Slade – Thank you so much! I agree that the “game” of incarnation carries with it a set of specific rules. I’m not sure they are limitations. It’s like a high-stakes gamble, I think. We’re all in, and we can either evolve ourselves tremendously, or fall on our face in a big way!

Blessings,
Andrea

I am asked this question a lot, too, and of course it’s one I ask myself.

Great job coming up with an answer, to this challenging question, by the way!

You know me, my “answers” often come in the form of more questions or metaphorical situations. With this question, I’m presented with athletes and games:

What if you ask someone who’s swimming the English Channel why he don’t just take a ferry or hovercraft, since it would be easier?

What if you ask someone who’s running a marathon why she doesn’t just drive, since it would be easier?

What if you ask a group of friends who are road-tripping across America why they don’t just fly?

I get a sense that it’s a matter of the Game – if we weren’t meant to be incarnate in this game, this mission, this life for the purpose of learning and growing the way we are, then we would probably stay on the other side. We chosen this game, with its challenges and limitations, for a very good reason… The goals, within the limiting factors, may very likely be the point.

Marvelous writing. It’s captivating. I personally believe that our intentions manifest through our karma and eventually, spirit connects us to people, fate of higher state via frequency match. Simple example would be to understand how radio works. I believe that invention of radio was an act of spiritual manifestation. As our karma seeks higher frequency, nature makes pathway to get connected to souls and situations that are at the higher frequency. Once get connected, our soul seeks even higher spirituality. But in the end, it is a pure act of free will.

I was intrigued by your blog and I’ve subscribed to it. I’d love to have you visit my blog when time permits.

http://www.successsoul.com/blog/

Thanks
Shilpan

Tom – No, I think the intensity is actually always the same. What changes with our investment is our level of awareness! We can turn up the dial on our intuition by giving it our attention, and to us it will feel very “strong.” But it’s always been there at the same level of intensity. Whatever you focus on, expands, right?

Blessings,
Andrea

Ned – Thank you! You are totally right. We operate here in a linear way. If we knew all the consequences of our actions, the whole learning experience of this linear system wouldn’t function. I think understanding has to be coupled with faith. I follow my intuition on faith – the understanding comes in hindsight. It is usually only as I witness the consequences that I can understand the perfect beauty of the guidance I receive. Which inspires more faith … and so it goes.

Like you, I often feel that I surprise myself when I write or speak. Something will come out of me that I had no idea about until I said/wrote it. Isn’t it wonderful?

Blessings,
Andrea

You have such a wonderful gift for making the complex into the simple. I wrote a post recently called “Blogging for the Future” about how I often will be talking about something that is beyond my actual intellectual ability, it just feels like what I’m supposed to talk about. In other words, my intuition doesn’t work for my ego. I am just a conduit, a messenger. Just like a person working at the post office doesn’t know what messages she is carrying to someone or who exactly is sending it, I don’t always understand the content of the messages I am delivering either. I can tell when something is harmful or inappropriate and I can choose whether to deliver it or not. That’s about it.

Somehow if I understood exactly what my higher purpose is and all the consequences therein, it wouldn’t be as interesting.

It reminds me of Tao somehow – that the Way is always there inside of us, it is the choiceless choice.