Ok, BriarRose...I found my previous post somewhere back there and with effort much greater than if I had one of my kids here, I have found a way to bring it forward!
This is a brief summarization.
"First, the view of the planning session was a lifechanging experience...the sense of excitement and love was off the charts, ( You are so correct I didn't repeat anything that you had already said. You are so on the money with this remark.) and everyone involved to the smallest extent still generated a tremendous loving force...it was all happy and amazingly gratifying...there are no words to adequately describe it. (I think you did a great job describing it.)
Second, the three choices I had all were white males to be born in the second half of the 1900's; 1) in Colorado to an upper middle class, well educated family with deep roots in the area which is somewhat isolated, one parent is a longterm soulmate and several others are both in the extended family and in the area, and good potential for a long lifetime, 2) same as above, but not as tied to one location...potential for living in many different places and alot of traveling...the differences enable more interaction with a wider group of people, greater social development, and both parents are longterm soulmates and several other extended family members along with many in the area, 3) in the northeast to a celebrity family, one of the parents was a longterm soulmate, though others with strong connections to me would be few, and I would attract alot as I lived the life which, through the celebrity, would enable an even greater level of interaction with people, but at a cost which might (and has proven to be) be detrimental to the planned activities I have scheduled for this lifetime...this one is problematically attractive because while contacts are easily made with the well-known name, the individual can be easily drawn off course, unless he is absolutely grounded, and how does one do that when they are surrounded by unbelievable levels of materiality and competing motivations. Also, this individual had a strong potential to die early and he did.
My plan was to develop some sort of understanding or method of thought which will benefit humanity...(I can relate to this also, I have helped many people suffering) I am still working on exactly what that might be. The lifetime had to enable me to come to the clear understanding of myself and through that, my contribution to humanity, to give me the time and clarity to make the necessary connections, then to quietly publish or somehow dispense or broadcast my knowledge to those who can benefit from it. I chose lifetime number two.
As it now appears, the Colorado life might have provided everything I needed, though I believe the life I now lead provides a level of interaction unavailable in that more insular lifetime and locality. The celebrity lifetime would simply have been the fourth truncated lifetime I would have had in the last century, as I see no way I could have achieved what I planned to do living as he did in the fishbowl.
I have been able to obtain this information over a period of years through the akashic records (Isn't that place fantastic? I've seen it also in my tour) and through meditation. The perspective and understanding of the how and why my soul chose it's course altered the way I lead my life and has enriched the experience dramatically... (Again you are on the money with that remark) everything seems to become easy when I realized I chose everything I am doing and experiencing. How utterly empowering!" (Dang your a good writer, I think you should write a book. Your details are something people should read)
And there you have it. The original missive went into more detail about the considerations involved with each life, but they are adequately summarized above. I have since discovered more about the direction my life was intended to take and I am surprised that the entire plan is largely intact even after my several decades of living in density!