Masters of the Spirit World

QUESTION: Masters working as much as I can and trying to be good. Husband also but our luck just doesn’t seem to help our finances. What do we change about ourselves? So tired that life just seems like a pointless exercise. If we chose to take birth to understand and reach unconditional love, why would we when we were already in unconditional love. We have been humiliated in front of mean cruel family also for finances. What’s the learning? I’m just learning shutting down and accepting getting hit as trying and working hasn’t helped. ~L., India

ANSWER: Choosing to reincarnate is not done for the purpose of finding unconditional love as you have stated. It is done because the soul wishes to understand what powers and abilities it possesses as a piece of Source energy. This can only be accomplished by testing oneself through making decisions concerning negative and positive choices – in other words, by going through a series of life lessons.

As you have imagined, one of the lessons chosen by you and your husband deals with prosperity. You also must learn about self-worth and self-love, accepting who you are and why no one is any more important than you, and no one knows more about your journey than you.

You are being subjected to the judgment of your family and it can be handled in many different ways. They think they know what is best for you or what they think you should be doing in this life. Their opinions can affect you only if you allow them to do so. If you believe that only they know what is right for you, then your life will continue as it has. But if you examine your life and see that you are making the decisions you are because it is what feels right to you, you are working on your lessons and can complete them and move on to understanding.

You have no spiritual obligation to any other soul sharing this time frame with you. You owe your relatives nothing. Work on the fears and doubts that pop up in your world and you will find the place where you can increase your prosperity.

To most of society prosperity is determined by financial status only. It is much more than that. It is also a sense of things learned, accomplishments completed, and understanding directions presented. Be content with yourself and share this with your husband as you reach toward creating that which you desire. Push any negative thinking aside because that will only hold your progress back.

QUESTION: Masters, I have been following the signs the universe is giving me like a treasure hunt. It seems like miracles are generally overlooked. They are taking me somewhere good I know it but the gifts they are bringing contradict where I’m going. I would love more than anything to continue this journey but is it worth giving up what I’ve worked my whole life to gain? ~Keegan, US

ANSWER: The universe brings to a soul the things that it wished to experience. But the soul has total freedom of choice whether to accept them or not. You can change your direction during an incarnation at any time, at will.

The limiting factor in humanity is the ego mind and its adhered-to expectations. When you decide that you will accept one and only one possible direction, which is perfectly within your life plan, you disregard the assistance offered by your higher self and your guides. This is at your discretion.

On a spiritual journey, nothing is right or wrong. You may start and stop any activity and follow your intuition or your decided direction and still be learning about the journey of a soul.

You must ask yourself why you are here and what benefits you gain by the actions you take. When you depart this life, can you take with you any of the money or prestige you have worked so hard to gain? How do you “feel” about the miracles and the gifts? Do they fulfill you in a way that nothing else can? Have you learned all there is to gain from where you are now, and would you only be repeating the same lessons over and over?

You know that the choice is always yours and that you are a soul having a human experience to learn who you truly are. It is up to you to decide the method you follow. Pick and choose, go back and forth, until something just “clicks” and defines this life for you. Let your feelings, not your brain, be your map.

QUESTION: Masters I’ve learned that my negative energy drives my experiences and have been working on shifting it and trying to grasp what it means to be a piece of Source energy by connecting with a wise guide. Feeling stuck recently doing this work, after making positive changes, I discovered GUILT, related to unwittingly hurting innocents (I even have dreams and past life memories of hurting children because of shame/ guilt/ pride.) In this life, I was given too much responsibility for siblings, and feel I abandoned them. My inability to give them what I promised but could not deliver damaged our relationships and maybe even their lives. I’m afraid I’m doing the same to my son, who is often oppositional. Failure and guilt hold me back from expanding my sense of self and pursuing studies and work I want to do, and I can’t see how to learn from them. ~Christina, USA

ANSWER: Positive energy drives things as well. Negative energy is the one that drives society and you are very conscious of things around you, so you have focused on the negative. It is also the way lessons are learned – to choose positive over negative.

You are pinpointing several of your life lessons. They basically deal with your self-concept of responsibility, with guilt being the result of perceived failure in both how you feel about what you perceive you had agreed to do and what you were able to accomplish due to human restrictions.

First remember that all souls are where they incarnated for the experiences that particular environment is able to provide. Each soul is on their own path and is not dependent upon any other – even those sharing the same experiences. So, your siblings chose to be here to experience what they have chosen as lessons. You were placed in the situation of responsibility because you chose to work through the emotions you are now dealing with. No one would have been presented with these factors except through choice.

The guilt you are now feeling arises from a misguided belief that you had a responsibility to them, which is not correct. You created an obligation because of a need to make their life better than yours. That was not why you came; it was to see what you could do with your lot in life. You have done this type of lesson in the past and have never accepted that your life is for yourself and not others.

The way your siblings and son feel about you is a reflection of how you think about yourself. They are all looking at things from their selfish perspective, which is one of their lessons, and seeing it mirrored in you because you blame yourself for their not being able to complete their chosen lessons. Each soul has only itself to bring into awareness. When you accept yourself by understanding why you came, you will be able to move forward.