Christian has worked for over 15 years as a project manager for complex nuclear pump and valve manufacturing projects. Christian is also a public speaker, having presented at over 100 events.
When Christian was a young child he remembered his existence before coming to Earth. While that memory left him completely for his early adult life, it spontaneously returned at the age of 30 as Christian took up a meditation practice and went through a personal awakening journey. He also began to have Out of Body Experiences (OBEs). Christian now seeks to remind others in at least a small part of who we really are beneath the human “play.” Christian is the author of the book A Walk in the Physical, which attempts to succinctly describe the larger spiritual context in which we exist and the importance of love in our human journey.
Email Christian at: awalkinthephysical@gmail.com
A Walk in the Physical 
Dear Christian, greetings again after two years 🙂
The basis of your “teaching” is that consciousness has an intention. I have some questions about this
Thank you for your service
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Hello! To your questions:
(1.) Beingness does not require intention to exist, or to dwell in its fullness. Meanwhile intention in some direction precedes every manifest form. I wouldn’t say strictly speaking that there exists a “primary intention.” I would acknowledge that while we feel separate, the constant longing we feel is basically a desire to return to the fullness of Being.
(2.) I suspect you might be holding some thought-assumption beneath this question. To take it at face value, though: Intention is what it is (right now, in any given moment). The ego may tell a long tale and obscure our real motivation under a story, but the root intention is what it is. When we un-bury our form-association, we can see and sense our true intention, if we are willing. That is personal for everyone.
Edit: After reading your question #3, if you are asking am I sure about my pre-birth intention for this lifetime, yes I am sure.
(3.) The word “intention” itself does not mean a pre-birth plan. It is the real why behind you are doing- whatever you are doing right now, today. It is a quality of direction, so to speak. You can sense, deep down, the real why you are making the decisions you are making! Is the real why love-based, or fear-based (rejection-based)? That internal guidance always exists to discern the difference. The question is whether or not we are willing to actually listen, actually feel. You know yourself: What do you say here, now, even from within the human perspective? You are your soul, right now. It is not some other being. What do you sense is your “why”? What truly excites you? What do you truly resonate with? What rejection and fear may be asking for your feeling? Your deeper self is always willing to lift up the “real whys,” if you are willing to actually look, actually feel, actually own who you are. No one else can answer that for you. Meanwhile, as a practical suggestion I would lift up taking up a long term meditation practice: as we grow in familiarity with what we really are (awareness itself) versus what we are not (our thoughts), we gain precious clarity regarding our own real “whys.”
I hope that helps!
-Christian
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thank you christian for your clarifying, encouraging and beautiful words
yes, it helps to continue
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You say that our personality remains the same in the afterlife. But what if our personality here is 90% shaped by childhood trauma, social conditioning, fears, and limitations? In the afterlife, these things no longer make sense. So what exactly remains? How can we say the personality stays the same if the core elements that define it in this life completely dissolve?
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To my knowledge I do not believe I have said “our personality remains the same.” I feel we could say there are two levels of what we call “personality”: true self/ soul personality, and then, the local story conditioning and the association into the human story and limitations. Eventually we drop the latter; meanwhile we are always the former. The former shines through the latter, though it is limited by it. I heard someone once ask Tom Campbell the question of “what % of our personality is soul personality versus purely human personality?” and while he qualified his answer and stated that it is highly variable depending on many elements, he guessed something like “60%/40%” soul-to-human. I personally don’t like to distinguish too much, because it is always the one you- the you that feels like you to you- having this human experience. That “real you” can wear much lighter or heavier constraints (like pain, traumatic injury, biological illness, etc.), and they can have a big effect, but you- the real you, the consciousness- always shines through and “chooses through” those constraints. I hope that helps!
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Thank you very much for your response. There is one thing that concerns me. You mentioned that we came here and intentionally covered ourselves with a veil to forget, and then you said that we should remember who we are. It seems like there are two aspects of ourselves: one “I” that chose to cover itself with a veil (not technically as you described, but it was definitely my desire) and another “I” who should remember and uncover.
Additionally, isn’t this akin to cheating, with potential consequences? You mentioned that you asked ‘technicians’ to retain a piece of memory, and they replied that it could be done, but the journey would be harder. It seems like trying to remember might not be a good idea, or perhaps I misunderstood something?
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To your first comment sir: There is only one “I.” The big “I” thinks it is the small “I,” but it is one “I.” The same you that you are now is the you that made the choice to engage a veiled experience, even if you don’t remember. You do not have to remember the larger “I” while playing the small “I.” But, it is wonderful to do so.
To your second question: (1.) On one hand, I acknowledge that waking up to who we really are may mean a loss of contrast, and that has consequence. But meanwhile, importantly: We are completely allowed to do whatever we wish with this simulation that we have created. We are allowed to wake up! Metaphorically: We made the whole gym anyway, so it isn’t “cheating” if we remove some of the weight from the bar, or even take a step outside. (2.) Having conscious memory of even a fraction of our true nature can prompt incredible homesickness for the human portion of the self, and can also increase the contrast of the physical, because the “difference” between there and here is so stark. So, it is not always practically beneficial.
Growing in familiarity with what we really are- awareness itself- is a wonderful process. It is wonderful because our true nature is love, peace, freedom, and joy! Meanwhile, to my knowledge I have not said that we should categorically try to achieve something equivalent to “unveiling.” We are always the larger self anyway, not the veiled self, so that is possible. But discernment means being honest with where it is best that we remain focused into the human play, and where we might step past it. Our “destiny” is the latter; the human play doesn’t exist for its own sake.
I hope that helps!
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HelloMy mom died recently, she was almost my everything … if I stay alive I wish I could bring her back in the future, but I listened to Tom Campbell talking about the souls will forget who they were and the ones who will communicate with you in the afterlife and so on would be saved data of that person or the source pretending to be them. What if science gets advanced enough to be able to bring the dead back to life, do you believe it will possible to trace the same original consciousness again and bring it back into the body?Another question is about people with your experience who could remember their past lives (I don’t exactly know the degree you could or still can remember, you said you forgot when you were a child I guess?) doesn’t that negate what Tom Campbell said?Thanks in advance for your answers.
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Hello
My mom died recently, she was almost my everything … if I stay alive I wish I could bring her back in the future, but I listened to Tom Campbell talking about the souls will forget who they were and the ones who will communicate with you in the afterlife and so on would be saved data of that person or the source pretending to be them. What if science gets advanced enough to be able to bring the dead back to life, do you believe it will possible to trace the same original consciousness again and bring it back into the body?
Another question is about people with your experience who could remember their past lives (I don’t exactly know the degree you could or still can remember, you said you forgot when you were a child I guess?) doesn’t that negate what Tom Campbell said?
Thanks in advance for your answers.
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I am so very sorry to hear about the loss of your mother.
I feel that Tom’s comments on this subject are often mis-interpreted. In Tom’s language, the entire physical world is “just data,” and your human character is “just data,” too. That doesn’t mean it’s not real- I feel he is primarily just trying to identify what is fundamentally real (consciousness itself) versus what it is not (I simply use the word “form”). It is true that guides or the higher system might use the *form* of a loved one to communicate to us. But surely, the soul who played your mom can indeed “pick up that shirt” anytime it wants, and interact as that character it played. In other words, it doesn’t matter if the human character’s forms were “just data”- the soul can choose to engage as and express through that (any) precious portion of itself, if it so chooses. That is true even if a portion of the self has “gone on to do other things,” and therefore may not remember a certain character that may have been played (within the same self), for awhile. (Indeed, right now as we are engaging here in the physical, we too have played other characters who- which means had other experiences which- are not consciously at the top of mind, and it is not a problem.)
Human science is quite limited. Right now it is a form of investigation limited to almost exclusively to materialism- that is, materialist testing, learning the physical reality rule-set from a materialist perspective. Even if and when that expands to include evaluation of the non-physical, a lower level of reality still has its place- which means its limitations- in the larger picture. In other words, there is only “so much” you can do from here in the physical, which is the lower level virtual system. Metaphorically, even if the science in the video game Minecraft got pretty advanced, it can only do “so much” from within the Minecraft world- and we can see its effect on Earth itself is quite limited. I interpret your question to be asking about higher level spirit action (incarnation)- and that is done from the higher level, and is not something the local lower system can somehow force. (Medically reviving a body so that original incarnation commitments continue or resume is not the same as “bringing a consciousness to a body.”)
Also keep in mind: The body isn’t the real thing. Consciousness can’t be “brought *to* the body”- because the body is actually just an experience taking place *within* consciousness! The order is reversed.
Regarding your question about remembering past lives: There is only one “I.” Remembering other portions of the self- that is, other experiences that *I* have had- does not negate the fact that those experiences were also just “form” (“data”), and are not truly me. (I am not truly Christian- that is, I am not the forms that “make up” Christian- either. I am the experiencer, and the experiencer transcends one form-set, and “contains” others, too.)
I hope that helps! If not, please hone me in!
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Thanks a lot!
And thanks a lot for answering and for your explanations.
So it will be impossible for humanity to bring the long dead back to life in the future? 😦
What about things like quantum archeology?
Thanks again
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Hi Christian
Thank you so much for the perspective and wisdom you offer.
If you’re open to sharing, I would love to ask two questions:
I find myself struggling right now with the scale of suffering I’m witnessing—particularly in Gaza. As a parent and as a human being, it’s heartbreaking to see children living through such terror, hunger, and devastation. I understand from your teachings that there may be meaning or purpose behind even the most painful experiences… but this level of suffering feels almost unbearable to witness, let alone try to make sense of.
What does this kind of collective suffering “mean” from a soul or spiritual perspective?
And what can we, as individuals who feel helpless yet heartbroken, actually do—in both practical and spiritual terms—to be of service or support in a meaningful way?
My second question relates to climate change. Many speak of a spiritual awakening unfolding across humanity, and I do feel that shift happening in many ways. But also all the predictions point to environmental collapse in the future.
How do you see the ecological crisis within the larger arc of our awakening?
Are we destined to face the full consequences of environmental collapse, or is there still a path of healing—both planetary and spiritual?
These are heavy questions I’ve been sitting with, and I know many others are grappling with them too. I hope you might help illuminate them.
Thank you for your presence, your wisdom, and your time.
With gratitude
Verena
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great questions! Will be very interested in Christian’s response here. Thanks
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Verena,
Thank you for your message!
My heart aches at the incredible devastation we are actualizing in our world. We perpetuate so much confusion, and so much pain. It can feel bewildering.
That being said, while a given ego may demand a distinction, I do not feel we need to truly differentiate between little fear and big fear; little insanity (fear is insane) or big insanity; this small scope of suffering over here and that large scope of suffering over there. All asks to be healed. And we do that individually, and that becomes and ends up meaning collectively.
Despite the great depth of offering that our world of contrast is, and despite the incredible fear (which means ego, which means hurtful actions) that may be possible here due to our own yet-unevolvedness, the truth remains what it is: the love, peace, freedom, and joy of Beingness itself. That Beingness is “working through” this great contrast. We have created a deep space within ourselves into which to expand (yes, actualize) the love of our being.
What can we as individuals who feel helpless and heartbroken actually do to be of service or support? That is a huge question, and one that of course cannot be too simply answered. But I’ll just share two thoughts:
1. Know yourself. If you find and know who you truly are, you will shine with the power of who you really are, and that helps the entire vibration of this place. In other words, when we actually face our own fear, and find our own authentic and joyful selves, it helps the whole world, even if we cannot see it! We help the whole by being actually in alignment with the greater truth of peace and joy and freedom, here. (Meditation can really help with this, I would very much lift it up- if there is interest please see the three recent meditation workshop videos I posted to YouTube.)
2. Physically act in quality (love, compassion, presence) exactly where you are. This is about quality of consciousness, quality of intention, first- and action does come from that- but not only the scope of action heals, the quality itself is the healing element. And you always do have that power- to be kind to the person next to you, and to yourself. Meanwhile, we do ourselves a disservice when we surrender into hopelessness at “what thing over there” we cannot touch- that is often its own form of fear, which only adds to the suffering.
Regarding the ecological crisis: In broad terms how we are treating the Earth is similarly insane to how we are treating each other, because we are acting from intention (fear) that does not align with our true nature or the “divine law” of love and service that is at work. We share our being with each other and with the planet- and it is destructive (painful and unhealthy) to harm the other portion of our own being. We need to learn that. In the arc of humanity, seeing past the deep illusion of separation and the “us versus them” (us versus the other person, us versus the world) thinking that we have normalized over thousands of years is a primary part of our awakening and our healing. If we don’t do that, we will continue to hurt ourselves (including in the form of hurting our planet).
Even as that unfolds on the stage, the truth of Beingness remains. And when we can get in touch with that and know that, not only does the “direness” lose its sting, but we become empowered, because we feel and know that the true power always remained where it is: in the love and incredible power of spirit! In Life itself! We don’t optimally help when we remain blind to that truth, or hopeless in its obfuscation here on the stage.
Is there a path of healing for the world? From what I sense, yes, I do believe so, especially in time. Life is wise, and powerful- it tends to find a way to heal. I feel that is likely for the Earth as an ecology, too. Man is not as all powerful as he believes, even if he is causing quite a bit of destruction to his own living room. Meanwhile, even while we can’t identify this from the human level, the Earth is its own consciousness, too, and it plays the game with us.
Please keep hope! Life cannot fail! We may be making a mess; Creation is a messy affair! But the truth always remains what it is- and as we find that, feel it, and know it, we are far more empowered to play our own meaningful part. One awakened person is disproportionately powerful in the positive effect we can have. Do not surrender that power to hopelessness because of apparently vast physical distances or perceived scopes or scales. Consciousness is the big thing, and it is all connected, and you are consciousness. Align with your power and the whole Earth hears it. I hope that helps today, dear sister!
Christian
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Dear Christian
Thank you for taking the time to respond me so fully.
Your words really helped me. They didn’t make the pain disappear, of course, but they helped me holdit with more courage and compassion. I found myself quite moved, especially by your thoughtfulness in responding, your truth-telling, and your calling me “dear sister”… something about that just felt so sweet – a stranger calling me sister – perhaps because it was a symbol or confirmation that we are all connected and part of one family.
I am still carrying grief (fear) for the children, for the Earth, for the future of my own daughter who is only 5. I still struggle with it, even as I try to stay awake and present. But your reminder that “Beingness is working through the contrast” helps to remind me that we are here to have a human experience… and that the love I choose to embody here matters. That consciousness is not separate from action. And that alignment, even in a small life, is powerful.
I am trying to raise my daughter consciously. That means with awareness of my own wounds and triggers, and a sincere intention not to pass them on. To that end, I am doing a parenting coaching course to understand myself better and to hopefully one day support other parents do the same.
I would also love to raise her with a deep sense of her own innate power and the truth of her being. But I sense I need to truly know my own powerfulness first…. I recently watched your three part series on meditation and I intend to start a meditation practice… without expectation (but perhaps with hope!)
I think you mentioned in one of your videos that you have children, and I feel a strong curiosity, if you’re open to sharing, about how you pass this on to them. How do you approach parenting, knowing that we are higher spiritual beings… but still here on Earth, with rules and social norms to navigate? How do you speak to them about Beingness? About the truth underneath the noise of the world? I realise this is a big topic that cannot be addressed easily… but I’d be grateful to hear any glimpses of that.
Thank you again for your presence, your care, and your wisdom. I will return to your words often.
With gratitude,
Verena
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Hey, I watched your interview and googled your experience in China. In some interviews you say that you had the hospital experience in Qing Dao, but in the book it says Cheng Du. I’d bet on a heat stroke in Cheng Du any day of the week, but just curious what city it was.
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My heat stroke occurred in Cheng Du, in Si Chuan province, July 14th 2002. I studied in Beijing the fall semester of 2000 and tried to move to Beijing after I graduated in 2002, I traveled to Cheng Du first to teach English at a school there for a summer program before intending on moving to Beijing after, but the heat stroke and subsequent health conditions changed my plans! I’ve never been to Qing Dao.
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Dear Sundberg. I just watched your video on your pre-birth experience in Next Level Soul and I am so impressed by that. And I have one question on that. I would appreciate it if you had the time to answer me. In that video, you say that everything belongs to the “now” moment, to the current moment in the superior reallity. However, you also say things like “I met a being that was physical”, and then “after being physical, I reunited with that being and told them I was in the same search as him”. How can you say “after” if time is a human construct? I know that you say that as soon as we talk about this we are imprecise, but I would appreciate it if you could clarify how is it possible to interact with a being, then be physical, and then interact again with that being. Is that not a temporal sequence?
Thank you in advance.
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Hello Fernando. As a reader of Christian’s comments, I would like to give my thoughts, even though you have addressed your comments to Christian. I understand where you’re coming from with your question – which I think is about time sequence language while trying to portray an experience that is “in the now moment (only?)”. Trust me – I get the questions! However, what I have been able to wrap my brain around, is that the only way we can convey meaning, in this dimension, is with the clunky language we use in this dimension, which ‘relies’ on the construct of time, space, physicality, etc. So I’ve learnt to accept then when any other human relates to me their experience (if they’d had one!) of the non-physical (ie, *not* 3 dimensional), they can only do so using 3 dimensional metaphors, images, phrases, etc. So when I listen to (for example), people have had Near Death (or any other sort) Experiences, I accept that they can only convey their experience of “the timeless” to me in a language that uses motifs that can “only” relate to time, space, physicality, etc. One thing I notice about a lot of interviews with Christian (∾ Christian – I’m not speaking ‘for you’ – just my observations), is that he mentions fairly early on the “double-bind” of human language to convey non-temporal experiences.
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Agreed 🙂 It is not possible to speak fully to higher limitlessness from within the limits of the physical, which include linear time. 🙂 Thank you for the comment!
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In manifest creation, there are different layers (or perhaps “levels”) of time (“time” just meaning different ways of experiencing sequence) depending on the reality system. Our local linear time on Earth is “below” a higher sequence of time that gives rise to it. In that “higher time”- maybe we could crudely call that “soul time”- sequence still occurs in a natural way (so there is a natural “before” and “after”), but also it is not bound to the very dense strict linear causality that we experience on Earth. ALL layers of time, and all experiences, ultimately take place within the one Now. Consciousness is fundamental, and consciousness is actually non-dual. So, the layers of sequence are not fundamental, either: they also occur within the “singularity” of the one Now. I hope that helps sir!
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Thank you very much for your response!
I more or less understand what you say, but nevertheless, I don’t fully grasp it. Maybe with this question I would understand it better:
Is the real nature of time more like a multidimensional thing, or more like just a linear dimension but without causality? With “multidimensional” I’m referring to kind of like these ideas of some physicists who theoretize about more thatn 3 spacial dimensions and more than 1 time dimension. Like, what would a 4-space dimensional Universe look like? What would a 2-time dimensional Universe look like? It the real nature of time more like this or more like just not having the constraints of the laws of physics?
Excuse my English. I’m not a native speaker, and it’s also difficult to express these ideas.
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Hello Christian,
My name is Rafael and I am writing just to express my gratitude on your work. I just came across a video of you on the Next Level Soul Podcast, and It has deeply inspired me, just by the fact of knowing someone that shares so many similar values as me, even though we are from different countries. Love is The answer, and it’s what we came for, you made me feel more confident by knowing that I am not alone.
Thank you!
May God bless you and your family.
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Thank you for your kindness Rafael! Much love to you and to your family brother!
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Dear Christian Sundberg,
I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude for sharing your experiences and knowledge. Your insights have been incredibly enlightening and have provided me with a deeper understanding of many profound topics.
I have been particularly intrigued by your discussions on spiritual enlightenment and the nature of existence. In light of this, I wanted to ask your thoughts on Sufism and the teachings of Jalal al-Din Rumi and Ibn Arabi. Despite their profound enlightenment, they still reference the concept of hellfire in their works. How do you reconcile such seemingly contradictory beliefs within their enlightened states?
Here in Morocco, we have a Sufi way called “Tarika al Karkariya.” Their Shaykh speaks in the same vein as Rumi and Ibn Arabi but still attaches a lot of beliefs and practices to it. Some of these beliefs are very constraining or even cruel, such as the concept of hellfire. I am curious about your perspective on how such teachings and practices align with spiritual enlightenment.
Thank you once again for all that you share. Your work is truly inspiring and has significantly impacted my spiritual journey.
Warm regard
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Mourad,
Nice to hear from you sir! Please see the “Hell” section of Part 3 of A Walk in the Physical, which is available to be read online for free at the third link down of the book page of this site. If that does not speak to your question, please let me know.
With love,
Christian
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Greetings Christian,
I recently finished reading your book, ¨A Walk in the Physical¨ and have enjoyed watching several of your video interviews as well. Almost every response you’ve given resonates with my own inner wisdom. It occurred to me that a question for you I haven’t run across so far is what would your recommendation be with regard to how to respond to someone who has maliciously deceived me for significant financial gain in the form of an investment scam? This type of offense has appeared repeatedly in my life with uncanny persistence. Just when I think I have ‘learned the lesson’ associated with the experience, it rears its ugly head again in an unrecognizable form. I find it truly challenging not to resent such individuals with contempt. Thank you for your ongoing Divinely inspired wisdom!
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I am very sorry to hear you have experienced this type of deception. I have also experienced profound deception lately, and for me it currently hurts so very deeply.
Your question is difficult to speak to as a “named response to some action” (deception through investment scam). What is likely more important is, what is the nature of the negative self-perception at the heart of the (your) wound on the matter? What is the name of the smallness? What is the name of the anger, and what is the rejection saying? What does that want to say to you- meaning, what are you being asked to feel? It is important to be brave in feeling, even when it hurts. You are worthy of your feelings.
In the meantime, please know that the hurtful actions of others are not primarily about you, but about them. I know that is so difficult to feel when you have been so badly hurt or betrayed. They are acting in fear. Meanwhile, what do you do with it? Please recognize that in that choice, you likely have far more freedom than you may recognize. Your response is entirely up to you.
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Thank you for your thoughtful and insightful reply, Christian. It is not only valuable to me as something to meditate on and ponder, but also reassuring that you speak from recent experience of a similar nature. I’m sorry you have had to cope with such deception in your own life as well.
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Dear Christian,
Recently, I’ve been studying your book and interviews in depth. I’d like to ask if I’ve understood your main message correctly.
Am I right that the purpose of life is not primarily to “make life better” in terms of efficient decisions or useful contributions, but to learn, in each moment, to act from the state of the soul of love? That is, to recognize that pain is not random and problems are not caused by someone outside us, but rather that we chose the lesson — to maintain love even in difficult circumstances.
And that no special knowledge or qualification is required to extend kindness — even to every living being, including plants. Strictly speaking, from the moment we wake up until we go to bed, the task is to be a compassionate and understanding person, one who can perceive the pain of both innocent beings and of “wrongdoers” — since wrongdoers are only such because, for their own reasons, they do not feel love.
Have I understood your core message correctly?
With gratitude…
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Technically, the purpose of life cannot be described as “this or that,” because Life is bigger than all the “this or thats.” In other words, I cannot say, as per your question, that life is not about making life better but rather is to act from love, as if they were two different choices. Indeed, acting from love means making contributions to others. The quality of the intention does mean action which will actualize a better world- and you are trusted to see what that means in your space and life. As we see that, and actually choose love, we will actualize it.
We do choose lessons to learn in this life. Sometimes people make decisions on their path that affect or hurt us, even if they aren’t a primary part of our own plan for this experience, and then we get to choose what to do with that. Yes, we are called to choose love, and face fear, even in difficult circumstances.
It is true that no special knowledge or qualification is required to extend (choose, actualize) kindness to all other life.
Regarding the “task” of being compassionate and understanding- I think of course that’s generally not a terrible idea- but also recognize that it is less a task, and more who we really are- that is, more what simply makes sense from the most true vantage point. It’s OK if it may appear to be a task in the meantime while we are deep in the weeds of pain and limitation- but also, at the core, shining compassion and understanding is actually natural when we truly know ourselves. And it is correct that those who are “wrongdoers” are acting from a place of not love; they, too, have fallen asleep, as we may have done throughout our lives. Why do we need to lose our peace because the other has fallen asleep? Honoring the blamelessness of yourself and the other is powerful.
If I have not addressed your question(s) please hone me in!
I hope you have a wonderful day experiencing being physical today!
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