You come here to do certain
specific
things.
You may have one task
or many.
Your tasks may be obvious to you.
or you may need time,
effort,
maybe struggle
even to clarify
your tasks.
You may never quite even clarify your task
until the moment
your time in this body
ends.
You may work on your task for years
before you realize,
"This is my task."
The tasks you came to perform
may take the whole of your life
or be done in an instant.
You may be aware
you are performing your life task
while you do it.
You may perform your task quickly,
hardly noticing
anything special,
unaware
you are doing the task
you came to do
while you do it.
Your task may be so easy,
obvious and
natural,
you never even wonder,
"What is my task?"
Your unique blend
of talents and interests
may lead you
to your task
and you just do it.
Or, your task may be a constant,
unpleasant
struggle
you fight
every step of the way.
Your task may be noble and wonderful
and gain you
recognition,
rewards
and honors.
Or, it may be simple,
totally unnoticeable
by anyone else.

You will be born
with a powerful
innate desire
to remain alive.
You will do almost anything
to continue living.
At some point
you may discover
some limits,
and allow your life
to end.

Every thought you have,
Every action you take,
Every feeling you perceive
is an experience.
Experiences are neither good nor evil.
Some experiences are short,
some are long.
Some experiences will be fun,
others will be excruciating.
Sometimes experiences seem interconnected,
sometimes they seem random.
They are simply experiences.

Some of your experiences will be difficult.
They will bring you pain and suffering.
You may wish with all your heart
that some experience
did not come your way.
You may find joy in the challenge
of an experience,
even when the pain
is most severe.
Each difficult experience
is a challenge,
an opportunity
to continue.

You will experience a process of
change
in yourself.
One moment you may be paralyzed with fear
of what lies ahead;
the next moment you will feel
confident and knowledgeable
having walked through the fear.
The change may come gradually
with no clear moment
or division.
Whether the outcome you receive is
what you were hoping for
or very different,
you will grow
through each experience.

You will experience stages in your life.
You begin as a single cell
and grow
until you are born
as a small infant.
You continue to grow
through the lifecycle
for as long as you survive:
childhood,
adolescence,
young adulthood,
adulthood,
maturity,
supermaturity,
elderhood,
and frailty.
You may not live through all of the available stages.
Each segment contains
physical, emotional, mental and spiritual
growth experiences
unique to itself.
Stages may end and begin
suddenly,
or segué into one another
gradually.
As you conclude a stage you may feel relief
or remorse
that it is over.
Once you move through a stage,
it is over;
you cannot go back.

You will receive assistance through this process.
You will find various teachers and mentors
who will share their experiences
and help you read the signposts
along your way.
You will have birth parents
who will be your central guides;
or you will find surrogates for them.
If you do not find
another person
to be your guide,
you may find you can look deep within
to find guidance.

You will find diverse modes
through which to exchange information
with other beings.
You will learn
spoken and
written languages.
You will find ways to communicate
with your body.
You will communicate
many things
through your actions.
You will discover a variety of
visual,
auditory
and tactile arts
through which to express
your thoughts
and feelings.
You may also discern very subtle,
almost unnamable
communications
which can be the most powerful.

Every experience requires abilities.
You will master
diverse skills
for an endless array
of available activities.
You will have innate talents for some skills;
they will come to you so easily
they seem automatic.
Others will require many hours
or even years to master;
even after much practice,
you may never
become proficient at them.

You will participate in games
at every stage of life.
You will play with others
or by yourself
in a variety of contests.
Some games will be fun;
some will be deadly serious.
Some games will be highly competitive;
others will be totally noncompetitive.
You may compete individually
or as a team,
against others
or only against yourself.
Some games will offer
physical or
material rewards
or acclaim from others
if you are successful at them.

You will study diverse subjects,
each of which attempts to explain
some details
of how the world works.
You may study them in a school
or by your own investigation.
You will acquire minimal knowledge of some,
and you will dive deeply in others.
You will learn aspects of mathematics,
geography,
physics,
sociology,
economics,
biology,
astronomy,
anthropology,
history,
engineering,
the arts,
chemistry,
philosophy
and religion.

You will be inclined to produce something
or to provide a service
for which you receive recompense.
Your work will earn you the food and shelter
you need to survive
and less essential things
for your enjoyment.
You may work many long hours each day
or a much smaller time segment.
Your work may be an important
component
of your life task.
Or, your work may ensure your physical survival
or comfort,
allowing you to fulfill the tasks
you came here to do.

You will find a group of individuals
to which you feel connected,
either by birth
or by affinity.
You will experience a bond
with the other members
of this tribe
or with the tribal entity itself.
You will be subject to the rules your tribe makes.
You will have a position within the tribe
based on your birth
or your talents.
Your position will affect your activities
within the tribe
and throughout your life.
You may find you are a part of more than one tribe
or that your tribe is part
of a tribal confederation.

You will find deities
to which to attach
your greatest fears
and devotions.
You may have one god or many.
You may learn about your god or gods
from others,
or you may experience them
yourself.
Your gods may be attached specifically to your tribe
or they may claim a wider domain.
Your gods may be projections
of human experience
or they may be something beyond
human experience
with a reality
all their own.

At certain special moments of your life
You will mark transitions:
you will sing,
you will dance,
you will talk to your gods,
you will do special rituals
to celebrate.
You may celebrate alone
or in a group.
You will celebrate those moments when you
or someone in your tribe
passes
from one stage of the growth process
to another.
Special good times
and special bad times
call for celebrations.
Repeating seasons of each year
ask for celebrations as well.

You will be drawn to certain individuals
with whom you will share
some of your experiences
more closely.
You will experience strong connections
with some of the friends
you find.
Some will remain friends
for a short time,
while others may remain
close to you
for long periods.

You will be drawn to bond strongly
with a partner.
Like friends, mates may remain
for short or long periods of time.
Your mate may be your closest,
special friend
or a friend with whom you share
a set of experiences.
You may have one mate
for your lifetime
or a series of mates
at different times.

You will earn rewards for your work
or in payment for your other activities.
Some wealth will have material value
which you can exchange
for physical objects
or services
you desire
or which your tribe convinces you
you desire.
Other types of wealth are more subtle
and not exchangeable.
You will decide which types of wealth
you will pursue
and how vigorously
to pursue
each of them.

You will exert control
through your physical being,
your wealth,
your office,
your abilities,
your personal energy
or your facility for managing other people.
With this power you will make some things happen
the way you want them
to happen.
If your power is great enough,
others will do
what you would like them to do,
even if it is not in their own best interest.

You will experience delights of the senses.
Food,
touch,
music,
aroma,
nature,
movement,
art
and dance
will intensify your enjoyment
of your time here.

You will feel an intense yearning
of your body
to touch another person
most deeply.
The intensity of that touch
may take the experience
beyond the body,
to bond closely with the other person
or to procreate,
to make the lifecycle begin anew.

You will experience the urge
to create your own space
where you spend most of your time,
where you belong,
where you experience roots.
It may be in the place of your origin
or you may feel compelled to travel
elsewhere
to create it.
You may wish to share your home
with those closest to you

You will express yourself
or create something
existing independently
of yourself.
What you form may last
for generations
or for only a moment.
The content of your expression
may take physical form
or it may reach out
through other media.

You will feel the urge
to show others
whatever you have earned,
whatever you have created,
whatever you have learned,
whatever you have become.
You may wish to display it
publicly,
to have others to view it.
Or, you may display it
privately
just for yourself
or a few others.

You will do things your tribe decided
was forbidden
or others told you
is wrong.
You may do some things
that something within
you
says
you should not do.
You will test some of the limits
by lying,
cheating,
stealing,
or doing other things
that may cause pain.
You may get caught by
those in power
and you may have to pay
a penalty.

You will participate in the birth process
and the child rearing process.
You may give birth to a child.
You may take a central role
in guiding a child
through life's stages.
You may experience parenting
as bringing whatever you create
into existence.

You will feel impelled to share
some of what you learn
through life's experience
with others.
You may teach
in a classroom
or through any mode of communications
available to you.

You will become comfortable with the diversity
among other beings.
You will experience accepting
other beings
exactly as they are,
in their own unique perfection,
exactly as you would like them
to accept you
as you are.

You will go through fundamental alterations
in the quality of your experience.
Either spontaneously
or as a result of prayer,
meditation,
ritual,
song
or special foods
You will experience
great love,
wisdom,
serenity,
or connection
to a god
or nature.
Experiencing altered states of consciousness
will affect
all of your other experiences.
You will experience yourself
transformed
into a different being.

The limits of your experience
will expand
to include intuition
or a transcending of this realm
or a oneness
with something much greater
than yourself.
You may experience yourself leaving your body
or knowing things before they occur.
You may experience powerful synchronicity.
You may lose your sense of yourself
as an independent being
And experience yourself as one
with the infinite wholeness
of the universe.

You will leave your body.
Everyone else will experience your body
becoming lifeless
and begin to decay.
You will no longer be present
in this plane
in your physical form,
But some aspects
of your emotional,
mental and
spiritual modes
may continue
to be experienced by others.

Your emotional, mental or spiritual modes
will enter some sort of afterlife.
You may be aware
of your continuity
between this lifetime
and the next realm
or you may not.
You may experience reincarnation
into the body of another being
and begin another lifetime.
The nature of your next realm may be determined
by your activities
and experiences in this lifetime.
The nature of the next realm may be extremely
subtle
and indescribable.

Those who knew you will recall
who you were,
what you did,
what you gave
and the qualities you manifested.
If you physically parented another,
your genetic material will continue
within them as well.
Others' remembering you
will continue to affect them
directly
and the whole planet
indirectly
in subtle
and not so subtle ways.