Discovering Your Soul's Purpose Through Dreams

You can discover your soul’s purpose through your dreams. Some of you, as I did, may have questioned why you are here. You may have asked yourself: What is my purpose in being on this earth? What am I supposed to do? 

The answer may not be simple and may involve your family members, friends, and occupation, as well as how you view life and deal with challenges in your life. So don’t expect a single dream to give you the answer. You may have several dreams with a bearing on what you came here to accomplish. 

In my case, I had several past life dreams that had a direct bearing on my current life. They provided insight into my personality and interaction with other people. They explained why I had certain issues in my earlier years that are described in detail in The Man Who Sees Tomorrow in His Dreams. As such, they showed me the lessons I needed to learn and challenges to overcome. 

My purpose also involved other people, and one dream in particular showed me how I should view my interaction with these individuals. Finally, I had a single dream in which a loud voice said, “Do you really want to know your purpose?” I answered yes in the dream, and I was immediately shown an image of myself performing a certain task. I now had the answer concerning another aspect of my life’s work. 

All of the dreams mentioned occurred early in my work with dreams. They provided the answers and meaning for my life. 

Any of you can receive the same help, but you must really want to know. And you must be willing to accept the answers that you receive. They may not correspond to what your ego thinks or expects, and may even make you uncomfortable, especially if you are on the wrong path. 

You may discover you are in the wrong occupation, or are not properly utilizing important talents and abilities. You may find that the people who you think are a curse were chosen by you for interaction in this life to work out issues from past lives. 

No one else can provide the answers for you; the life you live is yours and only you can uncover your true destiny. I only point out that the tools are there and the answers can be found. But only you can decide if it is important enough for you to persevere in uncovering the wisdom found in your dreams.

Comments on the Value of Dreams for Daily Living

I am going to discuss finding your soul’s purpose through dreams. But before doing that, in this post I am going to make some general comments concerning the value of dreams.

One of the motivating factors in my decision to write my book was my reflection on the incredible misery that I saw every day, much of which could have been avoided if people were in touch with their inner selves. Through our accepted five senses, we experience the material world in a variety of ways, but this does not provide the complete picture. To see the complete picture we need to listen to our inner selves, which are revealed through intuition, dreams, and visions.

If we cut ourselves off from our inner selves, we live incomplete, limited lives. This has been realized by many throughout history, and the work of Carl Jung made clear the importance of dreams in particular. 

I am amazed that many people who have a religious orientation may pray to God for help, for answers, when a crisis arises, but never think about how they will receive the answer. They never think to turn to their dreams for an answer, despite the fact that God often spoke to man through dreams in the bible. 

Of course, meditation is another way to receive an answer, but that is often neglected as well. We are good at talking, but not very good at listening. 

I have found that the answers are there for every problem, if we learn how to listen. My own struggles of how I learned to listen are described in my memoir. Although often implemented imperfectly, I still received tremendous benefit in the way of better health, career satisfaction, financial independence, solutions to daily problems, as well as direction from several clear dreams dealing with my soul’s purpose. I know exactly why I am here and what I need to do. 

I find it painful to see people in turmoil when I believe the answers they seek are easily within their reach. They are often willing to stand in line for days to get the latest iPhone or bargain during Black Friday, but not willing to read a book or spend a small amount of time each day reflecting on their dreams, which could end their turmoil and provide a sense of direction. They are obsessed by the material: clothing, gadgets, and technology, and only look outward when the answers are found looking inward. 

We live in an age of instant gratification. When people do think about guidance from dreams, they usually want a dream to simply give them all the answers, and then be done with it so they can do something else. The discovery of oneself is a lifelong process and cannot be achieved through a single dream as spiritual fast food. 

In my next posting, I will deal more explicitly with dreams of your soul’s purpose. For now, I want to make the point that to find your soul’s purpose through your dreams you have to be sincere in your desire to find it. You can’t dabble with a dream from time to time and expect to get the answers to the reasons for your very existence on this earth. And you must be willing to act upon the guidance you receive. 

I hope to get back to some regular postings of a few times a week.

Interview on WGSO New Orleans

Today, at 10:30 CST, I was interviewed on WGSO 990 AM New Orleans. This was one of the better interviews in terms of the questions asked.

Interview on Marilu Henner Show

I am going to be interviewed on the Marilu Henner nationally syndicated show on Monday, September 29, at 10:39 Pacific Coast Time. You can read about her show at www.marilushow.com.

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Radio Interviews

Last Friday, I was interviewed about my book The Man Who Sees Tomorrow in His Dreams on KBYR-AM700 in Anchorage. This Thursday, September 11, I will be a guest on KFUN-AM in Las Vegas at 9:05 mountain time.

Dreams, Mental and Spiritual Healing, and Seth

Several posts have focused on health dreams, primarily related to physical health. Most of my discussion was concerned with how dream symbols can relate to our physical health. I illustrated how the state of our health can be depicted in a dream, and how we can receive advice for improving our health. 

I mentioned the importance of our thoughts in relation to our health, but I did not begin to explore the huge field of mental and spiritual healing. Other than the description of my encounter with a famous faith healer, I left this as an open subject. 

However, this does not mean that I don’t believe in faith healing. I do believe faith healing is possible. One might naturally ask why we need doctors if all we need is faith. Why don’t our dreams just tell us to have faith? 

I think the answer has to do with the nature of faith and the readiness of the individual. Even Jesus used a mudpack to cure a person of blindness, which may have been necessary because of the blind man’s level of faith. 

The questions surrounding faith and mental healing are addressed in the classic work The Law of Psychic Phenomena by Thomson Jay Hudson. This seminal work should be read by anyone with an interest in the mind, healing, religion, hypnosis, psychic phenomena, mediums, or related topics. This book was also recommended by Edgar Cayce to those interested in better understanding what he did during his readings. 

Healing is not a subject to be taken lightly, and the material in this book should be explored by anyone who attempts to heal himself or another using mental or spiritual processes. Certain conditions need to exist for a faith healing to be successful, and they are discussed in detail by Hudson. 

I have explained what I have learned about my physical health from my dreams, and countless others have turned to their dreams with similar results. My dreams took a holistic approach and provided help and support that I could comprehend and apply in my life. 

This does not mean that I ignored the mental aspects, and I was often shown that I needed to change by thoughts about some person or subject. And I was constantly urged to follow a spiritual path. 

I don’t think I or someone else could simply decide that his faith is perfect and heal himself of any affliction. This is especially true when someone weakened by illness lacks the ability to focus on much of anything. Faith is not something that can be turned on or off like a light switch. 

However, Cayce and my dreams make clear that much benefit can come from the right attitude, and proper autosuggestions can help ward off disease and shorten considerably the recuperation period if one is ill. And perhaps as faith is developed, miracles will be seen. 

The Seth presence channeled through Jane Roberts also makes it clear that it would not be a good idea for most people to stop utilizing traditional medicine, even though Seth states that most diseases could be reversed by changing the belief system and following certain mental exercises.

According to Seth, people need to go to doctors because they believe this is the only way they can get help. They have accepted this to such an extent that even when medication or a traditional approach is not working, they are often reluctant to give it up. They strongly believe in traditional medicine, and to some extent it works. Until they develop other beliefs, they had better stay with it. 

Although I mention the Seth material here, I do not recommend that people turn to channeling some presence for guidance in their lives concerning health or other matters. Edgar Cayce made clear why, and The Law of Psychic Phenomena treats this topic as well. 

Among channeled material, I do think the Seth material is unique, and regardless of the source, provides some excellent suggestions for improving one’s daily life. For individuals open to this and interested in the role of beliefs and thoughts in the formation of their lives, I recommend reading The Nature of Personal Reality by Jane Roberts.

I am finished with the dream series relating to physical health. Due to some other commitments, I will not be starting a new series or be making posts for a few weeks, unless I have some unusual dream or insight I think I must share. As usual, any time there is a new post on my website or blog, I will send out a tweet notifying my followers.