bob, thank you. You gave me a life I couldn’t even have imagined. Thank you for all your love, your devotion, and your sweet nature. Thank you so very, very much for everything.

I want you to know that I have never stopped loving you. There has never been a moment I haven’t loved you. Even when I was saying things I knew were hurting you, I loved you, and I tried to stop.

Bob: I know.

“He’s so filled with love!” Tricia exclaimed again. “There are so many smiles now, so much reassurance. I think there’s nothing I can say that he doesn’t already know. I’m so anxious to hold him again.”

Bob: I remember it all. I remember how we would hold each other and say we were in heaven. I live in your heart.

“I feel so much love and acceptance. Now Bob is getting up.”

Bob: I will be leaving, but I’ve never really left.

“He’s squeezing my hand and walking away.”

Milton: Your pre-birth plan has been fulfilled.

Entera: But, your life has more to give, and you have more to give. Within your plan there was a hope that you would surpass doubt and get to a place of belief in yourself. That’s [the purpose of] the continuation of your existence as Tricia. Now, just believe it.

Tricia: What is the “more” I’m to give?

Entera: To express what you’ve learned through compassion and listening, to express your knowing without fear.

Tricia: How do I move from doubt to belief in myself?

Milton: When you write, you edit yourself.

“He’s showing me a visual of when I write. I change it and change it.”

Milton: Stop editing yourself [in life]. Believe what you’re saying.

Tricia: Should I take action in some way or just allow life to come?

Entera: Life runs most smoothly in a flow. Allow life to come to you. There’s not-doing as living.

Tricia: My body is aging. Is there something I should do to extend my life or make my body
healthier?

Entera: The body follows consciousness. The body follows joy or fear. Follow joy, and the body will follow.

Tricia: Where did my eating disorder come from? What is the best way to cope with it?

Milton: It comes from feeling starved for attention, starved for meaning, and fearful of not being
accepted.

Entera: Food is a joy, but it cannot fulfill the soul.

“She’s showing me music, meditation, and acceptance of myself without fear.”

Tricia: Why do I only see three of you when I know that there are nine more?

Milton and Entera: We are your guides for this journey. There is no need for you to visualize the others. They’re here, and you can feel them and their love.

I asked Tricia if she now felt complete in talking with the Council.

“Other than expressing my gratitude for their help and overwhelming love and acceptance of me, yes. I wish I had the words, but I know they can feel my deep appreciation for bringing Bob to me. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to see him looking so radiant and feeling his nearness again. Thank you. Thank you.”

I was moved by the impassioned way in which Tricia spoke. I guided her focus back into her physical body, bringing her back gradually and gently.

“Oh, wow!” she said suddenly as she opened her eyes. “I didn’t even know I had tears—now they’re running down my cheeks.”

“Tricia, what parts about the experience stood out to you?”
“Bob,” she said without hesitation, “I’m amazed. I didn’t think I would see him there, and I didn’t expect him to look or feel the way he did. It was the best part of him that I’ve always felt and known, but when you’re living life, you feel a lot of other parts, too. It’s astounding! And the feel of his hands on mine—my hands were tingling all the way through. It was like an electrical pulse. And the faces of those wonderful beings—almost alien, beautiful, ethereal.

“Also, it was very good for me to realize—and I don’t want to forget—that Claire is beloved by the whole soul group, and to not look at her as this invader into a life that was good until she came along, but more as a catalyst, a friend.

“This experience has lifted me. I’m just sitting here in this big puddle of gratitude. And that’s from my heart.”