Curriculum Who am I? Why am I here? Where's everybody else? I am an old soul. I must be. I feel that to have reached this point of contemplation, I must have been around the block many times. I feel that this planet and these bodies are just learning and recreational facilities. I feel that I got curious or bored with just mucking about in the vastness of space (the universe, the Oneness, etc) and came down here for some fun and experience, to formulate and test theories, to play nifty games of knowledge and skill with my best spirit pals, to aid others on their own journeys, and sometimes just to goof around. I think I start out each incarnation as a sleepwalker. For this human shell, I have to learn to eat, to crawl, to walk, to talk, etc. It's a restriction of the form. It's the way it was designed although there have been alterations, obviously. I believe we hit the reset switch before we take human form, that is, we forget. It's part of starting new. We temporarily put away what we have learned and shall drag it out again if it's appropriate or necessary to do so at a later time. There's a thrill in starting over though. It's all new again, interesting, different and fun. Why do you think children have such a great time being children? It's a fresh start with new parameters for every cycle. Childhood lets us rest and play before the soul work starts again. Granted, there are some children who are not this fortunate but there are soul reasons for that too. Otherwise, we get a period of rest or recess before we go to work again. I suspect that's built into soul design. Maybe we just need to recharge our energies. I don't think that all spirits have a continuous chain of incarnations. I think sometimes it's okay to sit out for a round or two. This may cause a leap-frog effect with some of our soul playmates but it will all work out in the end. I think the dynamics of our relationships change as well, from iteration to iteration. If my soul is actually independent of a body, in its essence, then theoretically I could be a man or woman, parent or child, lover or friend with other souls in my close association. Then in the next life I may shift to another of those positions. I'm not sure about overlapping lives. I would think that wouldn't be likely since that would mean two bodies and one soul, although perhaps it's possible to make an instant exchange, such as a birth at the instant of a death. I don't know yet. Actually, I believe it works like this: On each pass, I will have chosen to work on particular aspects of my spiritual development. Call it my curriculum. Inherent in the process is a need for me to come fresh to the problems and arrive at the solutions without having cheated (which would take the fun out of it) or tainted my new investigations with a whole load of pre-conceived notions. I will take the rest period as a sleepwalker, gaining general knowledge and experience but without being disturbed by any confusion or conflicts that being awake might cause. I further believe that I can set myself up, perhaps with the help of other souls, so that my class may be as fruitful as possible. By this I mean that using karmic points and helpful parameters, I can leave myself a legacy from previous experience which would fit the planned curriculum. I can also arrange for circumstances to lead me to the general area of study. There would be a balance to strike in this as well. I'd have to decide how much would be helpful without tipping the scales and throwing off the whole experiment. There may be an element of seeming randomness in how my study proceeds. I feel this is likely because I don't clutter up my endeavors with all the miniscule details and I always want room to exercise free will. My curriculum may be affected by other souls on their journeys but I don't believe it's intended to be disruptive. In fact, I think it's a way to get bonus points, in a karmic or knowledge context. Perhaps while I learn, I encounter someone whom I did not expect to be in my class but we end up there together and both gain from the experience. Was it indeed planned, perhaps by some universal agenda? Do we get outside help with our curriculum in this way? I don't know. I think it's possible that for efficiency, there may be some coordination, but not interference. Say for instance that I cross paths with a soul whom I feel I have not worked with before, yet it turns out that part of our study does indeed coincide. Perhaps the apparent serendipity of our meeting is actually a handout from the power that runs it all. Maybe we are aided by a sort of cosmic killing of two birds with one stone. This other spirit and I didn't know that the cooperative effort was an option, but the grand scheme made it possible and so we were perhaps guided to one another. It might even be just simple logic. If two people are searching for the same thing, then they might easily end up looking in the same place. When such a meeting occurs between two souls on the same quest, there can be a noticeable click of recognition. I do not mean to imply that my life was all planned out before I got here. Continuing with the curriculum analogy; until I take a class, I don't know for sure what I may do or what I may learn exactly. I simply schedule into a subject or field of study that I'm missing or would find interesting. After that, I'd just go where it leads me. At the end of the semester, I would evaluate what I learned and see what I might want or need to accomplish on the next round. For this round, my recent awakening has begun to reveal my curriculum and the legacy of knowledge and circumstances I left for myself or have been given by the grand scheme of which I am a part. (Curriculum)

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