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Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth? |  | Author: Robert Schwartz
Publisher: Whispering Winds Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  94 reviews
Sales Rank: 187748
Media: Paperback
Pages: 327
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 0977679454
Dewey Decimal Number: 204
EAN: 9780977679454
ASIN: 0977679454
Publication Date: December 16, 2006
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Product Description
Please note that as of March 24, 2009, Courageous Souls is out of print. It has been reissued under the new title, Your Soul's Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born (ISBN 9781583942727). Courageous Souls explores the premise that we are all eternal souls who plan our lives, including our greatest challenges, before we re born for purposes of spiritual growth. The book contains ten true stories of people who planned physical illness, having handicapped children, deafness, blindness, drug addiction, alcoholism, losing a loved one, and severe accidents. Because very different life challenges are often planned for similar reasons, readers who have not faced these specific challenges will nevertheless see themselves - and their motivations as a soul - in these stories. As readers come to realize that they themselves planned their lives, suffering that once seemed purposeless becomes imbued with deep meaning. Wisdom may be acquired in a more conscious manner; feelings of anger, guilt, blame, and victimization are healed and replaced by acceptance, forgiveness, gratitude, and peace.
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 Your Soul's Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born November 16, 2009
B.C. Flournoy (Ohio)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Your Soul's Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born
With a deep sense of the soul's higher-purpose, Robert Schwartz gathers and presents an anthology of real-life stories from the intuitive, present-life, and `past-life' perspective. The grand scheme of each gently reminds one simple fact - that we do actually plan our life challenges before birth.
Through "Your Soul's Plan," Robert unfolds both ordinary and extraordinary earth experiences, some seemingly tragic, ironic but always as the quintessential divine opportunity, inevitably unveiling triumph in spite overwhelming odds, through human condition spanning many life times.
Although you may not remember your soul's specific purpose, you may find the courage to rediscover it.
Wonderful book! November 11, 2009
Renate Randall (Atascadero, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was a really great book. Very enlightening and comforting. All "bad" things in our lives can be viewed as tools for learning love and forgiveness, they are there to teach us. It is one thing to have general ideas about things, but this book really gets into specifics, which I found helpful in sorting out the lessons that I am learning in this lifetime. This book has helped bring peace to me. I highly recomend it!
Peace of mind November 10, 2009
Green
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
That's what this book gave me. And what a precious gift that is. I have rheumatoid arthritis. I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out "why". This book helped me understand that I planned for this experience and it is helping me to grow spiritually. Knowing that makes this challenge a lot easier to take. I no longer feel like God deserted me but have reconnected with God and feel once again a part of all that is. This book has helped me to move forward in my life. I have a deeper understanding of people and a greater compassion. It's a lot easier not to judge people now. Instead I wonder about why they planned their addiction, or violence, or disability or whatever. Things make a lot more sense now. I have great admiration for those souls who sign up to be the bad guys. What a tough job that must be. I could go on and on but bottom line is, everyone should read this book! It's amazing!
 You Plan Your Life's Challenges before Birth! November 7, 2009
Regis Schilken (Bethel Park, Pennsylvania)
One of the earliest Greek philosophers, Plato, believed in an ideal world where the souls of the dead return to be rejoined with their forms after death. Poet Wordsworth wrote, "Birth is but a sleep and a forgetting." Robert Schwartz's book Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth? revives a similar belief.
Schwartz proposes that each of us plans our existence before birth. During our life spans, when faced with some troubling and/or disabling condition, accident, or even the death of a loved one, we find ourselves asking, "Why did this happen to me? Why do I have cancer? Why did I have an accident that paralyzed my legs? Why did I contract HIV?"
Courageous Souls provides an answer. Before our births, each of us chooses to experience certain challenges, painful though they may be, to insure that when we are incarnate (joined with our physical bodies on earth), we have the chance to discover our fullest potential and who we really are.
Schwartz claims that this pre-birth planning is far-reaching. We choose our parents, the schools we will attend, our friends. We choose everything about our lives including our physical appearance and temperament. When we clothe our spirits with physical bodies, then all experiences, when accepted for what they are, lead to personal growth and ultimately to love.
Schwartz gives examples of this pre-birth planning by examining the lives of ten individuals. With the aid of mediums and channels who sometimes call upon spirits and angels from the other side, we are able to hear, in their words and in his, an explanation of how and why certain challenges were chosen by these ten people.
Jon, the first person Schwartz discusses, became infected with HIV, contracted from his gay partner. Why would anyone choose such a debilitating challenge? After several trances with channel Glenna Dietrich who summoned an angel from the spiritual realm to assist her, Jon and Schwartz found their answer. Before birth Jon chose the HIV infection not only to help him understand the trauma faced by similarly afflicted persons in real time, but to help him accept and love gay men.
The acceptance and love gained by Jon vibrated through his entire soul group. It transformed him into a loving individual by showing him the goodness of his soul. It gave his being a purpose: to model love and understanding for the shunned.
Courageous Souls does not proselytize. Schwartz makes no attempt to convert others to his beliefs. He suggests his book be read with a "What if?" attitude in mind, particularly by those who find little or no meaning in life. By reading his ten stories, one might better face their own challenges and discover a new self.
Courageous Souls is an easy read. The ten stories are fascinating and extremely personal. Those who believe in the existence of mediums, angels, channels, and the like would find Schwartz's enlightening approach helpful in understanding their own predicaments. Those who do not believe, might read the work out of curiosity, but come away wondering, "What if?"
Other related reads:
Your Soul's Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born
Soul-Birthings: How to Choose, Attract and Influence the Soul of Your Baby Before Conception or Birth
When Souls Had Wings: Pre-Mortal Existence in Western Thought
Uplifting and Informative about True Spirituality October 25, 2009
Diane Mchugh (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book helps take you to a whole new understanding of spirituality. My daughter and I had readings with Staci Wells, one of the psychic/mediums in the book. She was great and dead-on (no pun intended)
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