We planned this life before we were born.
Any deviation from the plan during our life is likely to show up as trouble.
Discover your soul's plan and you can change your life to avoid many of the disasters and strife, to be better at everything you do, to improve yourself out of sight.
How?
Well, that's the big question which I'll attempt to answer in this and future blogs.
How do I know?
From study and observing my own personal experiences - which have been many and which have encountered too many disasters and strife.
Of course, it can only be a theory.
Don't take my word for it.
You could read authors like Carol Adrienne, Joseph Campbell and James Hillman all of whom agree with me (rather, I agree with them).
Adrienne writes from the perspective of a therapist and from her own personal experience; Campbell as an academic and expert on the world's mythology; Hillman as a psychologist and university lecturer.
Then there's Carlo Collodi, an Italian journalist and government official who wrote the childrens' story of Pinocchio.
Pinocchio?
Written over 100 years ago I believe the story is an allegory about waking up to the false personality, listening to your inner voice, and changing - at which point the wodden marionette Pinocchio becomes a real boy.
The story begins with Pinocchio as a block of wood fashioned into a marionette by his Creator father.
He is seduced and misled by countless unscrupulous characters like the lame fox (who isn't lame at all) and the blind cat (who isn't blind).
His adventures represent the consequences of following our false (wooden) personality in the world of deception (Dupeland) and illusion (Fools' Trap).
The blue fairy, who becomes a mother figure, is his soul.
His father, Gipetto, represents Truth.
The cricket is his inner voice, his wise inner counsel, and others like the dog and the tunny fish, who help him bail out of difficult situations, are soul mates with whom he might have make agreements at a soul level to meet up during his lifetime.
A song in the Wald Disney movie has the cricket "give a little whistle" (which became a popular song at the time) whenever he gets into trouble.
The sound track actually uses the words "still small voice within" (although not in the book) to describe the cricket as Pinocchio's conscience.
"What about free will?" I hear you shouting at me.
Of course, we all have free will to do whatever we like, but then we get back to how your life has been faring and whether you've seen too many troubles that could have been avoided.
I know because, for the first half of my life, I wasn't "listening" and one disaster followed another.
Since I've been "listening" and observing everything's changed since the bad ol' days.
By discovering even a hint of your soul's plan, and moving to adjust your life to it, self-improvement happens - simply because you start becoming the person you were meant to be.
Recommended reading:
Carol Adrienne: 'The Purpose of Your Life.'
Ingela Berger: 'The Role of Your Life.'
Joseph Campbell: 'The Hero With a Thousand Faces.'
James Hillman: 'The Soul's Code.'
Asoka Selvarajah, Ph.D.: 'The 7 Golden Secrets to Knowing Your Higher Self.'
Carlo Collodi: 'The Adventures of Pinocchio.'
Neil Smith
