Think of your life as a story you wrote while in spirit, before incarnating upon the earth. An excerpt from Soul Blueprints 74-Minute Course on CD

By Dick Sutphen

For most of my adult life, my primary unanswered question was, “to what degree is life pre-destined?” And after years of research, which has included writing many books, I’ve come to the conclusion each of us plans our life to experience different degrees of destiny and free will. One person will structure his life plan to include destined opportunities and allow very little free will, while another person plans her incarnation with minimal destined events and considerable free will. How this is structured seems to have a lot to do with the kind of lessons that need to be learned.

In my Simon & Schuster Pocket Books titles such as You Were Born Again To Be Together, Earthly Purpose, and Predestined Love, I explored the concept of destiny through romantic relationships. The last couple years I’ve been researching destiny from different perspectives. And I’m more convinced than ever, our major relationships and the key events in all our lives are predestined. How we respond to the people and events may or may not change the outcomes. But how we respond will show whether or not we’ve learned our lessons. If we respond with anger, hatred, or a lingering desire for revenge, we have not learned our lessons and will have to be tested again, later in this life or in a future life.

Think of your life as a story you wrote while in spirit, before incarnating upon the earth. Your soul is always pushing you to become more, to fulfill your earthly potentials.

Matthew & Susan

Matthew and Susan, were a couple who had been married for fourteen years and had been fighting for the last three years. They were ready to divorce when Matthew made an appointment with me for a past-life regression. When he arrived at my office, he seemed to be clinging to a last shred of hope ... feeling if he could find the true cause of his conflicts with Susan, maybe he could rise above the painful effects.

During the counseling portion of our session, Matthew handed me a stack of astrology printouts. He said astrology had accurately predicted his marriage troubles. I flipped through the charts and agreed that his conflicts appeared to be destined. Then he took another batch of printouts from his briefcase, laid them on my desk and said, “These charts are progressions for the next two years. They show that the conflict will continue. And if I’m reading them right, it’s only going to get worse between us. Maybe we’re destined to part.”

I told him we would talk about the future after the past-life regression. So Matthew laid back in a lounge chair, closed his eyes and began to breath deeply. I clicked on “The Zapper” mind-electronics sound, soft in the background, and I began the hypnotic-induction process. Once he was in a deep altered state of consciousness, I said, “In the memory banks of your subconscious mind there is a memory of everything that has ever happened to you in this life you’re now living, or in any of your past lives. Every thought, word and deed is recorded. And it’s time to bring forgotten awareness to the surface so you may better understand what influences you, restricts you, or motivates you in the present.”

I directed Matthew back to the first time he and Susan shared a life. He began to describe an incarnation in 15th-Century Germany as farmers living an unfulfilling existence. He admitted being cruel to his wife.

The couple shared three more incarnations over the next 400 years. They took turns being the aggressor -- once as brothers. The last lifetime we explored, Matthew and Susan got along more often than not and they remained together until death.

After examining the past lives, I directed Matthew up into Higher Self, an all-knowing level of mind, and I asked him to return to a time in spirit when he was planning his current life. I said, “Be receptive to all you perceive. On the count of three you’ll be there. One, two, three.”

Matthew said, “I’m sitting in a room with several other people. The room is open ... arches ... outdoors and indoors meld together. The walls are a soft pink. There’s a warm breeze. And we’re dressed in robes. I’m sitting across a table from a mature woman. Two males are standing over there and another is sitting beside me.”

I asked him what was being communicated. He said, “I’ve plotted out my next incarnation, and now the elders are going over my plans.” I questioned his ability to do this on his own. He responded, saying, “Everyone does it on their own. It is complicated, but you have all the time you need to do a proper job. You’d better do a proper job because you’re the one who has to live it.”

Next I asked Matthew, “Are you planning to get together again with the soul you currently know as Susan?”

“Yes, yes,” he said. “Of course. We help each other grow.”

The past-life regressions and Higher-Self session took place over two one-hour hypnosis sessions. Matthew was exhausted by the experience and once awakened, he remained in the lounge chair staring at the ceiling.

I told Matthew, “You and Susan are using your relationship to master a larger soul lesson -- unconditional love -- acceptance of the other person without judgment, expectations, blame, or trying to control. Each incarnation you’re attracted to each other all over again, drawn together by unconscious forces to pick up where you left off. You don’t remember your past lives, but intuitively you’re ready to take on the unlearned lessons. Until you’ve learned from your past, you’re destined to repeat your mistakes.”

Matthew explained that during the time in Higher-Self, when I directed him to silently communicate with his Spirit Guide, his guide explained that he and Susan had free will in regard to remaining together or divorcing. If they divorced, both would find new partners to continue learning the lessons they incarnated to master.

Matthew shook his head and said, “If that’s so, I can have a troubled relationship with Susan, or I can have a troubled relationship with someone else.”

I said, “Why not invoke the lessons you’re learning with Susan, and give your relationship time to heal?”

No matter the outcome of their marriage, I believe Matthew and Susan will come back together in a future life. Each shared incarnation results in more evolution and deeper love. Love is the most powerful force in the Universe and whatever fear shuts out, love will eventually let in.

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Often, as part of a past-life hypnotic regression, I will direct my subject back to a time in spirit when they were planning their current life. Between lifetimes we rest, work, study and prepare to reincarnate. Usually, Master teachers -- highly evolved souls -- will gather with an entity to plot needed lessons for the next incarnation. This includes the entity’s involvement with hundreds of other souls, and all the karmic interactions to generate learning opportunities. Astrology -- the exact moment and place of birth -- sets the soul on a path that will serve as the basic blueprint for the earth life.

This prebirth planning session is part of the cycle of rebirth for every individual. The Master teachers do not tell you what to encounter in the new life. They suggest, but you always have the free will to override the suggestions. And based upon years of research, it seems to me that most people tend to be very brave in spirit. They believe they’ve learned their lessons from the mistakes of prior lifetimes and are anxious to take on the mantle of a human body to balance their karma and test themselves once again.

Abenda Writing

My wife Tara is in direct communication with her spirit guide Abenda, primarily through automatic writing. I decided to have Tara ask Abenda about what went into planning my own life. Here is what Abenda wrote in response to this question:

“Dearest Tara and Richard, When your Masters decided it was time for you to incarnate for your soul growth, you did not hesitate to accept the challenge. You’ve lived many, many lifetimes upon the earth and even more in other galaxy systems and planetary alignments. In nearly all of your incarnations, you return with other loved ones. There have been a few lifetimes where you came in alone, but usually you are followed in, so that your courage and bravado might be buffered. It would take days to provide even an outline of your shared explorations -- the lives in which you purposely came back to be together again. In past-life regression you only recall the most dramatic or the most beautiful.

“In regard to the pre-birth planning of a lifetime, you work with energy waves within a vibrational pattern alignment. It would take awhile to explain, but this is the basis of your planning. Your ‘lineage soul’ always urges you to expand your awareness and strengthen your foundation. So you are given the opportunities to develop lives in which you seek to accomplish soul goals. And chances are, you will fulfill these goals within the span of your earthly stay.

“While on the other side in spirit, you planned your life in a schoolroom type atmosphere. It was for you to do the homework and calculations, which became the basis of your decisions -- the karmic configurations intended for manifestation in earthly experiences. You created the blocks and intensity factors as though you were working on a science project.

“As an individual plans and works out the lifetime to come, they have an overseer or two, but it is their soul feelings and the karmic necessities, which are the primary considerations in working out a life formula. How long you work on this project and how well you think it all out is the key to how the life will work out when your soul is put into earthly action.

“At the time you’re completing your life plan, you’re encouraged to accept counseling from Elders or Masters. This pre-birth “soul mapping” is easily read by those of your vibration port.

“When it is time to reincarnate, you go through the portal and lose all perspective of where you are from and who you once were. You become an earthling with an agenda. But if you take on more than you can handle, you can incur undesirable karma -- black marks on your earthly life project.

“I hope this helps you to understand. I love you, ABENDA.”

Prebirth Planning Session

On the SOUL-BLUEPRINTS 74-Minute Course on CD, Dick directs a “Prebirth Planning Session Hypnotic Regression.” After relaxing your body, he induces the altered state with a “chakra balancing and energizing” exercise preceding the count down. Once you’re in a relaxing altered state of consciousness, Dick begins asking you questions about the environment in which you are planning your life, and if the soul who will be your Spirit Guide is present at this time. You explore how this process works and consider the key decisions you’re making in regard to primary relationships. You’ll look at your dharma (career directions) and if you’re to explore more than one career. You’ll examine your choice of parents and the lessons you hoped to learn as a result of this choice. Soul contracts with yourself and others is an important part of this exploration.

After revisiting your own prebirth planning session, Dick directs you up into Higher-Self where you will meet and communicate directly with your Spirit Guide via “thought language” -- a matter of asking a question with a thought and then listening as the answer comes back to you in the form of another thought.

Potential Changes Session

The second altered state session on the SOUL BLUEPRINTS 74-Minute Course on CD is an exploration of potential changes you need to make or desire to make.

Having expanded your awareness, maybe you will decide to make changes that will better align with your personal destiny. Maybe you now realize that what you thought was your life story, is not to be. Another destiny is awaiting you.

Change is usually a three step process. First, you become aware of an aspect of your life that is no longer working for you. Upon this realization, there is a period of confusion or transition. You begin to imagine how things might be different ... and you could even withdraw from the situation without knowing what’s to come. This transitional period might last a day, a month, or years ... until something happens that causes you to move to the next step ... which is to get help or take action that eventually generates a more satisfying situation.

In this process, Dick asks you many questions to help you establish clarity of intent and program the future you desire to experience.

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