The Three Functions of a Wanderer (why did we come here?)

[JustLikeYou]

I think there may be many who are working internally rather than externally, and these souls may have chosen a variety of "disorders" to endure so that they would be forced to turn inward in this lifetime.

This is an excellent point. In reflecting on the rigid sexual, mental and spiritual circumstances of my own childhood, taken in tandem with the very eclectic sexual, mental and spiritual biases that I have always had, I have concluded that I must have known prior to incarnating that the atmosphere in which I was raised would create some fairly profound neuroses. Working through these neuroses to a place of peace and sanity must therefore have been part of the plan. At times, I ponder the act of Jehoshua, who took the weight of the world upon himself in order that the load may be lightened for others. If we consider that our problems were planned, it is likely that we follow a similar path: we came to lighten the load by taking on the troubles of this world in order to work them out for ourselves.