Your Soul's Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born Paperback – 1 April 2009

Illnesses and accidents make most of us question God and the nature of God. Why would a benevolent being put us through such painful and difficult times? Surely we must deserve to be punished for something if we must suffer… Few of us stop to consider that maybe it’s all part of a plan, a learning exercise. Even fewer even begin to imagine that we planned it ourselves to grow in spirit, that before we were even born we sat down with our loved ones and chose our challenges and who would be with us as we face them.Your Soul’s Plan is an important read for many reasons and for anyone on a quest to understand the rhyme and reason of life on earth. Through a series of interviews with real people facing very real life challenges and by working with them and three incredibly gifted mediums, Robert Schwartz sets out to help us understand the elaborate game we each design for ourselves to play through our life experiences.“All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players”, said Shakespeare. The script is more of a storyboard around which we must improvise in the hope of awakening to our selves. That is, in the hope we realise that we are in fact wearing costumes and playing roles and come to understand who we are beneath the façade, beneath the character sketch we draw before we enter the theatre.A mind- and eye-opening read, this book is an important exploration of spirituality and spiritual reality. This is not our real life. This is but one chapter in a book as long as we need it to be to reach the ultimate end. How we react to our challenges, however great or small, may seem inconsequential to us as we wade through the hum-drum of daily life. But it means everything to our spirit, to our eternal selves. Your Soul’s Plan offers not only understanding but also inspiration. Well worth reading and one that can be revisited years down the line to measure its impact on how we proceed from reading.

Robert Schwartz' book 'Your Soul's Plan' in which with the the help of Mediums he communicates with persons souls to discuss how their lives had come to experience great hardships and challenges, is remarkable.The astonishing outlook they offer is that the souls themselves, in agreement with those of the key participants in their ensuing earth lives, have chosen and agreed to support each other with the difficulties they experience such as blindness, illness and death. In the conrtext of our souls being infinite in nature, the experiences and cost of our brief human lives is not so insurmountable in nature against the lessons they may learn during each life, this view is acceptable if the soul has so chosen.I feel a great affinity with this book because it empowers the souls who otherwise may appear to be victims blighted by lifes cruelties - Instead they are presented as souls persuing by agreement with their companion souls such as myself the challenges of lifes hardships and death as a method of soul learning to develop greater compassion and love for all beings. ''Earth primarily serves the function of teaching you to let go of fear and (to) love unconditionally'' Spirit Guide as channeled by the Medium Staci Wells.In such a remarkable universe that we exist within, this view presents a wider outlook of an intrinsically loving Creator who supports us in co-creating our own paths of spiritual evolution.

This book resonated with my thoughts re this physical existence, helped me to find peace and understanding of some of life's oddities. Guilt and self critisim are truly ego based tools we use far too much at times, self acceptance, even with the bad we do, is freeing when you realise the plan behind our choices. Went a little too far for me at times but as we are all unique I had no problem accepting those areas were not helpful to me, others will feel differently! Peace of mind comes for some after reading this.

I love spiritual and esoterical books & this is a really good one. Not for the faint hearted but would recommend for the more knowledgeable reader - it could actually terrify someone reading their first book on the subject but saying that, it is exceptionally well written and whilst it is powerfully written, it also seems quite tender too.Robert Schwartz tends to almost get us to 'think outside the box' with this book with real life case studies but he doesn't preach or try to force his thoughts onto the reader either. I'd definitely recommend to anyone who wants to know why they were born into the body they were or have experienced the things they have. Just beware that it 'packs a punch' and gives you answers that you might not want!