Hi Seagull,

Yes I definitely think that’s one of the reasons for our being here.  I think we’re here to learn about ourselves, in the sense of learning about love, compassion, forgiveness, honesty, and exploring our range of feelings and emotions and the ranges of love and positive aspects of our consciousness.  I think we are each responsible for expanding and growing and becoming a better person, not just in society but on other levels of our being.  How we treat others is about where we are in our own growth.  For instance, the other day a woman gave me the finger while I was driving!  I didn’t even do anything wrong.  She was obviously horsing around in the car with her two teenage boys, and she knew it.  I think she was so not really focused on driving and didn’t realize she’d slowed way down to the point of at 15 or 20 mph I was suddenly right behind her.  It’s not that I was going fast and tailgating her, it was that she was taking her foot off the gas because she was goofing around and swerving.  I practically had to stop my car just to keep slowing down more.  When she realized “Uh oh, I need to pay attention and get going”, that’s when she gave ME the finger!  Ha ha.  All it did was make me see how not advanced she was inside herself.  Maybe insecure.  Maybe immature.  Or maybe just not a nice soul.  It always amazes me that people are rude and stupid and think that they are better.  Makes me also feel sorry that she’s raising kids and showing them how she thinks it’s ok to act.   Anyway, if she’d done that to me when I was a much younger person I’m sure I would have been so mad and wondering what I had done wrong, and maybe even feeling self-conscious.  But I know I didn’t do anything intentional to her, and that she’s the one who was screwing around while driving, not me.  So she should only be mad at herself, not me. 

In regard to that “special place” that people create and visualize.  I still have a hard time doing that, although I do use it in some instances.  I find that I use the visual sense to bring on the feeling or emotion I want to feel and that helps.  And in reverse, if I want to visualize or remember something, or to launch a psychic connection or OBE or other kind of communication or travel, then focusing on a feeling works best to instigate that. 

I do believe we share things with our loved ones in the afterlife.  But I also think we’re already doing that on some level right now anyway.  Like our higher selves get together and chat and catch up and say things like, “Look at us right now, look at how far we’ve come,” and rejoicing in our accomplishments.  After all, I think it’s true that we come here with plans and agreements with other souls for what we’re here to experience and learn.